Advanced setups

This is the place to troubleshoot your Sonos hacks, advanced setups, and third party integrations. Be mindful of your products warranty, and that Sonos staff can't always assist in an official capacity here.

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DorianBriand
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Era 300 placement for surround

Hello everyone,I would like to have your opinion and your suggestions on the future placement of my Era 300 which I will receive shortly. I...
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Sonos and Mesh network

Hi @Bourney Welcome to the Sonos Community!I believe that system will work with your Sonos without issue, yes.Please note that when you add...
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Two systems on one wifi network, with only one phone controller?

As you perhaps realise, one set of speakers would need to be factory reset and then set up afresh as a ‘new system’ while the other set is t...
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tkatzerContributor I
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Connecting Outdoor TV to Outdoor Speakers (through Connect AMP)

I have been told I can run Cat5 from an outdoor TV to the indoor Connect AMP as long as I use a balun on both sides to make the connection. This would then allow sound from the TV to be played through the speakers that I have tied to the Connect AMP. Is this correct? I would assume then that volume control would be done through my phone. If anyone has additional suggestions (I don't want to spend $700+ on a Playbar), I am open. Thanks in advance!

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melvimbe
6 years ago
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Martini75Contributor I
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Change playlist/radio station from sonos one top buttons

It would be great if changing radio station was possible in a Sonos One without the need of the phone.

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Keith N
6 years ago
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FranceFarmContributor I
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Sky Q and Sonos

I have had Sky Q and Sonos together for about 18months now. All are cabled Ethernet and all have been working well in close proximity to each other. I have had a 4th Sky Q mini box added into a guest flat, hard cabled again. This works fine. I have moved one of my Sky Play 1’s over and used a small netgear switch in which I have Sky, a TV, Blu-ray and Sonos. The Sky is meshed together with same SSID throughout. From the main house and anywhere off the new sky mini box I can see all my Sonos devices and control them fine. When I connect to the new sky mini box WiFi the Sonos app will not find any Sonos devices!! Tried every permutation on cabling etc. I can lean out the window and connect to another WiFi and Sonos opens straightaway and I can see all and control the relocated Play1. It’s driving me mental!! I have no ideas whatsoever what it can be. Please help!!!

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Keith N
6 years ago
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DaganContributor I
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Deauthorize Third-Party Apps

My Sonos can currently be controlled by SmartThings and Alexa. I originally set up SmartThings so that I could turn the Sonos off and on via Alexa before Alexa supported Sonos directly. Now that Sonos integration with Alexa is released, I want to remove Sonos from SmartThings. For the life of me, I cannot find a way to deauthorize SmartThings. Am I just missing the obvious here, or is Sonos not giving users the option to deauthorize third parties?

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Chris
6 years ago
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Anjo2411Contributor I
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4 - 8 Ohm dual voice coil speaker on one Connect:AMP?

In my basement, I have 4 speakers - all of them are ATOS Storm A62ST speakers that are dual voice coil. Each speaker has 4 wires coming from the back of it, wired to a central location... so 16 wires in total... is it possible to attach all 4 of these speakers (and, of course, all 16 wires) to a single Sonos Connect:AMP? I know the Sonos site says 4, 8 ohm speakers can be connected, but does the fact that each speaker is dual voice coil with 4 wires each mean that I can only have two of these on a single Connect:AMP? Thanks in advance for any and all help!

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jgatie
6 years ago
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woodblairContributor I
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DJ Setup for multi room party

I have an upcoming party with a couple of DJ's. We intend to use a Pioneer DDJ system with RCA output. The DDJ does not have optical out. I plan to connect the Pioneer DDJ to my LG TV (via AV/RCA cables) then group the playbar with the rest of the speakers in a single zone. Are there any issues with this? Am I correct in thinking there will be a 70ms delay between the playbar and the rest of the speakers? If this is the case perhaps the issue will be tollerable based on different physical rooms being out of sync, or alternatively I could simply turn down the play bar and turn everything else up.. I have 15 other SONOS speakers. Any thoughts would be appreciated

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Keith N
5 years ago
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ZebedeeContributor I
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Watchguard Firewall configuration

Hi, My home network sits behind a Watchguard hardware Firewall (an XTM25). I have a Connect Amp that I want to use with Spotify and TuneInRadio. Following setup the device is not making itself available in Spotify and I am seeing the Watchguard deny a lot of traffic from the Connect Amp. Being a bit lazy as have done minimal investigation. But could anyone offer some advice as to the configuration changes I need to make to the Watchguard? Thanks!

