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Actually, I should not be shocked that there is no way to remove a speaker, or in my case a Sonos Connect.  After all, this is Sonos!  I have a pair of Era 100 speakers arriving today, and was planning on setting them up in my living room, using the same name as the Connect -- “Living Room”.  I just read in several threads you have to wait until they just drop off from the network.  That is insane!

 

While we’re on the subject, whoever named these speakers “Era” should be fired!  Sounds like “Error”!

 

If Sonos did not make such great sounding speakers, I would have dumped them years ago!

The option to hide a product was available in the previous app, but has yet to be implemented in the new Sonos app.

You can simply rename the Connect “Living Room” if you wish the Era 100s to be “Living Room”.

Actually, I cannot rename “Living Room” since I disconnected the device this morning.  It’s not an option in the app now.   This is absolutely ridiculous!

Let me plug it back in and hope I can rename it.

Are you no longer using the CONNECT? If CONNECT is still active in the system, change its Room name. If CONNECT is no longer active in the system, uninstall and reinstall the controller. Or, wait a few days and the CONNECT will no longer be listed.

Actually, since I disconnected it, I am unable to change it’s name or do anything else with it.  It just says it’s unavailable.  So, I plugged it back in, and now it doesn’t show up at all!  It’s not showing in the Android app or the Windows app.

 

So, I unplugged it again.  Hopefully it won’t show back up!

In this scenario it is inconvenient that a unit remains part of the system when you never intend to use it again, but it would also be inconvenient if a unit was automatically deleted from the system when temporarily shut down, perhaps while the area was being cleaned or painted.

If the Connect was being used on S1 then it doesn’t matter what room name it has as the Era 100s are only compatible with the new Sonos app.

In a perfect world, when adding a new device to a system, the setup steps should ask if you are replacing an existing device, eg when you ‘upgrade’ your mobile phone.

I have replaced many Sonos speakers over the years, and sold the replaced speakers on eBay. When listing an item on eBay you get a unique item number. I rename the old device (room) using that item number, eg “eBay1234567890”, after taking photos, before disconnecting.

I then reset the device, it will disappear from App withing a few days.

I can then see when the ‘eBayNNNNNNNNNN’ device disappears from my account at sonos.com, I can easily identify when purchaser has successfully registered my old device in their system, as it contains the eBay item number.

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