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I haven’t found an answer to this one via the search so apologies if this has already been answered.I see that the S1 Sub is compatible with the S2 app, but the Beam S2 is only compatible with the S2 app. So why can't I add my S1 Sub to my media room with the S2 Beam via the S2 app? Just doesn’t see the Sub which I have disconnected from a S1 room completely.My media room is run on my S2 App. Every other room is via S1 and is working just fine.Thanks

I want to connect iPhone directly to the beam via a lightning to hdmi cable? Is this possible? If I buy a lightning to hdmi and plug the hdmi into the Sonos beam will the iphone be able to control the Sonos beam and play music , my ultimate goal is to set the beam up in a car with a power inverter because my car speakers suck , is this a way ? Or hotspot but I need two devices right ? 

I have a play 5 that’s great, but moved into a new house with a really good sound system. Can I use the headphone port on the play 5 to connect to my amp and basically use the old play 5 instead of a Sonos ‘Port’? I understand this would mute the play 5 speaker.  Thanks 

I have a client that has 3 ci200qr kef in ceiling speakers, however he only has 1 sonos amp. He wants them all on the same amp, any issue connecting all 3 and using dual mono mode? 1 speaker is in bathroom, other 2 are in kitchen, would like the 2 in kitchen to be same volume level. 

Hey all, I have a Sonos Beam, a sub and two One SLs for rear channels for my TV in the living room / kitchen. I also have two more One SLs in my bedroom and office and a Sonos Roam in both bathrooms. I find that Dolby Atmos sounds best in the main room because of the separation of sounds. However, if I want to listen to music throughout the house, Dolby Atmos is deactivated in the main room and I get what appears to be ultra-HD, which may or may not be 5.1, but certainly has less sound separation in the main room. I assume this is normal behavior so stream the same signal to every speaker. Is there a way to get Dolby Atmos in the main room and also have music playing in the whole house? If not, I would strongly suggest this as a future update.

Hello is there a possibility to connect SONOS 1, SL with a software Dj Mixer console ?I have 10 speakers connected and would like to Mix up some music.Thanks

https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/30/spotify_speaker_pairing_internet/TLDR: Once you connect Spotify to your Sonos on the local network, the Spotify app can control it remotely over the internet for ever and ever more.****NB: I do not believe this to be related to adding Spotify as a music service.  The feature described above works on a Sonos without Spotify added as a service.How do you boot a remote user off of the Sonos?Appreciate a real answer from someone who has done this or a support rep, there is a lot of erroneous or out of date info on the internet.  My guess is factory reset might work, but I’m not sure.

I have a Beam and two Ones setup up with my TV, but I would like to be able to continue to play music with the TV on mute.  Anytime the TV is turned on though the music playing in the entire house system is automatically dropped from the TV rooms (Beam and two Ones).  Does anyone know if there is a work around from keeping the current music playing despite the TV being turned on.

Hi, I have a system with various home speakers, a Move, and a Roam. Even though there is a speaker wired in and every speaker possible is on WM:0 i still get the below message.I’m sure to problem is probably with the extender, but any advice how I can stop this message every time i do most things on Sonos would be very welcome.  

dear SONOS OS developers,i would like to suggest - if not done so already - to look into adding an NFS client software to the S1, and then why not also to the S2 SONOS OS to circumvent the SAMBA SMB1 problem one is faced with as linux users, like in my case with a 1st generation connect:amp device.  luckily NFS is lightweight in terms of space and system resources.  very generally, it would be a *huge* favour to the non-insignificant linux SONOS community if NFS was added as data mount protocol so that SONOS devices could directly speak to NFS servers, instead of using that cumbersome SAMBA protocol.  imagine, how much less traffic would there be on this forum about that SAMBA beast…?!see here an earlier discussion about this topic in this forum.just making sure, i don’t speak about the SONOS controller App which should not be affected by adding this NFS capability to S1/S2 OS.

