The New APP is Absolute Garbage

Among all of the features that don’t work, the worst one for me is that the new app doesn’t work across vlans, the old one did.  I haven’t updated my mac app and it still works.  Home Assistant has no trouble working across vlans either.  So I basically can’t use my speakers unless I get the computer out.  They flipped a switch and locked me out of my 10 sonos speakers and Amp.  I feel like I’ve been had and it doesn’t feel good.  It’s time to start looking at the competition.  It’s a real opportunity for the competition…

Unfortunately modern Sonos is a litany of failure after failure, it should be genuinely embarrassing for them. However the most galling part is there blame shifting responsibility lacking attitude, it’s never their products, it’s always an issue with our network etc etc. Ooh you need a bridge/ boost etc etc more expenditure for the same crap results. It absolutely stinks, there’s other options out there, I’ve spent £1000’s on Sonos, I, like everyone else here love music, the enjoyment of which is one of life’s pleasures.

Sonos’s is ruining my enjoyment, cutting out, not connecting, dropping one of stereo a pair of 5’s for 10 minutes before they both play again, the radio as an alarm is disastrous, 50% of the time I wake up to the chime, rather than my favourite station, it’s so so frustrating. Listening to some ambient noise to drift of too, again completely unreliable, sometimes it may play for the desired length of time, mostly it cuts off after 5/10 minutes.

It was never this bad, infact my gen 1 pair of 5’s were fabulous, and compared to these gen 2’s better in every respect. They’re not daft, it’s intentional to get you to part with more of your hard earned! 

Shonky under developed garbage that’s un fit for purpose, wake up! The only way this changes is by not purchasing their products.