A:AnswerI doubt it’s Sonus just by the price. but i really like mine and fir the price i i did, can’t be beat! i have the new Echo, Echo Show, Spot, Dot. Along with that, i have the Google Home, mini, and now the Indigia portable and the Insignia was the cheapest (on sale) and i think has the best sound. Just my 2 cents worth
A:AnswerInsignia is a best buy brand I've had similar issue's with mine as well and it's come with a one year warranty so you can return it to the store and exchange it for a new with no problem and problems persist get store credit and find and different brand but same type of item and your good to go..!
A:AnswerI had the same issue and all I did was to reset the speaker and so far no problem yet since. When resetting you have to start all over just like setting it up when you just got it.
A:AnswerI don't recall seeing the light but I know that anniuncemet6briadcasts work fine between speakers as I have two of these is it works flawlessly, even if I broadcast the announcement from my phone...
A:AnswerI'm not sure how the smart plug would add to the features. If you're trying to turn on certain features at a certain time, you can set an alarm for those times/days. It supports multiple alarms, though you can't just temporarily toggle them on and off. You must cancel individual alarms altogether and re-create at a later time if you just don't want it to go off on one particular pre-scheduled day. At least I haven't been able to get the Google Home "Do Not Disturb" setting to work with the Insignia Speaker. The speaker's latest firmware updates don't seem to include the latest Google Home updates. It doesn't support "Continuous Conversation" yet, either, apparently. You can make the alarm play radio, a playlist, or a certain song, etc., if you don't want a generic tone. Since it's essentially a speaker, I'm not sure what else you would use the smart plug to turn on and off. I'd think you'd want the clock displaying all the time, as that is the other feature. You can control the brightness from the speaker. But unlike the Echo Spot, this doesn't seem to have an easy way to set a daytime and nighttime brightness for the display. That's another Google Home setting it seems to ignore. At this point, having a family member with the Echo Spot for the same purpose and knowing the difference in how they perform, now I'd get the Spot instead - even as a standalone among all other Google Home devices.
A:AnswerI am quite sure volume level of this bigger speaker and the smaller one are different. As long as this speaker sounds good to you at different volume level and level 90 and 100, I think you are good.
A:AnswerYou might actually have your phone too close. Try moving it to about a yard away. Plus, what version of bluetooth do you have? That is actually how the phone should comm with it.
