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Duhh
Contributor I
June 1, 2025
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airplay to sonos group still doesn't work

  • June 1, 2025
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I found this “closed” topic about Sonos group doesn't work for Airplay.

Sonos acknowledged that it is a reproducible problem. Yet eight months later, I am still experiencing the exact same problem. I hope that Sonos understands that closing the topic doesn't mean the problem is solved. You actually need to fix your bug.

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Best answer by Duhh

After some days of trying, the Era 100 + Play:1 Airplay would work about 30% of time. For the rest of the time, the sound would come out of Era 100 only. Tried rebooting the router/phone, change channel, changing the order of playing through Sonos App/Airplay. None worked reliably.

 

Needless to say I won’t buy another Sonos product again.

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DuhhAuthor
Contributor I
June 1, 2025

I have tried to isolate the SonosNet wireless channel to 11, while keeping the main network at 1 and 6. That didn’t make much difference. From what I can see now, I would speculate the problem might have to do with my wired connection is an older Sonos device(Play:3). Perhaps backward compatibility is the real issue. But I haven’t done any experiments to test that theory.

From the user interface perspective, it would be more intuitive to establish the groups and well as the devices to be AirPlay targets.

Airgetlam
Airgetlam
June 2, 2025

Apple doesn’t allow, to my knowledge, non-AirPlay 2 targets to appear in the Apple menu structure. Which is why you have to use the Sonos UI to group any associated ‘rooms’. 

Bruce
DuhhAuthor
Contributor I
June 2, 2025

When AirPlay worked with Era 100 + Play:1 earlier today, it stopped working again. I can probably get it sort of working by tweaking something again. It has alway been finicky.

DuhhAuthorAnswer
Contributor I
June 21, 2025

After some days of trying, the Era 100 + Play:1 Airplay would work about 30% of time. For the rest of the time, the sound would come out of Era 100 only. Tried rebooting the router/phone, change channel, changing the order of playing through Sonos App/Airplay. None worked reliably.

 

Needless to say I won’t buy another Sonos product again.

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