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New Web App Discussion Thread

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May 8, 2024
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Splitting off a thread for the new Web App in an effort to separate feedback from the ‘announcement’ thread that is justifiably dominated by mobile app feedback.

First and foremost, thank goodness the Windows (and Mac?) Desktop Apps still work! That allows us to use (okay, attempt to use) the new web app without going completely ballistic.

I’ll start with something nice to say: it’s amazing that the Web App works, being quite an architectural departure from anything before. It picked up my local library and played music AOK on my first go.

QUESTION: has anyone seen album art from their local library display in the Web App? I’ve not seen any such album art display, be it albums in Sonos Favorites or navigating through Your Sources > Music Library > Albums or zooming down to a single album or ‘now playing’. Using a streaming service, all of those methods display album art so the functionality is kinda sorta there. And yes, I’ve waited a full 90 minutes for something to happen.

I’ve read that some people see at lest some album art from their local library .., if that includes you, kindly reply with step-by-step description of what works for you.

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timc995

Prominent Collaborator I

How can I turn this remote access feature off entirely so that my home devices simply refuse to accept connections from outside the local network?

No known way to disable this so far

Thanks for the info.

Not being able to disable it feels horrible.

I don’t see any port manipulations on my router, so it must be the case that sonos device(s) are generating outbound connections and those are being used to access my local resources.

This gives me memories of the Sony Rootkit fiasco .

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timc995

Prominent Collaborator I

If you have multiple systems on the same account, its impossible to tell them apart:

I wish it would show named groups.

I had the same discovery. It would have been fairly easy to allow “naming” each system from within the web app. So easy in fact that I can only guess that the testing must have been very minimal.

It turns out that you can add a name to each system. It can only be done from the mobile APP, not the web. However, you still need to log out then in to change systems (on both the app and web).

controlav

Lead Maestro

If you have multiple systems on the same account, its impossible to tell them apart:

I wish it would show named groups.

I had the same discovery. It would have been fairly easy to allow “naming” each system from within the web app. So easy in fact that I can only guess that the testing must have been very minimal.

It turns out that you can add a name to each system. It can only be done from the mobile APP, not the web. However, you still need to log out then in to change systems (on both the app and web).

Naming systems has been a thing for a while, but no names are displayed for any of my systems here. My own app gets the names just fine.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

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Anonymous Coward

From the web, I can browse or play my locally (at home) stored NAS files on devices at that location. I don’t like this. It means that anyone who has access to my account can manipulate my system.

How can I turn this remote access feature off entirely so that my home devices simply refuse to accept connections from outside the local network

I put in a feature request for this on the forum, but give Sonos don't pay any attention to the end users’ opinions, I don't hold out much hope of them caring about the security of our systems and not wanting our soundsystem so easily exposed to the world. At least before, it was only cloud apis being called from your app at home. Now these have been made acceoable via a Web interface.

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