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Sonos Roam trueplay for other speakers

  • March 10, 2021
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Hopefully a not so crazy question: now that the Roam is coming, will we ever be able use it as a calibration device for other Sonos speakers, e.g. home theather setup, etc.?

I don't own any Apple devices to use trueplay and I imagine it's even annoying for Sonos to keep up with multiple device / mic profiles as even the latest iPod / iPad iterations are not yet supported. This wouldn't be a problem with Sonos Roam as you are already in control of what goes in them and we could finally have a solution for this whole "no trueplay on Android" topic.

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melvimbe
  • melvimbe
  • March 10, 2021

Hopefully a not so crazy question: now that the Roam is coming, will we ever be able use it as a calibration device for other Sonos speakers, e.g. home theather setup, etc.?

I don't own any Apple devices to use trueplay and I imagine it's even annoying for Sonos to keep up with multiple device / mic profiles as even the latest iPod / iPad iterations are not yet supported. This wouldn't be a problem with Sonos Roam as you are already in control of what goes in them and we could finally have a solution for this whole "no trueplay on Android" topic.

 

Sonos rarely gives us advance notice of upcoming features like this, so I wouldn’t expect it now.  I think you could confidently say that the Roam has the mic to handle this feature, just don’t know if it has the hardware to do so.  I don’t know the exact requirements to do trueplay, or what process is done on an iphone, etc.

And honestly, I don’t think it would be thought of as a solution for android lack of trueplay.  People would complain that you have to buy a $170 Roam while Apple users get it for very.  “This is clearly another Sonos money grab and persecution of android users”.

Danny
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  • JCR28
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  • April 22, 2021
Hello guys,
I have just bought a Sonos Roam, and I too would like to know if the Trueplay of the Roam coupled to my stereo pair of Play 5 in the same room, can also calibrate all 3 Sonos
(No Apple just Andoid devices)
 
 
 
Airgetlam
  • Airgetlam
  • April 22, 2021

No, the Roam will only “TruePlay” itself, not any other Sonos devices.

Bruce
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  • Anonymous
  • April 25, 2021

Yes that would be nice, Or Sonos can build their own Trueplay microphone so they dont have to keep up with all the new hardware, I cant do Trueplay with iPad Air 4.

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Yup same here. We are an Android only household. Even if I have a friend over who has an Apple device (and we haven’t had people over in a year due to COVID) it would be impossible to use their device because I have young kids who make noise. I would only be able to tune my speakers during the rare moments that all of my kids are not home. So yeah, now that I have the Roam, it would be great to use it to tune Trueplay on other speakers without having to have a friend come over and waste our time together awkwardly trying to tune my speakers.

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I would really welcome this too - it'd probably convince me to add a Roam to my collection.

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  • Tomasz_FK
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  • May 2, 2021

It would be great to copy Auto Trueplay feature from Roam and Move to other speakers with mics, like One, Beam, Arc and others!

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  • May 2, 2021

No, the Roam will only “TruePlay” itself, not any other Sonos devices.

Maybe a simple line of code in the firmware of Sonos Roam and other devices could offer us this function ....

 

Airgetlam
  • Airgetlam
  • May 2, 2021

If it was that simple, wouldn’t  they have done it on any of their speakers that already have a microphone? The fact that they haven’t leads to a conclusion that it isn’t as simple as a ‘line of code’. 

Bruce
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  • May 3, 2021

OK but Roam is the first Sonos device with a microphone AND the "trueplay" system ……….
No other is equipped with the app “trueplay”

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  • James L.
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  • May 3, 2021

OK but Roam is the first Sonos device with a microphone AND the "trueplay" system ……….
No other is equipped with the app “trueplay”

Move was the first Sonos product with Auto-Trueplay functionality, and the Sonos One was the first Sonos product with mics. I’ve logged this as a feature request and passed it onto the team for consideration, but Bruce is correct, it will be a lot more work than a simple line of code to make sure everything is working correctly :slight_smile:

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  • May 3, 2021

Ok many thanks, but it’s not impossible.
Please Sonos do it for us :laughing:

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