How do you add a secondary “household” when over 32 zones

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So I have been working on my property and ended up with 47 zones and almost each one is hard wired. I have my man cave area which would be the ideal candidate to separate from the house zones to reduce a single household down to the 32 device limit. I’ve read there are ways to go about adding two systems or households on one network. How do you go about doing that? Desperate for some help as my devices keep battling for their positions on the network

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rattyAnswer

No second Sonos email required. The Household ID differentiates between the two systems. However controllers will indeed need to be dedicated to each system to avoid the infuriating Household roulette when a controller, registered to both HHs, starts up.

One other consideration: whilst most music streaming services consider the multiple players in a Household as a single device for their licensing purposes, a second Household using the same streaming account will likely cause contention issues.

In case it wasn’t obvious, the players destined for the second HH will have to be factory reset and set up afresh on a newly reset controller.

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Ken_Griffiths

Doesn’t each Sonos controller connect to an ‘associated product’ as listed in the ‘about box’ in the App, or am I misunderstanding that?

I thought you could have unlimited controllers attached to an HH, but only 32 ‘active’ at anyone time as they need to be linked to an associated device - but please don’t quote me.

I too thought/think it’s 32 actual products and 32 ‘active’ controllers.

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John B

I thought it was 32 and 32 too - but I probably picked that up from an @jgatie post about ten years ago so this does not constitute independent verification!

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John B

The Associated Product is just the Sonos device that first responds to a connection request from a controller, and then subsequently handles the communication with that controller. I don’t think anything precludes a speaker acting as the AP for multiple controllers.

ratty

I always understood the limits to be 32 devices, 32 (simultaneous) controllers, 16 library shares. The support articles don't seem to call these out any more.

It's ages since such interesting stuff was user-accessible in the diagnostics.

Ken_Griffiths

The Associated Product is just the Sonos device that first responds to a connection request from a controller, and then subsequently handles the communication with that controller. I don’t think anything precludes a speaker acting as the AP for multiple controllers.

Thanks John, 🙏 I wasn’t too sure if each controller had to have a different associated product. It’s not something I’ve really ever taken much notice of. Anyhow, thank-you.👍

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