Sonos Roam - Battery drain

If you are truly shutting off the Roam completely, you should only lose 1%-2% battery charge per day… at least that has been my experience with the Roam.

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How’s your experience with standby, are you getting 10 days?

Got my Roam last week but wanted to hold off on replying here till I’d tested a few things and let it stabilize.

As others have said, I see about 1% per hour battery drain in standby. This is overnight, with no use of the Sonos app or other speakers to trigger a full wakeup. This equates to about 4 days of standby time at most, less if using the Roam in that time. Very far from the advertised ‘up to 10 days’. Fully powering off the Roam does reduce battery drain to virtually nothing, but this is annoying due to the mushy power button and excessively long 5 second press time required.

Like many others here I mainly use my Roam in the shower, so powering it off completely means I have to remember to take my phone into the bathroom to select music after I wake it up. To work around this I’ve created a hack script in Home Assistant that starts with a 60 second delay - during which time I go to the bathroom and power on the Roam - then groups the Roam with my bedroom One SL, which I already set playing whatever I want - great user experience...

I also bought it to take on a trip this summer, but I’m a bit concerned that it’s very easy to accidentally leave it in standby mode, and when it’s not in range of a known WiFi network it’ll drain the battery constantly searching for one.

I suggest / request the following app features that I think will mitigate what is a pretty big annoyance in an otherwise good product:
 - A power off button in the app, equivalent to a power button hold, so if you accidentally leave it on standby you can turn it off remotely. Bonus for making this API-accessible so Home Assistant / Google Home, etc routines can call it.
 - An app-configurable automatic full power-off timer (1 hour, 4 hours, 12 hours or something), that would prevent the problems people have had coming to use their Roam and finding it totally dead. 
 - An option to fully disable WiFi and make it function entirely as a dumb bluetooth speaker, for times when it’s taken out of the home.

All in all I have no regrets about buying the Roam, but as it stands I couldn’t recommend it to less tech savvy friends / relatives,

Great summary of the experience.  I was thinking of an app settings option to make a single power button press a choice between putting the Roam to full power off or to standby.

Same here and i did not activate any assitant like google or alexa on it.... :-( really frustrating, ill return the unit

After disabling almost everything (Google assistant, trueplay or whatever it's called, etc) the standby time is not nearly as terrible. Haven't charged it since I woke up and have played music intermittently and it's at around 88 percent. If it can last 3-4 days with this activity, I think this will be fine.

 I also find that it drains when fully turned off. 

The battery drains so quick without even being used. I am still under warranty. Can I return it ?

Probably. 

But have you tried tuning it off fully?  You have to press the power button for over 8 seconds but then it turns off and the battery drain is very low.

Other than that get a Qi charging base and store the Roam on that to have continuous trickle charge?

Same here. Disappointing.