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How change from wired to wireless with only a single Play1?

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June 8, 2022
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All my Sonos devices but a Play1 are in storage since we are moving.

I initially connected the Play1 wireless at the airbnb we were at to the wireless network just fine, but it was intermittent due to a weak signal so tried to connect to the other available network but could not.

I got a wireless extender for a stronger signal, but I am still unable to move it to another primary wireless network or to an extended wireless network, or even to the original wireless network.

I can run fine only if I plug the Play1 into the enet port on the wireless extender.

If I use Sonos2 to ‘Manage Networks/Update Networks’ and say YES when asked to add a trusted network, then hit ‘Find System’ I am prompted again to make sure all products are powered on and to ‘Find System’ again, but nothing is ever found.

Is there any other way to change the old wireless network to a new wireless network? Even if I set the S2 app to the old wireless network it no longer works. Since I only have the one Play1 at present, I would prefer to not factory reset the Play1 and lose all my data. Seems if I’m working hardwired, there should be some means to change the wireless settings! Any suggestions? Thanks, Dave

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106rallye

Would this be of any help?

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/1061?language=en_US

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John B

I suggest:

Power off the extender.

Connect speaker by Ethernet to the router.

Go into Manage Networks, delete any existing networks and see if yo can add the network that your router is creating.

Follow prompts to allow Ethernet to be disconnected

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mushroomhunterAuthor

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Unfortunately, not. I get the ‘Unable to find your sonos system” msg, select YES to ‘Did you change your router...”, YES to ‘Do you want to add a trusted network...”, hit FIND SYSTEM, but within 5 seconds or so, nothing is found. I am on the same wireless network as I had the Play1 working on at one point before I reset the app. Using the other wireless network also did not work.

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mushroomhunterAuthor

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I suggest:

Power off the extender.

Connect speaker by Ethernet to the router.

Go into Manage Networks, delete any existing networks and see if yo can add the network that your router is creating.

Follow prompts to allow Ethernet to be disconnected

Did this but no luck. The speaker was working while hard wired, there were no wireless networks (I already had removed them) and tried both the original and desired wireless networks connected to the S2 app on my Android. Neither could find the network or the speaker. The “router” is a cradlepoint connected to cellular service I believe. Works fine for everything else and Play1 when hard wired to it or the extender. Thx

ratty

What is the make/model of extender? (By the way, Sonos doesn’t officially support extenders, as they can be problematic.)

Are the wireless networks putting out a 2.4GHz b/g compatible signal?

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mushroomhunterAuthor

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What is the make/model of extender? (By the way, Sonos doesn’t officially support extenders, as they can be problematic.)

Are the wireless networks putting out a 2.4GHz b/g compatible signal?

sorry, got busy w/ something urgent and found response notifications in my spam folder.

It’s a linksys re6300 but come to find out it only works well in the morning since the underlying verizon service gets really bad later in the day. So I’m giving up on using the extender but would still like to switch the wireless service to a different wireless service than the one I originally set which was the terrible verizon service. Seems it was easier/possible on the S1 app to do this.

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mushroomhunterAuthor

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My current situation is the airbnb host setup a new wireless system that works better, and I am no longer trying to use an extender. I gave up on trying to change the wireless system in my situation, with the pretty firm conviction that if you have a single Play1 speaker (the rest are in storage as we are moving), and the speaker cannot be hard connected via cat5 to the WAP. that the only way to move the speaker to a new wireless network is to reset the speaker to factory settings. Then to reset the Sonos2 app and setup a new system all over again. I know I’ve moved a wireless speaker around w/ SOnos1 a while back just fine, but I believe it is impossible with Sonos2. Show me I’m wrong and I’d be most thankful because I’ll have to do this again soon as we move around to different airbnb’s..

ratty

See here to connect to a new WiFi: https://support.sonos.com/s/article/1061

To be honest, if you’re going to be moving frequently it would save a lot of hassle to get a travel router. You’d connect your Sonos, phones, computers, etc to the travel router’s WiFi, then all you’d need do when you move to a new place is connect the travel router to whatever network is provided.

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mushroomhunterAuthor

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See here to connect to a new WiFi: https://support.sonos.com/s/article/1061

To be honest, if you’re going to be moving frequently it would save a lot of hassle to get a travel router. You’d connect your Sonos, phones, computers, etc to the travel router’s WiFi, then all you’d need do when you move to a new place is connect the travel router to whatever network is provided.

Thanks. I did that but it would keep trying to find the system again after showing me two systems and I would select the second system which was my single Play1 that I identified by the unique ID. Would never select the second system even though I hit the select button. I’ll have to look into the travel router but that smaks of a router extension which Sonos claims to not support. Dave

ratty

No, WiFi extenders are something totally different.

A travel router is a device which attaches to any network (usually wirelessly but some can also be wired) and sets up its own private subnet. In terms of network topology it looks to Sonos the same as a conventional home router.

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