External integration - Bose SoundTouch

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Hi everyone!

Bose has announced the shutdown of the SoundTouch cloud. No need to panic for your speakers: their local API, on the other hand, continues to work. They are therefore coming to Gladys, 100% local, without an account or cloud, so that the living room SoundTouch doesn’t end up as an expensive paperweight.

What it does

  • Automatic discovery of the speakers, or their IP address entered manually.
  • One speaker = one Gladys music player:
    • play, pause, previous, next, volume;
    • on/standby, mute;
    • the source: AUX, Bluetooth, or a preset called by its name;
    • the current title and artist, and the multi-room group.
  • Real-time updates: a change made on the speaker, the remote control, or the app arrives in Gladys in less than a second.
  • A « SoundTouch Player » widget: what’s playing, the volume, the playback buttons, and the six presets.
  • In scenes: « Play a preset », « Play an audio address » (in http) and a trigger « SoundTouch preset launched », which ignores presets launched by Gladys itself so that a scene doesn’t loop.
  • For the entire SoundTouch range in Wi-Fi or Ethernet (10, 20, 30, 300, Wave, Lifestyle…).
  • In French, English, German, and Spanish.

A small but important detail: presets are replayed without using the speaker’s button, because a long press on this button overrides the preset.

The cool thing

7 a.m. → preset 1 in the bedroom, at volume 15, as an alarm
The living room preset 6 becomes a « movie night » button → dimmed lights and closed shutters
The last person leaves the house → all speakers turn off

Installation

:warning: Gladys 5.2 minimum.

It will arrive in the store at the next indexer run. In the meantime: Integrations → Install from GitHub, with GitHub - guim31/gladys-soundtouch: Bose SoundTouch speakers (local API) for Gladys Assistant · GitHub

  1. Discovery tab: your speakers appear automatically. Otherwise, enter their IP address in the configuration.
  2. Add them to Gladys.

Honest small reservations

  • No Gladys voice announcements: they arrive via https, and the speakers only read http.
  • Multi-room groups are read-only, neither created nor modified.
  • Only AUX and Bluetooth inputs are selectable; the HDMI/TV inputs of the Lifestyle and SoundTouch 300 are displayed as « Other ».
  • « Play an audio address » depends on the speaker’s UPnP player, which may not exist on all models.
  • Developed without a speaker. It’s local, so nothing could be verified on a real SoundTouch: everything was tested against a fake speaker that replays real recorded responses. If you have one, tell me the model in your feedback, especially for real-time and « Play an audio address ».

Like the previous ones, developed with Claude Code. Independent project, not affiliated with Bose.

Repository: GitHub - guim31/gladys-soundtouch: Bose SoundTouch speakers (local API) for Gladys Assistant · GitHub