Simple ? - How to turn off

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Chris mentioned:

The ZonePlayer has two power-on states.

"Not playing music" : The CPU/Wireless is active

"Playing music" : The CPU/Wireless and Amplifier are active. The amp is automatically switched on when there is music to play, and off the moment the music stops.

I know we have the ability to turn off the white light altogether.

I would prefer that it would turn off in the "not playing music" state, and turn on when in the "playing music" state.

This would reflect the amplifier status rather than the cpu/network status. This would further address my concern over possible heat build up and fire from the amplifier being on constantly because I would have an indication on the player.

Regards,

John

Any unit that has an IR or RF wireless remote never can be completely OFF. (Otherwise it could not receive and process the command to turn ON.)

Over the years I've discussed OFF (or not) with countless users. The common thread is that users expect an unambiguous indication of the "OFF" state. This should be turning out all of the lights, but most users will be satisfied if there is an indicator lamp that glows ONLY when the unit is "OFF". LCD's that indicate the time or display something that equates to OFF are also acceptable, but they should not be illuminated.

Some cannot be satisfied unless they think that there is no possibility of any current flowing inside the unit. I've encountered a few that will unplug a unit if they think that it will not turn OFF completely.

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As a practical matter a well designed unit's usefull life does not strongly depend on the number of hours of use. You can think of a number of "failure clocks" ticking inside the unit. Eventualy one of them will reach the end and a component will fail. Some clocks run faster at elevated temperatures, some are mostly time since manufacture, others actually run faster if the unit is not used. In addition there are some "counters", such as the press of a button or number of power cycles. Finally, there are the obvious running time clocks associated with motors and similar mechanical components.

One of the most dangerous events in a unit's life is turn-on. Minimizing the number of turn-on's is helpful for increasing the useful life of a unit.

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You can disable the LED on the ZP via Zones-Setup Zones-Settings-Status Indicator Light on the desktop software (and something similar on the wireless controller).

You can disable the LED on the ZP via Zones-Setup Zones-Settings-Status Indicator Light on the desktop software (and something similar on the wireless controller).

LMc posted his comment in February of 2005, long before the functionality was available to turn the light off.

The ZonePlayer has two power-on states.

"Not playing music" : The CPU/Wireless is active

"Playing music" : The CPU/Wireless and Amplifier are active. The amp is automatically switched on when there is music to play, and off the moment the music stops.

Thanks, Chris.

I too was a bit confused when I first started using my system -- Now, it’s just not an issue.

However, with that said, I think Sonos could have eliminated some of the initial confusion by updating the controller graphically.

For example: When you are streaming internet radio and hit stop (pause) the animated radio graphic continues. It may help new user If this graphic were to be changed to a non-animated image that would clearly signal to the user that the stream had actually stopped. Of course, the music not playing does this as well 😉

I would think that a similar graphic approach to the stopping (pausing) of playing music files from ones system would also signal this event.

Not sure how to insert a quote guys but just like to add for anyone that didn't know. If you hold down the play button on an Ipod you can switch it off. Sorry if it's a bit irrellevant.

In the electrical user appliances world it think there is standby and there is off. When it's standby it consumes (some) power and you can activate it by remote to do something (play music, show a movie, start playing a dvd, make coffee, make light, whatever). When it is off, it won't consume any power and you have to turn it phisically on before you can use a remote to control it.

Now the Sonos is always on stand-by, never off. But when I go on holiday or a prolonged trip i'd like to turn off my equipment totally, to save power and for safety, since something that's powered is always at risk in short-circuiting and catching fire, how remote a change it may be.

Now for my home entertainment system and computers I just turn them on standby first and then I shutdown power completely by using the switch on the outet-contact-box (don't know the english term, sorry, you know the outlet-thingy where you put in all the power cables, which in turn is plugged in in the wall outlet ;)

But not all Sonos zones will be plugged in via such a device, some will be direct in a wall outlet, those I would like to be able to turn completely off using a hard switch. As opposed to just plug the power cable out of the outlet.

(Typing this i might repost in sound-ideas?)

Just pull the plug or of the wall outlet, or buy a cheap power strip with a switched outlet. I don't see what the problem with this is.

Cheers,

Keith

Just pull the plug or of the wall outlet, or buy a cheap power strip with a switched outlet. I don't see what the problem with this is.

Cheers,

Keith
Yeah that's a possibility, and it's not a big problem, is just aesthetics and convenience. I like to hide the outlets, so plugging and pulling plugs can become cumbersome...

But as I said, it's not a big deal really....