My wife and I work from home and listen to music while working most days. Recently we bought two Sonos speakers to do that. One for upstairs and one for downstairs. We went with Sonos because the speakers can connect to each other to play the same music on one speaker or all. They do that job pretty well but there’s more jobs they could do.

There are apps (such as Voxer) that allow you to use your phone as a walkie talkie. Why not something that would connect to your wireless speakers to use them as a PA system. Could be very handy to let someone know that there was a cup of tea waiting for them and to hurry up before it goes cold. This could be integrated into the Sonos app itself. As it turns out an app already exists, Sonos Voice, that does the job. It’s not made by Sonos and has some issues with delays but it works fine.

Much of the other jobs I can think of are variations of automation. Chiming at the top of the hour. Pause a playlist and switch to news radio at a particular time everyday and switch back again five minutes later. If someone is out of the house to announce the person is on the way home once they pass a certain distance from the GPS coordinates of the house.

No doubt there are plenty more possibilities and no doubt they will happen in time.