Control Sonos from KNX ​

Once a Sonos player is imported as a 1Home device, you can map its commands and status onto KNX group addresses

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Add a Sonos mapping ​

Navigate to Integrations → KNX → Configure, find Bridge Devices to KNX section and click Configure. In popup click on + Add Device and select the Sonos player you want to map — the mapper shows the full list of status and command group objects listed above, ready to be assigned a group address.

For each group object you want to use, assign a KNX group address (and a gateway, if you have more than one). You do not need to assign all of them — unassigned group objects are simply inactive.

What you can map ​

The 1Home KNX mapper exposes two kinds of group objects for each Sonos player: status objects that push Sonos state out to KNX, and command objects that take KNX writes and turn them into Sonos actions.

Status (Sonos → KNX) ​

These group objects send a value onto KNX whenever the corresponding state on the player changes. They can also respond to KNX read requests on their group address.

Commands (KNX → Sonos) ​

These group objects receive a KNX write and trigger the corresponding action on the Sonos player.

Trigger values for boolean commands ​

DPT 1.XXX commands — Play, Pause, Toggle Play/Pause, Next, Previous, Mute, UnMute, Duck, Unduck — can be configured on the mapping to fire on a KNX write of 1, a write of 0, or either. The default is 1.

This is useful when a pushbutton sends both a press (1) and a release (0) on the same group address and you only want one of those to act — for example, "play on press, do nothing on release".

Ducking with KNX ​

The duck duration is configurable per mapping, in seconds. The default is ten seconds.

When a KNX pushbutton writes the configured trigger value to the Duck group address, the Sonos speaker drops its volume for that duration and then automatically restores the previous level. You don't need to send a separate Unduck write — that happens on its own.

If you ever want to cut the ducking short, write to the Unduck group address.

What you can't do from KNX ​

A handful of Sonos capabilities are reachable from automations but not from the KNX mapper directly — there is no KNX group object for them:

• Load Favorite / Load Playlist
• Modify Group Members
• Play Audio Clip / Play Custom Audio Clip
• Seek / Seek Relative

For these, trigger an automation from KNX (for example, via a group-address trigger) and call the action from inside the automation. See Working with KNX in Automations for that pattern.