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MikeV
6 years ago
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craigcousins65Contributor I
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Sonos at university halls

I have a Sonos One device and have had it for about three months. I live in university accommodation which doesn't allow me to connect my Sonos to their network due to it having a login portal. I worked my way around this when I got the product by purchasing a Tripmate Nano TM02 and this was working fine. I then went home and set up the Sonos again there as I couldn't live without it and setting it up there was fine as it was just a regular network. However upon my return to university I can't seem to figure out how I managed to connect the Sonos to the Tripmate in the first place as the setup procedure seems to require me plugging the Sonos into my network (the Tripmate) and as far as I know I can't set up the Tripmate to convert a wireless network into a wired one; the way I was using it before was to create its own wireless network from the university-provided one and then the Tripmate acted as a gateway to the network as I only had to sign into the portal once through my laptop whi

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Keith N
6 years ago
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AkiryzonEnthusiast I
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Group Speakers

On https://www.sonos.com/en-ca/airplay, it says (under using the sonos playbar to get airplay support) ... "To play in another room of your home, group the PLAYBAR with another Sonos speaker and you can stream iTunes Radio in both rooms." ... how do I do that? How do I group the playbar with a sonos speaker in another room? .... errrrmmmmm idk if I can delete useless posts but if someone can, then delete this one :P https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4002/~/how-to-group-rooms-in-the-sonos-app

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bockersjv
6 years ago
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asawikContributor I
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Connect Sonos to a new jukebox

We bought a new Rock-Ola cd jukebox for our restaurant and I want to play our playlist through it. When someone throws a coin in the jukebox the juke takes priority and it must switch back automatically to playlist when when cd is not playing. Well, I got from Rock-Ola that this is possible (Their answer: Play it as a background with your device. It will play until you make a selection on the jukebox. The jukebox takes priority. Then it will go back to background after all songs selected are finished.) Now my question; has anyone else done this and knows exactly what sonos products we need for this? Supplier recommended a sonos base station – but what's that:?

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6 years ago
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Michael BenderAvid Contributor I
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Mixing STP and BPDU Flooding capable switches - OK or time bomb waiting to happen?

I have a Netgear GS724Tv4 STP-capable switch as my root switch at home. I have STP enabled on that switch., Some of my Sonos players are wired to ports on that switch directly. I also have some Netgear GS605 and GS608 switches which have Sonos players wired to them and then one of the ports on each of those switches is wired to the GS724 root switch. I do not believe that the GS605 and GS608 switches support STP but they do seem to support BPDU flooding. I think that this type of setup is OK since the BPDU packets will move around the network and not get blocked at the GS6-series switches, and will wind up at the GS724 root switch and be distributed properly to the Sonos players. In practice I am seeing a very quiet network, with the exception of the LEDs on the GS6-series switches flashing at a very high rate all the time. My network matrix is all grey cells with just a few green squares where I expect them to be to the few players that are on SonosNet (I don't have my house WiFi conf

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5 years ago
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Mark_123Contributor I
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What is best NAS solution to work with Mac for home?

Hi, I would like to add a NAS to my switch so that I can transfer my music library to the NAS and access it from multiple devices. The library is currently in iTunes and I want to make sure that the NAS/Mac/Sonos combination all works.

