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brymills
Enthusiast I
September 10, 2019
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Alarms "hidden" in System Settings with 10.4

  • September 10, 2019
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Ah come on Sonos, alarms used to be so easy. It used to be click ‘More’, click alarms. Now in 10.4 it’s click ‘Settings’, click ‘System’, scroll around a bit, click ‘Alarms’. Why? Sometimes it feels like Sonos is constantly changing stuff for the sake of change, not to improve the functionality.
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    Best answer by Ryan S

    The team has concluded their testing and the alarms shortcut is being sent out to all Sonos households today. You will be able to access your alarms screen from the Rooms tab, by clicking on the alarm bell at the top left of the screen. If you don’t see the shortcut yet, check for updates in your Sonos system, as there is one that released today, and then you might just have to wait a little while. The setting is rolling out to homes today and might not have reached your system yet.

    Thanks for your patience everyone, and I hope this shortcut makes it easier on your evenings. I’ve also passed on the other feedback for other functionality and displays.

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    Galeran
    Avid Contributor I
    January 1, 2020

    I take back my “Thank you.” This update is apparently not compatible with my nightstand tablet’s Android 5.1.1.

    Android 5.1.1 is too old to still be supported with full control, but devices running that software are still able to control normal playback and I believe they can edit alarms too. Let me check with the team if this shortcut was pushed to those controllers.

    Maybe I panicked a bit when I saw the banner notice at the top of the app saying it was no longer supported for the first time, but I’m pretty sure the new bell shortcut wasn’t showing up initially. It does now… but not before I bought a trio of refurb Android 9 tablets from Walmart (their onn. 8” tablet is actually pretty decent even as a refurb) and printed out some custom docks in TPU… Well, we’ll see how much I miss the ease of the pogo pin dock from my Nexus 7.

    Ryan S
    Ryan S
    Retired Sonos Staff
    January 2, 2020

    @Sapperjohn, can you force quite your Sonos app, just make sure it’s fully closed, and then reopen it? It sounds like your app is just fine and the account needs to re-trigger the check for the alarms shortcut. This should do the trick.

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      Sapperjohn
      Trending Lyricist I
      January 2, 2020

      Hi Ryan

      That has done the trick. Alarm symbol present and working.
       

      Many thanks

        Digital Man
        Trending Lyricist I
        March 7, 2020

        I still have an issue with alarms missing from the alarms page--even after updating to iOS 13 and MacOs 10.15.3. From what I can tell, if I have both the Sonos app for iOS loaded and the Sonos app for Catalina loaded, one (but not both) will display alarms; sometimes neither one will display alarms. 

         

        SONOS, PLEASE FIX THIS ANNOYING BUG!!

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