A few weeks ago I’m alone at home minding my own business. Suddenly my Sonos system starts playing a song (“Faith” by Stevie Wonder) without my intervention. It plays for a few seconds and then the volume goes up to max. Panic!
We live in a flat and have Sonos in several rooms. Poor neighbors…
After a few seconds i got myself together and I managed to open the Sonos app and press “pause”. Directly, the music “unpauses”, I “pause”, it “unpauses” and then I turn down the volume to a minimum and then nothing.
At first, I suspected that some intruder had gained access to our WIFI and started going over the security logs of our Unifi (Ubiquiti) system. Nothing suspicious there. After that my guess was that one of the neighbors that I know has Sonos in their homes mysteriously had connected to the system. I called the neighbors and asked if they had tried to start “Faith” by Stevie Wonder at that particular time. Nothing.
A few days later, I told my wife (who is working as a dance teacher) about this spooky incident. She asked when it was and I gave her the song, day and time. “Oh, that must have been when I gave a class at the studio. I had a hard time to play that song”.
Notable here is that the dance studio has no whatsoever connection to our WIFI and is located three kilometers away. She couldn’t say whether she was on the cellular network or was logged in to the studio’s WIFI at the time. But there is no doubt that it was her who managed to start the song at our home remotely. Thing is, she had played that particular song, just before leaving home.
Now, a few minutes ago the same thing happened with the song I heard her play just before going to work today. This time though, she must have realized what happened, because she didn’t try to turn the volume up and “paused” herself.
As far as I understand it, this shouldn’t be possible. Any suggestions?
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