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My Sonos alarm has started playing random radio stations instead of the one it is set to! I have the alarm set to be BBC Radio 6 Music. but some mornings it plays Radio 2, othertimes Radio 4 and last week Heart FM. On each occasion the app on my phone says it’s BBC Radio 6 Music, but that’s not what’s playing. If I stop the radio and then just press play again a bit later, it plays whatever radio station it was playing earlier, whilst saying it’s Radio 6. It’s very strange and annoying! Any suggestions?

So when I initially updated to S2, it took me forever to get my old Play 3 and Play 1 to work. Had to use ethernet and it took 3 attempts to get it all working.Another upgrade yesterday and everything is gone. So I started adding them in again. Added 3 first. Seemed OK. Added 1 and the 3 disappeared. Tried again in different order and same thing happened. Quit app and restarted. Added 1 again. Started playing music. Quit app, restarted app and could not find Play 1 even thought music was still playing music. As well, all favorites were gone from the app. So at this point nothing is working. Tried 5 times to add devices in and they keep disappearing. Yes I have restarted the router. And no I don't want to tear everything apart to move them to my router and use ethernet. Very frustrating to have to work this hard when it was all working

Upon upgrading to S2 I learned one of my play 5 Sonos speakers is incompatible.  So I reverted to S1.  Reset all speakers, got 4 of 5 speakers back.  Easy enough. however, whenever I try to reconnect my Sonos Connect, S1 can’t find it.  More so, after an attempt To reconnect S1 loses the other 4 speakers and can’t find Sonos on my network AT ALL.   this is easily fixed too; connecting any other speaker by Ethernet quickly finds the 4 “lost” speakers.  But I still can’t reconnect the connect!  I’ve tried resetting it multiple times, locating it via Wi-Fi and Ethernet.  All attempts result in S1 “losing” the whole system.Any ideas?

I’m among the many thousands who like my “older Sonos” products and very much abhor the bungling that has ALWAYS characterized Sonos software - e.g., “Would you like to upgrade?” “No!” “Well, you have to!” “OK, then.” … Upgrade fails! | OF COURSE, it went from defective and deficient to nearly putting Sonos out of business earlier in 2020!Someone using this users-help-users-because-can’t-or-won’t forum said that s/he only got past this - which I am currently experiencing - by exiting the beta program.I didn’t believe it an hour ago, but now I’m ready to try ANY WAY of proceeding that might bring back sound to my trusty (until all this) Play:1.The software is such a mess when one has Gen 1 products that I believe that Sonos should do one of 2 things. Stop forcing upgrades and put out a piece of “legacy software” (maybe, the last, best version of pre-S1) and try to get away with “This product will no longer be updated by Sonos nor supported by any of its employees.”Alternatively, build i

Hi, ive just had my router “upgraded” by sky to the Sky Q router. I can’t manage to get the network to find any of my speakers. I’ve tried connecting via wps and also via wired Ethernet connection. The app can’t locate of any them.reading about this issue it seems a common problem. I’ve tried to stop synchronising 2.5hz and 5hz by logging into the admin page on 192.168.0.1 but this hasn’t worked.Any ideas?! My 3 kids fall asleep listening to music every night so this is beyond frustrating!! 

The LED on one of my Play1 speakers has got very dim, almost to the point that you cannot see it lit at all. The Play 1 works fine but all my other room Play 1’s have nice bright white LED’s.I have tried powering the Play 1 off and on, and also have tried deleting and adding it back into the system, but this makes no difference.Is this a hardward issue?Can it be fixed?

