A linux controller is needed.

In 1994, when I first started using Linux, I could see why companies would imply "its not common". I've been linux only for over 11 years. All my kids know is linux. Schools are even teaching open source at this point. I did delay my purchase of Sonos choosing to run some Outlaw wireless transmitter/receiver that sounded great but was quite complicated (think, not-so-wife friendly). Its been 3 years and I finally decided to give Sonos a shot and it sure would be nice if Sonos either supported one of the open clients in an official capacity, or create one. The initial 2k for the bar/sub/ and 2 play1's was a start. With a Linux client, will get me to buy for the rest of the rooms too. 😃

Best wishes,
Nathan

Yes, please!

Having just bought a pair of Play 1s really surprised and disappointed there isn't a linux controller. Poor from Sonos. Will have a look at some of the 3rd party ones I guess.

Yet another +1 for Sonos Controller for Linux, please. I have about £10,000 of Sonos products, all working beautifully on current Mac system, but am moving to Linux for security reasons (as are many others) I would really like to be able to continue to use my Sonos system on Linux!

+1 on a deb/rpm for linux.

Web interface and/or dedicated Linux desktop controller desperately needed. When I bought into Sonos I purchased a dedicated controller and definitely not a requirement to have any relationship with Apple, Amazon or Google. As the dedicated controllers don't last forever (I've had replacements due to touch screen problems) and are no longer produced and Microsoft have gone down the Google route of private data slurping with the latest version of their operating system, I'll need to know that I can still control the system in the future without unwanted intrusive third party involvement . Or at least make the Android app downloadable directly from the Sonos website and with no requirement to be logged into Google or Amazon. Otherwise I'll no longer be recommending Sonos to people and I'll be dumping the kit whenever the controller dies.

I bold a sonos controller for Ubuntu phone, touch and desktop for release >= 15.10. The controller doesn't handle services like Spotify, deezer etc... It handles only radios and share music index. It is licensed under GPLv3

http://janbar.github.io/noson-app/index.html

I'm also moving away from Windows platform. I don't like where M$ is going with windows platform. So now I'm forced to use android app on my phone, which I do not like very much. I miss shuffle button on play menu and I'm always looking for it.

With so much open source application that run on all platforms it's hard to understand why no support from Sonos. Guess there is no good competition for Sonos to look into this segment of users. :S

Hello,

I wrote a tutorial on how to install the Sonos controller and access the musical library under a linux OS (the tutorial is for Ubuntu but works for any distro I saw so far)

Here is the link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/757969/how-can-i-install-sonos-on-ubuntu/757970#757970

I hope it helped.

Sonos Controller works in wine again. I installed version 6.2.2 in the latest Crossover Linux (15.1.0) on Fedora 22 and it works great. Installed into a Windows XP bottle along with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and Microsoft Core Fonts.