Contributor I

Security and access control

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
January 23, 2018
20 replies
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Sonos systems lack any type of access control. As long as anyone has access to your home network (it could be your 8-year-old child using his/her iPod or a guest who came over), they can access your Sonos system and play the music they want. My 8-year-old daughter independently installed Sonos on her iPod and every time I am playing my favorite music, she hijacks the system and plays her teenager-style music. Once I had some guests over to my house from Italy. The guy installed Sonos on his phone and 2 minutes later my speakers were playing old-fashion Italian music. If one has an open network, you could imagine neighbors playing their own music at his house. I think that a Sonos system should be password-protected.

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gbeb

Trending Lyricist I

Thank you!!!

jgatie

Note that many universities frown on the use of a travel router because they like to monitor all devices on the network. Check the school's policies before buying the router.

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fjw1962

Lyricist I

Ugh. Is access control that significant a development? Even a simple execution to lock to one user would be a huge improvement if prioritization is too costly a development.

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gbeb

Trending Lyricist I

Note that many universities frown on the use of a travel router because they like to monitor all devices on the network. Check the school's policies before buying the router.

You were right. The school blocks these devices.

My son claims to have found a device which helps the speaker work via bluetooth. We'll cross our fingers and hope it works.

Airgetlam

This would be unusual, as there's no bluetooth receiver in any Sonos device (for music, apparently the Beam has one for setup purposes, but it doesn't carry music streams).

Bruce

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gbeb

Trending Lyricist I

Thanks. You're right. The device needs a line in port to work. His speaker doesn't have one. However, the article where he learned of it claims it will work with a Play:5, Connect, and Connect:Amp.

https://bgr.com/2018/02/21/sonos-bluetooth-adapter-amazon-prime/

Airgetlam

Ah, I hadn't seen the article.

The devices you listed (or more particularly, the article listed) all have an analog line-in on them. Any audio device, including bluetooth devices, can be connected to the analog line-in on a Sonos.

Bruce

controlav

Lead Maestro

This bluetooth "solution" isn't going to do anything to help get the device onto the large shared network though.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

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gbeb

Trending Lyricist I

This bluetooth "solution" isn't going to do anything to help get the device onto the large shared network though.

Absolutely. I don't think my son is interested in making his speaker sharable while at college. He just wants it to be usable.

Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

You may have misunderstood the post above - Not your son sharing his Sonos kind of sharing. Rather that the school's network is a large shared network, not a home network that Sonos is designed for.

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