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Grouping older PlayBar with newer speakers (One & Roam)

  • April 24, 2026
  • 6 replies
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Hi, hoping someone can shed some light on an issue I’m having.

If I start music in a zone which either contains Sonos One or a Roam and then try to group another zone which contains a playbar, the music will restart form the beginning and play on the original zone but not on the playbar, even though it shows as grouped and playing in the app.

If I instead start the music on the playbar and then add the other zone (One or Roams), sometimes it plays on the Roams, sometimes it doesn’t, but again it shows as grouped and playing in the app. What is also interesting in this scenarios that if I press the play/pause on the Roam the music on the playbar stops.

I’ve tried rebooting router several times. I’ve also tried wired and wireless on the playbar, but overall it just doesn’t want to play with other zones.

Any thoughts on how to debug this, or is this a known issue with the older playbar and the (somewhat) newer Ones/Roams. I’m heavily invested in the Sonos ecosystem and this is driving me a little nuts.

Appreciate your feedback

6 replies

Stanley_4
  • Grand Maestro
  • April 24, 2026

It often clears up odd issues to do a network refresh.

Power down all Sonos, reboot the router and controller then power the Sonos back up. 

If it keeps happening try assigning reserved DHCP addresses to all Sonos, then do another refresh to activate them.


  • Author
  • Contributor I
  • April 24, 2026

Thanks for quick response. I’ll give the suggestions a shot. Fingers crossed


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  • Senior Virtuoso
  • April 24, 2026

Otherwise, a call to Sonos support might be in order. 


  • Author
  • Contributor I
  • April 24, 2026

So far so good. Chose to do a full refresh and IP reservation at the same time - not exactly methodical for debugging and isolating things further, but it saved a little time!

Anyway, all seems to work now, I can group and ungroup with the physical buttons as well as the app.

Thanks, much appreciated


Stanley_4
  • Grand Maestro
  • April 24, 2026

Doing it all at once is handy, particularly if some Sonos are hard to unplug.

As there is no known downside to the reservation settings there is no reason to make two passes if you just want the fix.


106rallye
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  • April 24, 2026

If you talk to Sonos, remember that they say “rooms” where you say “zones”.