Hi
Let's say i'm having a party, and my Sonos is playing the music.
Many of my guests are friends that earlier has gotten access to my WiFi. During the party, these guests could download Sonos Controller/app, connect to Sonos, and start controlling the music.
There is no way in Sonos controllers to set a password, to avoid this behaviour.
Other workarounds would be setting up a guest WiFi network that doesn't have access to Sonos, but this would require a new router (in som cases), or change my original password in my entire existing network, which would be annoying ;)
Are there any plans to add this feature?
Maybe even a possibility to require a password for each Sonos device (tick box in controller preferences for each device?)
Am i missing something, other than keeping my guests sober and not annoying 😃
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@juanb +1 when users call your posts haranguing pissing and moaning etc the debate has turned from the idea to personal attacks. Just a typical Monday here.
When a suggestion for resolution is offered for years in several flavors and they are ignored because of continuing feature demands, which continue to get more and more belligerent because the feature isn't delivered yesterday, then yes... that is the definition of haranguing. Not so much on juan's part, but there are numerous instances throughout this thread.
Yes, with the self-appointed forum devil's advocate making his usual sarcastic remarks against forum regulars, it is just another day here in the forum. Next you'll post about how awesome Squeezebox is, and the day will be complete, right? Get some new shtick, dude. :rolleyes
IMO effectively telling posters to learn how to parent is haranguing yes. Telling posters to stop whining, "pissing and moaning" and accept the half measure work around here is haranguing yes. Asking a corporation to implement a missing feature is not. Even if the CEO said five years ago that they wouldn't do it and even if it has been debated for years and even if they post about it 50 times and the idea is a terrible idea that you don't understand. JuanB is asking Sonos for a feature, not you.
Yes, with the self-appointed forum devil's advocate making his usual sarcastic remarks against forum regulars, it is just another day here in the forum. Next you'll post about how awesome Squeezebox is, and the day will be complete, right? Get some new shtick, dude. :rolleyes
Ooh forum regulars sorry you don't like my posts forum regulars. Resisting the urge to bring my self down to the your level in the gutter. Ignore feature needed.
IMO effectively telling posters to learn how to parent is haranguing yes. Telling posters to stop whining, "pissing and moaning" and accept the half measure work around here is haranguing yes. Asking a corporation to implement a missing feature is not. Even if the CEO said five years ago that they wouldn't do it and even if it has been debated for years and even if they post about it 50 times and the idea is a terrible idea that you don't understand. JuanB is asking Sonos for a feature, not you.
You should check before you quote someone. I specifically detailed what I feel is pissing and moaning, even going so far as to delineate between those simply asking for a feature and those who are (IMHO) "pissing and moaning". But don't let the facts get in the way of you (once again) making this thread all about your personal peeve over a few posters who have made you look the fool in the past. Shtickers gotta shtick.
OK I'm not going to take the troll bait. You have issues that's your problem. Instead of derailing this thread use the pm to send your personal attacks. Otherwise let's get back on topic about this missing feature.
Troll bait? Physician, heal thyself.
You are the one who continuously derails threads by making it about the posters and not the posts. Not once have I veered off-topic until I was attacked for my post count or my posting style (which, as we all know, is difficult to judge over the internet, and is more often a reflection on the reader, not the poster). So why don't YOU take it to PM the next time you have a personal problem with my posting style. Or better yet, if you feel I'm abusing anyone, report the post and let the mods do their job instead of you. That way, we can all ignore you and get back on topic? Deal?
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Legnum - I'm with you on the guests in house showing some respect thing. I mean if I am willing to give someone my wifi password. Then they open up sonos and it asks for password for Sonos - what would I say then "No I trust you with my computer network and files but I don't trust your music taste sorry". I mean the average person is going to give them the Sonos password then too.
It isn't a password for the entire app that I would want. What I want is a basic mode and power user mode that the power user can unlock with a pin code in setup. Basic users can only add songs to the end of a queue and not much more. No volume control, no grouping control etc. And this really is just for the fact that inexperienced users (and even myself sometimes) can accidentally play next or replace queue in a hurry.
So in this case everyone has access to the Sonos app. However, me as the power user can control volume and review songs being added to the queue (and move them up or down, delete to my liking). Collaboration with some monitoring.
It isn't a password for the entire app that I would want. What I want is a basic mode and power user mode that the power user can unlock with a pin code in setup. Basic users can only add songs to the end of a queue and not much more. No volume control, no grouping control etc. And this really is just for the fact that inexperienced users (and even myself sometimes) can accidentally play next or replace queue in a hurry.
So in this case everyone has access to the Sonos app. However, me as the power user can control volume and review songs being added to the queue (and move them up or down, delete to my liking). Collaboration with some monitoring.
Troll bait? Physician, heal thyself.
