Continue, connect the player, it will take some time to time out and than is starts up. The controller will complain about not being able to verify the version (just what we want). Disable the internet connection of your network.
Good luck!īelow are the instruction I used to get the Sonos controller 4.0 working on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring:Ģ) Download the Sonos Controller installerĤ) Select “Tools”->”Manage Wine versions” and install the latest available version of x86 wine (Note don’t use the amd64 version, dotnet40 doesn’t work with it)ĥ) click “Install”, “install a non-listed program”Ħ) Create a new virtual drive and call it “Sonos”ħ) Choose “use another version of Wine” and “Install some libraries”Ĩ) Use the version of wine you installed in step 4ĩ) Enable POL_install_dotnet40 and POL_Install_FontsSmoothRGBġ0) When asked, give wine the location of SonosDesktopController40.exe If all went well, then the app should run and ask to connect to your Sonos system.
To get this working, do the following:ġ) Install “PlayOnLinux” – apt-get install playonlinuxĢ) Download the Sonos Controller installer: Ĥ) click “Install”, “install a non-listed program”ĥ) Choose “Install a program in new virtual drive” and call it “Sonos”Ħ) Select “Install some libraries” when asked “What would you like to do before installation?”Ĩ) Enable POL_install_dotnet40 and POL_Install_FontsSmoothRGBĩ) When asked for the setup file to run, click ‘browse’ and give the location of SonosDesktopController43.exe I’m running Sonos controller 4.3 on Ubuntu 14.04 Raring.
June 2014 at There is a way to install a version 4 of the Sonos Desktop Controller while your Play devices are upgrade to version 5. Now double click the sonos application in PlayOnLinux and the sonos player should start.ģ0. Again a window opens, select the tab “Install components”, search dotnet40, select it and click the “Install”-button.
To easily do this, select the controller application again in PlayOnLinux and click “Configure” on the right side. NET-Framework 4.0 on your virtual sonos drive. Last but not least, you have to install the. (The resolution depends on your screen resolution.) It’s recommended to emulate a virtual desktop, otherwise you can’t change the window size. On the “Applications”-tab, make sure, Windows XP is active.
Install the software however you want, but DO NOT run the application after setup.Īt the end, PlayOnLinux asks you to create shortcuts, create one for the sonos.exe file.Īfter you installed sonos successfully, the controller application should be listed on PlayOnLinux. Disable all check boxes on the next page and choose 32-bit installation.īrowse to the Sonos Controller executable and click next. Select “Install a program in a new virtual drive”, give the virtual drive a name like “sonos” or whatever you want. Start playonlinux and click “install a program”Ī new window will open, choose “Install a non listed program” at the bottom Again, a dialogue opens. $ sudo apt-get install wineĭownload the newest version of the Sonos Controller application for Windows. After some work, I found a way to use the Sonos Controller with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, wine and PlayOnLinux.įirst install wine and PlayOnLinux. So I tried to use wine to install the newest Sonos Contlroler (Version 4.3) on my ubuntu system. There’s only one problem, they don’t provide a native linux client.
The android app runs great on my tablet and I think Sonos is doing quite a good job. This month I bought myself a Play:5 from Sonos. Instalation guide for sonos controller version 5.1 is available here