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Siemp
Trending Lyricist I
November 18, 2015
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Please Sonos, make it possible to create shortcuts to speaker setups!

  • November 18, 2015
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On this moment I have a Playbar, two play 3s and a sub. It sounds great! but it would be very nice if there is a future to make a setup, and create a shortcut to that setup. I give an example:

In my case when I watch TV the volume of the Sub is under 50% of his power. The surround speakers are calibrated as left speaker near 0,6 m right speaker more away 3m. Volume 65% and in ambient modus With this settings I have the best surround effects.

When I listen to music, the Sub is above 50% of his power. The surround speakers are calibrated as left speaker 3 m right speaker 3m. and in “full” modus With this settings I have the best sound to play loud music.

Now when I want to play music I need to [open Sonos-app -- tap left corner -- tap left corner again -- tap settings -- tap settings room -- tab Livingroom -- tap advanced audio -- tap calibrating audio (and walk through the wizard) -- tap back -- tap settings SUB -- change the volume. -- tap back -- tap surround -- tap full -- adjust volume.

When I want to watch TV, I need to go through the same process again. It would be REALY helpful if I can just make some settings, safe them and use a shortcut to activate them!

Another problem is when you want to use your Sub in two room settings. Example. When watch TV you use the Sub in the Livingroom TV profile, so he play’s with the playbar and the surround speakers. Then in you open kitchen you have some play 5s for music, but if you want to play music in the kitchen, you cannot use the sub (who is basically in the same room cause it is an open kitchen. ) If you want to use the Sub, you must takeout the Sub form your TV setting, and join the sub to the Kitchen setting. And when you want to watch TV you have to do that all over again.

So the big question: “Please Sonos, make it possible to create shortcuts to speaker setups!”

For the rest…… Sonos rules!!!! I really like the products and the sound! 🙂

Please Sonos, make it possible to create shortcuts to speaker setups!

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Best answer by Ryan S
Hey guys, thanks for jumping in and thanks for the feedback Siemp. We're always reading the threads here and passing feedback on to the right teams. As said already, we don't have any roadmap to share so we can't let you in on any secrets or plans for the future. We appreciate the suggestions though. I'll be sure to pass them on.

26 replies

Siemp
SiempAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
November 26, 2015
Yesterday I bought two play 1's, So I have almost all players in my home. For my music I want to add 2 play 5s as main speakers, instead of the playbar. But I can anly do that when I can add the Sub to the new group. I do not want to ungroup the sub and add him to the Play5s when I play music and put them back to the TV when I want to use the playbar setting.....

PLZ Sonos, tell me IF and when this future will be availible in the software???
Playbar, 2x play5, Sub, 2x play3, 2x play1, Boost, Port.
Siemp
SiempAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
December 8, 2015
**bump** Sonos? Why I do not get an answer?
Playbar, 2x play5, Sub, 2x play3, 2x play1, Boost, Port.
ratty
December 8, 2015
**bump** Sonos? Why I do not get an answer?
The best you'd get is a "thank you for your suggestion". Sonos don't publish their development plans.
Lyricist III
December 18, 2015
Bump, this is definitely needed.
Siemp
SiempAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
December 26, 2015
**bump** Sonos? Why I do not get an answer?
The best you'd get is a "thank you for your suggestion". Sonos don't publish their development plans.


Is there somewhere a place where we can read about the new plans?
Playbar, 2x play5, Sub, 2x play3, 2x play1, Boost, Port.
Lyricist III
December 29, 2015
Yeah, would be nice to know if they're working on this or not, pretty essential feature.
Trending Lyricist III
February 8, 2016
Bumping and +1 etc.

Every day I find myself missing the availability for various "presets" on how I want to control the speakers. Examples of some presets I would have had:
- Watching TV; ungroup the playbar from any other speakers, set the volume to a predefined value and play TV as source.
- Playing music to all speakers in the combined living room / kitchen; basically a predefined group / volume.
- Listen to podcasts in bed; ungroup bedroom speaker, set a predefined volume, with the source to a Chromecast Audio I have as line-in elsewhere in the system.

etc.
Siemp
SiempAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
August 23, 2016
*** Bump *** Hello Sonos? are you really reading this topics?
Playbar, 2x play5, Sub, 2x play3, 2x play1, Boost, Port.
Stuart_W
World-Class Superstar
August 23, 2016
*** Bump *** Hello Sonos? are you really reading this topics?

They do read the topics as you very well know if you even bothered to take a cursory glance at the board. Do you think puerile and immature comments like that will help?

At the end of the day this is a similar request that has been requested for a time by many posters and it isn't an unreasonable request by any stretch. However, 2 things to note:-

1) Sonos won't provide us, nor you, with a roadmap so we may or may not see action on this.
2) It is virtually beyond trivial, in my opinion at least, to make groupings on the fly - it is so easy to do that it is very hard to see why adding extra clutter to the UI would actually make any noticeable difference to the process
Arc + Sub (Gen 1) + 2 x Play 1/ Stereo Play 3s/ Era 100 Stereo in Kitchen, One Stereo in Bedroom, Play 1 stereo pair in Study, Play 1in Bathroom, Sonos Move 2
Siemp
SiempAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
August 23, 2016
[quote=Stuart_W]

They do read the topics as you very well know if you even bothered to take a cursory glance at the board. Do you think puerile and immature comments like that will help?

At the end of the day this is a similar request that has been requested for a time by many posters and it isn't an unreasonable request by any stretch. However, 2 things to note:-


Dear miss,

Do you thing someone is waiting for a moralist or a smartass? Sonos sells very expensive audio equipment, on their own phone helpdesk they say you have to use the forum, and there will be an answer. If this question asked so many times... it should be a bit time to answer this question. That is how you treat your customers.

And you expect to get a Sonos for free? by trying to get in good graces with Sonos?
Playbar, 2x play5, Sub, 2x play3, 2x play1, Boost, Port.