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Hi, I'm starting a new thread regarding this (old one here https://en.community.sonos.com/advanced-setups-229000/sonos-with-nodejs-my-attempt-33834) since that one grew out of hand. I have made some major improvements to the simple HTTP API that I've built, and it now also comes with a pre-composed raspberry pi image that runs from a RAM-drive (based on AlpineLinux) for even simpler installation. This software is useful for simple integration with home automation in mind, or for small hobby projects. For more information, see http://jishi.github.io/node-sonos-http-api/ File issues at github https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-http-api/issues Have fun!

Troubleshooting Subnets and Players: Summary: Recently, I had two (2) players drop off the network: one P1 and one P3. The P1 returned after 2+ hours all by itself and updated. The P3 did not, this is her story. I won't TL;DR you here, suffice it to say I tried the listed options below per-typical when speakers drop off and these steps did not work due to other issues I call out below. Enough is written on them in Sonos Community and maybe other forums to aide you with questions and exacting order of operation for these items: ( Listed in order of trial: ) Sonos Controller > Settings > Add Player > re-add the lost player -- wait ~3-10 minutes for speaker to re-appear; Unplug - wait 30s (at LEAST 10s) -- replug - wait ~3-10 minutes for speaker to re-appear; RESET (I don't do this lightly and don't recommend you do either since it means loss of most (all?) speaker history from Sonos accou

Live in NYC, spectrum cable customer, cisco cable box (8742HDC), Samsung UNC60C6300 and no matter what i change on TV or box rear speakers remain silent. Apple TV, Music via Echo and Fire stick play through back speakers as well. Have spend far too long reading online "solutions" none of which actually work/apply. Can anyone help without the need for new equipment?

Problems setting up Sonos on MyCampusnet wireless or wired network Does anyone have any insight on how to successfully setup Sonos inside a MyCampusnet network? I have wasted a ton of time trying to setup the Mac addresses and following their rules to no avail and opted for Dr Google solutions by setting up a travel router. The router seems to work with everything (mobile, Roku, laptops) but i can't make any progress with Sonos. The closes I get is the controller can see the Mac Address for the Sonos one but the setup fails. What am i missing? It's hard to believe there isn't more out there on this subject. MyCampusNet responds by saying they do not support Sonos. Any help would be appreciated.

I would like to create a "Goodnight" scene but I am unable to lower the volume using a Caseta scene. It gives me options to "pause" or change the channel source with volume control. However, the TV is not a valid source, so I have to switch to a different music source and set the volume to 0. However, I would like to have the source stay at TV, so people don't have to switch the source manually when the TV is turned back on. TV sound is coming from a Tivo box, so the volume is never turned off like it would if the sound came from the TV. Seems like Lutron should have a volume control setting to zero as well as a pause since pause doesn't work with the TV source. Thoughts? TIA

Having problems with a setup that has 32 Sonos devices. Problems are: * - songs dropping out on various speakers * - slow to group or various speakers dropping off group * - volume control does not work for many speakers or there is a big delay in volume change. ** "please note client likes to group (all) speakers at all times" Here are the details: * - last diagnostic = 966076468 * - Client has ATT router model BGW-210 * - Currently I have the ATT router WiFi disabled and set for IP passthrough to an Eero system. * - One Eero is hardwired and 4 others are wireless to extend coverage. * - House is older construction without cat5 lines run and too costly to run them. * - currently one (boost) is hardwired about 6 feet away from any other wifi. * - (1) Play 1 is hardwired to boost about 3 feet from boost and other wifi devices. * - Currently I have 6 ethernet over powerline adapters on

I have a Netgear Orbi system running with 3 Orbis places strategically around my house. When I test my WiFi it’s always around 120 MBPS download and 20-25MBPS upload. Would it make sense to buy a Sonos Boost and change the Sonos speakers into a mesh network being that I already have such a high rate of data transfer. I have 7 sono’s One’s scattered around the house and a Sonos Beam and subwoofer (which I don’t know if the sub woofer ends up being part of the mesh in sonosnet) Would Sonosnet mesh even be able to compete with the speeds of the Orbi? Would having a dedicated mesh really be helpful being that I already have a mesh. Would it effect performance in any way? Or would I spend $99 for nothing , or even maybe lessened performance than I’m getting now? My Orbi is just used for Hulu and iPhone browsing..so I’m not really doing anything that requires the power I even have al

