re: Pretty pleased with my Homepod...

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Yeah, I made a comment that Sonos doesn't exactly play nice with others. To which you responded "it fully integrates with Wink".

So yes, I questioned Sonos fully integrating with Wink. I think your definition of full integration is diffrent than mine.

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My observations:
1. "adding sonos" adds every speaker in your system to play with. I'm adding another "play:1" today so I'll get back with you on whether or not that shows up automatically or if i have to 'jiggle the handle'.

What's cool (below) is i can see what is currently playing on my sonos system at my house without being connected to the sonos WiFi directly! This is something you can't do with Sonos right now.



2. you can browse the speakers in the wink app and schedule any music to play on any of them on a schedule or activated via trigger.

3. triggers can include door sensors, lights coming on, doors locking/unlocking, etc etc etc. so far i've found pretty much any "thing" i can use as a trigger gives me the "sonos" option.

4. the sonos option is basically "select the speaker" (all is on by default), "play/pause/stop playing something from your sonos favorites list" and "volume" including just the ability to 'raise and lower the volume' of whatever is currently playing. I am going to experiment with turning down all the sonos speakers in my house except the one I want the alert to go through and see how that works.

5. at the moment *only* songs added individually to the sonos favorites show up for use with triggers and its COMPLETELY RANDOM as to when the favorites updates in the wink app after adding or removing something in the sonos app.

6. you can also trigger sonos to start playing something remotely which is nice, but again, see the caveat that for some reason this mostly works with individual songs right now and not stations althought "google music shuffle all" does appear as an option.






eta and don't give me hell about that lutron message i can't find my damn PICO remote