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I had problems connecting the Sonos app on MacOS to my Sonos system. Whatever I tried the “Not connected” message appeared. I’ve tried all tips in both the error dialog and the forum as well. Even a very long telephone support session didn’t help and can’t solve the issue.This closed topic gave me the right direction to search for. It seems the kernel extension “cpfw” has configured routing in a way that filtered out the UPnP responses to the SSDP requests sent by the Sonos app to discover the speakers. The solution was to uninstall it by invoking sudo "/Library/Application Support/Checkpoint/Endpoint Security/uninstall"Fortunately I do not need this VPN at the moment. 

So I was having a nightmare with the sonos app after adding Roam. Literally zero speakers showing up - no playbar, Play 1’s or Roam.  Did all the usual - unplugged/replugged in speakers, switched router off and on, etc. Nothing worked. However, noticed my wife was having no issues - exact same model of phone and version of the app.  this led me to my own device so I went into the setting and did a reset on the network settings, rejoined the WiFi network and now everything is as it should be.  thought it useful to share as its good when these rabbit holes actually have a simple fix!

Took delivery of my Sonos Roam today and discovered I can use it to sync Sonos with Amazon Echo Multi-Room Speaker groups. This is what I did:Connected an Echo Flex to the Roam via Bluetooth (the Echo Flex is part of an Echo Multi-Room Group).Played from Spotify to the Echo Multi-Room Group (including the Roam from the Echo Flex via Bluetooth).Played on all my Sonos speakers by grouping with the Roam in the Sonos App.Result: Synced musics on all Echo and Sonos speakers! 

Hi,   I’ve been using my Pioneer Receiver with my Sonos system via the ‘works with Sonos’ function. I recently upgraded by old ‘bridge’ to the new ‘boost’ and upgraded from S1 to S2. My receiver can no longer find my Sonos components. Is this due the the changes with Sonos or is there something wrong with the receiver? I updated to the latest software on my receiver and nothing changed.   Thanks. Brian

Hi, when attempting to add a Roam via the S2 app, I continually get error 899, and “There was a problem verifying your Sonos app. Try again later” This error code is not covered in any of the support pages, does anyone know what to do?Thanks,Ian

HiTook delivery of my new Roam yesterday and am liking it so far. I have it as part of my home Sonos network and have also paired it via bluetooth to my iPhone.I see occasions when I’d like to take the Roam out and about with me, but still be able to use Google Assistant etc, by having the Roam pair with the hotspot I can activate on my iPhone. Can this be done? I guess it would mean that the Roam would need to store the wi-fi details of both my home network and my iPhone’s hotspot. I hope this is possible.Cheers

I have since day 1 issue when playing flac Hifi music (Tidal, Deezer, flac files on my phone).I have 2x sonos five, 2x sonos one.The issue is EXTREME unsync music and rooms drops every single times when i select new music or if i forward and backward the musicI tried tons and tons of things that do not solve the issue at all.The only solution i found is to plug every sonos speakers on ethernet cable OR  use MAXIMUM 2 speakers AT same time. If i play with more than 2 speakers, the issue come back again without ETHERNET cables.These are the things that i tried yet.-Try with SONOS Boost device enabled.-Try with sonos boost and 1 wired speakers.-Try with sonos boost and 2  wired speakers.-Try without sonos boost with 2 wired speakers.-Try to move sonos boost closer to my room, and farther.-Try to move speakers anothers places.-Try to change the router for a brand new one, with satellite lastest 6TH generation.-Change IP adress.-Tried all available routers channels into sonos app.-Tried all

Hello,I want to stop using TuneIn for my radios stations because the service is using ads before playing the music. Its very annoying for the morning alarm…The new Sonos Radio service seams really good and without ads, the universal search finds my station but when setting an alarm there is no universal search, you must find by browsing ALL the categories.So my question is, where can i find Frequence 3 ?I did not find it under France, Ile de France, i cannot browse all the regions and cities !! Thank you for the help. Julien

