I had tried that already. You can't control the volume when the phone is locked or if you are in any app except the Sonos app. You have to either open the app or use the pull down notification which requires an additional tap to get to the volume control.
I'm sending this thing back. That is a serious usability flaw in my mind. Bose allows total control from a locked device. I can even move to the next song from the lock screen. When someone walks in the room and asks me a question I should be able to pick up my phone and turn down the volume from the buttons on the side of my phone. Having to unlock and navigate to a special control is ridiculous.
It's too bad. The sound is decent.
Hey sonos volume 5 or mute volume don't need a device
What do you mean? If I'm talking to someone I don't want to have to interrupt that person to tell my device to turn down. I should be able to do it from my phones side buttons.
OK enjoy your bose speaker the move is not good for you
I had tried that already. You can't control the volume when the phone is locked or if you are in any app except the Sonos app. You have to either open the app or use the pull down notification which requires an additional tap to get to the volume control.
I'm sending this thing back. That is a serious usability flaw in my mind. Bose allows total control from a locked device. I can even move to the next song from the lock screen. When someone walks in the room and asks me a question I should be able to pick up my phone and turn down the volume from the buttons on the side of my phone. Having to unlock and navigate to a special control is ridiculous.
It's too bad. The sound is decent.
It must be a limitation on your phone. I can control the volume when my iPhone is locked.
I had tried that already. You can't control the volume when the phone is locked or if you are in any app except the Sonos app. You have to either open the app or use the pull down notification which requires an additional tap to get to the volume control.
I'm sending this thing back. That is a serious usability flaw in my mind. Bose allows total control from a locked device. I can even move to the next song from the lock screen. When someone walks in the room and asks me a question I should be able to pick up my phone and turn down the volume from the buttons on the side of my phone. Having to unlock and navigate to a special control is ridiculous.
It's too bad. The sound is decent.
It must be a limitation on your phone. I can control the volume when my iPhone is locked.
Yea, it could be whatever version of android phone you could be using. It could also be that Sonos app isn’t running in the backgroud, or some other app has the focus and control of your hard volume buttons. If you still have Bose app running for example, that could be taking the focus.
“Hey Sonos” (SVC) isn’t an option as OP’s profile says they are using GA, and Google won’t allow their assistant to be on the same device with other voice services. GA would work, but if using voice control isn’t an option, then I imagine walking over to the speaker and pressing the hard buttons isn’t either.
Assuming you aren’t trying to control volume while in bluetooth mode.
Didn’t have Google to remove this function among other due to the lawsuit Sonos is having against them? I think they wanted to fix it in Android 12L but it hasn’t happened yet.
Didn’t have Google to remove this function among other due to the lawsuit Sonos is having against them? I think they wanted to fix it in Android 12L but it hasn’t happened yet.
No. Sonos has a a patent for code that allows for changing the volume of multiple speakers/room at the same time. Google copied the code for use with it’s own multiroom audio system, and instead of paying a license fee to Sonos or coding the feature a different way, they just removed the feature.
Google’s removing of the feature would have no effect here, since it’s controlling Sonos volume, not google’s audio system, and it’s one speaker, not multiple.
Ah ok, I wasn’t sure if Sonos devices were also affected by this, I’m not an Android user myself.
It’s also definitely not only affecting groups but also single speakers. Google had to remove the function for group volume control and for volume control via the hardware buttons (regardless of being a single or grouped speaker),
