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Heather Baiman
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI'm back at this. ? With respect to 60 series panels only... ? Method 2/3; Why would one even bother giving the client the Media Player?? You can just give them access to the Sonos APP and they can get access to all the line in sources there. ? ? Heather Baiman From: Crestron@... [mailto:Crestron@...]
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 12:12 PM To: Crestron@... Subject: RE: [Crestron] Re: Sonos and Swamp ?
So I sort of see this as 3 methods of deployment. ? Method 1: "In that scenario, set each connect to fixed output and treat it as any other media player source. ?Control volume on the swamp as you normally would."? That is not the 1:1 scenario Crestron is pushing. This would be if I had a few Connects as sources, that any zone could get access to, engineered the way we've been doing systems for years.? But this method prevents the end user from using the 'grouping' feature and volume control within the Sonos App. ? Method 2: We don't sell Sonos speakers for our 'proper/high end' systems, except perhaps a Playbar for a TV that has crappy built in speakers.? After speaking with Crestron, it seems the next method is to use the Connects as preamps and use no audio matrix.? This would allow all the grouping and volume control to happen via the Sonos App.? But this means you can't have non-Sonos sources in the mix. ? Method 3: If you want Sonos and other sources, perhaps Airplay, you could use an audio matrix with a Connect for each room (set to variable), so that the user could use the grouping feature and volume control when using the App, but then still have access to other distributed sources.? Except the grouping experience would not be the same for the other sources and you would need to set the audio matrix zone outputs to unity gain when listening to Sonos and variable when using the other sources. This seems clunky and not user friendly; controlling sources and volume differently depending on sources. ? Is there a better/different way to use both Sonos and third party sources in the same system while allowing the user to use the Sonos App? ? ? ? ? Heather Baiman From: Crestron@... [mailto:Crestron@...]
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The alternative scenario is to use the SONOS grouping modules. ?That would be typically used when sonos speakers are involved, not connects, although if you had multiple connects wired directly to amplifiers and then to room speakers, not going through a switcher, that could work with the group module as well. To this point I've only used the former, but it works awesome and has been 100% reliable.?
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