Advanced setups

Hi alli have 2 x Play 3s as a stereo pair in my living room. I’ll be buying a Beam soon and what to know If the existing play 3s will be better for the surround or do I need to buy 2 x Sonos 1. Will be adding a sub at a later date. thanks

Hi, If anyone can help solve this dilemma it would be much appreciated.I have 2 SONOS 3's in my living room on a 2.4 network.At the end of my garden, i have an outhouse for work. There is a hard wired data cable running from the. house SKY router into the outhouse. I have a D-Link AC1200 Wi-Fi Router in the outhouse as an extender and have the same networks as in the house available, both 2.4 and 5ghz.In the outhouse i have 2 SONOS 1's, but i cannot get them to group with the SONOS 3's in the house. They jump inot my app depending on where i am, house or outhouse but i cannot play the same music in both. I assume i have to get an ethernet splitter but want the SONOS to be wireless so don't relaly see why i can get the D-Link to work as one with the SKY router. I'm way out my depth but have tried to go into the system settings.Does anyone have any ideas per chance?Much appreciated.

I run pub quizzes around my local area and have started doing one that uses a Sonos system. I’ve not come across one in pubs I’ve worked with before, and need to know if it’s possible to use a microphone through it.Read a lot online, some say it’s impossible, some say it works but with 70ms delay, and others say totally works but need an external audio receiver.So I need to be able to play music and for me to speak through it.Any advice is greatly received, even if it’s to say that this just isn’t possible.

I have two Sonos One speakers.  They have worked fine for over a year.  Music sound comes from both speakers.  Starting last week, sound comes from only one of the speakers.  I can get sound over the Living Room speaker but not the Office speaker.  Or, I can get sound over the Office speaker but not the Living Room speaker.  Sound no longer comes from both speakers at the same time.  I only use the speakers to play music usually through the services offered by Sonos.  Both speakers are wirelessly connected to my router.  How do I return to getting sound from both speakers at the same time?

I saw a bunch of other threads, and they do say Wi-Fi issues, although they’re light on details. I’m starting my own in case it’s different from the others.. Also, sorry for the wall of text. While my issue is Wi-Fi related, it does not seem network related, or at least in the sense of connecting to the AP I have in my house which is dedicated for these speakers. Nor do I have L3 connectivity issues to the speakers when they’re operating independently (not in a home theatre, also except the sub can’t play music without pairing to another speaker). I have 2x Play:1, 1x Playbar, and 1x Sub which make up a home theatre config. I also have a Move, which is separate. App and devices are all running 12.1. I noticed that only my Playbar and Move were showing in the app, and I just had some question marks with the Playbar (it should’ve been in a home theat

Version 12.1 update took me 20 mins to complete rather than 2-3 minutes it says in the message.  I almost pull the plug at the 15 minutes mark. 

Good afternoon all, I have a Sonos ARC with two one’s and a sub.  This is setup in my media room where I have 3 displays and would like to use the ARC as the audio for all 3.  Would a normal HDMI switch be able to Switch the EARC signal from each display to the Sonos ARC system?   Is there a way to accomplish this? Thanks in advance!

Hello, I bought 2 x One SL’s to create surround sound with my beam and they went through the initial  set up but last second said something along the lines of “These can’t be used as a surround sound like this. You need to be connected to your router via Ethernet”. So do I need to have the beam connected directly to the router 24/7 just for the surround sound to be recognised and work?I currently have them packed away to be returned as it just wasn’t setting up easily.Any help would be appreciatedThanks.

Hey guys, I moved from a custom sound setup to Sonos a few weeks ago and I’m starting to regret it.    My Setup:    75 inch Q95E (Latest/Best 4K Samsung TV - 2020)  Sonos Arc+2SLs+Sub 3rd Gen (all 2020 versions)  Apple TV 4K (2019)    Cable Management   HDCPI 2.0 TV→ Apple TV ($50 cable)  Sonos Default Cable → eARC Port HDCPI 2.0 TV → Sony Playstation 4   Settings:   Samsung Software: 1302.4 (July 13th 2020) Input CEC: tried turning it off and on for the ATV input source nothing changes Lip Sync Sonos: I tried ALL settings +1/+5 nothing works  Samsung Sound Delay: Tried from 0 - 250 no perfect sync.   Issues! eArc is OFF - When I enable it there is no sound from Sonos on movies, input sources, o

Hi Sonos community!I have a new setup where I have two Play 5’s in stereo pair and a Sonos Arc in the same room (they are facing each other front to front and my room is about - please see image attached ). I have them configured as separate “rooms”. When watching TV, I use only Sonos Arc. When listening to music, I use both setups (Play 5’s in stereo and Arc). I have two questions:I’m not sure which Play 5 would be more appropriate to setup as right and left speaker. I don’t want the channels to get mixed with my Play 5’s and Arc. When listing to music… would it be better only to turn on Play 5’s in stereo pair and leave the Arc on mute? If yes, Then question 1 is not relevant anymore.NOTE: I also have a turntable connected my Play 5’s via line in. If I set them up as surround, I can’t play my turntable anymore. So that is not an option for me. 