Hello and Greetings’’ I would like to ask and please suggest Can we connect SONOS SUB to Bang&Olufsen Active Speakers like (Beolab 18 or Beolab 28) or any other 3rd party active speaker, If yes then how and if  no then why we can not connect SONOS SUB to any other 3rd party speaker. Thanks 

Hi Sonos Community!  I recently invested in Sonos and I am working to better understand how to delineate / carve out user access. Ultimately, my kids mess with each other’s Sonos speakers. I want to be able to control all of them.  Is there a way is isolate access?  Here is an example:Child 1 access Sonos 1 (bedroom 1) and Sonos 3 (kitchen) Child 2 access Sonos 2 (bedroom 2) and Sonos 3 (kitchen) Parent 1 access Sonos 1, Sonos 2, and Sonos 3 Currently, I have one account with all three devices and I have logged into each child’s mobile device with my account. I did this primarily because I on had one location that could accommodate direct connection to the internet (ethernet).  Could I solve this using the Sonos Network Extender?  Can this product create multiple Sonos Networks so that multiple Sonos devices can exist simultaneously?   I hope that my question makes sense. I am happy to add additional detail to clarify as needed.  Cheers and thanks in advance!  

Hey guys, could you please tell me what the difference is between  these two settings on my set up: Arc + 2 one sl(s) surround + sub bass: + 5 / sub: -5andbass: -5 / sub: +5 Thanks a lot

I’m just now getting to understand how Sonos and Airplay work.   If I have an Airplay enabled Sonos device (“Device A”) and several older non-airplay Sonos devices:Can a create, say, Group 1 with Device A and Device B (non-airplay) and the Group 2 with Device A and Device C (non-airplay)?  (I tried this, it seems to work) How do I select which group will be airplayed?  So far, I can only Airplay through Device A alone OR Devices A, B, and C.  What am I missing?

I am updating my home system that has 2 ceiling speakers in the kitchen with an in-wall volume controller and 2 ceiling speakers upstairs with another in-wall volume controller and a Connect Amp.  The 4 speakers are now Sonos Architectural in-ceiling speakers (definite up grade on sound quality versus previous speakers) and have a Sonos Amp on order from Sonos.  I am replacing the 2 in-wall volume controllers and need advise on how many Watts each volume controller should be (100W, 150W, 300W are various available controllers)?  Thanks.

Hello, I am having an issue securing my Sonos speakers in a commercial tourism environment.  I currently have 2 Sonos One speakers and am looking to add about 7 - 10 more speakers to the system.I have them on their own separate password protected wifi but guests with the Sonos app are still able to find the speakers and screw around with things like volume controls and pairing settings.  We see hundreds of guests a day and have a wine lounge and bar so some guests get antsy with the music after a drink or two.  Here is my set up: Running a Ubiquiti Unifi Network with 4 separate wifi networks:3 are secured networks1 is a public guest access channel used for guest access (required for marketing, etc). Networks are:Guest (open to internet for guest access, metered, email authenticated)Music (for Sonos exclusively, secured, not discoverable)Staff (for staff, connection to server, firewall protected server)Payment terminal gateway (for credit card machines, etc, third party firewall protect

Hello allI received an alert of my router that my Arc SL soundbar tried to connect to http://pagead2.googlesyndication-cn.com:443/.  Thankfully, the router did it’s job and blocked the request. Why is my soundbar attempting to reach google servers in China?  What possible reason could there be for a soundbar to attempt to contact a website irrespective of the fact that no one was home and no media was being played through it?  I bought the Arc SL specifically for the point of it having no microphone and was ostensibly more privacy focused.  Turns out, this may be misguided thinking...

I have a SonosAmp with a fried wireless card and accordingly has to be hardwired. Once I hardwire it, Sonos defaults to SonosNet. However, due to the layout of my home/speaker locations, SonosNet actually leads to worse performance (I have a big physical gap between sonos speakers) as compared to wifi which has better overall coverage. Is it possible to force Sonos to use wifi, even if one of the units is hardwired? I’d like to avoid buying a Boost. 

