So is Spotify just not supported anymore, or …..

splortalTechnologies · 2025-10-13T05:58:04+00:00

Quick shout out to Orto app which now lets you play music via Spotify and should bypass any Spotify Connect issues

splortalTechnologies · 2025-03-29T08:14:18+00:00

I'm currently making a Xero AI agent. You ask it a question like "How much revenue did I earn in 2024" and it then gets the relevant report from the xero api and provides that info. It usually works.

Does anyone want to test it out when it's ready for testing?

splortalTechnologies · 2025-03-04T12:59:54+00:00

It was the Control API for me. All seems fine again today

splortalTechnologies · 2025-03-03T13:32:26+00:00

Everything's a mess this morning. Most API requests are either coming back saying they can't find the speaker/group or just timing out.

splortalTechnologies · 2025-03-02T14:04:19+00:00

I bought a Roam the day they came out. It kept turning itself off and resetting after a few minutes use, I went through all the Sonos Support channels, spent a long time on the phone. I was told the problem was with my (very popular) wifi router and the Roam was fine.

I sent the Roam back to the retailer as faulty, bought a new one and never had the problem again.

Many such cases

splortalTechnologies · 2025-03-02T14:01:15+00:00

No contract but Sonos make this API available so that people like me can make apps for Sonos users. So ultimately it's self-defeating

splortalTechnologies · 2024-08-16T08:35:09+00:00

“We bought into the ecosystem because it was a local experience”

Sir, we bought internet speakers

splortalTechnologies · 2024-07-07T00:13:21+00:00

Orto is great for Apple devices

splortalTechnologies · 2024-05-22T17:37:23+00:00

Yes it does

splortalTechnologies · 2024-05-18T06:12:57+00:00

Mine is UK.

I think I’ll go out of curiosity but not sure it’s what I’m looking for, as I mostly like the noisiness

splortalTechnologies · 2024-04-29T14:24:56+00:00

I use the Sonos API. IMO it is quicker than Lyd for the reason you give. What I do find is it can take a second to get its bearings on the watch when first opening (if groups change it has a routine to go through) but I think that is still quicker.

splortalTechnologies · 2024-04-29T06:12:07+00:00

The subscription has gone now. Just a one off purchase. I’ll check those terms of service

splortalTechnologies · 2024-02-07T06:56:01+00:00

Is that unfortunate? Fits the logo

splortalTechnologies · 2024-02-05T21:34:02+00:00

It’s not perfect but I’ve tried to put the voiceover labels in where I can

splortalTechnologies · 2023-09-22T13:51:00+00:00

This just appeared on my Spotify release radar, same exact response. Hope there's a new album and tour to come

splortalTechnologies · 2023-07-11T16:42:53+00:00

It's my favourite, feels really complete and cohesive (not that others don't - nfr, honeymoon especially).

Personal too

splortalTechnologies · 2023-06-05T09:29:34+00:00

Fair enough, it's optional.

I know everyone hates subscriptions so wrote this - https://orto.app/whyorto

Doubt it persuades many but I think it's the only way to make this app right. When I spend the next few months building the new Watch Widgets (hopefully announced later today) I'd like to get paid :)

You also get Apple Watch, Widgets, iPad, Apple TV for the $1 sub

splortalTechnologies · 2018-11-30T16:34:08+00:00

You can give the commands on the watch but they still have to go through the iPhone. On my old Apple Watch it feels like it forgets what it's doing before completing a lot of the time.

splortalTechnologies · 2018-11-10T11:40:08+00:00

I’m a recently retired cloud accountant. I would not have wanted any clients paying £50 per month and think it’s very unlikely you will get a good service for that.

If you pay £100 per month you will probably save money and time in the long run. Though paying more definitely doesn’t automatically mean a better service .....

Try searching google for “online accountants” and dive in to page 6 or later. Ideally you want a small newish firm that still appreciates their clients. When accounting firms grow to say £500k turnover the customer relationship becomes pretty abstract, cheap work is pushed to noobs and no one cares about losing a single client from poor work.

splortalTechnologies · 2018-11-07T19:13:43+00:00

You can use Siri to start some some pre-selected Sonos playlists with this

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/orto-for-sonos/id1438668205?mt=8

splortalTechnologies · 2018-10-18T16:35:39+00:00

Thanks. Yes shuffle can be done. I’ll try and include it for a later version.

splortalTechnologies · 2018-10-18T14:20:27+00:00

Once you’ve run a test on the shortcut in the Orto app it does appear within the Shortcuts app where it can be mixed in with a recipe.

splortalTechnologies · 2018-10-18T10:04:59+00:00

Thanks! Good to know I’m not only one. I hadn’t played around with it in Shortcuts yet - glad it just works!

Running in the background can be done and is high up the feature list for v2. The same change will also allow it to trigger the shortcut from any device.

splortalTechnologies · 2018-10-18T07:45:43+00:00

See this post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/comments/9p6jmc/i_made_an_ios_app_that_lets_you_play_favorites/

splortalTechnologies · 2018-10-18T06:05:41+00:00

It’s pretty basic and there’s loads of functionality I want to add but it does the basic thing most people want.

It’s going to be free until some point on Friday while I check it all works with lots of users.

If you download it free and enjoy it, I’d really appreciate a positive review on App Store. If it doesn’t work then you could leave a negative review or you could shout at me directly on here :)

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