Adopting Matter?

There is no reason that Sonos cannot implement Matter as an integration/control method without giving up their proprietary audio method.  Sure, their speakers would not sync with non-Sonos speakers but at least you could discover and control them like Matter elements.  That would still be a big win for Sonos users.  Besides, now that Sonos has embraced the lower priced speakers too, why would you want the other speakers other than as a cheap control point?

Personally, I would love full integration but not at the expense of any quality or functionality advantages with Sonos.  I would rather keep my separate Sonos system than make sacrifices in the interest of unity.

I agree in theory, but a couple concerns about Sonos and Matter.   Yes, Sonos could adopt the Matter API for speakers, but they would still need to maintain their existing API.  So more space on the speakers...probably not a big deal.  But also their existing API, being Sonos specific, would have more control over Sonos features, not the subset of features that Amazon/Google/Apple want to support. It could actually result in 3rd party devices having less control over Sonos then they do now, if the drop support of Sonos API in favor of Matter API for speakers.

The other concern is that, people will assume that if two speaker brands have the matter certification, then they will play in sync together.  And this confusion will be blamed as Sonos misleading the public for a lot of consumers.  We know that’s going to happen because it already does with Alexa and Google Assistant integrations.  People assume that echos play with Sonos, or Google Nest (and whatever else) play with Sonos….and shame on Sonos for not making that easy code change happen!

Stopping music with use of homekit „good night” scene would be perfect enough for me with future matter support. Right now it possible to stop only airplay casted music.

It’s interesting that Sonos has dropped off the website listed earlier in this thread. Wonder what that means?

Matter has no support for anything Audio, so it’s not entirely surprising.

The next opportunity to consider adding new protocols is March 2023, but it doesn’t seem like audio is even on the maybe list. That realistically means Sept 2023 at the earliest to even design an audio protocol, never mind anyone actually implement something.

I’m not holding my breath on this one., and nor do I care: we already have UPnP and it works very well.