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Sonos doorbell

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Hi all.
Tom B an excellent support guy from Sonos suggested I post this here as he knows the tech guys keep an eye on the forums for ideas and problems.

I suggested to him that as I live in a townhouse and have speakers throughout we cannot here our door bell while music is on through our system.
So.............I would like to see a Sonos doorbell that feeds through the speakers when someone presses it, perhaps loweting the volume a little as it does so that the bell is obvious over the underlying music.

What do you think?

regards
Stephen H

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stephp38Author

Avid Contributor I

That should obviously say hear not here.

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robdam1001

Avid Contributor I

Look at ring. Com

Ken_Griffiths

Stephp38,

Not wishing to put the dampener on your idea... but...

If you introduce speaker-sound-reduction for doorbells, then the next thing is people will likely want the same thing, when the house-phone rings or the alarm on their microwave or cooker sounds... Where would Sonos then draw a line to such things?

Surely the answer is to get the door bell to give give some kind of visual indication that it is ringing ... A flashing light(s) perhaps added into its circuit and located in convenient places where it can be easily seen.

I'm not sure that Sonos (as a company) are really in the best position to easily solve your issue... I think there are perhaps far simpler DIY solutions to the problem.

Sorry 😞 for sounding so negative here ... but that's my initial thoughts on the matter.

Stuart_W

World-Class Superstar

I agree with Ken. It's not really something I think Sonos would get involved in and I think you need to seek out some other 3rd party solution.

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Rog10

Contributor I

If Sonos would open of for IFTTT, it would be an easy fix for every user to define what they want to connect to Sonos.
Ring doorbell, Hue Lights, Nest Protect, etc etc

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CliveW

Lyricist I

Have to say I don't like the idea either; I'd rather Sonos concentrated on the music.

Could you get a doorbell system with a wireless buzzer you could carry in a pocket to alert you?

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Withanee

Prodigy I

Hmm, can you get a doorbell with a line-out? If so, plug that into the line-in on a Sonos device, set to autoplay on all zones and might that just do the job?

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robdam1001

Avid Contributor I

I agree with Ken. It's not really something I think Sonos would get involved in and I think you need to seek out some other 3rd party solution.

#Ring

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mwiseman

Enthusiast II

I believe you can do this now with SmartThings.

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MTI

Lyricist III

Sonos can set volume levels or pause all players then resume play based on a trigger (door bell button pressed). If you want to play the doorbell sound through Sonos devices then you may be looking at something a bit more challenging as well as glitchy since the entire Sonos system must be parsed, paused, ungrouped, grouped, volume set, file selected and played, ungrouped, regrouped to recorded configuration, volume set back to recorded configuration and resume play to any players previously playing. Add cloud based control to the mix (Smarthings or IFTTT) and you can expect the delay lag to increase. Not to say that I wouldn't like to see a Sonos door bell interface released, I just don't think we will see one soon or at least until major hardware updates are released. Local file storage per device may be the key to this feature.

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