I want to connect outdoor speakers to Sonos and am working with an uncommon set-up. I have a connect:amp inside the house connected to underwater speakers to the outside pool (let's call that C:A1). I also have a cat5 feed available from where the C:A1 unit is to a casita in the yard (I use it to extend wifi to the yard). I am adding outdoor speakers and my current options are: 1) run the outdoor speaker back to C:A1. I don't love that option for practical reasons to do with my yard + I am not even sure that C:A1 can handle both pool and outdoor speakers 2) buy a Connect:Amp (let's call that C:A2), place it in the casita and connect it to C:A1 via cat5, then run the outdoor speakers to C:A2. Since I don't need to control the pool and outside speakers independently, option 2) is a bit more than I need. Is there an option where I can buy a cheaper unit (Sonos or other) that can connect to C:A1 via cat5, and would only

Hi guise, we have a strange problem here. We’ve installed 3 sonos connect inside a boat, they play all individually and in a group of two, but When we group them all 3 togheter...only one play. To play sound sems to be the first assigned. In the sonos app sems the group is playing notmally, but in the reality only one/the first sonos play sounds. All is updated to yesterday. The second question is, do you know the Ethernet port used for Crestron comunications? Thanks!

I have a connect amp powering two smallish Yamaha stereo pool speakers. The problem is they are about 20ft apart and it gets rather annoying when some tracks have certain audio parts mixed to only play out of the left channel speaker or only the right. If i bridge the wires at the back of the amp to send both L and R signals to both speakers (effectively driving them as mono) will it destroy the amp/speakers?

I want to run 3 pairs of speakers from my Connect Amp (2 pairs are 8 ohm, 1 is 16 ohm), and therefore believe I need to use a speaker selector switch to do this. Does anyone know if this one is suitable? https://www.pyleaudio.com/sku/PSPVC4/4-Channel-High-Power-Stereo-Speaker-Selector-Wvolume-Control Thanks!

I know this subject has been brought up many times but I'd really like to put this to bed once and for all. I totally understand why delay exists between bonded Sonos elements and 3rd Party components either line-in or line out via Connect. A DJ cannot expect his Pioneer Mixer to output to a Connect, back into the Sonos loop and come out of the speakers without delay - get it! My use case is - I have an open plan Front Room and Connecting Dining Room. Sonos in the Dining Room and a Connect Driving an AV Amp in the Front Room. Group the Dining Room + Front Room and the delay ranges from an echo in PURE DIRECT mode to a double beat when DSP Stereo processing is active. Digital Coax, Optical, RCA, different amps with or without DSP processing may have varying results, but it will never cure the problem. What I can't understand is why Sonos cannot build a user definable delay into the controller to push back the whole Sonos loop t

Hi, Is there any chance Sonos is thinking of upgrading the app/speakers so that you can use your speaker settings differently at any given moment? For instance: in my living-room I have a hometeatre-setup (play bar,sub and two Sonos one) but I sometimes want to listen to music in stereo with just my Ones. Can this be done - without the need to configurate the speakers each time?? Rob

Hi I am wondering whether I can buy a Sonos Connect and connect it to my Harman Kardon soundbar + bluetooth sub and it will work with my sonos speakers (via a RCA Y-cable - using the aux in on the soundbar)? And must the Sonos Connect be cabled to the internet or can it work wireless (wift)?

I'm in the midst of creating a new large open-plan living/dining kitchen space in my house and would like to wall mount my SONOS speakers high up near the ceiling as part of the project. I have two questions. Firstly, I've seen some discussion suggesting that SONOS speakers aren't great when mounted at near ceiling height. Is this the case and if so, can it be 'made to work' e.g. by tilting speakers downwards? Second question (a two parter!) is, the room I'm creating is slightly 'L' shaped (see image below) and I would love some advice on placement and if my existing Play:1's will suffice, or if I should consider moving to something bigger? Note the TV will be on the wall facing the sofa and will have the Playbar mounted underneath. I'm looking to get good all-round sound and had initially thought about the four locations circled on the drawing. Don't need anything too overwhelming, but also want to be able to adequately fill the space.

