Replacing Your Sonos CR100 Controllers with iPort xPRESS Keypads
Automated house veteran Paul Gordon is mourning the decision by Sonos to end support for his much loved CR100 controllers.
Sonos have heard the reaction of their users as well as issued up to £100 to customers to assist simplicity the pain. Here’s Pauls views on the iPort xPress keypads…
Here’s an update on the iPort reveal keypads. sure sufficient all 3 of them were a devil to at first setup – in every situation they consistently refused to join my WiFi network, then consistently refused to discover any type of players when on the network, as well as then consistently refused to see my Sonos Favourites.
Each of them took about an hour to setup, 55 minutes of which was with my iphone on the desk consistently stabbing the “retry” button a lots or a lot more times for each of the 4-5 steps required in the setup process.
Eventually, I lastly got them all configured as well as deployed, as well as because then, there have been zero issues with any type of of them talking to their associated players, so there truly is nothing wrong with my WiFi.
In use they are a little slower to respond to many commands than a CR100 – I have mounted my 3 iPort keypads best next to my 3 CR100’s in an endeavour to perhaps over time be able to wean myself off the CR100’s.
The slower reaction is many visible when stopping playback – the music stops quickly when I hit the play/pause on the CR100 – before I even have time to lift my finger off the button, whereas there’s a certain as well as visible delay when I pause the same stream from the iPort. starting the stream doesn’t provide the same visible difference, likely since there’s an inbuilt delay that either gadget has to bear, in really making the connection over the Web as well as starting the stream – you can see this clearly when starting it from the CR100, when the screen briefly says “connecting…” and/or “starting…”
Volume modification is likewise subject to a small delay on the iPorts, I suspect they need to go into a low power mode – they are after all purely running on battery, with no constant fee connection like the CR100’s have. When pressing a button on the iPorts, there’s a short (maybe 1 second) delay until the white LED on them flashes a couple of times, which I presume is it waking up as well as reconnecting to the WiFi. when you’re used to it, the delay isn’t unbearable, although it can be a little disconcerting at times, particularly when one is used to the instant reaction one gets from the CR100s
I discover I do rather like the favourites functionality, as well as that is something I’d frequently thought would have been a great to have on the CR100’s, although the lack of any type of kind of feedback about what specific preferred is selected through the keypad isn’t the best end user experience in the world, as well as makes it impractical to have a lot more than a few favourites assigned to the keypad (I’ve stopped at 3 favourites per pad). alternating through them kinda implies I have to stop, wait for the stream to start, listen for a few seconds, as well as then I can figure out which specific preferred has just been selected, as well as whether it’s the one I want or not.
There are 2 mounting options in the box – one is specifically developed to be used with a decora faceplate, as well as because I don’t have decora faceplates in my home (I have CBUS light switches everywhere), I don’t use that mounting choice because it wouldn’t look all that fantastic (exposed screw holes etc.) The other choice is just a small rectangle of plastic with a magnet on one side as well as double-sided tape on the other to stick it to the wall. This is the mounting choice I’ve used. In use, I’m discovering this a less than completely satisfactory experience; the magnet isn’t very strong, as well as doesn’t hold the keypad firmly in place. I haven’t discovered myself knocking it completely off the wall yet (and because 2 of 3 CR100s are next to shower room hand basins that might be rather destructive). I don’t think it would take much to knock them off though. I have nevertheless discovered that when pressing buttons on them, the whole keypad has a tendency to step (swivel) on its magnet, so they end up being misaligned, as well as to someone as OCD as I am, not being in best portrait positioning frascos. I think the decora choice would be much better in this regard, as there’s really an indentation that the entire keypad sits within – as well as presumably a appropriate faceplate over the top would likewise assist too, so maybe I can try to source a few of them as well as contrive a much better mounting arrangement.
So all in all a somewhat mixed set of experiences as well as reactions so far, however it is early days yet. I am nevertheless thankful that for the time being at least, I do still have my trusty as well as ever reputable CR100s to hand.
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iPort Xpress Audio Keypad para Sonos
Controle la música de su Sonos rápidamente con la presentación de un botón
Instalar magnéticamente en cualquier lugar, fácil de conseguir e ir
Configurar en minutos usando la aplicación IPort solo para dispositivos Apple iOS
Ponte en Amazon
iportproducts.com/xpress
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