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I have a Sonos Arc, Roam 2 and Beam. The Arc is in our living room, the Beam in an upstairs room. Especially when I use voice control (which is only set on the Arc), sometimes the app shows the Beam in use. If I change the player to the Arc, it seems confused and tries to play what was on the Beam on the Arc.

For instance, if I had the TV sound on the Arc, it will play music from the Beam until I change it on the app to TV. If I had the Roam linked to the Arc, it’s worse.

 

Can I set a default player on the app? I don’t use the Beam very often.

 

You could start with the Arc and group the other Sonos to it. You would need to unelected the auto-ungroup option on the Arc to keep it in the group when playing the TV. 

If you want them ungrounded on selecting TV then you would want that option selected.

I'm not really sure what you are trying to do here, but the ordering and rearranging of the listed Sonos aggravates a god number of folks. So far no way to fix that frustrating reshuffling.

What I was trying to describe is if I turn on the TV either by voice control or using the TV on switch, then go to the app to adjust the volume, it (sometimes) shows the Beam. So I change the player to the Arc, and it then plays whatever was on the Beam. So I have to then choose the TV, which I think is crazy.

I would think it simple to have the ability to just choose a default player on the app.

How are you changing the selection from the Beam to Arc? For me it is really simple but I don't do voice. I just tap the Sonos device I want.

 

Player selection list

 

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