My set up:Internet and TV Provider = CoxTV = Vizio E600i-B3Streaming Device = TiVo Stream 4K with Android TVSurround Sound system = Sonos Beam with 2 Play 1s and a SubSettings:TV speakers are set to "OFF" and digital output is set to "Bitstream" per the TV instructions to get multi-channel audio.Sonos equipment is currently connected to the Optical output of the TV, but I had it connected to the HDMI ARC (HDMI 1) output and I get the same results. I use the Optical because the Sonos can use either output and I need the HDMI ARC connection for a different piece of equipment AND the TV instructions say that Optical can deliver multichannel audio.TiVo Stream 4K is connected to HDMI 3 and in the Audio setting I have every audio profile turned on.The test movies I am using are Zach Snyder's Justice League, Godzilla V Kong and Aquaman on HBO Max.I get full surround from Aquaman and on the title screen the audio is listed as 5.1I do not get any rear sound from the other two movies and they ar

Every couple weeks, Alexa stops responding to commands or stops responding consistently. For example, I can start playing something with a voice command but cannot stop playing or adjust the volume with a voice command despite hearing the acknowledgement chime. To fix this issue, I have to disable and re-enable Alexa several times before capabilities are restored.  Have others experienced this? Is there a long term fix that is known or in the works?

Is it just me or is GA integration getting worse by the day? It's getting to the point now where you can't rely on an adequate response from any command. It's nearly always 'i can't do that right now' or I can't find any devices.... etc etc. I know it's not my set up as sometimes it work and sometimes it doesn't. It's clearly just bad implementation.It was bad from the start but I at least thought it would get better with time, never dreamt it could get worse. Whoops - can't seem to edit topic heading

Any one else struggling with their new Roam?Using the new wireless charger and cable and the battery has gone up 7% in 50 mins whilst the system is off. 

I experiment audio delay with my sonos five speakers when watching tv, even with 75ms enabled in settings (the minimum). My audio cable is AUX 3.5mmI know that because when i turn on my tv sound, they are not sync at all. I also know that sonos cannot reduce lower than 75ms buffer size to avoid dropouts.So if i connect every speakers on ethernet cables it should not create any dropouts even at 1ms… So the big question is: Why sonos do not offer the choice to the custumer to choose what buffer we want to. If i wire everythings on ethernet cable that will be useless BECAUSE the only option will remains 75ms anyway?? So it will not improve at all even on ethernet cables...

Whenever I launch BBC sounds app using Alexa, everything seems to work smoothly. Except for the news. Whenever I ask for the interactive BBC News, you hear the introduction and the summary of the news (about 30 seconds) and then it repeats the same 30 seconds over and over indefinitely until you ask to stop it. I have Alexa on an echo dot, on my Sonos One and on Sonos Arc. The Echo Dot has no problems. This issue only happens on Sonos One and Arc. I’ve tried everyting. Reset the sonos, reset the router, logged in and out of my accounts. Nothing works. Any advice? Thanks

I been with you for 20 years and you have wiped the whole good image of your company out with one update.I done as you said to put my products to factory settings that had been upgraded to S2 so i could use them back on S1.Now your S1 add product is in light grey.When i click on to re add my products it asks me to update again.You seriously are killing your loyal customers as i am now looking to completely change to other easily usable systems.I just wont be updating anything of yours at all .Talk about short sighted..Lets see the snowflakes work this one out!

My Beam crackles way too much. Can it be fixed or do I need to replace it.Diagnostic number 1087756801Please Help.

Hello everyone,First of all, please forgive my English !I would like some help on my problem ; I bough a Beam, my first Sonos product but I am quite disappointed…I connected the Beam to my TV via HDMI and works fine, connected to the wifi works fine too.I setup my router to shutdown the wifi during the night and then to run it at 8.00 am (router is still up, only wifi is shutdown). On the morning when wifi is back, every thing working good except I can’t connect to the Beam (unable to connect to sonos). It’s strange because in the wifi devices list I can see “Sonos ZP” connected, but on the app I can’t connect to it. If I want it to work I have to reboot my router, and then Sonos is back. I try this : put a fix IP address, separate the 2.4 and 5Ghz networks but still same thing ; in the morning when wifi is back, everything is working except the Sonos. Thanks for your help !

