Question
Sonos and Senic Nuimo
So I now have a Nuimo, not the one I ordered still but I have one.
I will do a more detailed considered review but there are my first impressions:-
Build quality is superb, almost to the point of over engineering. The rotate volume ring is just SO smooth with a great weighting too. Click top is good and the swipe gestures work well on the capacative screen. The "fly" gesturing is hit and miss. You should be able to wave you hand in the airspace above the unit to move tracks and change volume. This needs some more work as it is too easy to get to full volume and get stuck there. Yet to get it to change tracks with the gestures.
Learnings:-
The Nuimo is paired to your phone so you have to have that with you to control the sonos units.
The controls are currently limited to Play, Pause, Skip forward and back and then Volume.
You can use it for more than one sonos speaker or group, although I am not sure how to switch yet.
Some Improvements due:-
The sonos icon is a music note, but is apple music, ther needs to be some differentiation.
Gestures need to work more reliably.
Need ability to fast forward within a track, or skip 10 seconds say.
Overall I am slightly underwhelmed. The latest Sonos iphone app gives me lockscreen controls which do all the functions the Nuimo does. I need more time to play with it and see what improvements arrive.
CAVEAT
It is very early days for this product, the Software is very much beta so I would expect to see improvements over the coming months.
They have got the engineering right, and it's a joy to use and hold.
It's expensive if you are just using it for Sonos, but I have a Phillips Hue light too and waiting on other integrations.
Senic seem to be a responsive company trying to do things right.
John
I will do a more detailed considered review but there are my first impressions:-
Build quality is superb, almost to the point of over engineering. The rotate volume ring is just SO smooth with a great weighting too. Click top is good and the swipe gestures work well on the capacative screen. The "fly" gesturing is hit and miss. You should be able to wave you hand in the airspace above the unit to move tracks and change volume. This needs some more work as it is too easy to get to full volume and get stuck there. Yet to get it to change tracks with the gestures.
Learnings:-
The Nuimo is paired to your phone so you have to have that with you to control the sonos units.
The controls are currently limited to Play, Pause, Skip forward and back and then Volume.
You can use it for more than one sonos speaker or group, although I am not sure how to switch yet.
Some Improvements due:-
The sonos icon is a music note, but is apple music, ther needs to be some differentiation.
Gestures need to work more reliably.
Need ability to fast forward within a track, or skip 10 seconds say.
Overall I am slightly underwhelmed. The latest Sonos iphone app gives me lockscreen controls which do all the functions the Nuimo does. I need more time to play with it and see what improvements arrive.
CAVEAT
It is very early days for this product, the Software is very much beta so I would expect to see improvements over the coming months.
They have got the engineering right, and it's a joy to use and hold.
It's expensive if you are just using it for Sonos, but I have a Phillips Hue light too and waiting on other integrations.
Senic seem to be a responsive company trying to do things right.
John