Sonos doorbell

Fair enough.

Stumbled on this old thread because I was wondering the same thing. We currently have a Niles system (ZR-6) and it has a paging input built in. With the doorbell module it interrupts all music (or turns on the speakers if they were off), plays the doorbell chime, and then resumes all the music. I’m looking into updated the system to use Sonos connect’s, but the loss of the doorbell is an issue. Our house is pretty big, and with the normal doorbell you can’t hear it in half of the house.

Geez guys, what era do you all come from. The 50's...?. Nothing quite like being in my outdoor area listening to music on my Sonos and then not Hear the doorbell. I have a Ring 2 installed and would like to be able to make my Sonos smarter. Next thing you'll all be saying is why have voice activation when we are all purists and believe a speaker is a speaker. Get with the times dudes!

... the first post on this string is a year old... Just saying.

And there is less than a single page of posts in that year+, fewer than that actually supporting the idea. I'm not sure Sonos is concerned with such a fringe case with so little support. Either way, you are only going to get a canned "We will pass this along to our developers for consideration" anyway. Sonos rarely states they are working on something, unless it is a major partnership like Amazon Alexa or Apple Music.

I'll add my +1 to this idea.

I have been saying this for years now. The system input can be set to be used as an interrupt, but the music doesn’t resume. Just like in an iPhone, the music should lower to play the chime and then resume. Other products do this already as someone already mentioned in this posting. If we could select the room(s) that this particular scenario would function in and choose the volume to lower to based on a percentage as well as what happens (interrupt, lower, lower for x seconds then resume etc...) it would be great!

I do sometime wish Sonos had a small "quick wins" dev team. There are a collection of small initiatives that would really improve the whole experience. This, time initiated night mode for playbar, selectable dark/light theme, one click access to equaliser, etc etc. They would not on their own get to the top of any dev list but sometimes the smallest of things can still make an impact 😉

Completely agree - they stay focused on the big stuff but never give us any of the little stuff.

It can be done via Smartthings I am sure ... have Ring be the trigger. When triggered Sonos interrupt music and can text to speech "Someone is at the door". I thought it could resume but I would have to dig in deeper. All the skills may just play something after.

Doesn't Sonos Voice app resume? I'm curious now.

I currently use SmartThings for a variety of tasks related to my Sonos speakers, including doorbell actions. So when my doorbell rings, for example, the volume of my music is reduced (or the TV pauses, depending) and certain lights are turned on as needed after sunset. I also use ST, along with webCoRE & IFTTT, so I can both adjust the group volume via Alexa and create sleep timers via Alexa (features both missing from the current Sonos/Alexa integration), as well as automatically reduce the preset volume of any speakers that have been inactive for a period of time to my desired default level.

And yes, it is possible to have voice notifications of events like doors that have been left open, etc via ST as well. Unfortunately, the ST Device-Type Handler (DTH) for Sonos is quite poorly implemented, so some things like "speak text and resume," while possible, are a bit hit and miss. Like @bockersjv, I'd love to see an initiative to address some of these deficiencies. A few small initiatives, like providing a more current and comprehensive DTH, would open a whole world of possibilities for Sonos products with a bare minimum investment of time or money.

I wrote a simple open source server that can trigger doorbell chimes from a web request (easy to drive with IoT devices or devices like a doorbird)
https://github.com/EliSchleifer/sonos-doorbell

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