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AirPlay: Non-AirPlay compatible products greyed out

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I just added a gen 1 Play:5 via the S1 app.

I understand that I can group non airplay devices using the S2 app, but that option is greyed out and unselectable. Is there a way to get this to become ungreyed?

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AirgetlamAnswer

Not sure I truly understand your question. S2 devices can’t be ‘seen’ by S1, and vice versa. So, if you’re using AirPlay 2 to an S2 device, you wouldn’t be able to ‘group’ an S1 only device like a PLAY:5 gen 1.

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AirgetlamAnswer

Not sure I truly understand your question. S2 devices can’t be ‘seen’ by S1, and vice versa. So, if you’re using AirPlay 2 to an S2 device, you wouldn’t be able to ‘group’ an S1 only device like a PLAY:5 gen 1.

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Zoolundair

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I just added a gen 1 Play:5 via the S1 app.

I understand that I can group non airplay devices using the S2 app, but that option is greyed out and unselectable. Is there a way to get this to become ungreyed?

Get an inexpensive AirPlay device and connect it to the s5 line in.

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Airgetlam

I’d be curious as to what an inexpensive AirPlay 2 device is. Could you elaborate? I could probably use a few, just not connected to Sonos.

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Zoolundair

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WiiM mini.

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Airgetlam

Huh, ok. Not sure I’d call a hundred dollar device inexpensive, but that term is relative.

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DubbyAuthor

Contributor I

I read that one can add a non-airplay compatible device to a group using the S2 app, but as i said, the option to allow that is greyed out. I’ll try to connect via aux. thanks.

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Airgetlam

You can group Sonos devices using the Sonos software controller. You can’t ‘group’ using the AirPlay 2 interface, since it doesn’t recognize non-AirPlay 2 devices. And since S2 can’t ‘see’ S1 devices, you can not group the two, unless you add an AirPlay 2 receiver to the S1 device using the line in, and then ‘group’ using the AirPlay 2 interface/controller. You’ll still need to use the S1 controller to turn on the line in, it doesn’t default to on when it receives a signal.

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Zoolundair

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Huh, ok. Not sure I’d call a hundred dollar device inexpensive, but that term is relative.

Since we are talking about AirPlay receivers then I suppose the term inexpensive would apply relative to other AirPlay receivers.

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