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Ryan S
Ryan S
Retired Sonos Staff
December 9, 2016

Control4 Integration with Sonos 7.0

  • December 9, 2016
  • 48 replies
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On December 6th we released Sonos version 7.0 and added a new registration method for Sonos systems that enables the listener to play music from Spotify straight to Sonos. As a result of the changes, this update also broke an unofficial Control4 integration with Sonos. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause some users of both Control4 and Sonos.

If you’ve already updated your system and are unable to play to Sonos via Control4, you can still use the Sonos App on any compatible device. If you’re a Spotify subscriber, you can now also use the Spotify app to control what’s playing.

We are in talks with Control4 on potential solutions and will provide updates here as they become available.
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48 replies

jibarosoul
Contributor I
December 13, 2016
I work for an integration company in Illinois, we are a control4 and Sonos dealer. This has directly affected our system designs to the point that we have decided to move another direction(DENON HEOS). With the official DENON C4 driver we can maintain search across streaming services. This is a huge deal to our clients and is the sole reason we have moved toward HEOS. We love your products and personally I will continue to use them at home but will have to reluctantly spec HEOS on all future designs unless this gets resolved very soon. The extra vegetables driver, although somewhat of a hack, worked great for us for a long time and sadly over night it's as useless as your endorsed driver. Although custom integrators may be a small segment of your market, we have a very strong influence on the end user and are often the introduction to your product. I can also say that many other control4 integrators in our region have expressed similar concern. Hopefully there can be a solution soon. Thanks
    Ryan S
    Ryan SAuthor
    Retired Sonos Staff
    December 14, 2016
    Just a quick update for you all, Control4 recently made a post about the situation here with some more details.
    Mark good posts by pressing the like button, and select the best answer on questions you've asked to help others find solutions.
    gazandjan
    Trending Lyricist I
    December 24, 2016
    Its simple - Sell Sonos and buy HEOS.

    Already purchase my Dennon AV.

    Please let us be able to search from our Control4 Touchscreens, Allow us to play announcements though our Sonos speakers.

    Backwards Step big time
    camillo777
    Headliner I
    January 1, 2017
    Yes Denon, but can you count the number of Denon apps in the play Store?
    Every time they refresh a product they build a new app that is not retrocompatible.
    They always change api.
    Support for old models is crap too.
    This is something which is keeping me from buying heos products.
    I have got a Denon avr x2100w.
    Camillo
    gazandjan
    Trending Lyricist I
    January 1, 2017
    Cam, understand your comments, I love sonos, but it needs to work with my house. HEOS as many faults, but at the moment if sonos break my control of
    Sonos with my control 4 system, I will need to look elsewhere, hence the reason I bought the amp.

    The amp is brilliant
      HTCguy
      Contributor I
      February 9, 2017
      sonos why did you have to change the api it was a great one this has costed me a lot of money this past week take your product out and putting in Denon
      upstatemike
      February 9, 2017
      It is concerning not just that Sonos put out an API that drastically reduced functionality but also that they don't seem to get why that is not OK. The universally negative reaction was easy to predict so how did they not know this change was a bad idea?
      Local music library with carefully constructed playlists - no shuffling!, Integration with Homeseer Automation, No touch screen devices, No streaming services, No Apple products ever
        HTCguy
        Contributor I
        February 13, 2017
        They Don't care I'm going to have my client call
        Outburst
        Enthusiast II
        February 13, 2017
        It is concerning not just that Sonos put out an API that drastically reduced functionality but also that they don't seem to get why that is not OK. The universally negative reaction was easy to predict so how did they not know this change was a bad idea?

        Probably because the integration of Control4 was not an official one? Why should Sonos care about that?They have to make progress and that might cause other integrations to fail as a consequence.
        gazandjan
        Trending Lyricist I
        February 13, 2017
        They should care because we spend money on (Big Money) on equipment that works with C4
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