TV group volume via remote TV controller issue

The TV volume drops for a second or two for the assistant to hear the instruction in my case - it’s quicker than picking up a remote (I have dozens of Alexa devices too in every area of the home) I use Alexa for auto-grouping/ungrouping Sonos rooms in fact - but I guess you can’t please all the people, all the time. I was just pointing out that you have the voice option available to you.

There are certainly people that would not want this option with their TV remote, as more often than not, the ‘grouped’ speakers are located in different physical rooms, especially due to the 75ms ‘group audio delay’ that Sonos products have in place for coping with home network packet jitter.

Hi Ken, you are correct some people will prefer other things I am using alexa for other purposes mainly switch sockets on or off or music. Regards to the Remote control function you are correct maybe some people will not like it but when you look in Sonos forum there is few which have requested it and many people does even not know that Sonos forum exist. Here is the reason behind is that Sonos should listen to customers and give them the possibility and option. Now if you do not want to use it ok they can make algorithms where you can switch it off simple. Now people these days are just like to say ooo this is not possible or there is no way and that is how companies going away because there is a way is about the approach and have people which can do very good programming and coding. Well if there is more then 1 person asking for it and in this scenario and many other different scenarios there are many sonos will just respond like in last video we do not like it and this is how it is. Now this is is very wrong approach to customers and I understand that they may not like it or referring to studies or experts but here is the point that it is possible to do it and they can and the possibility can be switched off easy if you do not want to use it but say NO is just very bad as approach. Now if you think about that some other brands will start implementing this Sonos will loose a lot I will personally sell everything and move to company which wants to improve more then hardware. Sonos for me after years is only new hardware with too many limits or limitations and that is it how I see it and not to mention the build quality slipping down the road. Their customer service is great but this will not hold me here to stay with sonos with this approach to customers and new features sorry.

Bottom line, Sonos is not going to encourage people to use setups which sound terrible, whether you feel it sounds terrible or not.  The front soundstage of speakers grouped with a soundbar is a dispersed, muddy mess, and whether you hear the echo or not (I suspect you do and are in denial), most people will find it completely unacceptable.  The whole notion is a road Sonos doesn’t want to go down, with good reason. 

A far more viable request is for Sonos to enable individual front left/right speakers with the soundbar as a center.  That at least will sound good.  I doubt that request would be fulfilled either as it has been requested far more times than the volume thing and has never been realized, but at least the request makes sense. 

Once again I curse that silly YouTube video, regardless of how the pros and cons were spelled out. 

Oh and dude?  Three words - Please use PARAGRAPHS!

Moderator Note: Modified in accordance with the Community Code of Conduct.

Hi @JuriJuri 

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

Thank you - I've marked this thread as a feature request and it will be seen by the relevant teams for consideration. Keep the ideas coming!

Please note, however, that nothing is broken - the current behaviour is intended.