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John8237
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October 10, 2024

Mac Sequoia Sonos App Cannot Connect to System

  • October 10, 2024
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I’m running a 7YO Playbar with two Play surrounds and a subwoofer. Everything has worked fine until recently. I can control my system through the app on my phone, but I recently installed OSX 15 (Sequoia) on two of my Macs and now can no longer connect to my system from either Mac. I just downloaded and installed the most recent Sonos app and that didn’t change anything. The app is giving me a message saying my Mac firewall settings need to be adjusted, but I’ve tried both firewall on with Sonos inbound connections allowed, and firewall completely disabled, and neither has worked. 

My wife’s Mac is still running OS X 14.7 and I can connect through that Mac and desktop app without any problems, it’s just the ones that have been updated to OS X 15.

Any suggestions on anything else I can try? As I said, I can use my phone, but I like using the desktop app when I’m sitting at my computer.

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    Steven 613
    Lyricist III
    January 9, 2025

    I had the Firewall message frustration also.  Did all the stuff Sonos suggested and nothing changed.  When I read this thread I saw the suggestion from Surfdog_2003.  It worked!!    Let me repeat his simple method, since I’m now his #1 fan.

     

     

    Got mine working again by going to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network and toggled Sonos off and then back on. Restarted the Sonos desktop app and now it connects. Weird.

     

      MotoBella
      Lyricist III
      January 11, 2025

      I had the Firewall message frustration also.  Did all the stuff Sonos suggested and nothing changed.  When I read this thread I saw the suggestion from Surfdog_2003.  It worked!!    Let me repeat his simple method, since I’m now his #1 fan.

       

       

      Got mine working again by going to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network and toggled Sonos off and then back on. Restarted the Sonos desktop app and now it connects. Weird.

       

      ^^^ THIS ABOVE ^^^ Thank you! You just saved me many hours of banging my head on my keyboard trying to figure this s*** out! It worked… ^^^ YAY ^^^

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        Steven 613
        Lyricist III
        January 11, 2025

        I’m glad it helped. Saved me much head banging also

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