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Question about adding a sonos one to an existing room set up.
hi all
i'm trying to add a Sonos One to my existing system, for 2 reasons: 1) first and foremost, to add a device that is compatible with alexa (all my other existing devices are not), and 2) to add an additional speaker to my system (why not?).
The problem is that when i added the sonos one and tried to add it to an existing room, all other rooms other than the one i wanted to add it to appeared as choices. The existing room (my living room) has two existing play 3s (paired together i think), a subwoofer and a playbar. does any of this preclude me adding the new speaker alongside these devices? (and is therefore a reason why this room did not appear?).
i know that i can group rooms so the advice of 'just call it x and then group it with your living room' is (partly) valid. But this workaround causes some additional problems - for example, when i use alexa to play a song in the living room, i then have to manually group it with the room the sonos one has been allocated to each time; or when i play the television - again i need to manually group them, otherwise i don't hear sound through my new speaker (the sonos one).
i've tried turning the sonos one on and off so that i can have another go at adding it to the living room but unfortunately because it has already been recognised it doesn't give me the green flashing light needed.
apologies if i am missing something really obvious, or trying to achieve something not possible.
many thanks in advance.
ps - alexa works really well.
i'm trying to add a Sonos One to my existing system, for 2 reasons: 1) first and foremost, to add a device that is compatible with alexa (all my other existing devices are not), and 2) to add an additional speaker to my system (why not?).
The problem is that when i added the sonos one and tried to add it to an existing room, all other rooms other than the one i wanted to add it to appeared as choices. The existing room (my living room) has two existing play 3s (paired together i think), a subwoofer and a playbar. does any of this preclude me adding the new speaker alongside these devices? (and is therefore a reason why this room did not appear?).
i know that i can group rooms so the advice of 'just call it x and then group it with your living room' is (partly) valid. But this workaround causes some additional problems - for example, when i use alexa to play a song in the living room, i then have to manually group it with the room the sonos one has been allocated to each time; or when i play the television - again i need to manually group them, otherwise i don't hear sound through my new speaker (the sonos one).
i've tried turning the sonos one on and off so that i can have another go at adding it to the living room but unfortunately because it has already been recognised it doesn't give me the green flashing light needed.
apologies if i am missing something really obvious, or trying to achieve something not possible.
many thanks in advance.
ps - alexa works really well.