Snooze Button or Remote Programmable Button

About 5 years ago when SONOS eliminated the remote control (which had a snooze button on it), I started a topic requesting a snooze button. It ran for a couple of years and had about 1000 agreeing replies. The only reply every received from SONOS was that "all feature requests are reviewed by the engineers" despite many of us asking for the reason why it cannot be done. There must be some technical reason why the software for iOS and Android cannot include a snooze button - but SONOS has never explained why it cannot be accomplished.

Hi everyone, we just adding Snooze to the Alarm features. Take a look here for details.

Hooray! SONOS finally added a snooze to the alarm! Five years is a while to wait but thank you for getting there.

This new snooze function is not really any use. I can’t be the only person who wants to reach out and touch the volume button on the bedside Sonos play one, and have it snooze. If I understand how this is implemented, instead I need to ensure I take my iPhone to my bedside (which I specifically avoid) and when the alarm goes off, I have to scramble around to pick up the iPhone, have my sleepy eyes started with a bright screen, and find the snooze control. By this stage, I’ll be awake and not lapsing into 10 more minutes of restful slumber. So for now I just need to set multiple alarms 10 mins apart as I’ve been doing for several months. In other words this “enhancement” is irrelevant and a total waste of time. Or maybe I’m misunderstanding how it works?

A total waste of time for you, but most people who do keep their phone bedside find it quite useful. So maybe asking for a similar function on the device itself sans the disparaging rhetoric will better convince hardworking engineers who propose these enhancements of the benefits of your idea.

I agree I think you should be able to write the software easily to program the volume button to snooze the alarm. It’s for this same reason I don’t use it.
If you can stop the alarm with the play pause button why can’t you snooze with the volume button??

I agree I think you should be able to write the software easily to program the volume button to snooze the alarm. It’s for this same reason I don’t use it.
If you can stop the alarm with the play pause button why can’t you snooze with the volume button??

Which volume button? Down or up? What should happen if you hit the mute button? What if you want to put the volume up or down (and not snooze)?

Your glib assertion that "should be able to write the software easily" ignores the fact, even if the coding were simple, the logic most certainly isn't.
And for the record I fed back in the Beta that in it's current form, for me, the snooze feature doesn't work. But I recognise there are challenges that need to be considered when allocating new functions to keys that already have functions that users will expect to still work.

Your glib assertion that "should be able to write the software easily" ignores the fact, even if the coding were simple, the logic most certainly isn't.

The Snooze API has existed in Sonos forever, in fact when you call it, the PC controller displays a cute little "zzz" icon instead of the alarm clock. (The iPhone controller doesn't display anything). [I am adding Snooze support to my apps currently].

Doesn't sound like SONOS have listened to their users over the past 5+ years. Is this really an unreasonable or difficult ask. A physical snooze button is a basic alarm feature

Snooze on the Play ONE is a BIG NEED! To use the Mobile ist not a solution or advantage! So I can use the Mobile without the Play One.