[gerdesj]

Sonos sound bloody good. I have a modern Play 5 and a 1. They absolutely fill the (12x6 ish = 60m^2 of ground floor in my house which is quite open plan). The phone app works pretty well and I have a Samba share for CDs. However it will only support SMBv1 which is a bit crap. In the past Jeremy Allison has actually offered to assist in fixing that but nothing happened. I use firewall rules to fix up security. Another crap thing is that the app is unable to find speakers on another VLAN. I wanted to lock down the speakers on my THINGS (no internets unless I say so) VLAN.

Anyway, if Home Assistant and https://www.home-assistant.io/components/sonos/ are unable to work the way that I want them to then Sonos will be relegated to "pretty but crap" status and fall off my list. I'm sure there is another way of delivering sound using wifi and IoT.

I own an IT consultancy and am evaluating stuff in this sphere. Some of the modern IoT stuff gets wow status and some doesn't but the times are changing very, very quickly. I'm slowly putting together a portfolio of products and parts. I'd like to include Sonos but the jury is out.

To answer your question: a single Play One in your bedroom for good night music will work very nicely and I don't think you will be disappointed - they do sound gorgeous.