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Crdrummond
Contributor I
December 31, 2021

Problems connecting garden room

Hi there!

So I have a Sonos system in my house. Included in the system is a bridge which is hardwired to my main router (though from what I read, this is largely redundant, but it’s connected anyhow).

I have an outbuilding which is at the end of the garden, and which has the house wifi extended to it via a repeater which is hardwired to another repeater in the house (note it’s not hardwired to the main router as this isn’t possible). The house repeater that the outbuilding repeater is hardwired to is connected to the main house router via Wi-Fi (mesh system - they are all Fritz!boxes).

With my current set up, I don’t appear to be able to add a Sonos speaker in the outbuilding as the system can’t find it (it works if I bring it up to the house and connect it there). I think this is probably because, whilst the wifi is extended to the building, Sonos’s own wifi isn’t.

What do I need to do to make this work? I have tried connecting the outbuilding Sonos speaker to the repeater in the outbuilding via Ethernet but this didn’t work. Do I need another Sonos bridge? Is it even possible? Let me know thank you! :-)

 

 

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    ratty
    ratty
    January 1, 2022

    A wireless Sonos device in the outbuilding would try to connect back to the units in the house over SonosNet. Presumably this would fail owing to the distance.

    Wiring the Sonos to the outbuilding repeater didn’t work? Meshes often use a flavour of spanning tree protocol to prevent loops. This could be fighting with SonosNet’s own STP, such that a wired device ignores the Ethernet. 

    I think it would be worth experimenting with ‘mixed mode’. Take the outbuilding Sonos unit back into the house and make sure it connects okay. Then enter your WiFi details via Settings/System/Network. Put the speaker back in the outbuilding and see if it connects to the WiFi there. 

    CrdrummondAuthor
    Contributor I
    January 1, 2022

    Thank you!

    Oddly I tried it again earlier today and it just worked! Possibly something to do with setting up in the house first, but I did that yesterday and tried it and it didn’t work.

    but switched in the sonos today and it connected fine.

    very strange though!

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