PASSWORD!

Hi there, jonaskh. Thanks for posting and welcome to the Community. I am happy to add your name to the list of folks who've asked for this type of feature. In the meantime, it may be a good idea to lock your WiFi with a password, or perhaps put Sonos on another separate network from your home network.

Thanks for the feedback!

Yes! PLEASE password protect sonos ...friends come and stay and we give them access to our wi-fi ...then wham! they're changing our sonos trackes, any time, any moment they want something they choose ...I just want to lock my password to what I (the owner of my sonos) chooses ...please give owners some passwrod protection

Most modern modems allow you to setup a Guest network with a separate SSID/password. Give your guests this instead, and they will have access to your internet connection and nothing else on your LAN. I know if I had friends I could not trust to properly use my music system, the last thing I would want to do is give them access to my private papers, tax returns, photos, etc. by letting them on my LAN.

@jgatie - I know how to 'get around' it but your answer is a tad complicated when this discussion is how to improve Sonos products (of which I have 11 in my house), and adding some sort of 'owner login' or password protection, benefiting all sonos users that have the same issue/request, is the way forward 🙂

@jgatie - I know how to 'get around' it but your answer is a tad complicated when this discussion is how to improve Sonos products (of which I have 11 in my house), and adding some sort of 'owner login' or password protection, benefiting all sonos users that have the same issue/request, is the way forward :-)

I was just trying to convey the fact that a Guest network (which is not complicated to set up at all) provides far greater protection to far more sensitive materials than your music system.

Plus, it is available to you now, whereas passwords on Sonos have been requested for years, and have never (and probably will never) come to pass.

You think friends are bad try grand kids! Grandma was not happy about the recent "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" by Elmo 'n' Patsy, music marathon, the little monsters!

Guest networks solve a lot of problems and offer your network and gear a bit more protection while still allowing guests full Internet access.

I appreciate the 'Guest Network' advice, thank you, but how difficult can it be for Sonos just to put a login to choose and play music? ...way simpler than setting up a Guest network (especially in our house with 3 networks, 9 bedrooms, 7 extenders, etc...need I go on) ...or a 'login' from Sonos (which makes a better product by Sonos with great customer value-added) 🙂

As with the whole "fix the SMB" thing, there may not be enough space available in the limited memory of some of the older devices in which to fit such a thing.

But that's just a wild guess. I don't really know what issues Sonos is dealing with that would make this a challenge. I'd assume if it was as easy as you suggest it is, they'd have already done it.

I appreciate the 'Guest Network' advice, thank you, but how difficult can it be for Sonos just to put a login to choose and play music? ...way simpler than setting up a Guest network (especially in our house with 3 networks, 9 bedrooms, 7 extenders, etc...need I go on) ...or a 'login' from Sonos (which makes a better product by Sonos with great customer value-added) :-)

Difficult enough to not have done it for the past 13 years it has been requested. The only discussion of this with Sonos brass was a few years back when the (then) CEO said they were against passwords on the devices because it reduced time to music and cluttered up the experience.

Also, Sonos goes to great lengths to not retire even the oldest of equipment, The old ZP units are very strapped for both memory and storage, to the point where they cannot incrementally index a library any more. I'm sure implementing a proper password scheme, since all data is stored on the Sonos units, would be quite difficult given the limits on these older units.

Either way, I highly doubt you will see this any time soon.

Well if I can get the password to the Sonos CEO's wi-fi, I'll stand outside his house and change his whole Sonos system to "don't stop til you get enough" ...on full volume ...at 2am (and yes that happened to me with some 'friend' thinking they were being funny!) ...then we'll see how enthusiastic he is to adding a password!