Long time since I was on here….Just reporting in that I caved in and bought the Asus AIMesh CT8 WiFi system last week.  Our house is a largeish 3-4 storey Georgian house with a lot of thick stone walls and I was getting flaky WiFi coverage through the house, lots of dead spots, and Sonos was driving me mad - in particular constantly getting the “Unable to connect to Sonos” message on my Android phone.So the end result is that the Asus AIMesh CT8 system (I have two boxes, one the router, wired to the Netgear DM200 modem) the other a “node” using 5GHz backhaul to the router works very well and plays very nicely with Sonos.WiFi coverage throughout the house (~400 sq m) is amazingly good.Sonos works perfecty although for some reason I had great trouble getting one Connect:Amp reconnected - had to factory reset several times and add - eventually it worked.I have not yet seen the dreaded “unable to connect” message - turning on BBC Radio 4 first thing in

Quick description. 5 x Play-1 speakers and a connect. 3 Asus RT-AC68U routers in AI Mesh router configuration.  AI mesh is connected to a Virgin Stupid hub in modem mode and the mesh is through the 5Ghz wifi.  The mesh’s 2.4ghz is fixed on channel 11 and the SonosNet set to channel 6. (the quietest according to my Inssider app)  Hallway - connected to main router.  All others on SonosNet apart from Shed which is at the extreme range and sometimes flips to the closest AI router or I can plug it in to the router.  It has always been a bit flaky, and I’ve tried a load of different things like plugging one into each node, moving speakers, channel setting, static IP addresses for the speakers, etc. Submitted a diagnostic a couple of months ago and was walked through a few things and everything settled down for about 6 weeks, then became a bit flaky again.  However, a couple of weeks ago ASUS and Sonos both had updates around the same time. After

I have a boost, playbar, sub & 3 play 1’s.   All Sonos products are grouped and I can adjust group volume with app only.  I am using a Samsung TV remote (IR) and it will only adjust the volume of the Playbar.  How can I adjust the group volume?  Thanks,

Is it possible to set up the system to automatically play some music or radio station when Sonos starts?  I have set to play automatically as part of my security system. But if the queue is empty, nothing will play.  Thanks

What a big deception. Waiting forever on new software. After installing S2 to find out it still DOES NOT not play High Resolution audio files. Well back to Audirvana + USB + my own amp for High Res.    

Help!!!I am trying to run multiple zones off of one amp using a connecting block to keep wiring tidy and impedance volume controllers on each zone. I do understand that my wattage per speaker will be low, but I wanted to try it to see how loud they would be, then would look at buying a second amp if necessary... I dont really need to be able to play multiple things in different areas, and all of these speakers/impedance matching volume controllers etc are already wired in the house.I have:1x sonos amp1x Russound connecting block (essentially a splitter)-one wire from connecting block to amp-I have 6 zones (2 speakers per zone) on the connecting block6x Russound ALT 2x impedance matching volume controls: 126w peak, 42w RMS. Allowable impedance multipliers of 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x for each speaker-two speakers connected to each volume control (L and R speaker)12x Russound RSF 610: 5-80w 8ohmsI have tried a setup with 5.3o

My home theater has a projector screen that comes out of the ceiling in the center of the room. There is no wall behind the screen. To date I have a sonos base on a bar cart that I can roll out if needed, but this isn’t working out well for me.I’m looking to mount a center channel on the ceiling directly in front of where the projector comes down. The back of the arc ould be against a dead zone on the screen. (1) Positionally, will the sound quality work with this sort of placement? The arc would likely be upside down.(2) Will the speakers positioning cause noticeable vibration on the projector screen? It is weighted, but a strong breeze would move it.(3) Will the mount kit work with a ceiling? Is there a better alternative solution?

