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remote restart

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
November 22, 2014
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I have an active network: devices being added and taken away, new sources of RF interference & neighbours changing wifi channels. A frequent piece of advice is "you must power absolutely everything in the network off and on again", or "power on and off Sonos devices". With a reasonably large house, or devices in awkward locations this can be hassle.

It would be convenient if there was a remote restart switch that could cycle Sonos devices, say a "restart in X minutes".

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EastSeattleGuy

Lyricist I

Yes!! My network is enough of a hassle without dealing with my 28 Sonos components! Ideally, one could save the configuration data regarding the order in which the components should be restarted!

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mikaelld

Lyricist I

Why isn't this a feature yet??

jgatie

First of all, this thread is years old and and only a couple of posts. Second of all, its already done.

Open a browser and type:

http://sonos_ip:1400/reboot

Where sonos_ip is the IP addess of the Sonos device to reboot.

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aametzger

Lyricist III

Thanks jgatie! I could likely bookmark all my devices in the browser and process them one at a time, or write a script to run through them all. It would be nice if this was a feature of the gui contoller app though. Maybe under the advanced options, there could be a reboot devices expansion with check box selections next to each device the controller sees (and then ideally a "select all" option.)

ratty

Thanks jgatie! I could likely bookmark all my devices in the browser and process them one at a time, or write a script to run through them all. It would be nice if this was a feature of the gui contoller app though. Maybe under the advanced options, there could be a reboot devices expansion with check box selections next to each device the controller sees (and then ideally a "select all" option.)

I doubt that Sonos would consider a reboot option in the controller. Often as not, the recommendation to power-cycle the units is offered if they're already misbehaving.

As for scripting the URLs, two points:
- a simple sequence of URLs is problematic as there's a confirmation handshake for each
- if you're on SonosNet, order the reboots starting from the outermost nodes and working inwards

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