Hi Sieghard. I have found a couple of ways to do this. I guess the easiest way if you can call it that is to: When you open the Sonos app, do a 4 finger single tap on the bottom of the screen. Once you are at the bottom of the screen, start swiping back. Now because you are swiping back, You are going to see things related to the room before you see the name of the room itself. For example, when I start swiping back, I see something like volume small. I then see what is playing Tim Mcgraw, live like you were dying. Swipe again and I see the play button. I keep swiping until I see the room name. If I know what room I’m in based on the song, I only swipe back until I hear speakers. If you double tap speakers, the app will then bring up a list of your rooms. You then swipe to the room you want to add. After the room name, It will say something like circlecheck. Double tap that and continue this until all rooms you want is selected. At the bottom there is an apply button. As I stated in my previous email, there is a lot of swiping required for this new app. This needs to be addressed by the Sonos team sooner rather than later. There are other accessibility issues that has to be fixed also. I guess my hope is that those who can use this app will do so. That way, issues can be found and reported to Sonos. If Sonos cares about all of their customers, including The blind community, They will hear us and fix these issues. I have over $7,000 invested in Sonos products and growing.
> On May 8, 2024, at 3:28 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Just curious, but how do you select a particular room or speaker to play > music on? I was able to access the system settings no problem, but I have had > little success selecting a particular room and then select for example my > Apple Music subscription to find a particular artist, album or playlist. I > actually don't even use Sonos all that much, my sighted wife does more, but > until I can reliably select where I want to play whatever music I want to > play, I won't update my iPhone. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Larry > Smith > Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 11:34 AM > To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: Sonos latest update. > > Hi Sieghard. I also was able to check for a firmware update and found that > there was none. After playing around with the app, I was able to locate most > everything within the app. I certainly agree that the app needs some big > accessibility improvements. However, for me, I find it quite useable. I > originally updated the app on my iPad. Earlier today, I updated the app on my > iPhone 15 pro Max, running IOS 17.5 RC. You have to swipe quite a bit because > touching the screen does absolutely nothing. It tells me that true play is > off no matter how many times I tap to change the option. However, I know that > it is changing because I can hear the change in the sound from the speaker > that is playing. Also, My sighted wife says that the icon changes. I hope > Sonos address the VoiceOver accessibility issues sooner rather than later. > But for me, The app is useable. > >> On May 8, 2024, at 1:10 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> >> Larry, I just replied to another message of Richard's, but just in case you >> didn't see o rread it entirely, it does not appear that this app update >> comes with a hardware update or requires one. I updated the Sonos app on our >> iPad last night and then did a manual check for updates in the new Sonos app >> and I was told that my system was up to date. This app update seems to be >> all about a new look and user interface and not about new capabilities of >> the system. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Larry >> Smith >> Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 1:29 PM >> To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: Re: Sonos latest update. >> >> Ok. I was just curious. I’m afraid to update the firmware. >> >>> On May 7, 2024, at 3:47 PM, Richard Turner <richardr_tur...@comcast.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I did not update the firmware, unless it updated itself. >>> >>> >>> >>> Richard, USA >>> "It's no great honor to be blind, but it's more than a nuisance and less >>> than a disaster. Either you're going to fight like hell when your sight >>> fails or you're going to stand on the sidelines for the rest of your life." >>> -- Dr. Margaret Rockwell Phanstiehl Founder of Audio Description (1932-2009) >>> >>> My web site: https://www.turner42.com >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of >>> Larry Smith >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 12:03 PM >>> To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> >>> Subject: Sonos latest update. >>> >>> Richard, did you update both Sonos firmware and software? I believe you >>> said that you did the update using your iPad. But did you also update the >>> firmware? 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