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6 years ago
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reidmefirstContributor I
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Yet Another pfSense+Unifi+Sonos troubleshooting thread

I'm looking for a little advanced help on getting my Sonos speakers to work on a weird network configuration. I have a pfSense gateway, which runs my unifi wifi controller software on top. My wifi is set up with two networks: a primary network (vlan 4) and a IoT network (vlan 3). I specifically prevent the IoT network from reaching out to the Internet, it is only allowed to reach back to the primary network. So, primary network (VLAN 4) can reach everything with all protocols, and IoT network (vlan 3) can only reach back to VLAN4 on all protocols. I enabled pfSense 'allow ip options' on both interfaces on their main allow flow rules. I have a single unifi AP, which is connected directly to my pfSense gateway (no switches in the path, to aid in troubleshooting). I tried using pfSense IGMP Proxy which doesn't seem like it actually does anything. So, I grabbed and compiled udp-broadcast-relay-redux and compiled it for pfsense. This is a little daemon which lets you listen

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Edward R
6 years ago
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JayD83Contributor III
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Sonos should create groups or scenarios for sound levels

My tv volume is to be lowered at 10pm etc

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6 years ago
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freakydeeContributor I
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Stream to Sonos with Traktor

How can I stream live mixes to Sonos service with Traktor? What is the ip address to send my live broadcast to?

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Keith N
6 years ago
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mdaniel00Contributor I
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No Sound from Computer when HDMI through TV

I have my computer hooked up through HDMI into the TV. The TV is hooked up to my Sonos system through digital audio optical output from my playbar (also have 2 play 1s). Computer settings are set to send sound through HDMI. The TV settings are set to play through the External Speaker (sonos); however my computer sends sound only through the TV's internal speakers. All my other devices (Chromecast, Roku) play audio through the Sonos system which are both through HDMI. For some reason, my computer will not do the same. Any advice is appreciated. TV: Samsung 8080 series

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Airgetlam
5 years ago
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mabalu77Contributor I
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Tidal wont play

When using my SONOS app on my smartphone and browse music via Tidal, I can look up specfic tracks etc without any issues. But when try to start any given music track it stops again promptly with the notification, "...the server cannot be localized". It has worked flawlessly up until about a month ago. According to Tidal servicedesk, I should try to amend the DNS-settings in my wireless router. I find it hard to believe that I have to learn IT-supporter capabilities in adjusting rather advanced router-settings in order to be able to listen to music (?!). Does anyone know why it is so and how it can be fixed by someone like me who doesn't possess advanced IT-competencies?

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Edward R
5 years ago
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GM182Contributor I
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Set up Sonos Play 3 without internet

After speaking with a Sonos rep and explaining our needs we were advised to purchase the [b]Play 3[/b] (two of them) unfortunately we are having difficulty setting them up. The router itself has [b]NO[/b] internet access, it is used to control our hue lighting and (supposed to) sound via a tablet that is connected to the same network. This was explained to the rep before I purchased the Sonos Play 3s. I have wired the speakers into the router but the only way to access them is via the Sonos app which sadly requires an account and for me to log into it online. Clearly the rep misrepresented the speakers to me. My only real way of getting internet into them while on a network is to connect to another router in a different building, connect the tablet and use the app. If I am able to do this to update/setup will i be required to always log into this Sonos app online - which is not acceptable, to play music, or will I be able to use the speakers (via the tablet) after it has be

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6 years ago
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danthraxContributor I
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Relay TV remote’s IR signal to Playbar behind TV

Hello. I have a Playbar which was mounted behind the top of the TV. This puts the Playbar’s IR receiver out of line-of-sight from the TV’s remote control. The TV is a Sony Bravia, which has a built-in IR blaster (USB connected with two IR emitters). I’ve tried running through the TVs IR blaster setup but it was unable to detect the sound bar. I’ve mounted the IR emitter (dome looking thing) on the back of the tv just in front of the Playbar’s IR receiver. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, if this is how an IR blaster is even supposed to work. If this doesn’t work, then I think I’m down to purchasing a 3rd party IR receiver/extender solution, or possible a Logitech universal remote solution. Does anyone have any experience with a similar setup where you’ve been able to relay the IR signal from the remote through the TV to the Playbar? If not, with a 3rd party solution? Looking for recommendations on a solution. Thanks!

