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Contributor I
Mar 10, 2021 8:18 PM UTC

Sonos Roam trueplay for other speakers

Hopefully a not so crazy question: now that the Roam is coming, will we ever be able use it as a calibration device for other Sonos speakers, e.g. home theather setup, etc.?

I don't own any Apple devices to use trueplay and I imagine it's even annoying for Sonos to keep up with multiple device / mic profiles as even the latest iPod / iPad iterations are not yet supported. This wouldn't be a problem with Sonos Roam as you are already in control of what goes in them and we could finally have a solution for this whole "no trueplay on Android" topic.

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    melvimbe
    melvimbe
    Mar 10, 2021 8:27 PM UTC

    Hopefully a not so crazy question: now that the Roam is coming, will we ever be able use it as a calibration device for other Sonos speakers, e.g. home theather setup, etc.?

    I don't own any Apple devices to use trueplay and I imagine it's even annoying for Sonos to keep up with multiple device / mic profiles as even the latest iPod / iPad iterations are not yet supported. This wouldn't be a problem with Sonos Roam as you are already in control of what goes in them and we could finally have a solution for this whole "no trueplay on Android" topic.

     

    Sonos rarely gives us advance notice of upcoming features like this, so I wouldn’t expect it now.  I think you could confidently say that the Roam has the mic to handle this feature, just don’t know if it has the hardware to do so.  I don’t know the exact requirements to do trueplay, or what process is done on an iphone, etc.

    And honestly, I don’t think it would be thought of as a solution for android lack of trueplay.  People would complain that you have to buy a $170 Roam while Apple users get it for very.  “This is clearly another Sonos money grab and persecution of android users”.

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    Danny
      JCR28
      JCR28
      Trending Lyricist I
      Apr 22, 2021 2:42 PM UTC
      Hello guys,
      I have just bought a Sonos Roam, and I too would like to know if the Trueplay of the Roam coupled to my stereo pair of Play 5 in the same room, can also calibrate all 3 Sonos
      (No Apple just Andoid devices)
       
       
       
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      Airgetlam
      Airgetlam
      Apr 22, 2021 3:17 PM UTC

      No, the Roam will only “TruePlay” itself, not any other Sonos devices.

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      Bruce
      Anonymous
      Apr 25, 2021 2:19 PM UTC

      Yes that would be nice, Or Sonos can build their own Trueplay microphone so they dont have to keep up with all the new hardware, I cant do Trueplay with iPad Air 4.

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      SonosMcSonosFace
      Contributor I
      Apr 27, 2021 10:23 PM UTC

      Yup same here. We are an Android only household. Even if I have a friend over who has an Apple device (and we haven’t had people over in a year due to COVID) it would be impossible to use their device because I have young kids who make noise. I would only be able to tune my speakers during the rare moments that all of my kids are not home. So yeah, now that I have the Roam, it would be great to use it to tune Trueplay on other speakers without having to have a friend come over and waste our time together awkwardly trying to tune my speakers.

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      Bob3.1415926
      Lyricist I
      May 2, 2021 10:24 AM UTC

      I would really welcome this too - it'd probably convince me to add a Roam to my collection.

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        Tomasz_FK
        Contributor I
        May 2, 2021 11:38 AM UTC

        It would be great to copy Auto Trueplay feature from Roam and Move to other speakers with mics, like One, Beam, Arc and others!

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        JCR28
        JCR28
        Trending Lyricist I
        May 2, 2021 9:49 PM UTC

        No, the Roam will only “TruePlay” itself, not any other Sonos devices.

        Maybe a simple line of code in the firmware of Sonos Roam and other devices could offer us this function ....

         

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        Airgetlam
        Airgetlam
        May 2, 2021 10:36 PM UTC

        If it was that simple, wouldn’t  they have done it on any of their speakers that already have a microphone? The fact that they haven’t leads to a conclusion that it isn’t as simple as a ‘line of code’. 

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        Bruce
        JCR28
        JCR28
        Trending Lyricist I
        May 3, 2021 10:14 AM UTC

        OK but Roam is the first Sonos device with a microphone AND the "trueplay" system ……….
        No other is equipped with the app “trueplay”

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