Flic Twist now on pre-order!

If you go with the Dirigera come back and update the thread with how things work out.

Hi Dave. It does. That is the main reason I got the Flic buttons years ago was to control the Sonos speakers.

Flic has cool features to create scenes with a bush of a button, i.e. dim the lights,  set the Sonos volume to 15, play Jazz playlist from Spotify (haven't figured out how to make it serve me a glass of wine, ha!).

When the twist came out, I was probably one of the first to fund and waited a year. 

They all worked flawlessly the first day, then I made the mistake of upgrading the Sonos firmware :(     

I have not heard back from flic. I am positive flic will fix this issue soon, I mean the twist is on pre-order. Imagine people reading about these problems, they would shy away from purchasing.  Flic, I hope you are reading this ;)

Sonos should not be responsible nor should they be concerned with fixing Flics issue. 

Unless they have a partnership or Flic is a crucial partner, then testing before making firmware available to consumers is critical. 

That is of course just my personal opinion. 

I just realized based on your link that there is an actual works with Sonos thing... the Flic does not seem to be part of it, just has this feature web page https://flic.io/applications/sonos

IKEA also has such ‘scenes’. I have many configured into the £6 shortcut buttons spread around the house.

I have the Flic twist.  Works with Sonos for volume, and simple stop start.  Looking at the Push and twist functions to see what else can be done.

Having waited 3 years I am very underwhelmed with the quality of the product, nowhere near the quality of the similar functioning Scenic Nuimo.

One issue with the Flic and Nuimo is teh volume level.

Both these products store a volume level within their system.  So they resume for the last volume they were used at.  That means if you’ve been listening at a high volume, set using the Twist, then subsequently lower the volume via any other method, the next touch of the Twist starts at the last Volume level the Twist was set at.  This quickly becomes irritating!

Senic Nuimo was apparently discontinued some years ago and is no longer supported. https://www.senic.com/blogs/news/discontinuing-nuimo-products

I had good usage out of four iPort xPress keypads back in the day but they were hard to configure (on iOS only) and also ended up discontinued/unsupported. Like so many of these start-ups’ products they were also expensive, presumably to recover substantial NRE.

I’m afraid I’ve had to conclude that such concepts, though ostensibly clever, aren’t as dependable and cost-effective as a solution from one of the major players. 

I can do all that stuff with Hubitat (home automation box) and cheap buttons. You can program Sonos via Hubitat too, I have some £18 Hue Dimmers controlling play/pause/volume. The downside is Hubitat cannot control the volume smoothly (yet!) eg you have to keep pressing the button to raise volume. If I use a Hue dial I have to turn/stop/turn/stop/etc to raise/lower, kind of tedious hence why I wanted this solution. 

It looks like the latest IKEA sound remote is based on buttons, unlike the older rotary control. Hopefully one can press-and-hold for continuous volume adjustment.