Contributor I

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Seriously, we still can't schedule night mode?

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
August 31, 2020
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Sonos, what the heck? Why can’t I set night mode to come on at night? It’s called Night Mode. It has a picture of the moon. It’s been a feature request on here for *years*.

Why can I still not schedule night mode to come on at night?

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Kyle A

Retired Sonos Staff

Hi @SecretAsianMan, welcome to the community.

Unfortunately, there’s no plan to add this feature yet.

I’ll pass this along as a feature request and it will be up to our engineers to decide to add this feature.

If you have other concerns, feel free to reach out.

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SecretAsianManAuthor

Contributor I

This is kind of a crazy omission. If you search the forums you’ll see so many requests for it that Sonos could have easily implemented the feature a hundred times over in the time the company has spent responding to these requests.

If the product team is unable to spare the 2 hours it takes to build this feature, can they at least provide some IFTTT or similar extensibility so we can build it ourselves?

Kyle A

Retired Sonos Staff

Hi @SecretAsianMan, Yes, we have Sonos available in IFTTT.

You visit our page in this link: https://ifttt.com/sonos

All available commands will be listed there.

If you have other concerns, feel free to reach out.

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SecretAsianManAuthor

Contributor I

It appears the Sonos IFTTT integration does not support actions for either Night Mode or for Speech Enhancement.

I don’t suppose there might be any plans to add this? Or if Sonos wants to open source the IFTTT integration I’ll do it for you.

Kyle A

Retired Sonos Staff

Hi @SecretAsianMan, currently there are no plans to add more features for IFTTT at the moment.

I have passed this along as a feature request and It will be up to our Engineers to add more features or open source for IFTTT.

However, It may take a while for them to work on feature requests as there are on-going issues and Bug fixing.

In any case, I’ll pass this along as well.

If you have other concerns or questions, feel free to reach out.

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Virtuoso

Just to note that if you know how to use a command line, then the soco-cli utility allows simple control of night mode. It’s easy to use its scheduling capability (wait_until, etc.) to enable and disable night mode at specific times.

https://github.com/avantrec/soco-cli/blob/master/README.md

Example:

> sonos wait_until 22:00 : lounge night on : wait_until 07:00 : lounge night off : loop

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Josena

Contributor I

You can do it with the app SonoSequencr buy only with premium account.

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SecretAsianManAuthor

Contributor I

Thanks for the suggestions. I don’t want to run some machine in my house just to schedule something Sonos should have built ages ago, but glad to know it exists.

I suppose I can pay for some third party app to fill this gap.

Still just can’t believe that Sonos would ignore such an obvious and often-requested feature for years. For pete’s sake, just open source the IFTTT implementation and I’ll do it for you.

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