Advanced setups

Hi allI use a Synology NAS as my main music library through my MacBook, however, i back up all my music on my Sony NW-A55 mp3 player. If my NAS failed, how could i use the Sony as a music library until the NAS is replaced? Is it something simple that i just can't see and where would i point Sonos at to link the library? Thanks in advance for your advice

Hican I connect a new sub gen 3 to my play bar and Sonos 1 speakers? these speaker are approx 3 years old.thanks

Hi I’ve been into Sonos for a very long time. I’m reasonably familiar with both the S1 and S2 apps. I’m currently running 2 Sub Gen2, 1 Sub Gen3, an Arc, a Beam Gen1, a Beam Gen2, a Playbar, 2 Play:1, 2 Play:5, 4 Play One SL, and 2 Play One. In an 1100 sqft apartment lol. I only seem to recognize my illness when I type it out. So again, I’m reasonably comfortable with the company’s products.So I’ve decided that I need to thin out the herd.My Arc is bonded with the Sub Gen3 and 2 of the Play Ones. Really really nice setup. I love the sound. I’m not messing around with this. I currently have my Beam Gen2 bonded with 1 Sub Gen2. I have them in my small studio (I’m a painter). I have them for movie / YouTube while working. “Maybe” a 12x12 room. It’s not an Arc, but it’s good. I haven’t decided about the 2 Play One SLs. It’s such a small room. I don’t want to hamper ATMOS.Finally, I prefer to listen to lossless music. Now the problem space. I have a something like 13x20 Lounge / Living Room

I recently bought and extra OneSL to stereo pair with my exisiting One.  I also have a Play:5 2nd generation.  I’ve put them all on the same bookshelf, with the Play 5 in the middle and the Ones off to both sides.  It sounds pretty awesome.  Question: Should I adjust the equalizer to increase bass output on the Play5 and increase treble on the ones?   Would this make much difference?  Would the Play 5 actually provide more bass by doing this? I’ve played around with it, and so far it seems dependent on the music as to which sounds better. 

I have two Sonos 1 that are connected to extenders.  Neither are hard wired nor can they be (router is in a closet).  So, they go out of synch.  I am told that I should purchase a mesh network and connect one of the Sonos One to the mesh.  Is that right? I am looking at Linkys and EERO.  Does anyone have any experience with this?  WIll one of these work?  I understand I need to shut off the verizon router and then override it with the mesh. Thanks in advance for your help.

I have 2 Fives set up as surrounds in our living room. Occasionally I would like to use one on our patio. I physically moved the speaker to the patio, removed surrounds from living room on Sonos app, set up patio as a separate location, But I can’t get just one speaker to connect?Help.Different topic, How do I remove a room from the Sonos app? I accidentally added Living room 3 and would like to remove it. Thank you.

Is there any plan / ETA to have line-in on a Sonos Amp / Port as an Airplay 2 source so that I can listen to my turntable also on my homepods mini?

How can I play music through Sonos from a DJ mixer? 

Dear All,As I could not find the final answer for my setup in other threads so far, I post it here. Based on information how to setup the Beam with a Laptop, Projector, I bought an HDFury Adaptor. I use the 2 Outputs for the projector and beam. The input for the Laptop. (see pic below)Could somebody help me how to do the final setup that the sound works? I still can not bring the sound of my laptop to the beam. Did I do anything wrong on the cable setup? Or do I have to setup anything on the HDFury or Laptop to make it work? Thank you so much for your help.Best Matthias 