Hey, have a full home set up (playbar + sub, 1, 3, 5) plus record player as a line in input through a preamp and then into a connect. Recently the quality of sound from records has significantly diminished. It sort of sounds like the sound is muffled, almost like it’s under water. It’s like there’s far too much bass, but even when I use the room settings and turn treble up and bass way down it’s still average. It seems to have happened after we moved house recently but it also coincided with a sonos Update so not really sure what the root cause could be. But playing the same music through Spotify sounds far better than vinyl. Diagnostics number 1676025177

I've searched, and current info on this subject is a little scant. I'm looking for a replacement for my soon-to-be-EOL Airport Network, and am taking a long look at Ubiquiti Amplifi. Should I expect it to play well with my Sonos (I have about 15 zones, about half-half wired and wireless)? Anything I should be watchful for? TiA...

Hi Sonos. Its 23.04.2018. IPv6 is everywhere, except on Sonos. Please enable IPv6 as soon as possible. Thanks.

Two problems: 1) CROSSFADE > I always want my Spotify music to crossfade. However, every time I close and reopen Sonos or Spotify app, I have to re-enable crossfade. Is there something I'm missing to get this setting to stick? 2) ROOM GROUPS > I just picked up a used Play5 (S5 Gen 1) and added it to my stereo pair Play 1s in my den. I added the Play5 as a separate room (Family Room) because I wanted to maintain the Play1's separately as a stereo pair under "Den" (they are in the same room however). In order to get the three to play together, I've grouped them. So now I have "Family Room + 1" when I play music or line-in from the TV. However, I find that when I close and reopen the Sonos app, the room groups get reset to individual rooms. Is is possible to save a room grouping so that Sonos will remember and default to it until I change it?

Hi - can I force a ‘Update Music Library’ request via HTTP command? I want to create a script on my server so when I add songs to my library folder it will send a request to Sonos to update the library. Thanks

backstory: -- i have a Sonos Playbase -- i have a firewall server box with 3 network cards: WAN, LAN, IOT -- i have a LAN subnet which is my desktop, laptop, and file server box. (macOS) -- i also have an IOT subnet which is stuff like Alexa, home automation, PS4, TV, and my Sonos. -- IOT cannot even see the LAN computers -- however, LAN can connect and ping/ssh/etc into any of the IOT as long as the connection originates on the LAN side. the basic issue is that i cannot get Sonos app, or Spotify app, (or the iOS Sonos app) on the LAN side to find my Playbase on IOT subnet. the Playbase has a static IP and i can ping it just fine from the LAN side. and my Echo can see the Playbase on the IOT side fine. (and i can play from Echo from Spotify on the Playbase) how do i get the Sonos app to connect to my Playbase on a different subnet? is there a port forward i can setup? can i emulat

I have been using Play 1 and Playbar for years but recently bought a house that has 8ohm Speakercraft speakers ceiling speakers in every room. . Being hooked on Sonos I want to be able to have the same control over these speakers. They are all connected to an existing amp and have volume controllers in each room. The challenge I have is the wiring coming from the amp is 4-wire so I am not sur

in 2013 it is way time to add IPv6 support to every things we connect to the Internet.

For Sonos users who wish to choose which of their iTunes playlists are transferred to Sonos or for users who wish to use lossy formats for their ipods and lossless for their Sonos system. It makes a custom XML file on the NAS with unselected playlists removed and/or references adjusted to the lossless files. If you wish to only transfer a subset of playlists the application can be configured to display a playlist selector before the custom XML file is generated. The application can be configured to run and create the custom XML file on your NAS each time iTunes is closed. http://www.darrenlink.talktalk.net/ituneslibrarymanager http://www.darrenlink.talktalk.net/ituneslibrarymanager/download I

Hi, Our home has wired ceiling speakers in separate rooms on the main floor. Each rooms speaker can be turned on or off individually via a wall control dial. There are also two speakers (no ceiling, but actual mounted speakers) on our screened porch - they are part of this same system. When we moved, I brought three Play:1 speakers with me. A friend's genius son connected everything through a Sonos Connect - the result being I can stream Sonos through both the hardwired speakers, and the three Play:One speakers - or choose one or the other. I don't know much about the wired setup - there's a bunch of wires and a receiver (?) in a utility closet under the stairs. Again, the genius kid set it up. What I want to do now is somehow add in a soundbar for our TV. I'd like the soundbar to work with our ceiling speakers. The TV is nowhere near the utility closet with all of the wires and receiver. How do I set this up? Is it possible