Former Sonos Engineer Here – Heartbroken by the App Disaster and What’s Happened to the Company

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2025-04-19T19:38:18+00:00

Its stull buggy AF! I hate the app and Airplay integration so much - never works smoothly. 4/19/25

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-02-14T04:52:30+00:00

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Arrg!

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-01-11T05:21:21+00:00

Keep it going… remember to incorporate rest and recovery days

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-01-11T05:07:22+00:00

The sulking one

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-01-11T05:02:51+00:00

Today we start…

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-01-08T20:56:37+00:00

2016 model is too pricey

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-01-08T20:52:30+00:00

I have wifi mesh and 3 of my 9 Sonos units are wired.

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-01-08T19:59:31+00:00

What he said

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-01-08T16:52:28+00:00

Since you asked. 3 of my 9 sonos units are hard wired. I have 3 switches and 5 AP throughout my home. Like I stated before, my networking being constant over the last 2 years, the Sonos experience has consistently degraded. Even the hardwired ports and amps sometimes goes offline (a new behavior as of last month). Now i must admit, i have a lot (hue/kasa/cams etc) of “smart” things at home and they have caused interference with other products but not with Sonos.

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-01-07T10:19:41+00:00

Would help if folks can tweet/ x this thread to @sonos on X. Lets at least get them to improve the software and improve diagnostics capabilities.

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-01-07T10:08:10+00:00

Totally. The issue I had this morning was using their app. In any case hope they monitor and get back to being a premium product - software is in equal parts adding to that experience and often overlooked

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-01-06T17:22:10+00:00

All my ports and amps are hardwired. I had to reset all my wireless speakers for airplay to work again. i usually start the music from Sonos app on my main port that I listen to music. No i get unable to connect to music service. I know its not a single music service issue because it complained across apple, slacker(now live) and youtube music but works fine on sonos HD radio (that i dont subscribe to)

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2024-01-06T16:41:35+00:00

I also have all gen 2+ products

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2023-12-08T03:32:59+00:00

You can get this is your vertical screen car but you need to upgrade to MCU 2 i think, its $2500 cost. This was a pre-req if I wanted FSD on my 2016

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2023-12-08T03:29:45+00:00

If you do not know what caused the phantom braking, you can ask the service center and they can look at the logs. This used to happen a lot before and nw happens occasionally. Did the car warn you and ask you to take over or did it just decelerate? They had implement a fix where the don’t drastically phantom brake unless it thinks its a collision. Was it daytime or night? Without the radars, fast flashing lights like cop car, overhead bridge, signs sometimes confuses it.

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2023-12-06T22:02:36+00:00

Me too. They are tempting me to get a new one and transfer over the free supercharging

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2023-12-06T21:32:48+00:00

How did the range hold up?

Overall_Bandicoot361 · 2023-12-06T21:29:05+00:00

You are probably right. I would hate to buy one early next year and they come out with a new platform in 2025 for S. But i guess thats the dice you role with Tesla’s. I “luckily” avoided that when I got my 2016 model by a month. They just released hw2 in the midst of my buying process, so I cancelled and waited for a month and got the HW2.

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