Lead Maestro

Boost is officially dead (RIP)

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Didn’t see this posted anywhere else, but the Boost is officially dead. It has shuffled off its mortal coil, it is nailed to the perch, etc.

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/boost-end-of-sale

It did a fine job for nine years, but SonosNet is clearly getting deprecated and some will have to live with crappy home routers not working correctly causing speakers to vanish from the app randomly.

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sjw

Local Superstar

Wouldn't adding your WiFi details to the system achieve that? Same as how Roam, Move, Era speakers etc. join the same system?

ratty

Wouldn't adding your WiFi details to the system achieve that? Same as how Roam, Move, Era speakers etc. join the same system?

Exactly. If valid WiFi details are configured into the system then any SonosNet-compatible device unable to connect to SonosNet will use WiFi instead. It used to be called “mixed mode”.

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Kumar

So what must be happening in my case, is that the one wireless zone is defaulting to auto island mode when nothing of Sonos with its radio on is wired to the network. If I wanted mixed mode, all I have to do is add my Wifi details via the app? In what part of the app?

And once that is done, all zones - wired with radios off, and wireless with radio on will be seen on the controller and could even be grouped to play together?

ratty

So what must be happening in my case, is that the one wireless zone is defaulting to auto island mode when nothing of Sonos with its radio on is wired to the network. If I wanted mixed mode, all I have to do is add my Wifi details via the app? In what part of the app?

https://support.sonos.com/en-gb/article/switch-sonos-between-a-wireless-and-wired-setup

And once that is done, all zones - wired with radios off, and wireless with radio on will be seen on the controller and could even be grouped to play together?

Yes, it’s “mixed mode”.

Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

Sadly here I have three wired Sonos soundbars and a wired One SL so turning off the radios isn’t an option for the soundbars and would be pointless for the One SL.

Just trying to keep WiFi traffic to a minimum by keeping the busiest Sonos wired. That is really nice to have as an option when our WiFi gets too overloaded to work well.

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