Peke, this off topic, but you couldn't be more wrong.
Peke wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:56 am
I think I'll pass that for me, I do not like any device that I can't customize (at least last 30 years).
Every Sonos unit is independent, and is run my its own built-in Linux computer. It is true that almost all Sonos users just plug them in and use them without almost zero install and training and configuration required.
But a person interested in hacking can can access their Sonos units via the LAN to control or configure them. They can also subscribe to internal Sonos events to monitor what is happening, detect what is being played, or trigger their own events etc.
Many people, myself included, are active here.
Peke wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:56 am
I can validate that approach if solution do not exists, but in case of controlling and accessing devices cheap 10USD devices have WiFi remote control/monitoring.
But that is the easy part.
Keeping the music flawlessly chugging within a messy WIFI environment like a household, with people walking around blocking signals, and devices being turned off and on, is complex. Requires automated self healing redundancy. Music is not like the transfer of a document or web page ... you can't just stutter or pause the music until the path is clear.
And independent devices need to be kept in sync with each other to within something like a 10 millisecond tolerance, otherwise the music sounds horrible when they are playing together. So there is clock drift issues, re-routing issues, and reestablishment when units get turned off and on.
And then any issues have to be self diagnosed by the units themselves. or diagnosed and fixed over the Internet. All upgrades need to accomplished in households in a hands off manner with no tech staff.
And the units have to speak every imaginable language and protocol so they can deal with every bodies choice of TV, and with Siri and Alexia, and catalogues at Spotify and YouTube and Amazon Music and Deezer and BandCamp, and Tunein and PocketCasts and Audible , and probably over a 1,000 other places and things.
And it is scalable. Up to 32 units in a house. As I said I have 11 all working happily together here, and with no-one on my case all the time because the music has gone wrong.
And they don't sound like $10 solutions either.
Peke, this off topic, but you couldn't be more wrong.
[quote=Peke post_id=488957 time=1634554618 user_id=213]
I think I'll pass that for me, I do not like any device that I can't customize (at least last 30 years).
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Every Sonos unit is independent, and is run my its own built-in Linux computer. It is true that almost all Sonos users just plug them in and use them without almost zero install and training and configuration required.
But a person interested in hacking can can access their Sonos units via the LAN to control or configure them. They can also subscribe to internal Sonos events to monitor what is happening, detect what is being played, or trigger their own events etc.
Many people, myself included, are active here.
[quote=Peke post_id=488957 time=1634554618 user_id=213]
I can validate that approach if solution do not exists, but in case of controlling and accessing devices cheap 10USD devices have WiFi remote control/monitoring.
[/quote]
But that is the easy part.
Keeping the music flawlessly chugging within a messy WIFI environment like a household, with people walking around blocking signals, and devices being turned off and on, is complex. Requires automated self healing redundancy. Music is not like the transfer of a document or web page ... you can't just stutter or pause the music until the path is clear.
And independent devices need to be kept in sync with each other to within something like a 10 millisecond tolerance, otherwise the music sounds horrible when they are playing together. So there is clock drift issues, re-routing issues, and reestablishment when units get turned off and on.
And then any issues have to be self diagnosed by the units themselves. or diagnosed and fixed over the Internet. All upgrades need to accomplished in households in a hands off manner with no tech staff.
And the units have to speak every imaginable language and protocol so they can deal with every bodies choice of TV, and with Siri and Alexia, and catalogues at Spotify and YouTube and Amazon Music and Deezer and BandCamp, and Tunein and PocketCasts and Audible , and probably over a 1,000 other places and things.
And it is scalable. Up to 32 units in a house. As I said I have 11 all working happily together here, and with no-one on my case all the time because the music has gone wrong.
And they don't sound like $10 solutions either.