I am a long time Sonos user.  I have numerous Sonos products in two homes.  It has worked beautifully until this week (4/27/20).  On 4/27-4/28/20, my IOS app could not find the Sonos network and kept showing the message System Not Found.  I tried rebooting devices, downloading updated app, even called Verizon to inquire if they had updated any router settings recently.  No luck.  I called SonosTech Support and the tech was very helpful.  We eventually got the app running by connecting a Play1 directly to my router with a data cable.  Rooms began appearing and then I lost the phone connection!!  However, the Sonos network again became unstable and many devices simply would not appear in Rooms and some that did would not play.  Later, after reading about the Legacy S1 products and the impending upgrade, I decided to unplug all of my S1 products which were five Connect-Amps.  Miraculously, the Sonos network came right back and Rooms once again appeared.  It has been stable for 24 hours an

Hi guys I’ve just brought the Xbox series x today not realising it doesn’t have an optical to connect to my playbar , I’ve the playbar , sub and two play ones in my lounge , I’m absolutely gutted I can’t go through my Sonos , tv speakers very very poor lol does anyone know of any adaptors that would work ? I’m a total novice when it comes to technical terms so please explain and direct me , cheers guys , stay safe 

Sorry to bother everyone. Just got a Boost. Sonos says go to Settings/System and click on the “Add Bridge or Boost” but that option does not appear. Have a screen shot to prove it. I know I can’t use desktop app so used IOS. 

Seriously getting over this product. Over 2 years of constant drop outs and skipped songs. I have purchased a boost, fixed the problem for a week and now the system was worse then before! Seriously how do I fix this or have I wasted over $1000 on useless products.

I have seen where this has happened in the past, but haven’t found anything relevent to my situation.  Seems the volume -- especially on by playbar -- changes up or down for no apparent reason.  It has also happened on my Play:1 a couple times.Diagnostic is at 1591053599.I have reset the playbar and the internet/wifi and still happening.  Let me know if diag says anything.

I have a reproducible issue that applies to multiple Sonos speakers, looking for some help on how to resolve.Currently I have Sonos One’s and a few Subs in several (8) rooms and a couple of Sonos Fives.When starting to play music in the Sonos app across all speakers at once, the speaker that I am physically closest to always has a delay of about 5-10 seconds. Other speakers in my house start playing instantly.I can reproduce this in any room with any of the speakers and from any device (iPhone, iPad and Mac).Anyone else seeing this or have a solution? 

excuse the typo in the subject...can’t seem to edit it...but you know what I meant to write! I’ve had a Sonos Beam for ages working happily on 2 Samsung TVs. I’ve recently got a new LG CX. Sound was fine for one week (connected through ARC) but yesterday morning I got up and the sound is no longer working from the tv. Sound when played through the S2 app is fine so it’s purely a tv connection issue. Tried new HDMI cable, tried unplugging and plugging in again. Factory reset as well but no change. Every time I try and connect to the tv through the app it fails saying the ARC isn’t available.  on the tv this sort of symbol comes up when I switch to HDMI ARC.   hope someone can help..

Please can you tell me how to erase a sonos system (remove speakers from my account) please. Thank you. In fact I have many problems and I wanna start it again to be sure everything will be fine Thank you  

Often when playing music from my Plex server, the last ~10 seconds of each music track are truncated, along with the first few seconds of the next. The music just stops abruptly, and there’s silence until the next song picks up mid-note. It doesn’t always happen. Sometimes the same tracks play back flawlessly.The source is FLAC encoded audio tracks in a Plex music library.The player is a Playbar + Sub + 2xPlay:1’s in a surround setup.Other players, namely VLC, can play back the same tracks via DLNA just fine.Turning on crossfade doesn’t help. It just crossfades the silence. Grouping with other speakers in the house doesn’t help, either.Any clue what’s happening?

I recently setup my new Sony Bravia and the Playbase worked great. I could control the volume of a cable box, Netflix, Prime, etc, with the Sony system volume.I then fired up Youtube and the remote wouldn’t change the volume. I used the playbase hardware buttons to lower the volume, and subsequently the remote won’t change the volume of anything when controlling the Playbase (it of course works when I switch it to TV speakers).I’ve tried to unplug and plug in the Playbase and factory reset the TV to no avail.Any ideas? 

Hello Just recently this started happening:I will be watching tv, with the sound coming from the playbar and start streaming music from my iPhone (via Spotify) to the playbar.  The spotify music keeps dropping out from the playbar.  I unplugged the optical connection from my tv and this seemed to help, but this never happened before and just started happening.  Any Suggestions??

