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Contributor I
May 12, 2013 10:07 AM UTC

Alarm clock improvement for grouped setups.

I have 2x Play:5 and 1x Play:3, always in a group. Using the alarm clock I only want the player in my bedroom to start playing music while the others stay muted. Sonos currently offers to either 1) play on one device which will un-group the player from the others or 2) playing on all group (un-mute all). I'd like to see an option to use the alarm clock on one player but keep the group sticky! Thus, I could simply un-mute the player in the kitchen once I got up without having to re-group the players. Additionally, with the current implementation the following is a little annoying. When using the alarm clock (with option 1) not including the group) and then starting the iOS app the focus is on my other two players (new group) rather than the one which plays music. So first I have to switch player to be able to pause the music. Thanks for considering such ideas!
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    Lyricist I
    Feb 12, 2015 2:57 PM UTC
    Totally agree and I think I put this request in around two years,  Is it really that difficult??
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    Lyricist III
    Feb 12, 2015 3:00 PM UTC
    You've got to wonder what the Sonos developers do all day. So many user requested features ignored or rejected.
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    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    Feb 12, 2015 3:03 PM UTC
    ... and I dont' see anything ASAP.
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    Lyricist I
    Feb 12, 2015 10:05 PM UTC
    I find the current alarm system incredibly frustrating and it's something that is putting my family off our Sonos system. I just wish I could set alarms and create grouped zones for those alarms seperate to everyday usage. At the moment, we need to remember to manually group the speakers back for the alarm ever night. Not being able to set individual volumes for each speaker in the alarm is frustrating too. It's really not very smart
    Exactly the problem here...
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    Lyricist I
    Apr 26, 2015 1:58 PM UTC
    Yes, better support for grouped speakers with alarms would really improve things. I was rather amazed to discover I could *not* set up all our speakers to come on in a group in the morning.
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    Lyricist III
    Jan 7, 2017 7:52 AM UTC
    Why are these kind of inputs always ignored. Sonos could and would be so much better!
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