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Sonos Port 12V trigger input

@Jamie A I think they are asking about the trigger cable, not audio.I haven’t used one since I scrapped my ZonePlayer but I think it was a 3...
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chomac3129Contributor I
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Communication avec l'enceinte Symphonics

Si je reconnais que le son est de très belle qualité, je suis en revanche très déçu et mécontent de votre produit, pour ce connecter on y passe des heures, impossibilité de simplement connecter l’enceinte en bluetooth, et y envoyer n’importe qu’elle source audio, de plus mon iPhone me demande un code Airplay, que je ne parviens pas à retrouver, ne l’ayant jamais programmer, puisque je ne dispose pas de l’apple TV, ce qui ne m’intéresse pas. Donc hormis diffuser de la musique sur un système dont je n’ai pas, c’est une boite blanche d’autant plus invendable, tellement il faut transférer par désactivation. donc tout ces histoire de sécurité au niveau de se genre de produit est très lourd pour un utilisateur lambda et n’apporte rien excépté frustration et perte de temps. Pour cité d’autre marque comme Bose, ou l’association via le bluetooth est plus simple, donc votre enceinte va rejoindre le placard et son carton, voir même finir au recyclage, cela fait ultra chier pour un produit à 100 e

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3 years ago
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MistrypTrending Lyricist I
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Playbar sound stops after a few seconds on TV Source, reselecting the source on the TV fixes it

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting in this forum.  My problem started after the software update from Sonos.  I have checked for updates on my TV and it is up to date.  I’ve tried power cycling all the devices, rebooted the router, also even changed my router and the problem still persists.  So when I turn on the TV, I get sound as normal for a few seconds and then it just goes silent.  If I select a different input on my TV and then go back to my ‘cable’ input, the sound comes back.  I only have to do this the first time every time I turn on the TV.  It’s pretty annoying having invested so much into my Sonos system and its doing this now when it never did it before.  I spoke with Technical Support who was able to capture some diagnostics.  The TV model is a Sony XBR65X900F.  I do have the 5.1 setup and the sound disappears on all the speakers in ‘living room’ group.  Everything is on S2 as well.  The router I’m using is a Linksys WRT1900AC. I do have a case # with Sonos supp

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JamesBEContributor I
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Sonos Arc no longer connects to wifi

It worked fine for about a month then all of a sudden, boom, the phone apps no longer recognize it. Reset the phone, cleared the apps’ cache, rebooted the arc, then finally reset the arc. Nothing works. Now when I try to set up the arc again, it won’t even find it. Is this a common problem? I just bought another speaker for my boyfriend’s office. If these things are this finnicky I’ll just return it.

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3 years ago
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Sander1980Contributor I
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Spotify Premium Family only connects to Sonos via Main account

Hi There, Since shortly we own Spotify Family Premium and we added a Beam to our current network. It works amazing however we noticed that Spotify can only be streamed to Sonos via the Main Family Account. All family members cannot acces the Sonos via Spotify. I made a diagnose report and its 1692571687Help would be really appreciated! ThanksSander 

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nkaminski94Contributor I
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Sonos One (Gen2) stops responding to ARP and cannot be found by app

Hello,I am experiencing a network related issue with a new Sonos One Gen 2 where after 8-12 hours of uptime, the Sonos device stops responding to ARP requests for its IPv4 address, leading to a case where it can no longer be found by the Sonos app nor pinged at its IPv4 address until the Sonos is rebooted. Force disconnecting the Sonos from WiFi and allowing it to reconnect also restores connectivity.This Sonos device is the only Sonos device in my system and is connected via WiFi through a Ubiquiti Unifi AC Lite AP. No other devices on this network exhibit similar issues.Once in this “bad” state, adding a static ARP entry on my Mac allows me to ping the device, as well as allows the Mac Sonos app to discover the device. However, this does not restore connectivity from the mobile app (as expected).Any insight into this? I was able to capture diagnostic # 516203405 while in the “bad” state using the Mac app as well.

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Annazel S
3 years ago
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SzlmartonContributor I
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Sonos one cannot connect to Spotify

I have purchased Sonos One a week ago. Connected to Spotify premium family on my iPad and iPhone 7. It worked fine, later I tried to configure Alexa and Siri, and since then neither sonos, neither spotify can connect. If I change the spotify user to one of the family members, it works both ways form the same iPhone and iPad. I have already tried to reinstall/reboot both apps, but nothing changed. From my logic there should be some settings in the family version of spotify, which blocks the connection. Sonos radio works in both cases.Any idea, what should I change? All sw are latest version.Thx for your comments.

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Jon AndrewsContributor I
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radio stations wont play

Keep getting message unable to play radio stations, for any station.  Subscribed to radio HD this week, which I’ll cancel because it doesn’t seem to offer any features and now none of the stations I usually listen to are available, BBC mainly.  Tried the reboot everything, no luck.  

