Can't assign more devices to a room?

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January 14, 2022
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I've assigned my Beam 2 to the room “Living room”. Now I've gotten myself a Port, which is also in the living room. But I can only assign it to “Living room 2", and that results in two separate rooms. I can still group them of course, but it doesn't make sense to me that I cannot assign multiple devices to the same room. It's the same with all devices: if I wanted to move one of our Sonos Ones to the living, it would be assigned to "Living room 3” now. Is this the expected behavior, and if so, what's the logic behind it?

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Best answer by Ken_Griffiths

A Sonos ‘Room’ can be several things (either with, or without, a Sub):

A stand-alone speaker
Two speakers ‘stereo’ paired
A Home Theatre player with bonded surrounds

So, just as examples, a user could have a Home Theatre bonded setup called ‘Living Room TV’ and a pair of speakers in the same room called ‘Living Room HiFi’. The naming conventions are entirely upto the user.

Theres no benefit in having two ‘rooms’ with the same name, as it will likely confuse things and create uncertainty as to which speakers are being selected for playback.

There are of course overarching ‘Groups’ available to the user aswell in the Sonos App - See ‘Settings/System/Groups’ where Sonos ‘Rooms’, like ‘Living Room TV’ and ‘Living Room HiFi’ can be combined and simply given a group name of ‘Living Room’.

There are many possibilities for the user to choose from, using the features available in the App, it’s perhaps a case of understanding what’s available and how you would like to perhaps use those features.

The App will cater for most things, but I would suggest maybe keeping ‘Room’ and ‘Group’ names unique where possible to keep things simple and easily identifiable.

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

Okay, that's cleared everything up. Still feel it would make more sense to call this feature a “Set” or “Unit” instead of a “Room", but at least now I get it :-)

I do wonder what to call my living “Room” now. The Beam, which I use for home cinema but also to play music in the living, is one “Room”; the Port is a second “Room” physically located in the living. I think I'll go with your suggestion, @Ken_Griffiths, and call them “Living room TV” and “Living room HiFi", respectively.

Since the room name is just a label, you could refer to one “speaker set” as “Beam” and the other as “Port”. Indeed, there’s nothing (other than common sense?) stopping you from identifying the Beam and any associated speakers as a room called Port, and the Port as a room called Playbar. 😜

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florismkAuthor

Enthusiast I

One thing that confused me initially is that the Sonos app itself suggests names of physical, identifiable house rooms for the Sonos “Rooms”, and creates numbered duplicates when a device cannot be added to a ‘room’ that's already in use. So the Sonos app itself gives off a strong signal that Sonos “Rooms” correspond to real-life rooms.

For my smart central heating system, rooms correspond to physical rooms, with one or more radiators and a single temperature control. And in that context, zones are groupings of rooms (in my case, a single zone for the entire house).

I propose the term “Combo” for Sonos “Rooms".

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florismkAuthor

Enthusiast I

I think I'll proceed to call my “Rooms” Bert, Ernie, Count, and Bigbird.