I host events being on my phone during the events to control music volume or song choice (meditation, healing, and social gatherings) is paradoxical to being present with other humans.
Going into the Sonos app has the same effect as same as checking my what’s app messages.
The Home Screen / swipe down in iPhone used to work and now that feature isn’t available which is disappointing. Is there any way to control volume remotely? Like a 3rd party remote?
The simplest solution is probably the ikea symfonisk sound remote and an ikea smart hub, which link up with sonos out the box, due to the sonos + ikea symfonisk speaker partnership.
If you already have an ikea smart hub for lights/blinds it’s probably the cheapest at £19 for the remote.
The new sound remote isn’t as nice as the original rotary one, but you can use normal rechargable batteries rather than the button cells of the gen 1 remote
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/symfonisk-sound-remote-gen-2-90524607/
It gets a bit pricey as a single remote control if you need to buy the current ikea hub £60 as well though.
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/dirigera-hub-for-smart-products-white-smart-50503409/
I already had the hub for lights and blinds. So just needed remotes. For volume, play/pause/resume they’re much nicer than having to fiddle around with phone/tablet apps. Being wireless you can put them wherever is convenient in the room. In a morning I wander downstairs to the kitchen and press the button for the last items in the speaker queue (custom queue, internet radio, local album, whatever) to start playing while making coffee.
I had them in all my rooms with Sonos speakers and have attached them to my current system after moving away from Sonos.
The Gen2 square remotes can also have 2 favourite sources assigned to the left/right clicks I think.
I think Lutron does volume controls using the Pico system, but haven’t kept up with them, it may no longer be a ‘thing’.
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