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mariachiel21
Avid Contributor I
March 5, 2013

Reduce idle consumption energy level (currently around 5W)

Sonos devices on average consume about 5 watts each if idle. Having 5 sonos devices around this means 25 watts on average idle consumption. Over a year this is about (25x24hx365) 219 kwh. In Germany where 1 kwh is about 0,30 Euro Cent this then means about 70 Euro (about 100$) just to maintain an idle system. This is just too much and could easily be reduced. Looking at the environmental aspect this gets even more critical: There are around 2.5 million Sonos devices around. This adds up to 110,000,000 kwh or 110 million kwh.
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    littletree76
    Contributor I
    March 8, 2013
    Agree particularly for the sake of greener environment. Sonos should implement sleep mode in all its players. Their cases are quite hot to touch even when idling for whole day. In the mean time, I can only use timers to switch all Sonos players off before I go to sleep and switch back on in morning.
      Mr T Hayes
      Lyricist I
      March 8, 2013
      Maybe you can add some sort of power down update, or add switches to your latest models. When I first set it up, I kept pulling out the mains plug!
      Egon da Buuni
      Lyricist III
      March 8, 2013
      +1 Some sleep mode would make sense. May be it's possible to implement some "wake on LAN" function that one can en-/disable. So I can decide wether I want "instant on" with higher idle consumption or less consumption at the cost of longer "boottime"...
        Christophe_1
        Avid Contributor I
        March 23, 2013
        This is a concern when expanding the Sonos family in an household:
          Paul_48
          Lyricist III
          May 1, 2013
          Initially I thought I was being stupid by unplugging my Sonos Connect after a listening session, but now I can see this is a common concern. If (or when) I buy an addition unit, the issue will become even more significant. As with a previous poster, I have noticed how warm the unit gets even when not "in play mode". This surely must reduce the MTBF
          Sonos ZP80 (hard wired to router), Connect (x2), Play 1, Bridge, CR200 (x2). Synology NAS, KEF105s !!!
          Bernd_7
          Trending Lyricist I
          May 1, 2013
          Just another deal breaker 😞
          RichardB_1
          Lyricist I
          June 10, 2013
          It really must be possible to reduce the standby power consumption. This is the one thing that I don't like about Sonos so far.
            ullum
            Avid Contributor I
            June 10, 2013
            I disconnect most units when not used
            Best regards ullum
            Keim
            Lyricist II
            June 24, 2013
            I agree, an on/off switch or power down mode is needed. I just had my Play5 replaced because my the connector broke from pulling the plug in and out so many times. Now I have an on/off switch at the Receptacle.
            littletree76
            Contributor I
            June 25, 2013
            Until Sonos has implemented power down and sleep modes in all their player models (not sure whether all existing hardware models support the features), right now the best improvisation is to use a programmable electronic timer (mechanical one is too noisy) at AC power outlet. This way you can avoid material fatigue and trouble in pulling and reinserting the plug regularly (not all AC outlets come with switch particularly those two-pin US sockets). If the features can be implemented in firmware/software of all Sonos media player models, then they should be included in next release of software update. It is the same issue as full support for Apple AirPlay protocol (without resorting to unnecessary use of Apple Airport Express). Sonos product developers should learn to take users feedbacks seriously no matter how much more knowledgable on products than the users. Remember Apple has learned the hard way.
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