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JoJoHants
Contributor I
July 3, 2018
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How to control Sonos playback at a party

  • July 3, 2018
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Is it possible to stop others from changing Sonos? We are having a huge party soon and last time, Sonos hardly played anything as everyone was changing it via their apps on their phones constantly! I want to be able to control the music played for this event. HELP PLEASE! TIA 🙂
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Best answer by ratty
Does Sonos not have any form of blocking other devices from changing the selection??
No. Security is assumed to be at the network level, this being the responsibility of the householder.

Unless you're going to get into the complexity of VLANs (not available with a BT router), alternative options are to use a Guest network (also not available on a home BT hub) or to shove Sonos onto a private secondary subnet, behind another router.

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John B
July 3, 2018
Change your wifi password so that they can't log onto your wifi. You should be more concerned about the general security issue of handing out your wifi password than handing over control of Sonos. If your router has a Guest network (most do), let them log onto that if you are happy for them to use your wifi for internet access.
JoJoHantsAuthor
Contributor I
July 3, 2018
Thanks for your answer John B. I've never given anyone my WiFi password so now I'm worried! :S
ratty
ratty
July 3, 2018
Somebody did*, otherwise your party-goers wouldn't have had access to the network and to your Sonos system. You'd better grill the other members of the household....

Since the WiFi password is evidently 'out in the wild' you'll need to change it.

*Even without giving out the password, someone could in theory have smuggled in their own access point and plugged it into the network. Now that would be really sinister...
John B
July 3, 2018
Or maybe you are still using the factory set wireless key printed on your router?
JoJoHantsAuthor
Contributor I
July 3, 2018
Thanks John B - I did not realise you could personalise it - been looking into this after your first response. Bit of a pain as will need to change loads of devices! It does show it as locked though - the factory set one?!
John B
July 3, 2018
Not sure what you are saying is locked?? What is make and model of router?
JoJoHantsAuthor
Contributor I
July 3, 2018
Its the BT Hub and what I mean by that is when I go into my phone I see a padlock icon which means you need a password - or so I thought - to use that network. see attached
John B
July 3, 2018
I'm not sure that is the point. You need a password to connect to the network, nobody is disputing that. The problem is that clearly several people who have come to your house have found out what that password is. You need to change that password.

This is best done on a computer but an iPad will probably be OK. If you look on your router it will probably have something called the 'admin password' as well as the network key. Can you see that?
ratty
ratty
July 3, 2018
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14110
JoJoHantsAuthor
Contributor I
July 3, 2018
That is most likely the case John B and hence I tried to see how to change it earlier - which I will have to do, but we have so many devices linked to the router, it's a time consuming process to have to change every password on every device.

My original question was can I stop other people from changing the music selection? Does Sonos not have any form of blocking other devices from changing the selection??

Thanks Ratty too - I had looked at that earlier, but as mentioned it's a huge task for our large household.

Thanks
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