  Hello! I currently have a 5.1 setup with Playbar, 2x Sonos One and the subwoofer. I also have 2x Sonos One in the dining room, and another Sonos One in the bathroom. In regards to the 5.1 setup I am quite pleased with the audio performance for movies, considering the quite low price and the small size. However, when it comes to music listening experience in the living room, I find the Playbar lacking a lot. It just doesn’t do very well at normal stereo music listening. So with that said, I was looking into replacing my Playbar with a Sonos Amp and 2 front speakers of my own choice. I have heard the Sonos Amp in a 2.1 setup, and it sounds amazing. At my retailer, I learn that the Sonos Amp does not support running 4.1 as a front amplifier with 2x Sonos One as back speakers. This totally confused me. Why on earth would Sonos not give the Sonos Amp the same software capabilities as the Playbar, Playbase and Beam? It is just a matter of down mixing the center channel int

Just wanted to share my experience with setting up my Sonos Play 5 with an Aruba WiFi controller. After many hours of tcpdump'ing and connecting the Sonos to wired networks (with everything working perfectly!), I found that by default, Aruba WiFi controllers (mine is a 225 running version 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.4_57496) drop broadcast & multicast traffic between attached wireless clients, which is used by the Sonos Controller app to find the Sonos. There is a setting in the Virtual Controller under "Networks" (usually the name of the SSID you've created), WLAN Settings (click "Show Advanced options"), then "Broadcast Filtering". Mine was set to "All", and a quick change to "Disabled" + reboot, the app now found the Sonos with ease. Hope this helps someone not spend 4 hours on their Christmas morning trying to debug their brand new Sonos Play 5 ;-) Steve

Have read that inserting the IP of one component into this url would pull up the Sonos network matrix:http://xxx.xxx.xx.xxx:1400/support/reviewMy interest in the network matrix is to inspect for interference and/or optimize the connection in the Sonos network.All the IP addresses of my components have the format: 10.x.x.xx.   I see the IP addresses in the Netgear Orbi AX6000 app that displays the components hardwired to router.  In my Sonos system, a Bridge is hardwire connected to the router.   Router is a ISP-supplied glass fiber modem + router.Question:  How can I generate the network matrix without the public IP addresses like 192. or 168. etc?Appreciate the advice!

The manual states “Two pairs of 8 ohm speakers wired in parallel are also supported.” Does anyone know if you can run more than 2 pairs in parallel?   I would like to run 3 or 4 pairs off the amp but want to know if the amp is stable at that ohm load?

I have 12 Sonos speakers around my home. Four are hardwired, eight others are wireless. I also have a Boost.I have no problems with Wifi coverage in my home.So the question is: Am I improving or degrading my overall wireless situation with the Boost in place? There doesn’t seem to be any difference whether I use it or not. With the Boost in place, does that mean some of my Sonos devices will connect to the Boost instead of my home Wifi? Does the Boost use the same wireless spectrum as Wifi? If I remove the Boost, does that mean I’ll have more wireless usage on my regular Wifi network?Its not clear to me how the Boost actually works compared to regular 802.11 Wifi. If it were standard Wifi, my Network Analysis software would pick it up, but it doesn’t. Thoughts?

Recently moved to a new home and have Xfinity XB7 Xfi - Previous system was the Sonos 1 Controller and had lots of issues….  my bridge, Play1, Play3, and Play5 all worked for ONE DAY !    The next day I could not see any of the Sonos speakers in the app. After rebooting the router, they all came back but would disappear daily !!!   I could not keep rebooting the router every day just to listen to music….. thats just stupid. After calling support, they had me remove the bridge as it was no longer needed. (It had been over 2 years since my system had been set up and working on an ATT router…..which BTW I NEVER had any problems with. Unfortunately ATT fiber is not available in this area yet, and their internet speeds available in this area are slow so I was forced to go with Xfinity.)  After hardwiring each of the speakers to my router and then placing them in the rooms I wanted them, the Sonos controller could see all 3 speakers, play different music on each at the same time, group th

Morning all, I currently have 8 Sonos Speakers, all hard wired with Ethernet. Is it possible in this situation to turn off Sonosnet, to prevent the signal interfering with my Wi-Fi network?

I have split my IoT Devices and Office Devices into two different VLANs. With now named Sonos S1 App, everything was running smooth and fine. Now, I had to make the update to Sonos S2 (the S1 app refused to connect to my Sonos devices!). After the App Update, I'm not able to control my sonos devices anymore.  Does anyone know if SONOS is now needing even more High-Ports on UDP from the App to the speakers or which parameters changed?  @Sonos : It's a mad thing what is going on here. Many users are requesting more support for setups with different VLAN which are becomming more and more important also in private LANs. No right answer came at any point besides the system is not intended of this usage… Than the topic with bricking old hardware. Now you will not go for this step, but still pushing the customers for updates which will break existing setups and not one word in the changelog. I'm somewhat disappointed on this be