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Connecting to Play:1 on IoT network

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I’ve just set up an IoT network on my home WiFi, to improve network security. I’ve successfully added my Play:1 to the IoT network. However my iPhone is on my main home WiFi network. Now the Sonos app on my phone can’t see nor control the Play:1. Has anyone resolved this issue?

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AirgetlamAnswer

Part of the Sonos requirements is that the controller and the speakers need to exist on the same subnet. See the Sonos Network Requirements FAQ.

Bruce

AirgetlamAnswer

Part of the Sonos requirements is that the controller and the speakers need to exist on the same subnet. See the Sonos Network Requirements FAQ.

Bruce

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Arcticpollen

Enthusiast II

@Jezzer23 - you don’t say what home network equipment you are running but the current version of the Sonos iPhone app uses mDNS to locate and communicate with the Sonos speakers. This needs to be enabled between the VLAN your phone is on and your IoT VLAN. I have a similar config on my UniFi home network

If you are still using the Sonos S1 app with older speakers, they require a lot more work to connect across VLANs as they use SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) using multiple ragnes of reply ports.

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

@Jezzer23 - you don’t say what home network equipment you are running but the current version of the Sonos iPhone app uses mDNS to locate and communicate with the Sonos speakers. This needs to be enabled between the VLAN your phone is on and your IoT VLAN. I have a similar config on my UniFi home network

If you are still using the Sonos S1 app with older speakers, they require a lot more work to connect across VLANs as they use SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) using multiple ragnes of reply ports.

Are you saying they can now be on different subnets, @Arcticpollen?

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craigski

Local Superstar

I’ve just set up an IoT network on my home WiFi, to improve network security. I’ve successfully added my Play:1 to the IoT network. However my iPhone is on my main home WiFi network. Now the Sonos app on my phone can’t see nor control the Play:1. Has anyone resolved this issue?

Connect your iPhone to the ‘IoT’ network?

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

It’s a 2 months old thread so I was puzzled by @Arcticpollen’s post.

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Arcticpollen

Enthusiast II

@nik9669a - yes, I’ve always kept my Sonos speakers on an isolated IoT VLAN and my i-devices on another VLAN. Each VLAN has its own WiFi SSID associated with it. It used to be more difficult to get it all working in the S1 Sonos app days but now much easier as long as you have a device to proxy mDNS discovery between the VLANs. My UniFi firewall does this for me between the VLANs shown in the screenshot I posted earlier.

There’s an iOS app called Discovery that will display services discovered by your phone once you have mDNS running.

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Arcticpollen

Enthusiast II

@Jezzer23 - that would rather defeat the point of sensible segregation of the traffic on your home network.

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