I have overdrive linked in Sonos and I can play an audiobook via the app.  How do I do this using google voice assistant?

Hello. Ever since Generation 2 of Sonos 5, my PLAY;5 gen 1, on random Looses the connection to the router.really annoying, since everythin used to work.I tried changing channel to 1,6, and on.https://support.sonos.com/s/article/1219?language=en_US Too bad that a perfectly working system has been broken, because of new prduct updates?or is it just me?appriciated, a few working solutions. (and its not try restart your router… :-) 

I have a Play:5 that stopped working so I did a factory reset.  I can get through the setup process (connecting to Play:5 wifi, finalizing setup). At the end of the process the app says that the speaker was added but may not show up under system.  And something like: Unplug speaker and plug back in to finalize setup under system tab. However, unplugging it does nothing and the speaker is still unavailable.

I Don't Think I Can Buy Sonos Products Anymore - The reliance on the S2 App is just not acceptable for products at this price point.  To date I have a Sonos 5 Stereo Pair and a Sub working fine and being recognized by the app. I ordered a Sonos Move and and PreOrdered a Roam at the same time. As the Move arrived first, it would not be found in the S2 App - I jumped though all the troubleshooting hoops and still nothing...so I returned it in hopes that the Roam would work. Today is my birthday and the Roam arrived, same thing...completely dead in the water. There is no reason why these products cannot just connect via Bluetooth like the 1,000s of other competitor products out there. It’s mind numbing trying to wait on the S2 App to figure things out.  Once it gets to the WiFi part it chokes and takes minutes to try and connect and I have done all the required troubleshooting steps. I have wasted so much time on trying to get the Move to work that I don’t think I can justify the same thi

I’ve communicated several times with Sonos CS, email and phone.   I’ve been told multiple times I’d see a notice from my logistics provider with the shipping label for both my RMAs - Still Nothing!  I’m beginning to think I’m being worn down so I just go away.  Anyone else having this issue?  

Hey there, a few days ago I received an email from Sonos asking if I changed my email address to one I’d never seen before. My system is new and I’m the only one who’s owned it, so (reading into other threads here) I don’t know how this email address could’ve landed in my system. I called Sonos today and the tech helped me transfer the system back to my original email, but we’re still clueless how this happened, and I’m concerned there’s a wider issue. Oddly (no idea if it was related), earlier the same day I received a phone call from an “Apple rep,” which turned out to be part of the “iCloud breach” phone scam. I realized this after a few minutes on the call and hadn’t given the caller any information. Still, the timing of the change on my Sonos account to an email I’ve never heard of has me concerned. Anyone else experienced this?

About 6-8(?) weeks ago my a few of my devices dropped out of my household.  I don’t know the trigger for that.  Most of my voice capable devices suddently kept on “I can’t connect to the internet...” - the only exception was my Sonos Move.  There are also some devices that was in the household that are not discoverable (does not appear in the list if devices).  In the Voice section of my iOS app, when I go into the device list, it showed the Move and all the other devices that had been configured with voice was not shown (and when I try and add, it says all device already configured with voice).  I went to my sonos.com profile and look at my system and a lot if them was showing “offline” even though they are up and has valid IPs.  The voice capable devices had their mic enabled but I kept on getting the “can’t connect to internet error” when the wakeword is triggered.  Those devices that are showing as offline in my sonos.com:profile:system cannot playback Spotify but can play local li

I have a play one (location bedroom) and a one SL (location living room) that to all intents and purposes worked perfectly other than losing connection with my phone at the extreme points of the home. I moved the play one to a closer bedroom in a central location to stop the above issue, and since then I have a whole host of issues arising from this relocation exercise.The worst problem is that I now cannot use the s2 app at all, I have a constant ‘ghosting’ appearance when in use, and the only use the app allows is the settings cog tab. In this section, the system suggests it only sees the one SL. This is regardless of where I am, the problem exists when my phone is leaning up against the Sonos product - so I don’t think location is the issue.My wife can actually access our Sonos network through her mobile and app, however, once she commences a radio station or chooses something from spotify, she no longer has any connectivity and cannot adjust the volume, change track or even turn th