Hello,I am currently running a Yamaha rx-a1050 receiver for my zone 1 surround sound with the zone 2 output connected to a Yamaha r-s201 receiver. I would like to replace the zone 2 r-s201 receiver with a sonos amp. I connected a Sonos amp temporarily to make sure it could power my zone 2 speakers and it worked great, EXCEPT when I went to “party mode” on the main rx-a1050 receiver I could not get the music to play in-sync between the 2 zones like i could with both Yamaha receivers. There was a 1 to 2 second lag. Any thoughts on how to correct this and play music in unison when I switch out zone 2 to a sonos amp?

I have a fourteen zone SONOS S2 system connected to a Xfinity XB7 Modem that has the Xfinity Generation 2 Pods connected. The Xfinity XB7 modem has the Wi-Fi selection set to automatic and it appears to be using channel 6, which is the same channel that the SONOS system is on. I have eleven SONOS components connected to TP-LINK managed switches that have been configured for RSTP / STP.The system can play music from my SYNOLOGY DS1821+ NAS which is running the DSM 7.x operating system. I have a SONOS specific account, and all music has been ripped in the FLAC format. The SONOS S2 system is using SMB3. On various iPhones (8 and 8 Plus) and an iPad Air whenever we open the SONOS app the SONOS playlist may not be visible. If I force close the app a couple of times the Playlist will reappear. This will last for a short period of time and then it will disappear again. The Playlist will appear all of the time on the various Microsoft Windows 10 Pro computers that I have running the latest SON

I have a decent size setup (~13 amp, 2 beam, 2 ARC, 2 playbar, 3 sub, 1 boost, assorted smaller older units) as well as Google Wifi. It's set up in "wired" mode - the boost is the only thing currently hardwired, the rest is on sonosnet (channel 6 currently). Most of the Amps are in a single room (powering speakers all over the house), along with the Boost. I have read plenty of horror stories of Google wifi and sonos causing spanning tree storms.  I have very occasional wifi problems, which may or may not be related.  However, I would like to endeavor to reduce wifi congestion, as I currently have 113 devices on my wifi network. I understand if I connect the amps that are all in the same room to the ethernet, but don’t disable wifi then they have the potential to cause some pretty complex spanning tree problems, but my question is this - if I use the "disable wifi" setting on my amps (and any other units that I hardwire), does sonos remove them from the spanning tree so the two spannin

It Seems that a lot of people experiences problems with the power supply of the Playbar. I’m trying to repair one of those… here are a picture of the blowned composants   I need the values of those composants : R20R21R19R18R38C27C26 Am I missing something burned on the pictures ? I really need help on this…. Many Thanks  Piermo

Hey all,I’m a first time turntable owner and I’m really struggling to get my audio to work. I have my Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Evo feeding into my Schiit Mani 2 (Phono Preamp) which then feeds out and into my Sonos Connect. I have my Sonos Connect to hook up to my Sonos Play:3s. The audio barely comes in and I have fiddled with every setting imaginable within the Sonos App. The audio comes in better when I completely bypass the Preamp and go from my turntable directly into my Sonos Connect, but that is also very quiet.I also have a seperate stereo amplifier if that is necessary for my setup, but I’m pretty lost at the moment. Do I have a defective Preamp? Or is there something else wrong with my equipment / setup?

I just moved into a house already equipped with a Yamaha RX-A2070 AV receiver & MusicCast, four built-in Polk speakers (L&R, front & rear), a Polk soundbar/center speaker, and a Definitive Technology subwoofer.  the TV is an LG OLED CX.  I already owned a Sonos Arc and think its sound quality is superior to the Polk center speaker, and so I would like to replace the Polk with the Arc but don’t know how.  The Polk is connected to the Yamaha via speaker wire.  Is it possible to do what I’m planning or does it just not make sense to use the Arc this way?

Finally with some testing, and some pieces. A little Reverse Engineering. Recycle mode reversed on 3 speakers thus far.Play 5’s, and Play 1’s.It was easier then I thought.But you will have to dismantle your speaker and do something pretty simple..Like spend $10