You guys should develop a mini speaker that would plug directly into a power outlet like a nightlight, so we can put them all over our house with no wires… you could call it the “Sonos Plug”
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It would certainly be an interesting experiment in just how small a wireless speaker can get!
Thank you - I've marked this thread as a feature request and it will be seen by the relevant teams for consideration. Keep the ideas coming!
Echo Flex was exactly that; but the tiny size of it meant that while the sound quality was adequate for Alexa conversations, music sounded too tinny.
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Further thought - I gather you are not from the US? Their plugs frankly suck and would not hold the weight of an underweight, week-old shrew, never mind a functional speaker - for this reason alone, I would not expect to see this idea come to fruition. @Kumar makes a good point, but we did recently acquire a speaker driver manufacturing company - who knows? Well, us I guess, but not me specifically.
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Moderators: Can’t we fix this!? I had a nice reply typed, but it was trashed.
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Did you get that message when trying to post a reply? I was not aware that issue was still happening - I’ll flag it with the boss. Thanks for flagging.
Yes, attempting to reply.
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I received word back on that:
According to Insided/Gainsight, this is due to a security token expiring after one hour. What this means essentially is that if you have a topic open for one hour and then try to reply, the token will have expired by then and you won't be able to reply or make a change to a topic without first refreshing the page. It seems to be by design, but is certainly new behaviour (since about January).
So, if you’ve simply had a page open for a while, refresh it before posting - this has the additional benefit of showing new posts that were made since the last refresh. If you’ve spent one hour carefully crafting a response (not unheard of, so in my opinion this is, well, silly), all I can suggest is highlighting the whole post and choosing Copy before try to send it. I have asked for us to put in a request to Insided/Gainsight to increase this to 2 hours.
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but we did recently acquire a speaker driver manufacturing company - who knows?
It is more than drivers, the enclosure size also comes into play. While Sonos has done wonders with small enclosures as used in the play 1 units, the enclosure still needs to be able to accomodate drivers that go back and forth to a much greater degree than what larger ones in larger boxes need to, to get a similar sound.
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Hi @buzz
I received word back on that:
According to Insided/Gainsight, this is due to a security token expiring after one hour. What this means essentially is that if you have a topic open for one hour and then try to reply, the token will have expired by then and you won't be able to reply or make a change to a topic without first refreshing the page. It seems to be by design, but is certainly new behaviour (since about January).
So, if you’ve simply had a page open for a while, refresh it before posting - this has the additional benefit of showing new posts that were made since the last refresh. If you’ve spent one hour carefully crafting a response (not unheard of, so in my opinion this is, well, silly), all I can suggest is highlighting the whole post and choosing Copy before try to send it. I have asked for us to put in a request to Insided/Gainsight to increase this to 2 hours.
I hope this helps.
OK scratch that - they changed it to 8 hours already so it should not still be happening - we’ll let them know.
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It is more than drivers, the enclosure size also comes into play. While Sonos has done wonders with small enclosures as used in the play 1 units, the enclosure still needs to be able to accomodate drivers that go back and forth to a much greater degree than what larger ones in larger boxes need to, to get a similar sound.
100% agree - I think the idea is a long-shot, to be sure. Some laptops and phones sound surprisingly good these days, but I don’t think they are quite up to Sonos standards!
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Hi @buzz
I received word back on that:
OK scratch that - they changed it to 8 hours already so it should not still be happening - we’ll let them know.
Thanks. Maybe they think that I changed time zones while typing. (I’m in a fixed location.)
If you guys were as innovative as you say you are, you’d figure it out.. I have a Bose micro sound link that is about as small as you’d need to make it and it sounds amazing… I’m Just giving you a free multi million dollar idea, but you do with it what you want ♂️
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Further thought - I gather you are not from the US? Their plugs frankly suck and would not hold the weight of an underweight, week-old shrew, never mind a functional speaker - for this reason alone, I would not expect to see this idea come to fruition. @Kumar makes a good point, but we did recently acquire a speaker driver manufacturing company - who knows? Well, us I guess, but not me specifically.
love the description, some of the euro socket and plug combinations aren’t much better. round socket with devices having a smaller/thinner hexagonal plug.
Even in the UK with our 3 pin design, outside the kitchen, the majority of uk houses have sockets towards floor level not a metre+ off the floor.
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If you guys were as innovative as you say you are, you’d figure it out.. I have a Bose micro sound link that is about as small as you’d need to make it and it sounds amazing… I’m Just giving you a free multi million dollar idea, but you do with it what you want ♂️
Apologies - I got a little negative there. I recently watched a YouTube video of an American reacting to a video about UK plugs - I guess some of the details got stuck in my head!
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