To whom it may concern.I changed to a complete Unifi network 1 year ago with UDM pro, several switches and access points (Ac-Pro). My Sonos has been a complete nightmare ever since with audio drop outs and instability in general. (I hardwired one Sonos port hence implementing Sonos net for the entire system (2 Ports and 7 Sonos one) Following suggestions from the internet, I tried several configuration changes to the Unifi network, but I never managed to find a solution which solved my issues.this weekend I tried to change my Sonos system to  “Wireless” as defined by Sonos, i.e. no speaker is hooked up by Ethernet cable. This is doable for me since I have execellent wifi coverage to all speakers.Well case closed, all issues solved!!I just wish I had done this Long time ago, would have save me a lot of trouble and frustration.Please note that You may need to reset each speaker and re-add to system to switch to wireless (I had to). Beware You might loose your playlists if you reset all s

i use sonos amp with a 3rd party subwoofer, but don’t use LFE out on the amp and instead use the high pass filter on the subwoofer back to the sonos amp. i’m looking to add a second subwoofer to that setup, so my question is can i keep the high pass filter in place and use LFE from the sonos amp to the second subwoofer or does using LFE disable the low frequencies from the left and right speaker channels? asked a different way, is the only way to get 2 subwoofers on a sonos amp to split the LFE connection with a Y cable or using the different crossovers I describe above?

I have two external audio sources I’d like to play through a Beam (v2):TV (HDMI ARC) Bluetooth receiver w/TOSLINK output (using the Sonos optical-to-HDMI ARC adapter)Each works fine when directly connected to the Beam, but I’d like to be able to switch between them without recabling.  I’ve tried a couple HDMI switches that haven’t worked, but I’m not sure why.  Does anybody know of a switch I can use for this, or help me understand how to do this?  Thanks!

Is there a widget for iOS that will implement a 30 second or variable timed mute so that I can mute periodic advertising?

Hey Gurus,I want to use a BEAM for 5.1 sound on my PC.  And also a SONOS SUB and a couple of SONOS 1.  Here is my PC configuration.  HP ZBook Create G7 Notebook PC.  It has a Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10885H CPU @ 2.40GHz.  It is connected to a HP Thunderbolt Dock G2 with the most recent USB C standards USB 3.1 Gen 2.  The PC has a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design card which supports NVIDIA High Definition Audio for 5.1.  I will use a Rankie DisplayPort to 4k HDMI with audio adaptor to connect from the HP Thunderbolt Dock Display Port to the BEAM HMDI input.  Will this work?  Anyone have suggestions.  

I have a sonos beam that I use in my room and I will swap between using it for my TV and for my PC. At the moment, I just unplug it from the PC and then plug it into the TV hdmi arc port when I want but this is actually quite a hassel with my cord management. My question is: is there any way that I can employ an HDMi switch so that way at the click of a button I can listen to either my PC or TV on the beam?

I purchased the Amp outdoor speaker combo from Best Buy and now want to add a pair of sonance rk63 rock speakers. I know you can hookup up 4 8ohm speakers to the Amp.  The RK83 ohm ratings says 8 ohm nominal and 6ohm minimum. Can I connect all 4 of these in parallel without any problems?  Speakers that came with the Best Buy kit are MAGO6V3.  Thanks!  

Excuse my naivete, but still learning the Sonos system. Confused on licensing with media services. We have several groups of rooms. Does each group require a separate license? For instance, in Soundtrack Player (business version of Spotify) you license each zone. Does a zone correspond to a room in Sonos?

I have 2 Sonos Play 1 , 1 Play 3 and 1 Connect devices at home.These 4 are all connected with ethernet cables to my main router (Asus AX88U)I also have Asus Aimesh connected to this router but I believe this is not related to my question. Today I realized a performance issue on my router and digged a bit.Since I could not stop the problem by rebooting router and mesh devices I disconnected ethernet devices one by one.Eventually the problem was solved when I disconnected one gigabit switch.This switch has 4 wired clients on it, one of which is a Sonos Play 1. After disconnecting the switch from my main router, the performance issue was solved.But even with its uplink disconnected, I was still able to reach the devices on the switch.I could play music on the Sonos device (which is normal because when it lost wired connection, it probably swithced to Sonosnet)But I was also able to reach the other devices on the same switch. Then I disconnected the Sonos device from the switch and only af

I was advised by Sonos, that my new ARC does not support a blue tooth connection to my Apple pro ear buds. However my new LG OLED does support them, while my Sonos ARC will not.  What solutions are available (other than returning the ARC), to me? Thank you.  

