How to control Sonos playback at a party

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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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rattyAnswer

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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JoJoHantsAuthor

Contributor I

Oh my - that sounds complicated to me! Thank you for the info Ratty - I'll have to confiscate phones then LOL
I'll look into the Guest network and change the password we have currently. Thanks for your help guys.

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John B

It's a pain, I know, but you need to change your Wireless key, and then, yes, go round all your wireless networked devices and enter the new wifi password. Once again I say, this is needed primarily because people have been able to look at your router, get the wireless key and get access to your network. Sonos or no Sonos. You just have to bite the bullet now that you are in this situation.

Best practice is to change the wifi password after installing the router and keep it private, but I appreciate that many people are unaware of that.

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John B

Changing the password on your router is pretty simple given the instructions posted by @ratty. I suspect you will need to type into a browser address bar (where you would put a website name) the following:

192.168.1.254

Then if you look for wireless settings and click to edit them, it will ask you for that admin password from the router. The admin password allows you to get into your router and change its settings, one of which is the network password (key)!

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JoJoHantsAuthor

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Yes, I've looked into that as it's a horrid assembly of numbers and letters so something a bit more down to earth would be beneficial. I'm just searching to see what I need to do to set up this Guest network . . . . as if I've not got enough to do! Thanks John B

ratty

BT hubs don't have a Guest network. The nearest they get is the 'BTWiFi'/'BTWiFi-with-FON' which is open to anyone with a BT broadband account.