Is there any way to put a password on your sonos system?

Thanks Bjorn. I really hope they sort this out, because Sonos is a great concept and decent quality kit. I live in hope, but if nothing has happened in the next 6 months (I know how long software development can take) it would mean that all the time people have been urging Sonos to do something, they have not paid attention. And that is not acceptable.

And the daughter's boyfriend that alerted me to this (no matter how stupidly) is now banned from my house!

Thanks Bjorn. I really hope they sort this out, because Sonos is a great concept and decent quality kit. I live in hope, but if nothing has happened in the next 6 months (I know how long software development can take) it would mean that all the time people have been urging Sonos to do something, they have not paid attention. And that is not acceptable.

And the daughter's boyfriend that alerted me to this (no matter how stupidly) is now banned from my house!
I'm following this discussion from almost the beginning, and that's more then 1 year ago.. Not even a reply from a member from SONOS yet, it's ridiculous..
A software development takes a while indeed, but no reply after over a year doesn't look like any progress, or listening to customer feedback. While SONOS is not cheap at all, you're paying for quality. So you expect the best (my opinion..)

Banned from the house sounds reasonable.
He just tried to impress your daughter, which was on the wrong time and moment.. Hope your relationship with your boss didn't change during this little incident..

Also I hope SONOS will read this to understand the importance of this small feature.. Same thing on our company, co-workers can access SONOS easily if they understand a little bit of the technology.. You just don't want anyone to screw with the sound while you're giving an presentation. It can have a big impact if someone has a bad intention, or just doesn't have the knowledge of what might happen. Like in your case, he just thought he was funny..

I hope Sonos product management are reading this thread. It would be nice if they posted some form of response acknowledging or denying the validity of the requirement. Different people are asking in different ways but all point to the need for some form of authentication. In a larger context, it seems to me that Sonos should want to marry their great sound system with the Cloud. It would provide a solution to all the problems plus provide a nice marketing angle. It would allow Sonos users to keep their credentials, configuration, Sonos favorites list, etc. in the Sonos Cloud and enable users to move from their office to their residence to their summer home have their configurations and favorites go with them.

So John suggests that "many" Sonos owners have more than one home? Delusional at best. Play:1 in UK costs 169 pounds, hardly pricing it out of the mass market. Complete and utter garbage spouted in the pursuit of selfish ends. Let the developers work on things that appear to be needed by a large number of people. (Although if your friends think it's funny to override your system, you need to sort them out)

Anthony - sell the kid, not the equipment. How come you people can't impose appropriate discipline? Unbelievable. Spoilt brats eh?

So John suggests that "many" Sonos owners have more than one home? Delusional at best. Play:1 in UK costs 169 pounds, hardly pricing it out of the mass market. Complete and utter garbage spouted in the pursuit of selfish ends. Let the developers work on things that appear to be needed by a large number of people. (Although if your friends think it's funny to override your system, you need to sort them out)
That doens't mean this feature should be forgotten? "Yea, it's not really a hot item on the list, so let's put it on the buttom" No it's a security feature which every other sound system company already has, accept SONOS.
If you don't like this feature, please leave this threat and go find your own issues and post your opinion in them..

Anthony - sell the kid, not the equipment. How come you people can't impose appropriate discipline? Unbelievable. Spoilt brats eh?
If you had read the post correctly, you would see that the initiator in all of this was in fact not my daughter but her boyfriend, so calling my disciplinary skills into account is not the issue here. That would be a discussion for a different time and place, preferably face to face.

What people are asking Sonos to do is not rocket science, as shown by the fact that as Bjorn says, all their competitors are already implementing it. 

Anthony - sell the kid, not the equipment. How come you people can't impose appropriate discipline? Unbelievable. Spoilt brats eh?
Sonos, do something about this please, as this is not acceptable! I am still in the 60 days period that I can return my equipment for a system which is decently secured. This is 2014!

Anthony - sell the kid, not the equipment. How come you people can't impose appropriate discipline? Unbelievable. Spoilt brats eh?
So you need to decide now if you are going to return it, I guarantee its not going to be password protected before your window is up. This has been a long time ask, its very easy to not have anyone mess with it simply dont let them on your system or have a second ssid that guests can use. Yes its 2014 and yes i have asked for this as well. But being that its 2014 it is now more then ever easy to lock your system down. Doesnt take much to do and there is absolutely no scenario that you can come up with that doesnt have an easy solution to keep folks out. Not making an excuse for sonos as i to do not like this but i also will not let it distract from an otherwise great product.

Once I have found an access to a network i fully intend to access it from outside the house at 3am in the morning and repeatedly play very loud music. Now if I could just find out the house and Wjfi access for the Sonos Managing Director I'm sure we could have this sorted in no time at all 🙂