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Moodymike
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May 29, 2019
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Chromebook support

  • May 29, 2019
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New owner of an Acer R13 Chromebook, unable to utilise my Sonos system as Sonos do not support Chrombook OS
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    Best answer by Jeff S
    Hi Moodymike,

    Welcome to the community. At this time, the Sonos app is not available to run on Chromebooks. I'll submit a feature request to add Chromebook support to our development team. We don't have a timeline we can share for this feature, but we'll be sure to make an announcement if we have any updates.

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    ratty
    ratty
    July 6, 2020

    +1

    The Android app sort of works on my Acer 714 Chromebook. It’s not consistent - it times out occasionally and needs to be closed/open again. Also, it doesn’t support re-sizing the window.

    Similar experience on my Pixel Slate.

    Certainly not a consistently good experience - support on ChromeOS (or at least the Android app on ChromeOS) would be hugely appreciated!

    The network/security model used by ChromeOS stops local network apps like Sonos from working consistently. I wouldn’t expect any progress until ChromeOS changes.

      Rydens
      Trending Lyricist I
      August 28, 2020

      Sonos should make it clear that the app does not run on Chromebooks. 
      Ideally they should block the install rather than leave us all frustrated with Sonos.

       

      ratty
      ratty
      August 28, 2020

      Sonos should make it clear that the app does not run on Chromebooks.

      They do.

      https://support.sonos.com/s/article/4875

      Mobile device OS requirements

      ...

      Android 7.0 and higher (Not supported on Chromebooks)

        chicks
        chicks
        November 11, 2020

        Had some fun on my ChromeBox getting the excellent Nuvola Linux apps to cast to my Sonos speakers.  Had to modify the pulseaudio-dlna Python app slightly, so that it sends the external IP of Chrome OS to the speakers, vs the virtual Linux IP.  I run pulseaudio-dlna as a service, so it’s always available.  Opened up port 8080 TCP and port 1900 UDP via the Linux port-forwarding UI in Chrome OS.   Then the Linux PulseAudio Volume Control app to select the output device.

        Nuvola has scripts for Qobuz, Amazon Music, and many others, all of which work nicely using this hack, and frankly has a nicer UI than the Sonos app, IMO - obviously without all the grouping, etc that I really never use.

         

         

        chicks
        chicks
        November 11, 2020

        BTW, I listen via YouTube a lot.  The Nuvola YouTube script works nicely to send YouTube audio to my Sonos speakers.  The audio’s out of sync, but most of what I listen to has static images vs live video.

         

         

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