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NeX
Contributor III
September 19, 2019
Question

prevent speakers from being used

  • September 19, 2019
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hi all,

is it possible to implement some sort of "parent controls" where speakers can be restricted from being used?

so examples are:
if someone pushes play everywhere and that turns on a speaker in a room where someone is trying to sleep. so maybe some time limits scheduled so that speaker can't be used during night time etc

kids have their own speaker in their room, but only have rights to control that speaker not the whole house. parents have control over the whole system.

disabling play everywhere so other people's music cannot be overridden by someone pushing play everywhere.

locking speakers to a controller. someone is listening to music in a room and only their phone or computer can change the music in that room.

i think there are plenty of uses for setting rights and permissions over sonos speakers and controllers but i can't seem to find any implementation in the sonos app. am i looking in the wrong place or is this not a feature?

thanks
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    ratty
    ratty
    September 20, 2019
    No, actually you wouldn't even need a different account. You can have multiple systems on the same network, with the same account email (and hence the same Sonos ID). What distinguishes them is that each system has a unique 'Household ID', because they've been set up separately as 'new systems'. The HHID is a generated string of some 48 characters, and is not usually visible to the user.
    NeXAuthor
    Contributor III
    September 20, 2019
    No, actually you wouldn't even need a different account. You can have multiple systems on the same network, with the same account email (and hence the same Sonos ID). What distinguishes them is that each system has a unique 'Household ID', because they've been set up separately as 'new systems'. The HHID is a generated string of some 48 characters, and is not usually visible to the user.
    oh wow ok, so how does one do that then?
    ratty
    ratty
    September 20, 2019

    No, actually you wouldn't even need a different account. You can have multiple systems on the same network, with the same account email (and hence the same Sonos ID). What distinguishes them is that each system has a unique 'Household ID', because they've been set up separately as 'new systems'. The HHID is a generated string of some 48 characters, and is not usually visible to the user.oh wow ok, so how does one do that then?
    You simply factory reset a player, and reset the controller to be used with it. When the controller restarts it will complain that it can't find a system, and will offer to set up a new one.
    NeXAuthor
    Contributor III
    September 20, 2019


    No, actually you wouldn't even need a different account. You can have multiple systems on the same network, with the same account email (and hence the same Sonos ID). What distinguishes them is that each system has a unique 'Household ID', because they've been set up separately as 'new systems'. The HHID is a generated string of some 48 characters, and is not usually visible to the user.oh wow ok, so how does one do that then?    You simply factory reset a player, and reset the controller to be used with it. When the controller restarts it will complain that it can't find a system, and will offer to set up a new one.

    ha ok great, i will consider that as an option! thanks
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