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Hey Sonos, hear me out... (this will never work but, let's try it anyway). To regain trust from your customers after the App redesign, you could decide to open up your systems to OpenHome and allow users to add their custom voice assistant with home assistant.
This would be huge, there is a big community of makers and your devices are great and will easily be adopted as main voice assistant devices.
If you compare the quality of a Sonos Era or One SL to the voice assistant preview from home assistant... it's like night and day.
Let us add a custom voice assistant via API to our devices, people don't care much anymore about Google Home or Alexa. Let us have privacy and customization.

Sincerely, one happy customer that would love this feature.


Cross Post also on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/comments/1k16vzs/home_assistant_voice/

According to the Home Assistant website, there are ~500k total Home Assistant installations, with ~64k of those with Sonos integrations. Does that line up with your data source? 

I’m not interested in the argument, but those numbers are way under reported. The analytics are opt-in, thus only those people that specifically enable it will report usage. This is really apparent when you look at the installations map at the bottom and it shows only ~89k installations in the US. Home assistant has FAR more installations than 500k. It was recently reported by HA themselves that there are approximately 2 million households using Home Assistant, but that number could also be skewed.

According to the Home Assistant website, there are ~500k total Home Assistant installations, with ~64k of those with Sonos integrations. Does that line up with your data source? 

I’m not interested in the argument, but those numbers are way under reported. The analytics are opt-in, thus only those people that specifically enable it will report usage. This is really apparent when you look at the installations map at the bottom and it shows only ~89k installations in the US. Home assistant has FAR more installations than 500k. It was recently reported by HA themselves that there are approximately 2 million households using Home Assistant, but that number could also be skewed.

 

The text at the bottom of the screen says that ~400k of ~500k installations have chosen to share their used integrations.  So you’re saying that those 500k installations are just reported installations, not all installations?  If so, HA really should update that language as it is misleading.

According to the Home Assistant website, there are ~500k total Home Assistant installations, with ~64k of those with Sonos integrations. Does that line up with your data source? 

I’m not interested in the argument, but those numbers are way under reported. The analytics are opt-in, thus only those people that specifically enable it will report usage. This is really apparent when you look at the installations map at the bottom and it shows only ~89k installations in the US. Home assistant has FAR more installations than 500k. It was recently reported by HA themselves that there are approximately 2 million households using Home Assistant, but that number could also be skewed.

 

The text at the bottom of the screen says that ~400k of ~500k installations have chosen to share their used integrations.  So you’re saying that those 500k installations are just reported installations, not all installations?  If so, HA really should update that language as it is misleading.

The link clearly states on installations tab:

Analytics in Home Assistant are opt-in and do not reflect the entire Home Assistant userbase. We estimate that less than a fourth of all Home Assistant users opt in.

According to the Home Assistant website, there are ~500k total Home Assistant installations, with ~64k of those with Sonos integrations. Does that line up with your data source? 

I’m not interested in the argument, but those numbers are way under reported. The analytics are opt-in, thus only those people that specifically enable it will report usage. This is really apparent when you look at the installations map at the bottom and it shows only ~89k installations in the US. Home assistant has FAR more installations than 500k. It was recently reported by HA themselves that there are approximately 2 million households using Home Assistant, but that number could also be skewed.

 

The text at the bottom of the screen says that ~400k of ~500k installations have chosen to share their used integrations.  So you’re saying that those 500k installations are just reported installations, not all installations?  If so, HA really should update that language as it is misleading.

The link clearly states on installations tab:

Analytics in Home Assistant are opt-in and do not reflect the entire Home Assistant userbase. We estimate that less than a fourth of all Home Assistant users opt in.

 

Ok.  But I would still say that you shouldn’t have to look at one tab to get full understanding of the data on another tab.

Ok.  But I would still say that you shouldn’t have to look at one tab to get full understanding of the data on another tab.

That maybe so, but you were told the 2M figure in response to your first post in the thread also.

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