Grouped speakers need to Automatically "Ungroup" if they need to.

[conn]

This has always been an annoyance for a few reasons but here's one example.

I have a WiiM edition Audio Pro (A10 MKII) that has a weekday alarm for 8am to play music (mellow Jazz for my Dog )...

Anyway, over the weekend I had this speakers as the "main" or first speaker in a group of about 4 other speakers and some had the volumes up a bit. So come Monday morning the alarm went off and played through all the grouped speakers, some of which were loud... I of course was not home but my wife called me to ask why the hell speakers were blasting jazz music and how to stop it, lol.... I believe Sonos had a feature called "Auto ungroup on autoplay" or something like that.

We need more control over the multiroom aspects of this system. I'm really surprised that persistent L & R speaker >PAIR< assignment for a group is still not a thing yet with WiiM, to me it's basic multi-room/ whole home audio feature... Is it patented by only Sonos or something? Even Denon HEOS has this...

I feel like WiiM is neglecting the multiroom or "whole home audio" smarts as I've seen no improvements or added features within the last year.

 

[BMeek]

Perhaps a good place to deal with this is in the definition of the alarm and the scope of its 'sound-off'. Is more granularity in selecting the "Speaker or Group" and the volume to be used needed? I confess I've never configured a WiiM Alarm.

[Edit] Also - I sympathize with you on the 'WTF with all that Jazz!?' phone call! Enough to make me demand a new feature for sure.

 

[BMeek]

[...] I had this speakers as the "main" or first speaker in a group of about 4 other speakers and some had the volumes up a bit. So come Monday morning the alarm went off and played through all the grouped speakers, some of which were loud...

If you had left the day-Jazz speaker as a follower in a WiiM Speaker Group rather than the current leader, I suspect it may have behaved as you expected and played its own Jazz for puppy?

 

[r5yk5]

This is what I would like. 2 wiim sounds that at all times act as a stereo pair of speakers as though they were just normal speakers plugged into one source. Same volume, same eq, same everything..........

........except for a morning alarm that just goes off through 1 speaker........

......then as you were, stereo, same volume, EQ etc etc