Sonos alarm/clock - display the time
It would be great if SONOS made a sonos 2 clock radio with a digital screen showing the time and all the normal features. A smaller bedroom version of the sonos where if you wake up at 5am and wanna know the time you can just look yet also have all the great features that sonos otherwise brings. Got to be a good seller and far cheaper than buying the controller to just keep in the dock showing the time!!!
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Perhaps a bit late to the party but:
The idea is only nonsensical due to current production methods where every "silly" model needs an enormous start up cost. When we finally get high quality, cheap automated, single item manufacture then Sonos could easily do a Play:X with a clock (or a coffee maker or ...) for the few people you think will want it for a modest design cost. I already buy properly bound books with a print run of one which was unthinkable when I was younger.
My point is that much of the discussion is based on assumptions that there will be no disruptive technology and look what happened to telephone exchanges, mainframe computers, broadcast TV, video rental stores etc.
Think big or you might become a small footnote in a history book.
The idea is only nonsensical due to current production methods where every "silly" model needs an enormous start up cost. When we finally get high quality, cheap automated, single item manufacture then Sonos could easily do a Play:X with a clock (or a coffee maker or ...) for the few people you think will want it for a modest design cost. I already buy properly bound books with a print run of one which was unthinkable when I was younger.
My point is that much of the discussion is based on assumptions that there will be no disruptive technology and look what happened to telephone exchanges, mainframe computers, broadcast TV, video rental stores etc.
Think big or you might become a small footnote in a history book.
Couldn’t agree more ..... oh.
Ha ha
I’d buy 2 more if they came with a clock.
Play 1 with digital clock and nice alarm features. I would put one in each bedroom!
You're saying adding a clock (basic) to a multiroom hifi system (sophisticated) can be compared to adding 4G internet etc (sophisticated) to a phone (basic)? I don't think this is where the competitive battle will be won and lost......
And I guess 10 years ago Nokia said we make phones and who needs music on them. I love all my sonos gear but they are there to be disrupted.
Totally agree with @chicks. This is a hifi system not an alarm clock. Of course Sonos have done nothing about this nonsensical suggestion.
Three years and 61 posts, half of which support the idea. Do you really think Sonos is going to waste considerable time and money on a feature almost no one wants? Really?
Once voice control is implemented, asking Sonos the time will most likely be available. It's simple enough to add via voice at minimal cost.
So this request for a simple Alarm Clock has been in the forum for over 3 years now. No response from SONOS yet, but lots of community posts discussing how to do it with products from competitors. Since SONOS seems to thoroughly disregard the wishes of their customers, one must wonder: which alternative competitor is out there that offers what SONOS offers - but actually listens to its customers?
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They don't do it because Sonos don't manufacture an Alarm clock. They manufacture a wireless range of audio speakers. It is testament to the quality of the product that people do use them as alarm clocks (I do).
I can honestly say that I have never once bemoaned the lack of a clock display on the Sonos units.
The thing is if people are consistently asking, why would you not do this? With the advent of some genuine competitors emerging a good product manager should be all over such differentiators. I would also be up for 2. And would be.happy to meet with your customer experience team (if any) when next in the US to share my now considerable experience across your product range
I too might like to see a clock. How about an accessory, something like this? http://www.jdidproductdesign.com/SONOS-TIME/
You need to add an alarm clock , Come on Sonos , it's nearly Xmas, imagine how many teenagers would want this in their bedroom , I would buy 3 of them .
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Sono should find a way to accommodate this request. It is a natural addition to their line of speakers which are billed as a complete house audio sound system. This addition of a better functioning alarm clock is needed in their repertoire.
I would like it to auto on at the alarm time. It should have a fully "dimmable to off" display, snooze button and have a battery/chime backup should the Wifi or power fail.
I do hope they get this message. I am in for two units.
I would like it to auto on at the alarm time. It should have a fully "dimmable to off" display, snooze button and have a battery/chime backup should the Wifi or power fail.
I do hope they get this message. I am in for two units.
No but we are talking about an alarm clock function. Not saying Echo should replace your main stereo.
The Amazon Echo doesn't have the breadth of services Sonos has, right? Sirius XM for example?
And I don't want to open my eyes and twist around to see a display just to find out the time... to each their own.
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I don't want a clock that I have to talk to just to learn its 3am in the morning
Fair enough. I was skeptical too until I tried it.
....a dimmable DISPLAY, a snooze button and an alarm off button ! And I'm not going to talk to my alarm clock when I wake up!
I understand why a display would be important for a Sonos based solution that doesn't have voice control but the Echo can give you any information you want just by asking... no need for a display.
All of the Sonos players have had function "alarm clocks" functionality for a long time (as does the new Amazon "Echo" product which strives to take away market share from Sonos). The point of this thread is that everyone is looking for a Sonos (or "Echo") alarm clock product with a DISPLAY...
This was frustrating for me as well so I came up with my own solution. See my post above titled "Here's what I did to have a Sonos player with a digital LCD clock".
You can find a Samung Galaxy 7-inch tablet on Amazon for under $100 and a desk doc-charger that allows the tablet to stand horizontally (at a pleasing angle) on a table/nightstand.
I downloaded a few Android widgets, including a nice clock/weather , auto-launcher app, and app to prevent the screen-saver from running. I configured the auto-launcher to kill the full-screen "clock" app during the day (1 minute before my Sonos alarm was programmed to sound) so that the clock, weather, and Sonos widgets were all visible on the screen at the same time. I also configured the auto-launcher to run the full-screen "clock" app in the evening a few hours before going to sleep. I also programmed the (very cool) clock app to auto-dim around 10pm and auto-undim about an hour before the clock program task would be ended in the morning.
My Sonos 5 sat behind tablet and off to the side a bit so that obstruction of the sound wasn't really a problem.
This works great because even while the clock app might have been running full-screen, I could always tap the "invisible" app bar at the bottom of the screen and launch the Sonos widget/app if necessary to control music, then return to the full-screen clock app (at night). During the day I had an awesome clock/weather app showing on the same screen as the Sonos control.
The best part about this type of setup is that the clock, weather, and Sonos widgets are infinitely customizable to every person's own preference, so you pretty much have your own designer all-in-one Sonos clock-weather-radio.
I'll try to add photos at some point to my original post above.
The Amazon Echo works well as an alarm clock and is available today. Its probably less critical for an alarm clock to be part of your Sonos ecosystem than it is for players in other rooms.
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