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Mh sonos beam gen2 won’t stop blinking orange and white when i tried to factory reset it . what do i do?

The Google assistant has started to say that it has problems connecting to the internet. Sometimes it works after some retries.I’ve tried to reconnect the sonos one to the wifi multiple times and I’ve also restarted the router which is located just a couple of meters away (wifi). A month of two ago this was never a problem so I don’t understand where it came from. Anyone know if there’s anything that can be done? 

I have just returned to our home in UK where we have Play5. Have other Sonos products in our main house in Australia. Cannot get Play5 to work, cannot even get “Accept”  button to work, it is “greyed out”. 

My Beam 2 That’s running my living room audio is blinking a white light today.  I see other topics posted but since I’ve been on hold with Customer Support for over an hour I figured I’d post a topic while I wait. Things I’ve tried:Unplugging and re-plugging Factory Reset Plugging in an ethernet cable Plugging in a different ethernet cable to a different network Un-plugging and replugging all of the above for different durations  Update:  Talked to support and it was labeled a “boot failure”.  I’ll have to return it and receive a new one.  Luckily it was still under warranty.

I am struggling to play vinyl from my turntable to my Arc. The current setup that I have is I connect my turntable to the RCA IN on the Connect, then I set the Arc input to be the Line-In that shows up in the app. For some reason no sound comes out of the Arc. Here are a few things I’ve tried:- I tried playing music from apple music in the app to the Arc, this worked- I tried connecting the LINE OUT of the Connect to speakers and play from the Line-In, this worked I’m not sure what is going wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’m trying to connect a Sonos One back to my system, but no luck. The speaker was connected fine in one room, but when I moved it to another room, the system didn't recognize it. I’ve tried a system reset (holding the infinity button while plugging in the speaker) numerous times, but when I get to the stage where it’s connecting to my network, I get a message that says, “Your Sonos has been added, but may not appear in your System. If so, unplug the power cord and plug it back in to finish setup from system settings.” That doesn’t work. I’ve tried this about 5 times. I’ve moved the speaker to a third room and no luck. I’ve reset my router without luck. I’m stumped.  Note that all my other Sonos speakers (3 Sonos Ones, 1 Play:5, and 1 Beam) are connected without issue.

Seeking any suggestions as spent an hour with customer support trying to connect a pair of Play:1 speakers to Bridge. The issue was that the Play:1 speakers have S2 software and Bridge is S1. We tried unsuccessfully to downgrade the Play:1 speaker software to S1. I wondering if someone has another idea. Is it possible to eliminate the Bridge (which was being used to drive external speakers that we no longer use) and use the two speakers individually? Or must I purchase another device that uses S2 software to drive the two Play:1 speakers?

I have several rental properties and use Sonos in each. The voice recognition fails constantly and it 'seems' that remote systems are clobbering each other?  Not sure if thats just renters not figuring things out. What's the best and simplest way to provide a good interface to the music systems in all these places using my own Apple and Amazon Music accounts, blindly of course. ? Moderator edit: corrected typos

I can't get my Fire TV Cube remote to control Sonos Arc volume...HDMI ARC input (one only) on TV is connected to Sonos Arc....Fire TV Cube is connected to HDMI 1 on the TV. Any ideas?

I’m trying to play podcasts from spotify in the Sonos app and all I get is access denied, I can play music without issues but when I try to play podcasts I get the error “Unable to play <podcast episode name> - access is denied.” and if I create a playlist in Spotify with podcasts and view it in the Sonos app all of the podcasts are greyed out  and I can’t play any of them.I tried to remove the spotify connection in the app and then add it again after a while without luck.Music and everything else works great and have no issues, this problems only exists with podcasts and Spotify, I’ve tried with the Sonos app on Android and iOS and the problem exists on both platforms.I’ve sent diagnostics to you: 684919168

Speaker works with Bluetooth fine. Set up process works and connect to network. Then app cannot locate device. Try again, same thing. It can detect device to set up initially but after that never can connect. Frustrating. Ready to return. So disappointed.

I go to the app and cannot get the first page to accept 

I set up a playbar, 2x One speakers and a Sub back in 2016, but since then have changed ISP and router so a new wifi network. I can get my playbar to connect, but everything else I can`t seem to even find. I tried to factory reset so I could do a full new setup, but still can`t seem to find anything except the playbar.

