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Contributor I
Jul 8, 2013 12:42 PM UTC

Party Mode is a problem. We need ability to create multiple groups of rooms!

We spend a lot of time grouping and ungrouping rooms. The issue is stems from my wife's use of Party Mode. She likes to use Party Mode while she is cooking. I ungroup the outside speakers so as not to offend the neighbors. I ungroup the upstairs when the kids go to bed. I turn everything off and then create a new group to set the morning alarm. In the morning, I create a group in the kitchen and family room to read the paper. There has to be a better way! Why can't we just create groups of rooms and label them something easy to remember like "Cooking", "Kids in bed", "Alarm" or "Morning Coffee"?
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Lyricist I
Feb 19, 2014 4:59 AM UTC
This exactly. Keep current menue setup but add a second column on the groups page that you can load presets into... and if possible add the ability for alarms to use these preset groups..
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Contributor I
Feb 27, 2014 8:14 AM UTC
I want this, plus I want a roving zone which moves with me as I move about the house.  My iPhone is usually with me, so define "me" as the iPhone.  The Sonos App on the iPhone can then determine were I am based on all that secret google/nsa code which determines my precise strikable location in 3 dimensions based on bluetooth and wifi and {3,4}G triangulation, plus sonar from all the fracking-induced tremors, so that all speakers within some distance of me are in my group as I move about.

Once you have that working, it should, of course, take into account my wife's iPhone for the same purpose, assuming we start out in the same group at one time.

conflicting groups will be resolved in my favour, natch.
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Lyricist I
May 9, 2014 1:21 PM UTC
Please add this feature and allow us to choose predefined speaker groupings. With the summer months upon us the constant speaker "group changing" with the deck speakers and inside speakers is brutal. Its hard to believe with all the technical challenges Sonos has conquered they have not addressed this issue. Please help !!!!
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Lyricist I
May 30, 2014 5:33 PM UTC
Great idea!!
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Lyricist I
Jun 17, 2014 7:19 PM UTC
agreed! multiple groups would be great and the ability to switch up groups w/o having to stop the music.
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Contributor I
Aug 29, 2014 11:15 AM UTC
IH !
Does this feature is in the way ? Thanks
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Lyricist I
Sep 5, 2014 6:08 PM UTC
Just bought Sonos and this is the first thing I see lacking from the current software. We need way to have multiple groups and the ability adding any device to any groups.
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Magic Mike
Contributor I
Sep 5, 2014 8:49 PM UTC
Great Idea!!
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Lyricist I
Sep 28, 2014 1:39 AM UTC
We bought a bunch of Play:3 and Play:5 speakers to implement a public intercomm/bell system for a new grade school. It work great when all are grouped together, but it is a really a limitation to not also have the ability to group rooms in their own sub-groups, because they are already part of the main group. Please consider adding this feature soon!
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Lyricist III
Sep 29, 2014 12:43 AM UTC
I need this too. Using Play 5 as a TV soundbar and have a Play 1 in kitchen and one in bedroom. Would like a bedroom and kitchen group for morning alarm, and tv and kitchen for evening TV. Having to re-do the group and volumes each time is annoying - please let us save preset group/volume combinations!
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