Password protection for zones/ rooms

No, keep your phone in your pocket. Why is your three year old able to get hold of your phone at "odd hours"?

What kind of phone is this? Isn't there a way to passcode the lock-screen?

I'm with "The LHC".

You need to make it so that your 3 year old doesn't have access to your phone and why isn't your phone password protected?

Please make sure the bleach is not accessible

Whoa!!

Lot of hostility here. Simply making a point that anyone on the network can play any speaker anywhere on the same network, so is there a solution.

LHC missing the point...
Stuart, same.

Btw, thanks for the help

No you didn't.

You complained that your 3 year old had access to your unlocked phone in the middle of the night. What did you expect us to say?

If you have a problem of network users making unexpected or unfriendly Sonos changes then kick them off the network entirely and only give them access when they grow up!

I am not so sure now this is an issue of trolling, or bad parenting. I do know many parents hand over an iOS device to their children for entertainment (games). This often results in Apple getting a ticket demanding how did they allow someone to purchase 4,000$ worth of in-app purchases on their account. And of course it's always Apple's fault. There MAY be some truth to this as I do know courts awarded Apple to pay a certain sum to individual members as per one of the class action lawsuits.

In any case, maybe the worst that happens with the Sonos app, is a child or infant subscribes to a few streaming services... or ends up downloading 22 gigs of data month over the bandwidth limit...

I suppose, this could warrant an extra FAIL-SAFE for the app and require a specific app passcode to be set...

CEO John McFarlane has long held the concept that passwords/keycodes are a nuisance which will probably drive one crazy. From a 2011 interview:

So we can start doing things like, maybe you have a mode on the Android controller or the iPhone controller to dumb it down. But that’s the challenge with doing things like parental controls, which one are you using and which one are they using. You can’t put, "hey, type in the three numbers to start using a controller" because that’s going to drive you crazy usability wise, you’ll turn it off and never turn that feature on again.

http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/21/2504462/john-macfarlane-prepares-sonos-for-airplay-assault-and-possible-home

And to the OP. Let's be fair, you described a very specific problem which seemed not only inexplicable (child with phone "at odd hours"), but also one which seemed easier to solve with parenting practices than via a software update.

No mention of trolling, certainly not by me. Bad parenting. I'd say that were a bit harsh. Suggesting the OP takes personal responsibility, mea culpa!

I was assuming... the added fail-safe could be added as an OPTION... So that 99.9% of the population doesn't have to go through extra steps just to appease the 0.1% who demand it.