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Custom duration times?

  • May 31, 2013
  • 13 replies
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Is there any possibility of having a 'custom' option for duration times associated with Alarms and Sleep Timer?
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Pierre C
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  • Retired Sonos Staff
  • June 28, 2013
Hello Andre, Thanks for sharing this feature but it is actually not possible to do it at the moment. I moved your question to the Idea section to make your input more visible and beneficial for the community. Pierre

  • Contributor I
  • January 29, 2014
I'm looking at adding Sonos to commercial building so there is music playing in the background. I would like to add custom alarms so the music switches on and off automatically to match opening hours.

  • Lyricist I
  • May 25, 2014
Hello Andre, Thanks for sharing this feature but it is actually not possible to do it at the moment. I moved your question to the Idea section to make your input more visible and beneficial for the community. Pierre
Please make it possible one day soon! I'm sure customers/users will want more options for alarm & sleep durations. The maximum sleep timer is 2 hours, but sometimes I want it to be 4-5 hours at least. Please consider!

  • Lyricist I
  • June 23, 2014
We need longer sleep durations! Why not even up to 24 hours? Sometimes when guests come over all day say on a Saturday, we need music playing continuously in the background for at least 6-8 hours if not more. Please please add this feature!

  • Lyricist I
  • August 13, 2014
I too would like more flexibility in the duration of the alarms settings.
e.g. I want to set the duration to 1.5 hrs and in some cases longer than 2hrs.

  • Lyricist III
  • December 2, 2015
A 90 minute option would be good - 1 hour is too short and 2 hours too long - is the 15min actually required at all?

  • Lyricist I
  • January 2, 2016
3hrs please. Better still, make duration configurable like alarm start time.

  • Lyricist I
  • August 30, 2016
Please make it so any length in minutes can be entered or start/stop times - great for break reminders!

ratty
  • August 30, 2016
Please make it so any length in minutes can be entered or start/stop times - great for break reminders!
A simple workaround is to set two alarms:
- one at the start for indefinite duration
- one at the end playing anything for 15 mins at zero volume

  • Lyricist I
  • August 30, 2016
Tried that just after my post and before I received your response. it works really well.
2nd alarm at 0 volume stops 1st one.
Cheers

Chris
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  • Lead Maestro
  • August 30, 2016
You could also make a playlist called OFF and just put a single silent mp3 in the playlist

http://www.xamuel.com/blank-mp3s/

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  • Contributor I
  • February 11, 2017
Almost every night I want to set the sleep timer to 90 minutes. A custom time would be a great solution for everyone. Lacking that, additional increments would be awesome.

  • Lyricist I
  • April 17, 2017
This would also be great for ambient sounds for pets who are home all day (cat), but turns off at a certain time of night. We've got the Hue lights that can do it - now we need our Sonos to do it! Please consider implementing custom durations for Sleep Timers/Alarms. Thanks!