Feature request - Android support on ChromeOS / Chromebook

+1 to wanting the Android app to work appropriately on ChromeOS.

Reading through the forum several users have reported Sonos Controller App for Android to work before on ChromeOS / Chromebooks, however, it does not any more.

I would like to request official support of ChromeOS/Chromebooks through Android.

Hi alexander_6,

Welcome to the community, and thanks for the suggestion. I'll send along a feature request to add support for ChromeOS and Chromebooks to our development team.

Thanks Jeff. I believe Chromebook's currently run Android 7 and will be upgraded soon. Programming wizardz hard@work developing is probably aware 🙂

+1. Like other posters, it worked for a while and now doesn't. While I like the Sonos speakers their responsiveness leaves something to be desired. They talked about Google Home support when it first came out but I haven't seen it. I have the impression they are an Apple-first shop.

Who is an Apple first shop? Sonos? They’re the ones who integrated Amazon’s Alexa and have yet to even commit to implementing Apple’s Siri.

Sonos has promised from the beginning about Google Home implementation by the end of 2018. They haven’t missed one of those big promises yet.

But so far, they have *not* promised Chromebook support.

But so far, they have *not* promised Chromebook support.
True, but they also haven't hinted as to why the Android controller suddenly broke, after working (more or less) since the advent of official Android app support on ChromeOS. A conspiracy theorist might suspect that it had been deliberately nobbled...

True enough. I was assuming (with no data to back it up) that there was some sort of hardware difference between the two platforms that the software relied on to make it work. Differing wifi chips, or something. Although you'd think it might be easy to fix (he said, somewhat facetiously).

Not hardware, but there are material differences in OS networking support. ChromeOS is 'harder' in a security sense, and (to my knowledge) won't accept some types of incoming traffic such as broadcasts.

This did in fact compromise the Sonos controller's operation to a slight degree, but for the most part it could function okay.... until all of a sudden it broke at Sonos v9.0. Under the circumstances I'm duty-bound to apply Occam's razor ...

Heh. Far be it for me to argue with your superior knowledge, good sir. 🙂

Hey guys, any updates here? The Sonos app for Android, running on my Google Chromebook, is completely broken. It doesn't stay synchronized with my Sonos audio system. It's completely useless to me.