Allow controllers to pair with multiple home systems

I've got 97 houses and 531 pieces of equipment. I spend several hours each day at every house, so it's totally essential for me to have this solution. If you don't implement it before the end of the week, I'll throw my expensive Sonos gear in the river and feed the cats tuna for a month.

I've got 97 houses and 531 pieces of equipment. I spend several hours each day at every house, so it's totally essential for me to have this solution. If you don't implement it before the end of the week, I'll throw my expensive Sonos gear in the river and feed the cats tuna for a month.
Well that's a little extreme Tomas. The bottom line is there needs to be a way to control 2 or more systems with one controller.

I've got 97 houses and 531 pieces of equipment. I spend several hours each day at every house, so it's totally essential for me to have this solution. If you don't implement it before the end of the week, I'll throw my expensive Sonos gear in the river and feed the cats tuna for a month.
Okay. I'll give them tuna for 2 weeks and dandelion leaves for the rest of the month. Is that better? The bottom line is that there is a very small group of people for whom this is a slight inconvenience. There is a workaround. Cumbersome and not very elegant, but it exists. So you're right. For a small minority of users it would be a convenience improvement if one controller could control two or more systems without them having to register the controller to the network they happen to be at.

I've got 97 houses and 531 pieces of equipment. I spend several hours each day at every house, so it's totally essential for me to have this solution. If you don't implement it before the end of the week, I'll throw my expensive Sonos gear in the river and feed the cats tuna for a month.
Tomas, Please stop polluting a legitimate thread with non-helpful, sarcastic, and condescending comments. Thanks, Everyone on this email list

To Sonos: Making it more convenient for users to have multiple Sonos networks controlled from a single controller will make it more likely for users to buy more zones. I regretfully had to dissuade some friends from buying Sonos because they each were interested in controlling zones across two homes. This is a real issue when I demonstrated the method how to roam between networks. Airplay and Airport express units work considerably easier across multiple homes. Apple TV and Airport Express are considerably easier for large networks and multiple-locations. I'm not polluting the mailing list, but trying to explain to Sonos that this is not a small minority of users – it is a big issue for a lot of people. Further, you are losing potential customers keeping customers to small networks. In an earlier post I suggested a method Sonos could use to easily patch the controller. Surprisingly I learned recently that the Sonos Zones do not actually authenticate to the controller as it appears they do– in other words, the association with a zone is a one-way action that is only limited by the controller software. Even if you don’t authenticate (with the associate button) you can get a list of all Zones on the current network and control them. I was able to prove this with coding a simple controller app using Python scripts on my Macbook to prove it. I moved my Macbook between home and office, without the Sonos controller ever authenticating or being installed on my Mac, and was able to list all zones and control the playlists, etc … There is no reason the controller cannot already control multiple networks. This would be an easy fix which makes it even more frustrating. Jason

I've got 97 houses and 531 pieces of equipment. I spend several hours each day at every house, so it's totally essential for me to have this solution. If you don't implement it before the end of the week, I'll throw my expensive Sonos gear in the river and feed the cats tuna for a month.
Why should I do that, Adam? It's a minority issue, why should I not voice my opinion that it's a minority thing? These fora are worthless for prioritising development if each is full of 200 fan-boys all saying "oh yeah, I'd love one of them as well". For it to be considered a debate, there has to be people not just saying yes, yes, yes. If you don't like my comments, you're more than welcome to simply skip them. Finally, what on earth makes you think you speak for "everybody on this email list"? Did you win a popular vote?

I've got 97 houses and 531 pieces of equipment. I spend several hours each day at every house, so it's totally essential for me to have this solution. If you don't implement it before the end of the week, I'll throw my expensive Sonos gear in the river and feed the cats tuna for a month.
This is a feature suggestion message thread. All who are following are supportive of the idea of making the lives of Sonos users who wish to control multiple networks much easier and seemless. If you do not support this concept, stop following the thread.

I've got 97 houses and 531 pieces of equipment. I spend several hours each day at every house, so it's totally essential for me to have this solution. If you don't implement it before the end of the week, I'll throw my expensive Sonos gear in the river and feed the cats tuna for a month.
Sorry, Jason. I will follow whichever treads I want to follow. If you don't want to read my contributions, please feel free to skip them.

I've got 97 houses and 531 pieces of equipment. I spend several hours each day at every house, so it's totally essential for me to have this solution. If you don't implement it before the end of the week, I'll throw my expensive Sonos gear in the river and feed the cats tuna for a month.
I was referring to the post from Adam who was complaining about your posts. Seems ridiculous to follow a suggestion thread and then complain about seeing suggestion comments. But that's just me.

To Sonos: Please do not implement what Jason has explained. It seems pretty horrible if anyone with an iPhone could walk past my house and take control of my Sonos network. If the security is really as lax as Jason describes, then please focus attention on improving this, rather than on implementing a solution to control multiple networks from a single controller. Of course... doing that would mean my cats would end up tired of tuna, and my Sonos equiment would learn to swim. But I guess that's a small price to pay.