Lately I have been getting random static pops in my Sonos 5 (1st gen) speakers. I have 2 and it happens on both. Any idea what may be causing this. Never been an issue before.

I’ve been browsing the forums for a bit trying to resolve to drop out issues that seem to afflict one room in our house. Here is our setup:Network - Ubiquiti Unifi. The diagram isn’t completely accurate. The wired Sonos devices (boost in the living room, one of the satellites in the basement) are actually wired to the in-wall access points in their respective rooms (each in-wall AP has a 4 port switch built-in).  Living Room - Playbar + Sub + 2x Play:1 satellites. There is a boost connected to ethernet in this room Basement - Playbar + Sub + 2x Sonos One satellites. One of the satellites is connected to ethernet in this room. Bathroom - Single Play:1 Everywhere - MoveThe Play:1 in the bathroom is reasonably far away from the living room but probably not too far for 2.4GHz so it should be talking to the living room boost.In a perfect world, I’d get rid of the boost and connect each Playbar to ethernet, but I’d have to run new ethernet drops which is possible but not easy given the room

I’m going out of town and would like to be able to turn some music on & off throughout the day so my house doesn’t appear to be empty.  I downloaded the Yonomi app to my iPhone and conected it to my Sonos Cloud account but can’t find any instructions on how to use it to get my Sonos to go on.   Anybody out there know how to do this?  

I've had the Sonos Beam for three months now. As a soundbar for my Samsung TV it is excellent. As a Wi-Fi device it is terrible.It's sits with my Samaung TV, Sky Q box, Cambridge Audio Minx and Sony DVD player. All these devices never lose Wi-Fi connection but the Beam loses connection every other day.I can't talk to it via Alexa or Spotify and my Samsung phone Sonos App can't find it. The only way to get it to comeback is to reset the router. Getting mighty fed up with it now! Any ideas?Mark

Hi AllMy setup is as follows: 1x Playbar in the lounge, 2 x Sonos Play One speakers in the kitchen and 2 x Sonos Play One speakers on the patio. All Sonos products connect wirelessly over Sonos Net and I have a Boost plugged directly into the wifi router (which is at least one meter away from the wifi router). My wifi router’s 2.4Ghz channel runs on channel 11 and my Sonos Net on channel 6. The wifi router is in my lounge. I have assigned all my Sonos products static IP’s. I run a 100/10 fibre line. After doing all of this, my system still has lag and I experience drop outs. The speakers with poor connection are one in the kitchen and one on the patio. I cannot move these speakers and I cannot move my Boost nor my wifi router. The only problem can be the brick walls/structure of the house (none of which I can change).I am now going to hardwire all my Play On speakers (ie 2 x Sonos Play One speakers in the kitchen and 2 x Sonos Play One speakers on the patio) I can not hardwire my Playb

Hi guys, I have a comms cabinet with a bunch of equipment, and 9 Sonos Amps in it.  The Amps are stocked in 2 x 2’s, across 3 shelvels (ie., 2 shelves each have 2 Amps on top of each other, beside another stack of 2). The temperature within this cabinet, even with cooling fans etc runs to 35°c-40°c. The Amps, and everything else inside the cabinet, are very warm to touch. What is the ideal temperature to run these at? If they are consistently at 35°c, is that detrimental to the product? I have a quote to entirely strip out the comms cabinet and rebuild it with better ventilation etc., but it’s a pretty expensive quote - so just wanted to know how a big an issue the temperature really was. Cheers,JK

Every time I open Sonos it fails to find one or more of my 3 connect amps. Sometimes they are there and then disappear. I have1 Play1 on Wi Fi3 Play 3 wired3 Connect Amps wiredand 1 bridge.

I have a new Samsung Frame TV connected via HDMI ARC to a Sonos AMP.  Working perfectly until a few days ago. The system now is automatically switching off of the HDMI input and reverting back to the TV internal speakers… If I interact with the volume slider in the Sonos app it will switch back to the HDMI connection to the AMP, but then reverts back again to TV internal speakers after a few seconds.  The TV audio input settings look correct, the Sonos system plays back music just fine and is connected to the Sonos app...  Any ideas?