soco-cli VS ELDonationTracker

I looked into the Stream Deck implementations on linux and they all look rather "rough". Some have a kind of plugin support but its totally different from the official app. For your project i would consider just using a PI with a regular small touchscreen (made for DIY RasbPI projects). Sonos can be controlled using simple commands with https://github.com/avantrec/soco-cli for example.

the fantastic SoCo-cli library (https://github.com/avantrec/soco-cli)

The sonos ecosystem is pretty locked down, but I found this really neat Python library and this CLI wrapper tool to control it, which is awesome! It makes it super easy to play any audio stream on the speaker, and I already used this for a little script for my dad to play some music that he only has locally as .mp3 files :)

If you enjoy tinkering with code you can have a look at soco-cli, https://github.com/avantrec/soco-cli you should be able to achieve what you're a looking for. Another way could be Ikea tradfri shortcut buttons

https://github.com/djotaku/ELDonationTracker depends on

http://djotaku.github.io/ELDonationTracker/ - for tracking donations to Extra Life and displaying when Live Streaming

Python - it’s my main language and the one in which I’m most proficient. I have written some programs used by many others (like my Extra Life Donation Tracker) and utilities that solve some problem I have (like my btrfs snapshot and backup program). By solving each problem in Python first, I allow myself to focus on the problem first instead of a syntax I’m unfamiliar with.

If you want to move to GUI programs, I recommend : Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook. Using QT Designer you can GUI programs pretty quickly. I used this book to create the GUI for my Extra Life project: http://djotaku.github.io/ELDonationTracker/

not sure if this is going beyond automation, but my most complex Python program which is actually used by other folks is for generating Donation Alerts while Live-Streaming to Twitch (or wherever) - http://djotaku.github.io/ELDonationTracker/

I use JSON and a dataclass (not a literal dataclass w/ the decorator and all). See ParticipantConf class starting line 103 https://github.com/djotaku/ELDonationTracker/blob/master/eldonationtracker/utils/extralife_io.py

In my project, here are the files that QT Designer saves: https://github.com/djotaku/ELDonationTracker/tree/master/QTdesignerfiles

I wanted to be able to use the Donation API when doing the Extra Life fundraiser, so I made: https://github.com/djotaku/ELDonationTracker

I'm using it for my program as well. It's really awesome, especially if you use qt designer. https://github.com/djotaku/ELDonationTracker