Contributor I

Feature request: Apple TV with Sonos App

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
April 10, 2024
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As a custom integrator I feel very strongly that Sonos should have an app on the Apple TV device. I understand that Sonos wants to be able to manage every aspect of their ecosystem but since 99% of my installs has an Apple TV, I think Sonos should offer a paid app to stream directly from the Apple TV. Some clients don’t want a universal remote and just want to use the Apple TV remote, and some control systems don’t work well with Sonos (I’m looking at you Control4). So to me it looks like a niche Sonos can profit from. Make it less than $50 per Apple TV device and I guarantee I can sell that as a line item in every bid. Make it possible for me to purchase licenses and install them in-app and we’ll be good to go. Maybe it’s too much to ask for or perhaps Sonos’ licensing deals with streaming services aren’t able to extend to a third-party device, but I’d be very happy to see this developed one day.

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melvimbe

From what I’ve read, the web app is an option, not a requirement. There is still going to be the mobile app. Which, as I understand it, will need to be used for ‘admin’ functions such as setup. I perceive the web app as more of a replacement for the desktop apps (Windows/Mac) that have been in ‘maintenance mode’ for many years now. It just a convenience (for some) that it will run on a mobile device as well. My personal plan is to continue to use the mobile app, which will likely look extremely or exactly the same in most cases as the web app. This is merely, from what I’ve seen reported so far, an update of the UI/UX, and not really that much on function.

This is basically my thoughts as well, but I will experiment with a couple ways I could use the web app. For example I’d like to start up music while a way from home and that monitor the home cameras to see how my dogs react.

Danny

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Captain Kevman

Contributor I

Yes, from the FAQ section of the new app,

The web app is designed only for playback and grouping control.
With the Sonos mobile app, you can:
Add or remove products from your system

Configure home theater setup

Create alarms

Preset groups

and more...

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pup

Avid Contributor II

The iOS app will continue for the phone, obviously, but from the preview page, it reads to me as if the custom iPad app is going away - meaning that you will either have to use the upscaled iPhone version, or the web app.

Hopefully I’m wrong, or who knows, the web app may surprise. Certainly it will be nice to have control from my desktop again.

Airgetlam

The similarities between iOS and iPadOS are so much, it is hard to perceive that the iOS controller won’t operate on both. I, too, mostly use the iOS controller on my iPad, although the need for admin capabilities is fairly rare, I’m mostly starting/stopping music.

Bruce

controlav

Lead Maestro

The similarities between iOS and iPadOS are so much, it is hard to perceive that the iOS controller won’t operate on both. I, too, mostly use the iOS controller on my iPad, although the need for admin capabilities is fairly rare, I’m mostly starting/stopping music.

The code might be the same, but the UX layout is very different. And from my (limited) understanding of iOS coding, that makes the apps quite different. Plus greatly reduces testing requirements as the app only has to work on portrait-oriented phone screens.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

Airgetlam

It’s a fair point. We’ll have to see on May 7, barring any update from Sonos folks before hand. If I recall properly (and it has been years), the coders I used to interface with would talk about relative layouts (in iOS clients for games), rather than layouts per pixel…but you have more knowledge in this area than I.

Bruce

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