Why does the Works with Sonos capability for my Receivers require that my Sonos Port has to be on Wi-Fi only vs Ethernet? If the Port is plugged into Ethernet on the same network/subnet (i.e. into switches that are going to the same router as the WiFi signal but hardwired instead of on wi-fi) My Pioneer and Onkyo receivers - both of which have Works with Sonos capability - don’t find the Sonos Port. The feature only seems to work if i unplug the hardwire and let the Port connect via WiFi only. Mind you regardless of ethernet or wifi the Ports are getting a 192.168.0.xxx address - so it shouldn’t make a difference unless the Works with Sonos is dependent on some WiFi-Direct or AirPlay style capability. I would ideally like to run my Sonos Ports off their ethernet connection but this dependency prevents that. Feels like a bug in the implementation.
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Hi
Welcome to the Sonos Community! And, apologies for the delay.
Sorry to hear of the issue you’ve been having. What are you plugging the Ethernet cable into? Is it a managed switch? If so, that could conceivably be the issue. If you are using a managed switch, are you able to bypass it for a test? Please do so if you can. If you are using an unmanaged switch, however, that should have no issues.
I’ll bring this up in a meeting I have tomorrow - I don’t think many of our staff have Works with Sonos gear to test with, but someone must have some somewhere. I’ll get back to you when I hear more.
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