How can I control my Sonos Port with a remote control?

Cool -- $18 remote and $40 “gateway” (don’t search Ikea.com for “hub”)?  I’ll have to try one.  They both look clunkier than their Lutron equivalents, and of course the product description throws a curve because it says, “Can only be used with IKEA Smart lighting products.”

Since Sonos Staff can’t recommend, here’s my experience: Lutron controls “just work”.  Battery in the remote supposedly lasts 10 years.  Mounting options (pedestal, wall plate, fake “tandem” wallplate with light switches) are great.  I ordered 2 “Lutron Caseta Wireless Pico Remote for Audio” @ $40 each and 1 “Lutron Caseta Wireless Smart Bridge” @ $80, plus a $12 Pico pedestal to keep it above the counter slop in the kitchen.  That’s only twice as much as the Ikea pieces and worth the peace of mind IMO.

The iPort that Sonos sells is reputed to drain its battery pretty quick, so I didn’t even bother with it. 

The Senic Nuimo that Sonos sells is heavy-duty hardware (even better than Lutron) and I *love* the spinwheel’s look & feel, but their hub occasionaly failed to reconnect.  (Whether it was across power-fails or Sonos software updates I don’t know, but both occur way too often for my liking.)  I prefer their switch to the spinwheel only because it has no battery at all (piezo!), so no recharging or sleep/wake delay.  Rarely, it takes an extra click to charge it up and only the second click gets transmitted to (by?) the hub.  The Nuimo controls required closer distance to their hub than the Lutron Picos did.

In all these cases you must load the manufacturer’s app as well as the Sonos app.  And in all cases, volume clicks have a tiny delay before they take effect.  I didn’t mind the Lutron delay. The Nuimo switch delay wasn’t much longer, but the Nuimo spinwheel delay made it easy to overshoot.  I have only used them on pre-S1, no idea about S2.

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Ikea is little risk as they havea 1 year return policy 😀

I don't find it clunky but ymmv.The puck shape isn't ground breaking design but imo it's a good mix of design and function.  I'm using it with Smartthings hub so haven't bought the Tradfri gateway. 

So far in approx 4 months use every time I press a button it works and it continued to work over upgrades to S2. 

It probably depends how much it’s used each day, or whether it gets lost down the back of the sofa cushions with its buttons pressed continuously. Mine last a month or two between charges (which take only an hour or so).