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Airplaying from macOS to an Era 100 does not work. The speaker is discovered, but when I try to select it, I get a generic error saying “Could not connect to “<Speaker name>””.

This is highly specific to macOS (laptops in my case, 3 of them) and the Era 100.

Using Airplay on macOS to my other Sonos products (Port, Beam, Play:1) works without issue. Direct play from Spotify on macOS to the Era 100 works as well.

Likewise using Airplay from an iPhone to the Era 100 works.

Sonos chat support was unfortunately unable to help after extensive troubleshooting, will have to call in, but judging by other posts, this seems to be a Sonos issue considering its specific to one speaker model.

If anyone has had any luck getting an answer from their phone support it would be appreciated to post the solution here. Otherwise I fear that there is nothing to do but wait for Sonos engineers to prioritize this.

WORK AROUND


So I got it work, kinda of. Though far from Ideal I got my Sonos speaker (Move 2) to once again work with the MacBook Pro M3 via airplay. 

With the MacBook I chose another Sonos speaker that never stopped working with it. Then I linked the Move 2 to it by the holding down my finger on the play button on the Move 2. 

I checked and if I then deselect the other speaker via the app both are no longer connected. So again far from ideal. But it does work. Though it is also worth noting the Move 2 does also have bluetooth while the Era series does not. So there was a back up alternative already. But fidelity over bluetooth isn’t nearly as good as over Airplay. 
 

Interesting. 

For kicks, I decided to try something similar. 

I was able to Airplay to an older speaker (an Arc or a One), and then add my Era300 pair to that group in the Sonos controller. 

Also not ideal, but it did work. Even if it was kinda laggy. 

​@Smocksox 

FYI, the Era series do have Bluetooth. Maybe your comment saying they do not was a typo🤔

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