Grouping is dangerous if volume level is unexpectedly high in new room?

A couple points.  First, the issue isn’t really specific to grouping.   Along the same lines as your example, you could wake up in the morning and decide to play music directly in the living room.  If you don’t change the volume before beginning playback, living room will play at the high volume it was set at last night.

One work around is to set an alarm to set the volume at a specified time.  Some users have setup an audio file with no volume to play every night at a set lower volume, effectively resetting the speakers every night.  I don’t do this myself, so may have the details off.  I do actually use an alarm set in a different application to play a radio station every weekend day morning, so I have somewhat of a modified solution to this.

If Sonos were to do something like this, I’m not exactly sure what form it would take.  Perhaps you could configure ‘volume reset’ times throughout the day for specific rooms.  Or setup timers to reset the volume after a certain period of science.  I can see both options being beneficial depending on how people use their systems.

Thanks Danny.  I will look into alarms but its not always set a time-of-day thing.   

My ideas for a grouping setting would be:

• Set volume of newly grouped rooms to specified %
• Set volume of newly grouped rooms to lowest grouped room level

My idea for Source specific volume limits:

• Music = Max Volume @ 50%
• TV = Max Volume @ 80%
• Turntable = Max Volume @ 100%

But really the grouping setting would be better and solve my problems