Soro - For Sonos

Shortcuts For Your Speakers

Published by: Laszlo Gergely
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*Soro 3.0 adds Control Center integration and brand new frontend to control your Sonos speakers.*
Soro also extends iOS and Siri and the Shortcuts app with new actions to manage your Sonos speakers and devices and implements Live Activity and Home Screen widget to control the playback from the lock and home screens.
On top of the new control functionality, Soro lets you create both quick actions or extensive workflows to control your speakers with the Shortcuts app using widgets, Siri voice commands or automations.
▶ CONTROL CENTER
- Direct access to adjust your settings
- Quick tap to see what’s playing, the queue, EQ from the Control Center, Action Button and Home Screen.
▶ MODERN FRONTEND
- Easy to use frontend that feels home on your iPhone or iPad
- Access to the queue and EQ settings
▶ LIVE ACTIVITY, WIDGET and APP SHORTCUTS
- Live Activity for the Lock Screen
- Widgets for the Home Screen and Standby Mode
- App Shortcuts for the Action Button, Spotlight and Siri
▶ SPEAK TEXT ON YOUR SPEAKERS
- Similar to the Intercom action available for the HomePod, this action lets users to play messages (or media files) on any of their supported* Sonos speakers utilizing the text to speech features built into iOS, iPadOS and macOS and continue the already playing content after the message.
- See the example shortcuts 'Text to Speech' and 'Walkie Talkie' to explore the possibilities of what you can do in your own shortcuts.
▶ SHORTCUTS AND AUTOMATIONS
- Soro adds 30+ action in the Shortcuts app to control your Sonos
- Create automations
- Create actions for the Action Button
- 3rd party app Integrations
▶ Available actions:
Group/Ungroup
Set Volume
Play/Pause/Stop
Mute/Unmute
Load Music and Favorites
Load URL
Set a Sleep Timer
Set Line-In input
Set TV input
Speak Text
Create/Separate Stereo Pair
Get Alarms
Create/Update/Delete Alarm
Change Repeat/Shuffle
Adjust Equalizer Settings (Treble/Bass/Loudness/Trueplay)
Turn Speech Enhancement On/Off
Turn Night Mode On/Off
Adjust subwoofer and surround sound settings
Set Crossfade
Set TV Autoplay
Set TV Dialog Sync Delay
Get Bandcamp Purchases
Wake Speaker
Set Touch Control
Battery Status
Please note that your device needs to be on the same network as your speakers and local network access need to be granted by first launching the main Soro app.
If you are using VPN, multiple Sonos systems or experiencing connectivity issues please try the feature called Direct Connect within the app. It also improves the speed of execution in general so feel free to utilize it anytime.
You can set it up by tapping ••• in the top left corner and selecting 'Multiple systems or using VPN?'
* 'Speak Text' action supported speakers: Sonos One, Amp, Port, Play:5 (gen 2), Beam, One SL, Move, SYMFONISK table lamp with WiFi, SYMFONISK WiFi bookshelf and all newer speakers using the Sonos S2 system.
* 'Speak Text' action (as the rest of the app) works over the local network only.
Soro is not affiliated with Sonos Inc. nor is it an official Sonos app. Sonos is trademarked by Sonos Inc.
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29 ratings in United Kingdom

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Soro Reviews

Superb little app

Andrew O of London on

United Kingdom

Absolutely superb app that finally makes it easy to build shortcuts for multi-step Sonos workflows. Brilliant!

Life saver

The_Red_Pandaz on

United Kingdom

To the developer/s, thank you for building this app. I can’t believe Sonos doesn’t provide iOS Shortcuts. Even if they did, it probably wouldn’t be as rich as this. I like to listen to podcasts on the Sonos but find the default EQ setting too muddy. Without a shortcut, I would have to deep dive into the Sonos app to get to the EQ. Soro however allowed me to create a “Podcast preset” and a “Music preset”. I’m also using it to reset the volume of all my Sonos devices to 15% every evening. I find that even at 30% volume, the Alexa response is way too loud in a quiet household. Thank you Soro!

It quite an app as you would expect…

UK Pete on

United Kingdom

This is a shortcuts widget, not an app. It’s an excellent shortcuts widget, as in it creates all the shortcuts you need for your Sonos system. However, the reason I got this is because Sonos messed up their app (speed is so slow). What I found was that this app (shortcuts) failed to work on many occasions and it seems the issue isn’t an app issue, but a speaker response issue. Although this isn’t this apps (shortcuts) fault, it did fail to work on many occasions for me. Nice idea, but needs a main controller app to accompany the shortcuts.

If you use a VPN, beware

Savlon || on

United Kingdom

So, the idea is great, but my automation doesn’t work if VPN is connected. Disconnect VPN, et Voila! Far from ideal. Real shame, because if it weren’t for my VPN issue, it’s a 5 star.

Worked great until SONOS app remake mid-2024

sweatmark on

United States

Formerly a good tool for home automation and iOS shortcuts, at least until SONOS reinvented their app (no thanks SONOS)... now the functions do not function, and this app requires rewrite.

Works perfectly

cbgdoqm on

United States

I can do all the automations I ever wanted with shortcuts. They work very well.

Worked great until SONOS app remake mid-2024

sweatmark on

United States

Good tool for home automation and iOS shortcuts, at least until SONOS reinvented their app (no thanks SONOS)... now the functions do not function.

WOW

Tymanbrew on

United States

This new update with the live activities is literally perfect, thank you for the update! In the future it would be phenomenal if we could somehow auto trigger the live activity if the speakers start playing.

Really great! But

RipItUpSurfing on

United States

Can you please add mic control? Thanks! I use Soro daily in my shortcuts.

Valuable & Useful

jmmiller03 on

United States

After buying more fully into the Sonos ecosystem I was looking for an application to help me tighten the integration between my Apple HomeKit based smart home and my multi-room Sonos system. This app has provided me so much value allowing me to set up shortcuts for preset volumes and equalizer settings and use these shortcuts on my Apple devices and via Siri. I guess one could build these shortcuts themselves, but this app has accelerated the process and removed any challenges in the development process. Due to this app I have built out an entire infrastructure for multiple rooms in my house in the time it would take me to build out just one room. Thank you for the great work, and I highly recommend exploring this application if you are both an Apple and Sonos user!!!

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