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3 years ago
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DavidMCollierContributor I
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Previously connected pair of One surround speakers to Playbar no longer working

I have a Playbar under my Sony Bravia TV, and previously set up pair of One speakers as surround L & R. They have been running well for over a year. I am running S2 app on an iPhone 11 with iOS 14.2. The surrounds have suddenly stopped producing sound whether from the TV or from streaming music set up within the app, even though they appear in the app under system settings and I can also see them connected to my router on the 2,4GHz WiFi...so they are on my WiFi network. I have tried the following: reboot of router, reboot of Playbar and the One surrounds, and to remove and re-add the surrounds in the app. During the re-adding process I can hear both surround speakers so I know they work as speakers, but it seems there is some communication issue. Anything obvious I am missing??My support diagnostic confirmation is 196722245.

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Annazel S
3 years ago
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ChrisB60Contributor I
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playbar issues

Hi my play bar has started “stuttering” at the start of a new track download.  It never used to do this and none if my other sonos products do it.  Any ideas ?

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Ken_Griffiths
3 years ago
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sparky3659Contributor I
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speakers turning off intermittently

I'm having issues with my Sonos system since connecting to a new Wi-Fi network. A lot of the time, the app won't load any of the rooms/speakers and I have to turn Wi-Fi off and on again, close down the app, etc and sometimes this will work, sometimes it won't.  I'm now trying to stream a song via spotify through a play 5, play 1 and a sub. I get half way into the song and each speaker turns off and on intermittently. I'll have the sub only playing base for a few seconds, then maybe the play1 and maybe the play5. Very rarely them all together. Please help me fix my system as I've invested a few thousand pounds now in my system.  update- this only seems to occur when using spotify. Tunein doesn't seem to have any issue 

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SJDrewContributor I
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Coinect Apple TV 4K to Sonos One Speakers

I want to output the audio from my Samsung Frame TVs to 2 x Sonos ones in stereo. Is that possible?, I can’t use a playbar due to the way the frame is setup but is it possible with a connect amp?

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shadowplayerContributor I
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Sonos SYMFONISK Airplay randomly disconnects and can't be reconnected sometimes with my Macbook Pro

I have tried changing the Airplay audio quality setting to “compressed”, but it didn’t help and when I pause the music or videos for a few minutes, I will have to go back to the MacBook to deselect the speakers and reselect again. 

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Annazel S
3 years ago
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Daver1999Contributor I
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random speaker cracle from amp

I’ve got 2 separate Sonos systems since the S2 app won’t work with my Play 5 and Connect Amp. My new system consists of an Arc, Sub, Amp and 2 in-ceiling Polk Audio speakers. This is the one I’m having issues with  When I‘m not using the system, my left rear speaker makes a crackling noise at random times. Approximately every 20 minutes. The sound is quiet, so it is not always noticeable with ambient noise going on, but when the house is quiet it is annoying. Any ideas what this could be and how to stop it?

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3 years ago
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Ana108Contributor I
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IR Range Problem with TV Remote after Software Update

Today our Sonos stopped working and the app said a software update was required. We did the update, then the TV remote no longer worked. We re-added the remote using the process on the app. Now, the TV remote will only adjust the volume if I’m less than 6 feet away. Before the software update everything worked great. Nothing else has changed. I read some similar posts, tried unplugging the play bar, changed the batteries on the remote, cleaned the IR window. Nothing helps. Help would be appreciated. 

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Mom23BoysContributor I
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Any way to use Sonos Beam without wifi (college campus)

I bought my son a Sonos Beam for Christmas.  He lives in his fraternity house but all devices must connect to campus wifi - devices with an operating system like phones, laptops, etc. connect to one.  Devices without an operating system - soundbars, playstation, Alexa, etc. connect to the other.Is there any way to use the Sonos Beam for anything other than a tv soundbar without access to wifi?  There is no way his phone (iPhone) and the Beam can be set up on the same network.  They do not have ethernet in the fraternity house (old house).   Can you use Airplay 2 to stream from the phone to the Beam without wifi or does that need wifi as well?  If wifi is a must, do they need to be on the same network (my guess would be yes but I don't know)  Looks like the answer was not doable to this a couple of years ago but don't know if things have changed since then.  Trying to avoid shipping it back to sonos!

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3 years ago
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MaxLevLContributor I
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Sonos Amp random popping / cracking sound on left channel

Hi, I have a Sonos Amp (new generation). its been plugged in october. I noticed that often when changing songs on Spotify, I would hear a popping / cracking sound from my left speaker. I tried to reproduce the problem but it was really random. A week ago, it started cracking /popping at random pretty much at any time, on any source like when I use Spotify, my TV or my Amazon Fire stick. I interchanged the left and right speaker to see if the problem was coming from the speakers, and it was still only affecting the left channel... I tried new cables, new banana plug... New hdmi cable... Connected to my network with a cable... Still no luck…Is there a possibility that my amp needs to be repaired or maybe there's an update or something I could do? Thanks!

