Are aliases possible for Room names? about echo-sonos HOT 2 OPEN

This wouldn't happen at the Alexa Skill layer, but you could add some code to the Lambda service to read from a list of aliases (simple text file mapping alias name to real name), and then send the real name to node-sonos-http-api when it detects the alias.

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One reason you might want this is because the lambda is not guaranteed to return something that is actually in your presets. For example, half the time when I way play "thunder toads" the lamda sends "Thunder Tones" as the preset value which of course doesn't work. Yes you could put in a function in the lambda which does some kind of lookup and finds the right preset value but its a PITB to edit that list and upload the lamda again. What I do is simply duplicate the preset value in presets.json with the alias name and restart the sonos service. It would be nice if the sonos http api supported aliases because that is where it needs to be, not in the Alexa Skill. I think I'll go write that. The same is true for room names, you can get something that is not actually a room name. But there is no good way to alias those in the sonos http api. You probably would have to do that in the lamdba as suggested.

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