Feature request: Schedule option

I would love to be able to, for example, set my bathroom speaker to play between 7 AM-10 PM everyday or split it up to play between 7 AM-9AM and then start again between 4PM-10PM. I know some of it can be done with the alarm but thats not what I want.
Why not? Alarms can do all of the above, not just some of it.

The answer to your question can be found in the first post and you basically answered it yourself.

And creating a bunch of different alarms aint the smoothest way to go. In the end alarm is alarm,

I must be missing something. You're happy with the current functionality but you'd rather it was labelled 'schedule' instead of 'alarms'??

No. The alarm is good.

But please, tell me how to create 1(one) alarm where i can tell it to start play at 7am, stop at 9am. Then start again at 12am-1pm and then 4pm-10pm. Without creating 3 different alarms. With a proper schedule function this could be made at once.

Then if i have 3 rooms where i want different settings I would end up with 9 different alarms. Also on top of that I have my normal alarms....kinda messy m8.

You create an alarm that starts at 7:00a and plays for 2 hours (7:00a-9:00a).
You create an alarm that starts at 12:00p and plays for 1 hour (12:00p-1:00p).
You create an alarm that starts playing at 4:00p with an indefinite length (since the longest alarm time isn't as long as you want here), then create another alarm at 10:00p that plays for 5 minutes at 0 volume to turn it off... or set an alarm at 9:30p for 30 minutes... or however you want to set it up.

You have to create multiple entries in a schedule to start and stop things, just like you need to create multiple alarms.

A 'proper' schedule function would still require discrete on/off instructions for each period. Which is what exists today, organised by room, by time.

You can set a maximum of 32 alarms in the system as a whole. It seems to me that limit is the only potential issue.

Well, please hear me. I know it can be done. As I said. I dont want to create a bunch of different alarms. I want it to be made in ONE step. A schedule function. There is a big difference there. It can be done very easily without all your above instructions...without having to create and trick the system.

You create an alarm that starts playing at 4:00p with an indefinite length (since the longest alarm time isn't as long as you want here)
The longest alarm time is now 23:55 (23:59 if configured on the Desktop controller).

This should be an easy fix and falls perfectly in line with our new smart homes nowadays! And I can see this too be an much wanted function for both private and business who wants their speakers to play automatically on different times during the day!
Best regards!

Orsla, is there a smart home product you're thinking of that currently does scheduling the way you want Sonos to? I'm not aware of one. You generally have to setup a separate event for every action. Some may allow you to do 'start' and 'stop' in a single event, but often times, they have to be done separately. Arlo cameras do allow you to do a schedule, similar to what I think you're describing. I think some thermostats have schedules like that as well. Is this along the lines of what you we're thinking.

I somewhat agree with the others. Since you can do this with alarms, I can't see it as a high priority. I also don't know that it's going to be as easy to code as you think it will be. The other thing to consider is that a lot of high end users who would want this feature, are also going to have other smart home things in their house, and are going to want to control all of them from a central hub/application like Smartthings. In other words, there is a good chances users who could use such a feature would might opt to do it elsewhere anyways.