Party Mode is a problem. We need ability to create multiple groups of rooms!
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We spend a lot of time grouping and ungrouping rooms. The issue is stems from my wife's use of Party Mode. She likes to use Party Mode while she is cooking. I ungroup the outside speakers so as not to offend the neighbors. I ungroup the upstairs when the kids go to bed. I turn everything off and then create a new group to set the morning alarm. In the morning, I create a group in the kitchen and family room to read the paper. There has to be a better way! Why can't we just create groups of rooms and label them something easy to remember like "Cooking", "Kids in bed", "Alarm" or "Morning Coffee"?
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This would be a great feature to have. I have six players and adding a seventh, and routinely switch between configs on a daily basis between listening to music, vs. watching TV, vs. just a few players in the kitchen. It's a bit of a pain to keep adjusting the volumes on each player to get the right settings when I need to regroup, or ungroup, them.
Also, I'd love to have the TV watching surround sound mode go back to the previous config. once the TV is turned off. It's nice to have the TV go to surround sound when the TV starts. If this feature exists, then if someone could let me know that would be great!
There's another thread that talks to the ideas in this thread very well. I believe these discussions should be joined together: https://ask.sonos.com/sonos/topics/presets-or-audio-scene
Also, I'd love to have the TV watching surround sound mode go back to the previous config. once the TV is turned off. It's nice to have the TV go to surround sound when the TV starts. If this feature exists, then if someone could let me know that would be great!
There's another thread that talks to the ideas in this thread very well. I believe these discussions should be joined together: https://ask.sonos.com/sonos/topics/presets-or-audio-scene
I think this goes deeper than just preset room configurations - what it also needs to is adjust the source for the configurations. I have a soundbar and subwoofer hooked up to my tv. When I'm watching tv I would love it if there was one button I could push that would switch off all other components and switch the living room to "TV" -In this way. the presets would be more than just room configurations - it should also control what gets played. For instance a preset called "morning coffee" might switch certain units to a particular radio station or playlist. A party one might turn all the units on music library and start playing a random selection from another playlist.
Please build this feature.Its a must and so obvious.
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This is an absolute must have. User friendly room presets are such a major part of multiroom audio that I really can't believe the feature does not already exist.
This is an absolute must have. User friendly room presets are such a major part of multiroom audio that I really can't believe the feature does not already exist.
I am about to add a system with about 20 zones, on the recommendation of our audio installer, and I can't believe you can't specify multiple groups. Some speakers are indoors, others outdoors. So groups would be "First Floor", "Second Floor", "All Inside Speakers", "Patio and Pool", etc.
Please add this functionality.
Please add this functionality.
Would also be very interested in this obvious feature. Is it on the way?
Please add this to the next release. It can't be that hard and would add tremendous value.
I agree, having the ability to create different groups would make this much more useful. A Party Mode is nice, but often need different modes for different events such as Dinner party, cocktail party, etc where there are a different grouping of speakers. To make this more user friendly without requiring users to setup group each time would be a great feature to have.
I completely agree - I'm somewhat astounded that the Sonos system doesn't already handle this nicely... I use the Android and PC controllers rather than the Mac controller, but I imagine and hope that if it gets sorted in one of them it would be sorted in all of them! And I hope it does soon!
It seems like there is a lot of demand for Sonos to pay more attention to room grouping in general. Between this request to be able to pre-define different group configurations plus the often expressed desire for room groupings to persist through a power failure (or self repair if a single member loses then regains power) there is plenty of justification for Sonos to dedicate some resources to updating the whole room grouping experience.
I need this too. Using Play 5 as a TV soundbar and have a Play 1 in kitchen and one in bedroom. Would like a bedroom and kitchen group for morning alarm, and tv and kitchen for evening TV. Having to re-do the group and volumes each time is annoying - please let us save preset group/volume combinations!
We bought a bunch of Play:3 and Play:5 speakers to implement a public intercomm/bell system for a new grade school. It work great when all are grouped together, but it is a really a limitation to not also have the ability to group rooms in their own sub-groups, because they are already part of the main group. Please consider adding this feature soon!
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Great Idea!!
Just bought Sonos and this is the first thing I see lacking from the current software. We need way to have multiple groups and the ability adding any device to any groups.
IH !
Does this feature is in the way ? Thanks
Does this feature is in the way ? Thanks
agreed! multiple groups would be great and the ability to switch up groups w/o having to stop the music.
Great idea!!
Please add this feature and allow us to choose predefined speaker groupings. With the summer months upon us the constant speaker "group changing" with the deck speakers and inside speakers is brutal. Its hard to believe with all the technical challenges Sonos has conquered they have not addressed this issue. Please help !!!!
I want this, plus I want a roving zone which moves with me as I move about the house. My iPhone is usually with me, so define "me" as the iPhone. The Sonos App on the iPhone can then determine were I am based on all that secret google/nsa code which determines my precise strikable location in 3 dimensions based on bluetooth and wifi and {3,4}G triangulation, plus sonar from all the fracking-induced tremors, so that all speakers within some distance of me are in my group as I move about.
Once you have that working, it should, of course, take into account my wife's iPhone for the same purpose, assuming we start out in the same group at one time.
conflicting groups will be resolved in my favour, natch.
Once you have that working, it should, of course, take into account my wife's iPhone for the same purpose, assuming we start out in the same group at one time.
conflicting groups will be resolved in my favour, natch.
This exactly. Keep current menue setup but add a second column on the groups page that you can load presets into... and if possible add the ability for alarms to use these preset groups..
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I am a new Sonos owner/user with 6 zones. It took me about 20 minutes of learning the system to realize that this is a big missing feature. Please add it.
I am a new Sonos owner/user with 6 zones. It took me about 20 minutes of learning the system to realize that this is a big missing feature. Please add it.
I thought this would be standard! Having to change the group each time is tedious. i want to be able to just click from a pre set number of groups ive named
+1. This is a much needed feature that I know can be done, as a third party provider created an App a few years ago that works with the HomeSeer home controller software to do just this.
So all was well in our household, until Sonos introduced the Playbar and stereo pairing of Play units.
The third party App supplier has unable to spend the required time updating the App for the linking / unlinking of any Zones (rooms) with a stereo pair in it!
I think Sonos should think about making this idea mainstream and remove the need for third party Apps to create a workaround.
So all was well in our household, until Sonos introduced the Playbar and stereo pairing of Play units.
The third party App supplier has unable to spend the required time updating the App for the linking / unlinking of any Zones (rooms) with a stereo pair in it!
I think Sonos should think about making this idea mainstream and remove the need for third party Apps to create a workaround.
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This is a great idea.
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Awesome idea!
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