Sonoscli
If you have Sonos speakers at home and want Claude to control them directly, this is your tool. It handles discovery via SSDP, playback controls, volume adjustment, and speaker grouping all through the local network. The CLI supports Spotify search through SMAPI and manages favorites and queues. One catch: on macOS in direct mode, you'll need to fiddle with Local Network permissions for whatever parent process runs your gateway, whether that's node, Terminal, or VS Code. The troubleshooting section is unusually thorough about network permission errors, which you'll appreciate when SSDP decides to be temperamental. Best suited for home automation scenarios where you want conversational control over your speakers without reaching for the Sonos app.
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Install
$ npx -y skills add steipete/clawdis --skill sonoscli --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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Sonos CLI
Use sonos to control Sonos speakers on the local network.
Quick start
sonos discoversonos status --name "Kitchen"sonos play|pause|stop --name "Kitchen"sonos volume set 15 --name "Kitchen"
Common tasks
- Grouping:
sonos group status|join|unjoin|party|solo - Favorites:
sonos favorites list|open - Queue:
sonos queue list|play|clear - Spotify search (via SMAPI):
sonos smapi search --service "Spotify" --category tracks "query"
Notes
- If SSDP fails, specify
--ip <speaker-ip>. - Spotify Web API search is optional and requires
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID/SECRET. - If there is an error, check the troubleshooting section and offer advice if there is a decent match.
Troubleshooting
sonos discover - no route to host
- On error
Error: write udp4 0.0.0.0:64326->239.255.255.250:1900: sendto: no route to host (Command exited with code 1)- Note that the port number after
0.0.0.0:is ephemeral and will change and the netmask may not match exactly either - The
sendto: no route to hostshould stay consistent
- Note that the port number after
- Advise the user that in
direct(no Docker sandbox) mode on Mac OS that Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Local Network will need to be enabled for the top-level host parent process of the Gatewaynodeif running vialaunchdTerminalif running the gateway directly in the terminalVisual Studio Codeif running via terminal in VS Code
- An alternative option is to use
sandbox(docker container) with network access allowed for that sandbox
sonos discover - bind: operation not permitted
- On error
Error: listen udp4 0.0.0.0:0: bind: operation not permitted - Advise the user that they may be running via a Codex or other sandbox that does not permit network access (this can be replicated by running
sonos discoverwithin a Codex CLI session with sandbox enabled and not approving the escalation request)
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- Repository
- github.com/steipete/clawdis
- First seen
- Apr 16, 2026
