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Unable to AirPlay to Era 100/300 in separate VLANs

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March 27, 2025
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Hello,

I dont see any reason why the other Topic was closed. Refering to

I will not accept the fact that this is just closed to say “Just put it in same VLAN”.

This is far more like a F*** O*** statement towards your customers.

The previous models, were pretty fine working, untill the ERA has been released.

How hard is it to listen also to your customers who wants to secure their enviroment and put things in different VLANS?

If this is not being fixed in the coming months, our stores in the Netherlands (35+), will not be onboarded with SONOS setups. To be honest, I still want this to get to work, but if this will stay like this, there is no other choice to see other brands. This is not a threat or a warning, just the facts.

Hope that someone from SONOS reads this actually.

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Best answer by kingebeng

@FedUpCustomer @tim_p @controlav @Zappp @UltraPhonic @Charlew

not sure if you have seen the message, but at last it is fixed!!!!!

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Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

Probably best asked on reddit where Sonos has people dealing with that sort of thing.

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Neednewspeakers

Lyricist I

I know this is an old thread, just saw it after I purchased an Era 100. This doesn’t make sense to me at all. I have 4 other Sonos products that all still work across vlans two Sonos ones, an Arc and a Beam. I was about to get an other era 300, a roam and an amp to add outdoor speakers. This is truly disappointing in 2026 that there isn’t the ability to have the newer products work across vlans. Time to look for new products sadly.

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UltraPhonic

Lyricist II

Following this week’s update, I am now able to Airplay to my ERA100’s across VLANs once again! Hope this is fixed generally for everyone now!

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kingebengAuthor

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Following this week’s update, I am now able to Airplay to my ERA100’s across VLANs once again! Hope this is fixed generally for everyone now!

Seriously? How to update?

UPDATE: wow!!!! It works!!! At last!!!!
someone from Sonos; can you please enlighten us what happened? How it is fixed?

Smilja

FYI, in general, the following applies:

Sonos products are compatible with most managed switches with some important considerations:
Sonos products must be on the same VLAN as all devices running the Sonos app. Devices on separate VLANs will not be able to connect to Sonos products.
https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/using-sonos-with-a-managed-switch

»And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)

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kingebengAuthorAnswer

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@FedUpCustomer @tim_p @controlav @Zappp @UltraPhonic @Charlew

not sure if you have seen the message, but at last it is fixed!!!!!

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Arcticpollen

Enthusiast II

I’ve been keeping my Sonos app and speaker firmware up to date over the last few months and since a recent update, have been struggling to use Airplay from my phones/tablets on one VLAN/SSID to the speakers on another VLAN/SSID. I have mDNS correctly configured on my UniFi network and this has been working well for months. My speakers are on firmware 93.1-73190 which is still listed as the latest at https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/article/release-notes-sonos-system-updates

Airplay has been pretty much unusable for the last couple of weeks. I ran a check in the iPhone app for system updates and it seems that there’s a later version available (93.1-73290) which isn’t even listed at the updates page.
The complete lack of any detail in the release notes has always been irritating in the extreme. Vanilla platitudes along the lines of “This release includes multiple fixes to improve overall player stability and reliability” are meaningless. Please keep the release notes more up to date and provide a bit more detail about what’s new/changed/removed in each release.

Smilja

@Arcticpollen, Did you also ran a check for iOS bug fixes?

»And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)

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Arcticpollen

Enthusiast II

@Arcticpollen, Did you also ran a check for iOS bug fixes?

I updated the Play 5s to 93.1-73290 this morning and Airplay is still unusable to Sonos devices.

It’s only using Airplay to Sonos devices that are affected. The stream starts and then fails a few seconds later. Other Airplay targets work fine, for instance, I’m using my phone for an Airplay stream to an Eversolo DMP-A6 currently in my home office. Airplay to other devices is also fine including a Cambridge Audio streamer and a Raspberry Pi based PiCorePlayer.

All the Airplay targets are on a different VLAN/SSID from my iPhone and iPad but show up happily in the iOS Discovery app. Other services relying on functioning mDNS are all OK tto - Philips Hue etc.

Airplay version 1 devices: -

And Airplay version 2 devices: -

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Zappp

Lyricist II

@kingebeng thanks for the heads-up, I’d given up all hope of this ever being fixed! It is absolutely wonderful to get that (expected from what seems most of us) functionality back again! It would truly be wonderful of Sonos would care to share some details on this fix – or if we should consider it a happy accident that may be gone again by next update.

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