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Sonos Employee
March 24, 2014

Disable Hard Button on Sonos Speakers

  • March 24, 2014
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A Sonos user would like to disable the hard buttons on his Sonos devices via the Sonos Controller. 

For exemple when he is having a party home he want to avoid his friend to modify the volume level or pause the music.

What do you think about it?
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      Scott Buckley
      Contributor I
      December 5, 2014
      This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled My cat is turning on my system. My cat is turning on our system by stepping on the pause button, we need a way to delete the service form a room so it wont play when you hit the button on the speaker.
      Scott Buckley
      Contributor I
      December 5, 2014
      This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled My cat is turning on my system. My cat is turning on our system by stepping on the pause button, we need a way to delete the service form a room so it wont play when you hit the button on the speaker.
      upstatemike
      December 5, 2014
      This is just one of several issues that could be resolved by making the button configurable by the user.
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      User137002
      Contributor I
      December 14, 2014
      My 1 yr old kid plays with the buttons on the top of the speakers all the time - so we have put the speaker back in their box. Please can we have a software setting to disable these buttons? Then I can get the speakers out again. 
      And you know what, I might even buy the additional pairs that I had planned before discovering my child's desire to DJ!
      PaulL
      Contributor I
      December 15, 2014
      +1 Great Idea
      sitepoint
      Lyricist I
      December 18, 2014
      +1, my cat loves to step on the play button in the middle of the night...
      Lucky_1
      Lyricist II
      January 4, 2015
      Would be a very handy feature to be able to toggle this from the App
      Scott Buckley
      Contributor I
      January 7, 2015
      I have the same problem with my cat.  He not only turn it on but he also truns the volume up to max.  Please do something.
      garrett5688
      January 7, 2015
      i cant recall for sure, as i am not near my system, but i believe if you go to group and uncheck the current room (or all rooms), it will clear the service and display "no music." if your cat were to press play/pause, nothing would start.

      you would want to clear your queue also.

      EDIT: i think i was wrong about this. i tried it and it didn't behave the same way i remember. the only way to clear the service may be to reboot the player.
      Jeremy Devaney
      Lyricist I
      March 4, 2015
      Has this been resolved? I don't see any response from Sonos and my wife is ready to throw the whole system away because our 2-year loves dance parties. #worsethanlivingnexttoafraternity
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