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JohnG666
Enthusiast II
April 24, 2023

Would like to power Roam off via software or voice

  • April 24, 2023
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At the moment I have to hold the power button down for a few seconds to power it off. Sometimes this doesn’t work and although I don’t let go of the button it thinks I have. So today it took 5 attempts before the speaker powered down.

I don’t use the feature where it will shut itself off and go into sleep after being idle for a while because, annoyingly for my use case, it powers itself back up again when I open the Sonos app. This is not what I require because the Roam is only used occassionally in the bathroom. If there was an option to not do this then I would use this method.

Given the above, I would like to be able to power off completely using either the app or a voice command. I know I probably need to create a request but I doubt they will do anything if only one person requires it!!

 

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    JohnG666Author
    Enthusiast II
    April 29, 2023

    I’ve just had another thought…. Are you supposed to leave the app unopened for 30 minutes after the speaker has powered down?

     

    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_Griffiths
    April 29, 2023

    I’ve just had another thought…. Are you supposed to leave the app unopened for 30 minutes after the speaker has powered down?

    Don’t open the App after the Roam ends it’s playback - Off it’s charger it should then sleep/power-off after approx. 30 minutes - leave it a short time after the LED goes off (give it 5 minutes say) and then it should stay powered off.

    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_Griffiths
    April 29, 2023

    If the Battery Saver is not enabled, the Roam will simply linger in sleep mode after the 30 minutes and should wake up when the Sonos App is then opened (from fully closed state) and will be ready to play - the App sends a WOL packet so it just needs the controller device to be on the same network subnet.

    JohnG666Author
    Enthusiast II
    April 29, 2023

    I’ve just had another thought…. Are you supposed to leave the app unopened for 30 minutes after the speaker has powered down?

    Don’t open the App after the Roam ends it’s playback - Off it’s charger it should then sleep/power-off after approx. 30 minutes - leave it a short time after the LED goes off (give it 5 minutes say) and then it should stay powered off.

     

    That is basically what I did and the Roam powered up again. I haven’t opened the app yet for this 2nd test but will do so in 20 minutes or so. 

     

      JohnG666Author
      Enthusiast II
      April 29, 2023

      So this time I left it a good 40 minutes after the powerdown happened and it’s not powered up again thankfully.

      The next time I will leave it for 10 minutes after it’s powered itself down to see if that works as expected. But I will leave that test until I use it properly again.

       

        SleepyRobot
        Trending Lyricist III
        April 29, 2023

        After your comment i started a test too and you're right. If you do open the app within 30 minutes it does power up again , i just never noticed that before. I don't think it's a good feature and it should at least be a setting you could turn off imo. 

         

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