You are the one who continuously derails threads by making it about the posters and not the posts. Not once have I veered off-topic until I was attacked for my post count or my posting style (which, as we all know, is difficult to judge over the internet, and is more often a reflection on the reader, not the poster). So why don't YOU take it to PM the next time you have a personal problem with my posting style. Or better yet, if you feel I'm abusing anyone, report the post and let the mods do their job instead of you. That way, we can all ignore you and get back on topic? Deal?
Again let's get back on topic I'm not taking the bait. Typical Tuesday. If you would like to discuss further feel free to pm.
Edited Post: Stay courteous Max. P.
As I stated earlier on in the thread, I agree with Chris. "Party" mode where the host controls the settings, groupings, queue editing, etc. and the guests get to add to the end of the queue is a use case that cannot be covered by other (more effective) means.
Guess I'll never understand folks who ask continuously for an obscure feature that might be of interest to 100 customers. If the cost to implement outweighs the benefits, it simply won't happen. Move on, end of discussion. But they just don't get it.
I fail to see how party mode would be in any way an obscure feature. It would allow sonos to work much like any jukebox since the 1940s. People can queue up songs, but thats it.
The guest wifi offers a part solution in keeping guests off your private home network, but it doesn't allow them to contribute to the party by adding music.
The guest wifi offers a part solution in keeping guests off your private home network, but it doesn't allow them to contribute to the party by adding music.
I like the idea of being able to interfere with my neighbours / friends system, but then I have a bizarre sense of humour.....
This is a slightly bizarre request - after all how many people have friends that would simply start helping themselves to the contents of your fridge without asking, would you need a lock on all of your cupboard doors? Only my close family would do that, no one else would, any more than they would download the sonos app and start operating my system. I can understand kids friends doing it, but that's just down to parental discipline and control surely - if you're there then it's easy enough to stop them, if you're not there, hide the gear somewhere, or disable it.
This is a slightly bizarre request - after all how many people have friends that would simply start helping themselves to the contents of your fridge without asking, would you need a lock on all of your cupboard doors? Only my close family would do that, no one else would, any more than they would download the sonos app and start operating my system. I can understand kids friends doing it, but that's just down to parental discipline and control surely - if you're there then it's easy enough to stop them, if you're not there, hide the gear somewhere, or disable it.
How about a real scenario: I want to buy my daughter a Sonos for her dorm room, but on the school's network, the player would be open to anyone else in the building. How can she lock it down to just herself?
Get her a NetGear Trek so she can tap into the school's wifi but yet have Sonos connected to it securely.
I thought about that but it just adds a level of complexity a 19 y/o nursing student doesn't need. I don't want to be tech support just so she can get her jam on.
It would really be quite simple in her dorm. I take it on the road in my RV and most of the time it works well, but when WIFI is wonky, that is when I struggle with it. With a solid constant signal, once she is set up, she will be fine. You can even get her a regular wireless router to plug into the school's network if it is a wired type.
It's surely better that than a Sonos player bursting into life at 4 a.m. because someone thought it might be 'fun'.
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Buy her a radio
Thanks in advance
Lol +1
cmon sonos do it for the drunk people!
I am surprised if there is such a demand for this that nobody has developed an app to control Sonos that only includes the jukrbox features you want a guest to use and simply doesn't have the controls to cause problems. If guests are restricted to a guest network or just not given Wi-Fi access at all then they are prevented from using their own copy of the regular Sonos app. The host can pass around a tablet that only has the special "guest app" on it so folks can participate in adding songs without causing mischief. There is no reason this needs to come from Sonos.
Thanks in advance
Just change your wireless password, or put the Sonos on one network and set up a guest network for anyone that you can't trust... It's entirely under your own control... Simples....
This is ridiculous. No one asked for workarounds, this man is asking for a feature that is now 4 years in request at least. Just implement it, it is clearly a feature that users want. Whether or not there are workarounds is not the point, there are many reasons why one would want to lock a playlist. I, for example, have a sonos in my restaurant, and this means employees have access from the main device. They are adding spotify, and I've already fired 3 employees for changing the music without permission. If I can lock everyone out, so that they can only play from the playlist but still have the ability to change the songs, it would fool proof this. I'm not asking anyone for suggestions, this is the only way and its a simple feature to implement.
Your workarounds don't solve my problem, and even if they did there is a better way, just add a security feature to lock a specific playlist.
Your workarounds don't solve my problem, and even if they did there is a better way, just add a security feature to lock a specific playlist.
The fact that it hasn't been implemented in over 4 years is a pretty good indication that it's not going to be done, I'd have thought. You speak as if there's a huge groundswell of people asking for this, but there's actually very few, judging from the numbers here... Why would Sonos waste time and money implementing something that so few people want, and most people don't want at all? Particularly when their development focus is elsewhere at the moment.
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