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Webhacker
Contributor I
March 16, 2026

Arc ultra with 100s bonded and other speakers in spotify

  • March 16, 2026
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I’m having an issue with my system and playing to multiple speakers together. 
 

 

I have two Ones in a “backyard zone” and an individual Play:1 in my garage. In my basement I have an Ultra with 2 100s that are bonded for surround sound.

 

i can play to any of these systems individually. And I can go into the Sonos app and tell my Backyard zone and my garage speaker to play at the same time. No problem. I can also play to my Basement bonded system. 

What I can’t seem to do is have the bonded Basement system play music together with any other speakers. If I want to have anything work, I need to disconnect the surrounds from the basement system. Then I can use the Sonos app to play to the two 100s, backyard zone and garage. 
 

is there not a way I can just keep the bonded system together so I don’t have to remove the rounds and re-add them all the time? 

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MoPac
MoPac
Headliner III
March 17, 2026

Read this:

 

WebhackerAuthor
Contributor I
March 17, 2026

Can you share your query that you got the screenshot from?

 

I set my ultra to be wifi and disconnected the hardwired and it works. I’d like to go through the rest of the recommendations also. 
 

all devices are set to update automatically so they should all be on the same firmware. 
 

thanks for the help from you two. 

MoPac
MoPac
Headliner III
March 17, 2026

I believe it was “Sonos groups on Unify”.  There is a lot of other information about Unify & Sonos.  I remember this subject being discussed here in the past.

Airgetlam
Airgetlam
March 17, 2026

Note that ‘setting up SonosNet’ is bad information when talking about the Arc Ultra. 
 

Newer Sonos products, like the Arc Ultra, do not connect to ‘standard’ SonosNet, although the surrounds and Subs attach to the Arc Ultra via a (hidden) 5Ghz network that it generates. They’ll get IP addresses from your router, but proxied through the soundbar. 
 

There’s a good reference here: https://github.com/IngmarStein/unifi-sonos-doc

Bruce
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