Sonos App

Thanks Bruce. Exactly what i was looking for 😊. 

Sonos has an amazing number of resources, from FAQs to .pdfs…the trouble is, at least in my experience, the web site’s search functionality is sometimes troubled. It is why I frequently post links to content I’m aware of, and use Google to search for things I don’t have ‘saved’ away. 

Most search engines offer an option to only search a limited area of the Internet, really handy to avoid a lot of very bad information on Sonos or many other topics.

So using this:  

controller site:sonos.com

Gives you this search:

https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=controller+site%3Asonos.com&cat=web&pl=opensearch&language=english

Including all the sonos.com sub-domains like the forums and support.

Add in the ability, lacking in the forum, to search by date and you can also skip the 5 year old and out of date stuff.

While I have little trust in AI (it doesn’t yet differentiate between ‘correct’ data and ‘incorrect’ data regurgitation), I tend to not restrict my searches to Sonos only. Sometimes there is information elsewhere that can be useful, sometimes not. But I prefer the option to make the decision. And I’m lazy, to boot (see many of my canned responses), so typing the extra that ​@Stanley_4 suggests doesn’t happen often for me…but then I do have to wade through the potential incorrect data. 

I have hopes that someday AI will be able to figure out that all data posted on the internet is not necessarily correct. It is, often, but can be incorrect as well. 

It just isn't that AI is misled by misinformation, that is bad enough, but than many AI systems will create an answer with no basis. Basically a digital hallucination that can be very convincing if you don't know the true answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)

Uses, definitions and characterizations of the term "hallucination" in the context of LLMs include:

"a tendency to invent facts in moments of uncertainty" (OpenAI, May 2023)[29]

"a model's logical mistakes" (OpenAI, May 2023)[29]

"fabricating information entirely, but behaving as if spouting facts" (CNBC, May 2023)[29]

"making up information" (The Verge, February 2023)[30]

"probability distributions" (in scientific contexts)[31]