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Djoiner
Contributor I
July 8, 2013

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

  • July 8, 2013
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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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    Christian Sims
    Lyricist I
    July 12, 2015
    What happened to Sonos?   This feature hasn't been added and I'm having same problem.   Did their engineers go to sleep?  Get it ADDED NOW!
    Chris
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    July 12, 2015
    demanding
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    Dan_118
    Lyricist I
    July 14, 2015
    This is a definite necessity!
    Chris
    Chris
    Lead Maestro
    July 14, 2015
    This is the place for communication.  I see it as a nice feature but I don't see it as a basic feature.
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    nicka99
    nicka99
    Local Superstar
    July 14, 2015
    If you have iOS, check out sonosequencr on the App Store - you can create custom macros to create groups / ungroup along with many other functions
    Christian Sims
    Lyricist I
    July 14, 2015
    It needs to be classified in such a manner that it gets DONE Chris.   Do you know that classification?  It's a desired/needed feature and has been for years.  That's the point Charles is making.  And yet no movement on it that I see.  Pathetic.
    Andreas_23
    Lyricist II
    July 14, 2015
    This is a definite necessity!

    Creating multiple groups was the first thing i wanted to do, and i only have 3 speakers. But i don't want to permanently regroup my speakers. 
    I still don't understand why there is no focus on such a feature. And taking a look at the features of 5.4 is only more confusing. 
    NickNL
    Lyricist III
    July 15, 2015
    This is a definite necessity!

    Shouldn't be a basic feature? Sonos is supposed to be a multi-room system, and the one thing it can't do is decent grouping in multiple rooms. I'd say it should be the very foundation...
    User808643
    Lyricist III
    July 15, 2015
    This is a definite necessity!

    I fully concur. This is a feature that has been requested repeatedly over many months, and it just doesn't seem to me like something that would be difficult to build.

    Would be great to be able to switch from ios8 widgets in the notification centre too.

    Come on SONOS, all it takes is to tell us you are working on it.
    dairyman88
    Lyricist I
    August 10, 2015
    +1
    I've been adding to my Sonos collection and I assumed I'd be able to add speakers to multiple groups - "Ground Floor", "First Floor", etc. - when I couldn't figure it out I asked Google and this thread was the first result. It seems strange to me that this feature doesn't exist already.
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