Brilliant controller

I must be in a minority here but i thought a product like this would have a massive market.

Not everyone has a phone on hand to control all your devices, nor shouting at the useless Alexa is not appropriate at all times.

I am with you dav77! No desire to use voice. Just wish the controls for this allowed more advanced actions like grouping, music selection, and group volume controls. If so I will have 3or4 around the house. Hopefully the interface will improve and not just stay as a single speaker interface like it looks like now. Looking forward to seeing it out in the public. Really wish it could just run Android and I could run the Sonos App.

Ah, have you read that this will be a limited control of Sonos? Ie no grouping etc

Its kind of hard to tell from there site, but thats what it sounds like. Here a quote from there June 17 Update

"You can choose from your stored playlists, or Sonos favorites such as stations from Pandora, Spotify, and Tune.fm. The album art appears once you play, and you can adjust the volume, skip to the next track, play/pause, or even select a different Sonos player or "group" to control those remotely without leaving the room. All at your fingertips, without the need for a mobile device!" It seems to be telling me i can select from Playlists or Favorites. And says i can select a group but not whether i can actually do grouping and what exactly i can do with the volume, i think probably just change the overall volume fo the group. Basically you can see its not the standard app which i was hoping for. Looks like they are building the interface app themselves. Guess we will have to see what it actually does when released.

FWIW, external controllers like this are generally for controlling a single room/device only. That may be ok if you just want to start music/radio in your current room, but there are serious caveats:

1) Sonos doesn't allow you to save a group as a preset. So if you start music in the room with the device, it will not be in sync with your other rooms. IMHO, this makes all external controllers pretty useless, as I don't want unsynced music playing in different rooms.
2) I would like such devices to be able to switch between TV audio and music/radio, but Sonos doesn't provide commands that allow an external device to start/stop TV audio on a Playbar.

I've been trying to figure out a solution to these issues for two years.

Maybe external controllers can improve with the new 'works with sonos' initiative

I just installed mine in the master bathroom (Sonos amp in the bedroom connected to Rogers LS 3/5A studio monitors, Niles switch to also play bathroom in-ceiling speakers). Install is easy (like replacing a light switch), but you MUST have a neutral wire. I mainly got it for Sonos so I don't have to have a controller in the bathroom (I do have a Lutron Pico remote to control it, but it's a bit wonky). I added some SiriusXM channels that my wife likes to "Favorites" and they are all there on the display. Works like a charm. The Alexa integration is nice as well for lowering/raising volume. I've only had it running for a few hours, but I like the look and operation. My light switch is high enough that I can see the controls without an issue. Im 5'9"...those 6' plus may find it too low. Here's a shot playing a playlist I created in Apple music, accessible by Sonos.

Do you have the ability to run the Sonos App? So you can do grouping, picking of all music sources? Or is just work with Favorites and certain speaker?

The Brilliant devices don't run third-party apps like an Android phone or iPhone. There is no app store to go search for apps you want. But I am interested to learn what Brilliant's capabilities are with respect to controlling Sonos stuff. Can you group and ungroup speakers with it, and can you control volume for individual devices within a group like you can with the iPhone Sonos controller app?

Has anyone else got one of these yet? Still no news on a UK release ☹️