My Sonos Roam was unplugged from power source for 3 weeks while away. Now it won't turn on even though it's plugged in and orange charging  light is on. Will not connect at all. Is the battery permanently dead

Hello,Has anyone figured out how to keep Shuffle mode turned on when replacing the queue with a different playlist?  Every time I use the replace queue feature to listen to a different playlist, the Shuffle mode turns off.  I would prefer if this would be persistent so that I don’t have to constantly turn it back on when I want to listen to a different playlist.Please let me know.

One of all my disappointments from Sonos of late, the lack a care for the Sonos amp is one of the biggest “F U”s from the Sonos team. Since the new software out Amp only runs default settings, no eq, no sub control, no surround control, no night mode. When we change the setting the just reset instantly. I just can’t believe how little this company cares about their customers now. An absolute insulting and disgusting example greed and profits over care and quality. Why are we caring about night mode toggles in the settings menu when we have a long list of serious issues you seem to be avoiding. I’m trying to be patient but this is seriously so unacceptable. I’d post a video I’d the issue i can’t in the forum. 

When I first bought Sonos devices a decade ago they worked seamlessly.I have a very standard BT Mesh on Sky broadband.Now, Sonos never works. It takes between one and three minutes for all speakers to playback, and some do not at all. Then they randomly drop out.If I try and control them from the app, nothing happens for several minutes.You are, quite literally, a joke and a failure.

Hi,I have a NAS that I set up as part of the main reason I purchased a Sonos system - mixing local files with streaming files on playlists. All was great. Now that the newest firmware disabled the old app on my Android (a different topic), every time I play a track from my local library it crashes the app. The songs play on the speaker but the app crashes and will no longer open whilst those songs are in the speaker queue (again, another topic).I read a way around this was to set up a Plex media server. So I have spent all day (literally) doing this.Now when I play media through the Plex service on Sonos it plays. But Plex web is showing the transcode from FLAC to 271kbps. My question is: how to do I force Plex to NOT transcode my FLAC files (or is it even possible)? I can't see a setting on the Plex site. Transcode setting is "Make my CPU hurt"

On my two five gen 2 (plus sub, it sometimes work and sometimes not. Same goes for loudness, when change, there i no change in sound. The only part working in EQ are balance.thanks

Today I successfully updated to the latest 16.3 Firmware and Windows Desktop Controller.I subsequently performed an “Update Music Library Now” from the 16.3 Windows Desktop Controller.Now when I select “Imported Playlists” using any Sonos Controller (including SonoPhone, SonoPad) the app either displays “Something went wrong. Try again” or if it does display the playlists then it displays “Something went wrong. Try again” when I select a playlist. Trying again doesn’t resolve the issue.Anyone else having this issue?Ross.

Hi everybody,I’d like to have my Beam (Gen 2) connected simultaneously to a TV set as well as to a PC. Is that possible? And if yes, how?Thank youMarkus

I was recently traveling and when I returned home, I have had major issues with my system.  I have multiple different Sonos speakers and every time I play music, the song cuts out before it ends.  I can’t even get through one song.  I have tried just playing one speaker but nothing has helped.  Don’t believe it is a Wi-Fi issue, since I have had no other issues with any other device in the house.    

I have legacy units at my home - four Play5s, two Connect Amps, and two Connects. They all sound good and find no reason to replace them.  And yes, I obviously use the S1 app.For over a year now, only my two Connects are able to play music from my library. I use a Synology NAS. The only way my other units get to play music from my library is when I group them with any Connect. Otherwise attempting to play my library directly through the Play5s or Amp would only show that access to the NAS is denied even though I've made sure SMB 1 to 3 are enabled in my NAS. Can anyone tell me why library access is allowed only for the Connect units? Have I missed checking anything else here? By the way, there is no problem with streaming any music service. But I built my system for my vast music collection.

In another unsolicited move to add a splendid new feature, Sonos - in in his incomprehensible wisdom -has given us the web app (a couple of month ago it seems). But: I don’t want it and consider it a security and privacy downside. Soooo, how to disable?

Updated Sonos to the new app, I see the music library but there doesn't seem to be a way to update the library.