Setting static IP addresses

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[To avoid any confusion: this is about static IP addresses, not reserved IP addresses!]

Is it possible to set/unset static IP addresses within Sonos devices?

The reason I ask is that I have just been checking in my router to see what internal IP addresses are currently in use, and I find that one of my Sonos devices out of a total of eleven has an IP address which is not within my DHCP range. It’s actually permanently on an IP address that I have (for many years) had statically assigned to another device.

What I would like to do is to stop it from using that IP address, and get it to request an IP address via DHCP - in my assigned DHCP range - like the other ten devices do.

Note that this device is one of four in my system that are connected via Ethernet to my network.

[As above, this is the distinction between static and reserved IP addresses: To set a reserved IP address, you configure your router’s DHCP server to recognise a device’s MAC address and always give it a specific IP address within the DHCP range. To set a static IP address you configure the device itself to always use the same IP address which is outside the DHCP range that the router allocates. It means that the device never uses DHCP to get an IP address.]

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Ken_GriffithsAnswer

There isn’t a way for a user to set a static IP address within the Sonos hardware/software. Note some (not all) routers can set a reserved IP address, both within and outside the address range that a user has set for use by the DHCP server.. my suggestion is to check your routers configuration pages and change the assigned address accordingly - even consider a factory reset of the router if you think there maybe a fault (but that’s entirely at your own risk).

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Kumar

All Sonos kit and associated devices like the NAS are reserved, but the router still seems to ignore some of these reservations, as it seems to do for the TP link devices with reserved addresses on the network. But everything seems to be hanging together and working fine, so I guess for now this is a problem that does not need a solution.