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Volume limit feature
Add the ability to set a PIN protected volume limit per zone.
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We need this feature
Dear Sonos, A year has passed since I wrote a post here. You've done nothing. Perhaps you don't realize how annoying this problem is for your users? Please see the attached screenshot for an example. This is my normal volume setting for my sonos components. Now, image how fun it is to turn down the volume in the Dining Room just a notch? Here's how it goes: "tap... nothing tap... darn, missed it again, tap... nothing. Well, I'll just slide the whole thing... BLAM BANG THE VOLUME IS NOW UP TO 50% because I couldn't get the slider JUST RIGHT." Please. The way the volume is set now significantly decreases the usability of your otherwise spectacularly good system. I won't repeat the arguments others brought up about accidentally setting the volume for the bedroom — they are valid, too. But for me it's more important to have a convenient way to set volume in everyday usage.
Please, Please, Please Sonos-Crew, give us the long waited per-player Volume Limit. This should be SO(!) easy for you to implement...
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How can this still be under "Under consideration" ... ' Hate to crank up my Play:3 by mistake.. Specially the on in the bedroom...
The weak response I got from tech about this was that the reason they didn't was because at 100% volume the digital output was pure. Well, put a (audiophile-pure) tag on 100% or a warning when you set volume limit. It's streaming music, there IS no audiophile grade! Nobody will care!
Our child mistakenly set the volume to max when using the tablet and had the first signs of tinnitus (peep in her ears)! Now the sonos system is not used anymore. Such a simple change in the software would make the difference. Don't even need the pin code.
Not all Sonos users live in detached houses. Here in Europe in the cities many of us live in terraced housed and apartments and it is far too easy to accidentally run a bedroom at too high a volume, especially late at night after a glass of wine. Having annoyed my neighbours on more than one occasion now (accidentally) the Sonos system has sadly become a source of marital conflict and stress. Surely this is a feature something that could be added in a software update? I should add a PIN is not necessary for the purpose of preventing accidental disturbances; while I understand why parents would find a PIN useful I think that is addressing a separate problem and would possibly require more effort and user support.
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Yes please. Really need it..
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+1 feature request. Sonos are you listening to any of us?
Tomas, I suffer only from your arrogance and patroning. The fact that you assert any potential parenting problem as a response to a feature request really shows arrogance. And I'm suggesting only what I already suggested. Feel free to re-read without prejudice and with self-reflection. Or not.
It is precisely because I am a responsible parent that I ask for this feature. I also have a Sonicwall firewall with full parental control to stop my kids accidentally looking at pornography and violence online. No computers or TV in bedrooms, etc., etc. The volume is limited on his iPod so he doesn't damage his hearing, and actually, my kids do generally do what they're told. To date I would not have had to use the volume limit feature, but because I'm a sensible sort of chap, I think that this would be a sensible sort of feature. Parental controls on all electronic devices are just plain common sense, that's all. You're perfectly at liberty to disagree, of course.
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Pure unadulterated hyperbole and totally unsubstantiated claims based on total ignorance.
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Sorry, Digital, you might suffer from a slight misunderstanding here. I said "IF he doesn't do as told, THEN that is a parenting problem". I don't know if he does as he is told, and nowhere do I call Drewman an inadequate parent. Are you suggesting that it's great parenting to teach your children to do as they please without listening to what they're being told? Furthermore, I offered Drewman a simple solution which is likely to work far quicker than raising (more or less sensible) feature requests on the internet. If you don't like people speaking their mind and offering input, why do you bother participate in a user forum?
As you said, it defeats the purpose...
You start with "due respect" and then you call him an inadequate parent? There have been quite a few legitimate reasons for desiring (no...make that expecting) a volume limit feature. If your contribution after all of those sound reasons is simply "be a better parent", then why bother saying a word to us?
As far as the childish war games go, all you have to do is set them up as separate systems. Then only they have access to their bedroom system. They would have to gain physical access to it and learn themselves into it. It defeats the purpose of easy wireless mesh networking but if you have hardlines in place, it is a pretty easy fix.
More irrelevant comments making light of an issue that doesn't matter as much to them. While it is an engineering feat to make a car that keeps teens from driving fast, Chevy has already done it and I think Ford and Volvo too. As far as Jeans that don't unzip, they were actually the first jeans ever made. They started out as button-fly (no zipper to unzip) so if these impossible things can be done, why can't a simple change be made by the engineers. Change volume from a range of integers from 0-100 be a range from 0-x where x is a value (defaulted to 100) set in a menu. If they want to appease a broader group of people they could also make a settings pin-code lockout. We are not talking about hacking North Korean launch codes, this is simple programming people. If I was privy to the source code it could be done in 15 seconds.
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Trust the Swedes to be at the forefront. Volvo should have adopted the Vorsprung durch technik saying 😉
Thank you. We might get there eventually. Here in Sweden we already have a remedy for one of these issues in place 😉
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I certainly have been, pah. I wish your clients the best of luck when it comes to asking jeans manufacturers to build in a system making it impossible to unzip when there's a member of the opposite sex nearby, or when they want to ask car manufacturers to let them remotely control how fast the teen's car is allowed to drive.
I really wish Sonos would address this instead of all these troll comments... Yes, we could not turn it up so loud but if you've ever actually used sonos you know it's at least possible to turn the wrong zone up with 10 available especially when grouped, not to mention the fact that you can try to hold and drag and end up being confused as a tap of full volume directly; coupled with the possibility of losing wifi right at an inopportune moment, the need remains. I find this very frustrating to be brushed off because one person uses his single boombox with no problem and can't understand why someone with 10 zp120's hooked to some nice speakers would ever want to keep it limited to under 150 decibels. I mean if iPods can do it, why can't a sonos piece? It's really a simple piece of code change guys.
Tomas, Some day you might find young people living in your own home. Most of them try very hard to do as they're told, but sometimes they're just not up to the task. Ever been a teenager yourself?
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Until (if) Sonos implements this, you could simply answer those parents "by teaching your children to do as you're told".
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With due respect - why don't you just tell him to turn the volume down? If he generally doesn't listen and do as he's told, then that's a parenting problem rather than a technical problem.
I am a builder and have installed these in a few homes, the issue is when the client comes back to me and asks how they can stop there children from having a volume war, basically changing music and ramping up the volume in each others rooms, also clients asking similar question but maybe having young babies which which are sleeping. definetly need to have some sort of password protection on 2 levels volume/playlist with a main controller that can allow or disallow access. I have to let clients know this is an issue and some have opted not to have as many as they would have like and more often than not for me to supply a system they can actually control 😞 . I have discussed this with Sonos and they agree this is a good idea and they can see the issues. Definetly been under consideration too long.
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