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6 years ago
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zeligerContributor I
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need to use Sonos as a drum monitor to play with music

weird setup, calling on sonos power uses for a work around. Here it is: I would like to play live drums along with my sonos system. The problem is, I can't get them loud enough to hear over the drums. I have tried 2 play 1's and and a play 5, but neither is sufficient. I was hoping there was a way, I could wear headphones connected to my iPhone on the sonos app and still have the system send sound to all the speakers AND my headphones. Any thoughts?

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MikeV
6 years ago
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nrevbayContributor I
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Standard setup with a WiFi extender

Hey guys, We recently got a WiFi extender that re-broadcasts the same signal from the main WiFi router, but it is using a different SSID. Our Sonos speakers are all connected to the main WiFi router via standard setup(i.e. wirelessly via WiFi, not via a Boost/wired setup), so if a controller (e.g. an Android phone) is connected to the WiFi extender, it is unable to detect the Sonos speakers. Any ideas or tips on how to make such a setup work? We need the WiFi extender or something similar because the signal from the main WiFi router is very weak at certain spots in the house. We've also tried making the SSID and password the same for both the main WiFi router and the WiFi extender, but it just makes it a hit or miss at that point because the Android phone will list only one SSID, so you won't know which one it is -- router or extender. I suppose we can try a mesh router setup but that's a bit out of the budget at the moment.

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Chris
6 years ago
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lolastxContributor I
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Control4 Sonos Turntable

I would like to buy a turntable (preamp included) to play through house speakers. We have a server room for Control4. Sonos Connect is part of server rack. Music plays through house speakers. I have these other items available to use: Sonos 1 speaker, Apple TV, Alexa. In reading through the Turntable forum, it seems I could connect the turntable directly to a Sonos 5 and just directly play the music. However, I'm wondering if I can play the turntable (not directly wired) somehow to Sonos Connect and/or Control4? I don't think Sonos 1 speaker directly works with turntable. (I'm new at Control4, Sonos so I'm probably just looking for confirmation on the turntable playing music at its most basic use.) Thanks!

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6 years ago
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wikkingContributor I
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Using Samsung QE49Q7F tv remote to adjust Playbar volume?

Hi, Isn't is possible to use the Bluetooth remote from the Samsung TV to adjust the volume on the Playbar. Connected via optical on the TV's 'One Connect'. I can use the remote for all but not the Sonos? I've tried the Settings and Remote Control Settings. The brand Sonos isn't mentioned on the list. The TV's software is up to date. I saw on an other topic to connect a Samsung IR transmitter that is delivered with the TV, but with this TV it's not. There is also no IR-out port on the TV or One Connect. https://support.sonos.com/s/article/2413?language=nl_NL Any suggestions how to fix this? Many thanks!

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Airgetlam
5 years ago
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JuliejeanContributor I
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5 in ceiling speakers surround sound

I am not familiar with some of the terminology like ohm so trying to make sure I do this right. I have 5 in ceiling speakers installed a connect amp and a play bar and subwoofer. From what I understand the rear two would be needed for surround sound. I don’t want to waste the front 3 so would like to use these for playing music when not used for surround sound. One option is to put 2 back speakers on its own connect amp and set up that way. But what about the front 3? Can I connect 3 speakers to an amp? I only see instructions for 2 or 4? As a second option I saw that I can hook up an impedance switch to turn off a pair of speakers. Can this be used to support what I want to do and therefore I only need one amp vs 2? But that still leaves my third middle speaker out ? Finally I have 2 outdoor speakers I’d like to pair on an amp with 2 indoor. 2 indoor are 8ohm. The outdoor say 4 or 8? Outdoor power says 100 watts and the indoor says 120

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Keith N
6 years ago
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mille1jContributor I
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Multiple Sonos Connected by Ethernet - Good or Bad?

I have 3 Connect Amps in a networking closet. I plugged one of them into my switch and then daisy chained the other 2 from that one. Is that a good idea or not? Then, I have 9 Sonos 1 units spread out across the space. All of them are connected by wifi. If, however, they are near an available ethernet jack, is there any benefit to connecting them to ethernet?

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UKMedia
6 years ago
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