Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened to the Company

Re:Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened... by J_Shelby_J on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @10:24AM (#41435291)

I wrote a home automation script that would use a camera as a motion detector and when we weren’t home would play a text to voice message on every Sonos speaker in the house if someone entered our apartment. Mostly for announced maintenance visits so they know that I know they’re there.

Being able to listen to the show on the tv while in the bathroom or shower is nice. Means we don’t have to pause shows if we don’t want to for breaks.

Having music playing across the whole home during dinner parties is a nice vibe.

A whole house alarm would probably be nice for families on the same schedule.

The concept of Sonos is really nice and it mostly works, but yeah the new app was rough. Not sure if I’ll buy anymore sonos gear. For a long time they were the only ones that had the tech required to stream to multiple devices in sync. I’m not sure what the other options are now

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Re:Heartbroken by the Sonos App Disaster and What's Happened... by ryndbfsrw on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @05:22PM (#41439370)

Any form of hacking products to be more useful is a win in my books! I can see the multi room play being a nice thing on the odd occasion. Perhaps if I had kids and had to move around the house a bunch more or maybe if it operated as a home system that could also do those additional things I may have had a more positive experience with it. But I maintain my original point that hardware tethered to some software service is basically a random financial-enshitification-quarter away from being bricked and that’s a shame for otherwise excellent hardware

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