Advanced setups

How to receive a notification (or whatever) when the volume is changed by any client on the network. I am ok in opening a socket, which seems to be the way it travels over the network but I don't know what the frame will look like. I can control many functions of my Sonos using the POST apis. That is one thing that I can't figure out. Any help on the matter is much appreciated! thx

i want to use sonos in a presentation setting. Currently i have a microphone connected to a mixer, and the mixer connected to an amplifier wired with speakers. I want to replace the wired speakers with wireless speakers. I don't have internet network. Is it possible with sonos? If so, what sonos equipments do I need to buy to accomplish what I want?

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Hello, I would like to raise a discussion about the advanced setting "Audio Compression", which is a global setting. Meaning, that if you change this setting, it is applied to all your line-in components. I have a connect-component that has a Vinyl-player attached to it. I have a play 5 that has a computer attached as line-in. I'm having enormous problems with my vinyl player/Connect component. I've had several calls with sonos and it does not get solved. For now, the only solution is to go "compressed", but I have a problem with that. This implies that if I look at a movie on my pc, and use the line-in on the Play 5, I'm out of sync with sound / picture. So I'll have to re-change the setting to "automatic" and when playing vinyl again to "compressed"... and so on and so on Sonos is way to expensive for this. It's already sad that I have the problem with the connect component, it's not user friendly to keep

Good evening friends, I'm back at it... trying to fix my set up. It's never quite worked right, but, as you'll see, there are so many variables that I don't often get the time to sit down, diagram it and try and troubleshoot it. Here's the TLDR: when I use line in (Apple Airport Express for Air Play, or Amazon Dot) the audio breaks up instantly, and then it totally quits within 3 minutes. Other symptoms: the Bathroom Play:1 barely works - streaming audio is choppy, controller frequently can't 'find' it longer version: My network should be up to the challenge. I've got cat6e everywhere and all GigE switches. And yet, devices plugged into switches seem to prefer wireless over wired routes. I've got STP (vs RSTP) enabled on all my managed switches. I'm attaching a network topology diagram to this post. Here's where things get interesting. I have 3 VLANS: 1, 2, 3 1: primary

Hello everyone. I wonder if Sonos Connect does the DAC conversion of analog signal, that comes in to the device, and then do the conversion again while sending it to 'analog out'? I think it does and I look for a possibility to use Connect as a preaplifier but without double conversion? I need to plug in hi-end CD (with better DAC then Sonos) to power aplifier and would like to use Sonos as a preaplifier but without loosing quality. It is possible? Pawel

Hi, is it possible to have the tv sound to come out of all my Sonos Play 1's/Sub when watching TV? And with the same setup,have a turntable connected to the Play1's/Sub when listen to music. I wouldn't be listening to the turntable and tv at the sametime, but might listen to the turntable and just want video from the TV. Is this possible with any combination of speakers? The turntable has a built in amp.

Hello, I work for an IT company that is having some issues with some of your devices. We currently have 4 so so play one's and two of the play 3's. For some reason on wired or wireless they devices are always dropping connection and we need to start the setup process over. Whenever 3 or more of the devices are playing there always seems to be buffering and or lag (the rest of the network seems to be fine). All of the devices are on the same vlan. We were going to buy some of those boost devices but not sure if that will help.

Have multi zone Sonos system and looking for a solution to have doorbell sound out over speakers. Found discussion regarding using a Viking SLP-1 or SLP-4 to accomplish this: http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin/mboard/rc-custom/thread.cgi?23394 The SLP-4 has multiple doorbell sound options and runs ~$450 but does a lot of things not needed. Rather spend this cash on something else like another Connect:Amp. Any other options on this?

It would be fantastic if SONOS could become DNLA compatible or PLEX media server compatible .... Or if SONOS propose a plugging to make PLEX and SONOS compatible.... PLEX media server work on WINDOWS / MAC / LINUX and propose free package for most of the NAS of the market....

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