About 6 years ago I bought a Sonos Connect as a gift for my father. This was the first and only smart home device I had bought at the time and I wasn't really t

About 6 years ago I bought a Sonos Connect as a gift for my father. This was the first and only smart home device I had bought at the time and I wasn't really thinking about the privacy implications at the time. Years have passed and he was not using so he gave it back to me. I was surprised by the permissions required to setup a device, and appalled by the lack of support for streaming from a Linux system. They could've made it so simple by have the server run a web app. They also made it so hard to play local music. Luckily there's BubbleUPNP so that works, otherwise it's totally not worth it if you have a local music library and do not want to pay for Deezer or Spotify; Chromecast Audio works just as well and it's 10x cheaper - the only thing missing is Gapless playback via DLNA. However, Chromecasts also require location during setup. I wish there was a non-Google privacy-friendly alternative for Chromecast.