New SONOS App - Alarms

Amen.  Sonos has completely failed us.  

Alarm clocks have been reintroduced, but still not 100% functional, they do not display the selected song/station, compared to the S1 many options are missing, and they do not seem to work with groups, the time works correctly for me, but many users report alarm activations at wrong time, probably linked to the reference to the time zone.
Stop messing around and wasting time, after 10 days it works worse and worse, let us rollback to go back to S1 or S2.

Comparison of alarm settings between the old S1 and the new SONOS or rather NOSON.
 

Compared to the S1, the snooze settings are missing, in the new one the indication of the selected playlist is also missing, you have to select the item to see it, and in the case of mytuner it does not repost the selected station, not even by expanding the item (even old S2 show correct station name.
In Italian the translation of setting is missed.
I would advise SONOS experts to at least try using the previous S1 before drooling over illustrating the wonders of the new one. And by letting new developers try it, they might just get some good ideas. You can play find the differences.
As far as I'm concerned, don't bother with new features that I'll never use, just let me bring back my S1 system and I'll never bother you again.

The change to playing ‘from this device’ has nothing to do with this update, but instead was forced upon Sonos, originally several years ago by Apple, and more recently by Google (Android). Both those companies consider use of their mobile devices as a drive to be a security issue. This is also why Lock Screen widgets went away.

Depending on your Sonos devices, you can get around this lock out by Apple/Google by either using AirPlay 2 or Bluetooth, in which the player is on the mobile device, and skips using the player on the Sonos device. Unfortunately, not all Sonos devices have this capability, although the newest ones do.  

SONOS: If you value your customer loyalty at all, you will fix your updated app or give us back the old one! The “new, redesigned” app has rendered our systems practically unusable! 

I don’t see any option to set alarms. My App doesn’t show my speakers. Sometimes yes sometimes not. It seems to be a matter of luck.

no option to update firmware. The new update is worst I ever used.

Anyone else been able to set an alarm in the new app, but the alarm doesn’t go off? Chimes or music

Yes, I found where the alarms are hidden in the new app.

But they are NOT working.

Every alarm seems to trigger the BING-BONG Sonos chime even though I have reset them to music in the new Sonos favorites.

• If the room is group with another room (from before the alarm goes off), the alarm fails
• If the room had previously played from another source, the alarm fails.
• Sometimes it just fails with no apparent reason.

In the past week, only ONE of my FIFTEEN alarms has actually worked - another two (a daily alarm) work some days and not others.

After nearly 20 years of loyal support for Sonos, I have finally had enough. The latest app ‘update’ has made the simplest things so frustrating. 
 

no matter what I do, my alarms will only play the Sonos chime. You may think this is insignificant, but if you can’t even get this right, whilst telling me your new headphones are coming soon, I have lost all interest.

it is not good enough for such a premium product.

i give up.

goodbye.

Hi. I’m another angry SONOS client. Come back from holiday. The APP has been updated and all my playlists I spent hours creating have been emptied. Also, the Alarms have disappeared and I can not disable them. Which is a problem as I’d set them really loud as a means of security while I was on holiday. What a bunch of useless developers!!!

Amazingly, the app continues to get WORSE as the days go by. I can no longer turn my music off.  If the alarm goes off, I’m STUCK listening to it until the entire time I set it to run is completed. I can’t stop it at all.  When opening the app, it constantly shows nothing in the queue and doesn’t allow any adjustments to it. Today, the only way I could turn it off was to turn the TV on and then turn down the volume on all the other speakers.  It didn’t turn it down in all the rooms though. I could hear the music continue to play at regular volume the entire time.  I could only turn it down by manually doing it on the speaker.  Rather defeats the purpose of having a central controller, yes?  It took the app 45 minutes to recognize my attempts at changing the play list, adjusting the volume, basically doing anything.  It’s been ‘on’ for 6 hours and I am FINALLY able to actually control my music.  Just in time to shut it off for other reasons.  Sonos - I have 11 components in my house.  That’s a combination of Play 1s, Play 3s, sound bars, and woofers.  11 of them representing several thousand dollars of investment.  Investment that has summarily been rendered virtually useless to me.  I was getting ready to invest in outdoor speakers since my deck is finally completed but I see no reason to spend any further money with Sonos. I’m going to start looking at a replacement system and hope that I can sell these to recoup some of my loss.