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jennifers
Contributor II
December 18, 2017

Randomly playing music in the middle of the night

  • December 18, 2017
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Since I added a SonosOne to my existing setup (I already had a 5 and two 3's in my living room, hooked to my Dot, and another Alexa in the house), I've had Sonos start playing music randomly in the middle of the night a few times. They have all been days where I had played a lot of music ... can't imagine how that is related, but it seems like more than coincidence. I live alone and have no pets, so nothing could be causing this - doesn't make sense.
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    hewie66
    Lyricist II
    November 2, 2018
    That does sound like a logical explanation - but as I think I mentioned in my first post, the music that plays is something that neither of us have heard of (neither the artist or the song). I let the music play onto a second track, this morning, to see what would happen and it plays another song we've never heard of... So it seems like it's playing a playlist or something. Fingers crossed the diagnostics shed some light on it - both my Sonos 1 and 3 are now turned off at the wall, for the time being!
    Ryan S
    Ryan S
    Retired Sonos Staff
    November 2, 2018
    The diagnostic shows in both of those rooms that the last commands to play music have come from a Spotify account over the direct control interface. To start a connection with a Sonos system and a Spotify account, you need to be on the same wireless network. After a connection has been established, you can disconnect from the wireless and remain connected until those Sonos devices start playing something other than Spotify. As soon as that's done, you'd need to get back onto the wireless to re-establish control.

    My advice, play something that isn't Spotify on Sonos, and change your wireless network's password. Note that if you do change the wireless credentials, you'll need to wire one of your Sonos devices into the router temporarily so that you can change the password to the new one.
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    careykopp
    Lyricist I
    December 11, 2018
    This just happened to me. Is 4:40am in the morning. I’m tired. Here’s the diagnostic number
    538580303
    Save me.
    Smilja
    Smilja
    December 11, 2018
    This just happened to me. Is 4:40am in the morning. I’m tired. Here’s the diagnostic number
    538580303
    Save me.
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