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Option to disable built-in WiFi, when Sonos is used as a single device.

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There are certain users, who don't utilize multi-zone capabilities, since they've picked up just a single Sonos player - be it Connect or Play - for one-room music experience. Naturally, those users don't need to keep the built-in WiFi in always ON state. Please, consider adding an option to disable WiFi, when it is not required. This will reduce power consumption, interference with other wifi sources, and keep the environment clean and free of extra EMR.

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philhelas

Lyricist I

I agree, it should be possible to turn off Wifi if needed
Thanks

ratty

I agree, it should be possible to turn off Wifi if needed
Thanks

It's not officially supported but Google is your friend.

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philhelas

Lyricist I

Thank you Ratty for your advice. I did it.
but as "Azur - Sonos" a Sonos employee wrote before in this forum : "You are welcome to vote on this feature in this thread."
That's what I am doing and I would really appreciate that Sonos enabled and supported this as an option : wifi on/off. It would be great !

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Peck

Avid Contributor I

The following may be of interest.

I've had to disable wifi connections on several of my sonos boxes to get the network stable.
Works a treat.

https://bsteiner.info/articles/disabling-sonos-wifi

Max P

Sonos Employee

The following may be of interest.

I've had to disable wifi connections on several of my sonos boxes to get the network stable.
Works a treat.

https://bsteiner.info/articles/disabling-sonos-wifi

Hi Everyone,
This is an interesting conversation, but I would like to add a little note.
The steps on this website aren't officially supported by Sonos and we wouldn't advise disabling the WiFi on a Sonos device.

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Chocomonsters

Contributor III

Simply search "sonos turn off wifi" on google. Good tutorial by Benoit Steiner shows you how to turn off wifi.

I have 9 sonos connect and connect:amp all hard wired and wifi turned OFF. All rooms sync beautifully over ethernet and it has been much solid setup than relying on wifi-mesh network. If you have noisy wifi environment (I have multiple APs with 2.4GHz and 5GHz plus Guest Network at home), turning off wifi mesh network of Sonos also has additional benefit.

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stopthelag

Lyricist I

The following may be of interest.

I've had to disable wifi connections on several of my sonos boxes to get the network stable.
Works a treat.

https://bsteiner.info/articles/disabling-sonos-wifi

Hi Everyone,
This is an interesting conversation, but I would like to add a little note.
The steps on this website aren't officially supported by Sonos and we wouldn't advise disabling the WiFi on a Sonos device.

You guys need to design a better solution. I agree that there needs to be a "Supported" wifi off option. And why are you bridging traffic anyways between Ethernet and Wifi... Because you guys obviously suck at networking. You do not seem to play with other network switches with RSTP or STP... And given that homes are becoming smarter and more networked (meaning that they are more advanced) you guys seriously need to do a better job of not killing your client's home networks with your speakers. If you need to bridge traffic do it only for the SONOS MACs that are part of the home network. Do not bridge everything!

This problem will only become more of an issue over time and obviously the current design does not cut it for smart homes. I have 5 play1s and a playbar now. I was tired of hearing my TV frame vibrating on certain sounds... The sounds is great. Your networking design needs improvement. Perhaps I should work there to help you guys redesign something better... 🙂

MikeV

You guys need to design a better solution. I agree that there needs to be a "Supported" wifi off option. And why are you bridging traffic anyways between Ethernet and Wifi... Because you guys obviously suck at networking. You do not seem to play with other network switches with RSTP or STP... And given that homes are becoming smarter and more networked (meaning that they are more advanced) you guys seriously need to do a better job of not killing your client's home networks with your speakers. If you need to bridge traffic do it only for the SONOS MACs that are part of the home network. Do not bridge everything!

Sonos devices DO support STP, but not RSTP. If you have switches that use STP, you need to have "Classic STP" enabled, and use short path cost values. If you have "smart" switches but don't have STP enabled on them, then you should have the switches set to flood BPDU packets so that Sonos devices can pass their STP packets without interference by the switches.

And they need to bridge everything... because you could plug a non-Sonos device into the Ethernet port on a Sonos device that is wireless to the rest of the network. If they only bridged Sonos traffic, then you wouldn't be able to do that. It's not a commonly used scenario, but it is used.

The S in IOT stands for Security.

ratty

Devices also need to bridge everything in order to support Android devices connected directly to SonosNet. This is a commonly used scenario.