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Simon B
3 years ago
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cabadaContributor I
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Sonos won't connect

A few days ago, my Sonos app started being unstable.Most of their options are grayed out. I lost setup of my Sonos devices, they won’t load I can control them from any other app, such as Spotify, and the names appear correctly In some cases I’ve been able to see my local system, and grouped speakers. I restarted one of my speakers, to do configuration from zero, but it won’t let me finish the configuration.I’m attaching screenshots of how my app looks. I’ve tried with multiple phones, and with on my 4G cellphone network, and they all stay the same, grayed out. I restarted the app from zero, without adding a system to it, to see if my local system was the problem. But even when having the app started from zero, all these problems persist.  If I try to join my Sonos local system, it does find it and it does says “You are connected to your Sonos at WiFi Network”I’ve seen the Sonos Service has some problems right now https://status.sonos.com/ but I don’t know if this is related to that.Is

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3 years ago
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SThanContributor I
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Connect:AMP Line In audio not working

I have 4 Connect:AMPs and 1 Connect (Gen2). Two of the Connect AMPs have Line-In connections from TVs - Kitchen and Bedroom. The set up was done two years ago, and has been working well until recently. Now, if I select Line-In on the app, it indicates active audio (wavy thing), however there’s no sound from the speakers. I tried both the line-ins separately on the respective rooms’ Connect AMPs and also on Connect AMPs in other rooms - no use. However, all play streaming music (from local PC) and internet radio stations well. Only problem is with Line-In on both the AMPs. Any help would be greatly appreciated.  (submitted diagnostics - 44375962).

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Mark71Contributor I
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spotify keeps losing connection and skipping tracks

I’m having issues and the system is largely useless it used to work fine in multiple rooms but now I keep getting the “connection to Spotify lost” and tracks are skipping or just not playing.ive checked for updates and reset/reinstalled all 7 speakers please help

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3 years ago
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DDearContributor II
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Speakers work but not visible on the app

Hi, since the new app none of my rooms or speakers appear on the app. I have tired every option give by the FAQ’s but still nothing. Attached cable to speaks and router, reset all speaks, resent app, turn power off for an hour overnight - nothing no more options left - help! 

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controlav
3 years ago
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Tony!Contributor I
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Movies Work Fine, but music drops

​​​Network MatrixI’ve been having issues with my system for a few months now and I need some help. I’ve had my system for about 4 years now. A playbar, sub, and two play3’s in a stereo pair for surrounds, They make up a group called lounge in the living room. I have another play1 that hangs out in the kitchen called traveler. So here is the problem:When I play music, doesn’t matter where the source is coming from, it can be from my synology NAS or amazon music, or sonos radio, it will drop audio in the lounge group for 3-10 seconds. It can be every 10-20 minutes or it can be unbearable and a couple of times in the span of one song, or it can go hours without issue. But here’s the deal, Traveler NEVER drops, it’s located about 10-15 feet form the living room (in the kitchen). And when I watch movies/TV the audio is always perfect and never ever drops in the group.In my troubleshooting I got a boost. It didn’t help so I Moved my router/modem/boost out of the living room and into the base

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Annazel S
3 years ago
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TotorollinContributor I
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Sonos Five stopped appearing in available airplay devices

Some time over the last couple of days my Sonos Five stopped appearing in the list of available airplay devices. I running the latest iOS 14.3 and my Sonos app is up to date. I can still launch the app and play music through it, but am unable to see the Five as an available airplay device when using, for instance, BBC Sounds or Spotify. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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Frederico BContributor I
posted in Components and Architectural
optical Arc

Hello, since I bought my new Samsung Qled 95T, I have problems with the Sonos Arc.the sounds skipped always and I have to switch off the power of the Arc on and off to get sound again. The software is up to date, but the problem is still there. the second problem is, I cannot listen with my Bluetooth headphones (Sennheiser pxc 550) with this high end Television 😣. With the old 4K Samsung my wife could listen normal with the Arc and I with the headphone( my hearings is not so good anymore).Are there solutions for this problem? I want to use my headphone. Can I by an optical transmitter an use the optical port of the Arc for sound on my headphone and the Sonos Arc connected with hdmi ? 

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controlav
3 years ago
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dreed12Contributor I
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Line in from TV stops working intermittently

Sometimes when we turn on the tv and sonos  playbase, no sound comes out. If I look in the app, the TV input isn’t selected but nothing plays when I select it. Audio In shows no signal. Other times the system works as expected with the TV and always works with music via app. If it’s not working, it fixes itself next time we turn it on. So it’s definitely an intermittent issue with the line in. I have checked the optical cable has a red light, replaced the cable, rebooted, checked TV and sonos are up to date, checked audio format in Tv so not sure what else to look for. I’ve submitted diagnostics - confirmation number: 161195062ThanksDom 

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Rowena B.
3 years ago
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MikeShuffContributor I
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I have a new wifi router . System on settings greyed out

Have 2 SONOS one SL speakers.2weeks old on wall brackets , cables buried behind plaster and newwall paper. New router 20 metres away so ethernetcablenotan option.So how I connect my brand new sonos speakers to my new wifi router?On the app systems is greyed out as is my account details.Everything else easily connected to new wifi,  problem only with these Sonos speakers

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Ken_Griffiths
3 years ago
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