I have a new NAS on my network and it uses Samba 4.I get the highly informative ( ) error code of ‘900’ when trying to add it.I see threads and questions going back 4 years in this community asking for better Samba support from Sonos. The stock repsonses are simple promises to pass on the question to development teams.I don’t know how difficult it would be to add support for more modern Samba implementations but I do see there is a demand for it.What is wrong at Sonos that you ignore your users so readily and don’t even provide an explanation as to why you refuse to implement this apparently simple request?Your stock response seems to be to let the thread go until people stop reading it and then close it with a weak excuse.What sort of company are you?That said, I expect someone to respond with a weak answer and for this question to be closed with no action. THAT’s the type of company I see in action here...

I want to use a new Sonos amp to power two in-ceiling speakers.The speakers are now fed through a LeGrand system. And the LeGrand panel has the speakers connecting to the LeGrand source through an Ethernet cable.The Sonos uses hookups for speaker wires.How do I convert or modify the existing Ethernet ends into speaker wires?

Howdy Sonos Community!  I spent a lot of time researching the topic of placing Sonos devices in a separate IOT network/vlan and still being able to control them from the “secure” vlan/network and was not coming up with a definitive method for doing it.  The general advice was “No”.  And while I agree with the advice, the boss does not always agree.  This setup provides more isolation than nothing.  The method would likely work for other SSDP devices or could be adopted to mDNS as well.  Your mileage may vary.- solder2000 Disclaimer:I make no assertions to the overall security of this configuration.  Required traffic is defined and limited as much as possible.  But ultimately you’re punching large holes in the firewall.  Please read and understand what you're doing to your network.  The setup this was copied from is more involved, but the relevant configuration pieces are below.Assumptions:Sonos devices are using reserved ip addresses from the dhcp server. Insecure and secure networks a

I have a client with fairly large system spread out over 2 structures. There is a mixture of wired/wireless Sonos devices throughout both structures, all on the same network. I have a managed network and it all works perfectly. He is now adding a pavilion 400-500ft away and wants Sonos available there. I am beaming WiFi to the pavilion from the nearest structure. My question is, will a Sonos Five or Sonos Move connect to the network via WiFi and function properly within the app? It will not be able to communicate via Sonos Mesh with the other players/speakers as it will be too far away, and there will be no wired option available. I tried this in the past at a very large home and couldn’t get it to work and ending up wiring it there.thanks for reading

HiI see lots of older posts  and threads about Sonos and Mesh setup. Have they now all been resolved ? I want to buy a Linksys Velop 4 node system, and will use that as my only WiFi - (Replacing my 1 AP now, I don’t use the Router built in WiFi)  but I want to know if it will work out of the box? I don’t wnat to have to go messing with settings to get specific channels setup, or not to use the bridge were the WiFi system decides what band/channel to use. So I just want plug and play really. Has anyone any experence of what works for them? I have a TP-Link in AP mode today, but have had to turn off the Bridge as Sonos dissapears, and I don’t want to invest in Linksys unless I know it works?Or would I be Better off buying some AP’s and setting up a controler, and selecting the same 2.4Ghz channel (1,6,11 or whatever) on all teh AP’s and a seperate 5Ghz for my faster stuff?  What have others done here? Appricate all feedback - thanks

Hello. I am trying to find a way to connect Sonos beam with 2 different output devices (one TV and one projector). They won’t be playing at the same time, just want to switch between on or other.My main issue with this setup is that the main source of input in both of these is a PC and I have only 1 HDMI cable running to the projector (it is ceiling mounted and the cable is inside the walls. I know I can use an HDMI splitter to give signal to both TV and projector, but can’t find out how to get the Beam to run with this.