Home Assistant (Wyoming Protocol) Voice Integration Support Status?

I’m puzzled as to why you can’t (or won’t) use Sonos Voice Control for your Sonos device since you admit how good the privacy aspect is, and use whatever other system for your lights. There’s no extra hardware associated for Sonos (just the microphone-equipped Sonos speaker), so “being able to use existing hardware i already have in my home” is not a show-stopper to using SVC. 
 

Is it such a big issue to use two systems? 

Let me guess, sarcasm isn't your strong suit?  But let's take my statements at face value.  . . When and if HA reaches Android levels of market penetrative then yes, posting in here to request HA support will probably be very effective.

I don't get why Sonos can't say sorry that feature is not planned for implementation.. so far every reaction is we'll pass the feature on to the team. So what is the team doing with the feature? Will it get implemented will it not get implemented. Community is free to speculate all they want of course but a bit of feedback from Sonos isn't too much to ask right? 

Plenty of software companies that offer a little more insight into feature requests and roadmaps.

​@nik9669a the problem is that not all devices support Google assistant (roam 2) where I had a roam 1 that did.. a portable house control that SVC just can't do. So running two systems isn't even possible. Sure the devices that do still support GA can but those are clearly a dying race...

​@jgatie I caught your sarcasm from a mile away, fact is is I see Sonos staff responding here and was hoping on a reaction from them, I guess that was too hopeful of me.

Sonos has had bad luck with early announcements, both good and bad ones. They learned it is less of a problem to not do them.

The Sonos staff here would probably be looking for new work if they went beyond the Sonos guidelines on what can be said.

Best you can hope for is a feature request or a will pass to the developers. 

You might have better odds of an official response on the Sonos reddit, well if you can tag into one of the official Sonos topics.

Sonos very rarely states they are working on something, and even more rare is a statement that they are not working on something.  If I were to guess; their silence on this topic, coupled with the current 0.8% of penetration in the Sonos market; means Home Assistant support is not very high on their priority list (nor should it be).  

When Sonos first announced support for Alexa years ago, they also annouced that they Google Assistant support was coming and gave a projected release date.  They obviously did this because they didn’t want people buying other speakers under the assumption that Sonos wasn’t going to support GA.  Unfortunately, they also missed the projected release date, so it made some early buyers rather disappointed.  Regardless, there was a good reason for Sonos to let people know what was coming.

There are no good reasons for Sonos to announcing any additional HA integration.  No one is going to go buy a different speaker since no other speaker even does this.  And as pointed out, the current market size isn’t large enough to make a big difference is sales currently.  Consumers like you and may want to know and have good reasons for that, but I don’t think Sonos shares those reasons.

As I’ve stated before, I would probably use a HA voice integration, but I don’t think it makes a lot of sense for Sonos.  Because market size, I don’t know that Sonos wants to deal with an open source product integration rather than a corporation that can be held acocuntable.  Sonos has also stated that they want to focus on their core audience, rather than expand into new markets.  I don’t think Sonos wants to get into dealing with smart home control right now.  That said, Sonos does integrate with Philps Hue, but it seems like they feel that is a better market and easier to support than HA.