I wanted to set up my Move speakers at a friend’s house so he could hear how they sound before considering an upgrade. We tried a lot of things and failed. Various error messages which I cannot put into proper context at this point since we tried so many things. Mainly, though, neither of us was able to connect the Move speakers to his system through the Add Product option.
Here’s my scenario:
- 2 Sonos Move speakers
- He has S1 app and some speakers only S1 compatible. I have S2 app.
- His app runs on his iPhone, mine on Android (Samsung Galaxy S10)
- He has a google mesh network, I have a 5ghz Synology router at my home
- My app greyed out the System menu at his house so I was unable to add his network as trusted by me
I was able to see the speakers in my app but it was unable to connect them successfully. At one point in one of our trials it was suggested that I downgrade my app to S1 because of the other speakers present on his network.
At another point the app said it was going to use a temporary Sonos Wifi connection, but it still failed to connect.
My questions:
- Are there articles that describe the Sonos connectivity architecture? I’m unclear on where things are actually stored and remembered; such as networks the speakers have connected to, trusted networks, etc. Are these details in the Sonos app? Speaker memory? Sonos cloud?
- What are the implications of downgrading app to S1 if I had chosen that?
- I had not brought my Ethernet to USB-C connector, nor my power docks. Some articles and messages we found seem to suggest that one or both of these were required. Why would that be necessary? (see first bullet question)
Would love to get some clues here.
-=Rich=-
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