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Contributor I
Aug 26, 2014 12:31 PM UTC

Alarms - Grouped Rooms

New feature request. Would be nice addition to the alarms function if instead of just being able to have grouped rooms included in the alarm, being able to select which rooms to group for the alarm. In my scenario, I have certain rooms that are grouped at night for a bedtime alarm that begins a certain playlist. In the morning, I would like to have an alarm that plays a morning playlist in a list of grouped rooms that are not necessarily the same as the bedtime alarm. Now those rooms have to be already grouped in order for an alarm to work. I want to be able to specify which rooms should be grouped when the alarm is executed, even if they are not currently grouped.
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johnshansen
Avid Contributor III
Nov 26, 2015 8:09 AM UTC
Hear, hear...!!!
I was about to ask the same for my morning routine.
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Trending Lyricist I
Feb 20, 2016 11:35 AM UTC
Yes, in my case I would like to play the alarm in my bedroom together with the bathroom, but as those rooms are not grouped together during the day, I have to repeat the grouping every night. Also would be great to be able to give names to alarms (for instance "Monday morning alarm").
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Trending Lyricist I
Sep 12, 2016 7:57 PM UTC
Replying because someone I know suggested this feature in the beta feedback and they may or may not have told him or her to come to this thread.

This needs to be a thing. Because 1) Someone might want to group different speakers at different times of day; or 2) your crappy Internet and/or crappy router might drop your connection before your alarm is scheduled to play, losing your grouped speakers.
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Avid Contributor I
Sep 13, 2016 4:08 AM UTC
One thing in my wonderfull Sonos system really irritates me
We use alarms a lot, in the morning in 4 different rooms, but if I do not group them they
are not in sync, fair enough.
But if I set them up in grouped mode, the sync ok, but now I do not have any control of the sound level,
meaning that waking up can be a noisy affair.
But what desides what sound level to use in the different synced groupes?


Allso, when pressing "advanced" you get another two choises, they should be moved to the normal settings page
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Best regards ullum
Local Superstar
Sep 13, 2016 7:29 AM UTC
The alarms could really do with some attention.
Why can't an alarm just 'play' what it was playing beforehand? Why does it have to wipe out the whole queue every time it is used?
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Lyricist I
Dec 29, 2016 1:29 PM UTC
Has this feature been added yet? I've set up two speakers with the same alarm but it's always out of sync.
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Lyricist III
Jun 23, 2017 12:40 PM UTC
I have the same request/issue. Playbar in lounge, Play1 in kitchen. At night the grouping of the two speakers is often split. But in the morning it would be great if the alarm (a radio station) would re group the speakers so where I make breakfast and where I eat breakfast could be synced up.

Setting up two alarms is an option, but then the audio via an internet stream can be ever so slightly out.
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Lyricist III
Jun 23, 2017 12:40 PM UTC
Im surprised more people don't have this issue as well. Seems a basic bit of functionality.
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johnshansen
Avid Contributor III
Oct 16, 2017 4:36 AM UTC
Its about time to deliver this simple request (and Fix the New horrible interface...)
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Lyricist III
Dec 19, 2017 3:55 PM UTC
it is simply UNBELIEVEBLE why sonos can‘t cope with grouped alams. it is a DAILY PAIN IN THE ASS - wake up and manually sync the payere that started voa alarm.

Wake up somos - and offer this timy nice functionalizy. imagine it can be 300x a negative feeling towards sonos just becaise you forgot it?
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