Sonos alarm/clock - display the time

Nah,  instead they're doing a limited release of the play 1, for an extra $50.  And still no clock on it....

Squeezebox couldn't sell enough of them to keep going when they moved their line to it.

The Amazon Echo works well as an alarm clock and is available today. Its probably less critical for an alarm clock to be part of your Sonos ecosystem than it is for players in other rooms.

Nah,  instead they're doing a limited release of the play 1, for an extra $50.  And still no clock on it....

This was frustrating for me as well so I came up with my own solution.  See my post above titled "Here's what I did to have a Sonos player with a digital LCD clock".

You can find a Samung Galaxy 7-inch tablet on Amazon for under $100 and a desk doc-charger that allows the tablet to stand horizontally (at a pleasing angle) on a table/nightstand.

I downloaded a few Android widgets, including a nice clock/weather , auto-launcher app, and app to prevent the screen-saver from running.  I configured the auto-launcher to kill the full-screen "clock" app during the day (1 minute before my Sonos alarm was programmed to sound) so that the clock, weather, and Sonos widgets were all visible on the screen at the same time.  I also configured the auto-launcher to run the full-screen "clock" app in the evening a few hours before going to sleep.  I also programmed the (very cool) clock app to auto-dim around 10pm and auto-undim about an hour before the clock program task would be ended in the morning.

My Sonos 5 sat behind tablet and off to the side a bit so that obstruction of the sound wasn't really a problem.

This works great because even while the clock app might have been running full-screen, I could always tap the "invisible" app bar at the bottom of the screen and launch the Sonos widget/app if necessary to control music, then return to the full-screen clock app (at night).  During the day I had an awesome clock/weather app showing on the same screen as the Sonos control. 

The best part about this type of setup is that the clock, weather, and Sonos widgets are infinitely customizable to every person's own preference, so you pretty much have your own designer all-in-one Sonos clock-weather-radio.

I'll try to add photos at some point to my original post above.

The Amazon Echo works well as an alarm clock and is available today. Its probably less critical for an alarm clock to be part of your Sonos ecosystem than it is for 
All of the Sonos players have had function "alarm clocks" functionality for a long time (as does the new Amazon "Echo" product which strives to take away market share from Sonos).  The point of this thread is that everyone is looking for a Sonos (or "Echo") alarm clock product with a DISPLAY...

The Amazon Echo works well as an alarm clock and is available today. Its probably less critical for an alarm clock to be part of your Sonos ecosystem than it is for 
I understand why a display would be important for a Sonos based solution that doesn't have voice control but the Echo can give you any information you want just by asking... no need for a display.

The Amazon Echo works well as an alarm clock and is available today. Its probably less critical for an alarm clock to be part of your Sonos ecosystem than it is for 
....a dimmable DISPLAY, a snooze button and an alarm off button ! And I'm not going to talk to my alarm clock when I wake up!

Fair enough. I was skeptical too until I tried it.

The Amazon Echo works well as an alarm clock and is available today. Its probably less critical for an alarm clock to be part of your Sonos ecosystem than it is for 
I don't want a clock that I have to talk to just to learn its 3am in the morning

The Amazon Echo works well as an alarm clock and is available today. Its probably less critical for an alarm clock to be part of your Sonos ecosystem than it is for 
And I don't want to open my eyes and twist around to see a display just to find out the time... to each their own.

The Amazon Echo works well as an alarm clock and is available today. Its probably less critical for an alarm clock to be part of your Sonos ecosystem than it is for 
The Amazon Echo doesn't have the breadth of services Sonos has, right?  Sirius XM for example?