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You want a Sonos SL or Ikea Symfonisk (Sonos sw/hw in Ikea design). Great products, no mic, Airplay 2 support, massive group pairing and the same room detection
by agloeregrets 4y ago
You want a Sonos SL or Ikea Symfonisk (Sonos sw/hw in Ikea design). Great products, no mic, Airplay 2 support, massive group pairing and the same room detection tuning Apple bragged about in the Homepod via the App on a phone instead of mics. (Sonos holds the patent on it and famously made no claims about Apple stealing it while asking Google and Amazon to pay licenses, aka: Apple Ponied up.)
- vineyardmike 4y ago> Sonos holds the patent on it I’m a huge Sonos fan but I think their patent was “volume control for connected/synced speakers” and apple had a UI to control each speaker volume separately. I also suspect that apple shared Airplay with them j stead of paying. I know lots of people that bought Sonos instead of the HomePod because it supported airplay. Edit: nevermind
- agloeregrets 4y agohttps://www.engadget.com/sonos-google-itc-compliant-initial-ruling-220232437.html https://www.engadget.com/sonos-google-itc-compliant-initial-... Nope. Google turned the trueplay knockoff off real fast (as it was easy to remove) and took time to disable group volume control.
- astrange 4y agoRoom detection isn't exclusive to Sonos, unless you're claiming YPAO/Dirac/Audyssey also licensed it. The HomePod is different because it does detection at the source, where everything else needs you to sample with a mic or phone app.
- agloeregrets 4y agoThat room detection onboard belongs to Sonos. Auto Trueplay is what they call it.