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jellikitAvid Contributor I
asked in Speakers

sonos one keeps dropping out

I have 2 routers.  The main router in my house (let’s call this “router A”) and then a cat 6 cable runs from router A 100’ out into my garage to “router B”.my speaker will not work with router B.  All of my other Wi-Fi products work fine (computer, iPad, etc).  The speaker drops continuously.  I have done a factory reset, and also connected speaker with cat 6 directly to router B.  Still have problems.  The speaker works fine on router A.what setting needs changed on router B?

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Corry P
1 year ago
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WilllawrenceContributor I
asked in Home theater

Play 1 pair wont connect to beam and One SL wont

I have a beam, sub and One SLs setup as surround in my living room. I recently bought two used Play 1’s and it won’t connect as surround. It recognized them but will not connect toy current setup. How do I get them to pair into my existing surround setup?  

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1 year ago
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tvdinners2nightContributor II
asked in Components and Architectural

Trouble installing Sonos port

I just purchased a brand new Sonos Port. This replaced a Sonos Connect that stopped working. The old Sonos Connect had RCA plugs going into Audio In coming from a Denon AVR-S710W receiver. The receiver was hooked up to five speakers throughout the house.The Sonos Port was setup using Wi-Fi and the Sonos app found it easily. The color of the light in front of it is white. I can play music on the Sonos app but I am not getting any sound from speakers. I hooked the RCA cables to the audio IN option in the back of the Sonos Port.Any suggestions for me to get sound from my speakers is appreciated.

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buzz
1 year ago
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benn600Trending Lyricist I
posted in Advanced setups

SonosNet is a Mystery

SonosNet does not activate when it absolutely should.  I have talked to Tech support several times and followed that “converting to a wired setup” instructions procedure a dozen times.  I’ve audio recorded the “click” that I hear when I plug my Ethernet cable into my one plugged in device more times than I can count, just to ask a friend and ensure that I did in fact hear the magical “click” sound.When I check my setup, a half dozen speakers are in, hooray, “WM: 1”!  If I remove my WiFi network from the app, all those speakers VANISH forever.  It’s like they’ve given up on life and have no will to live.  Even though supposedly there is a magical SonosNet blasting around everywhere.  The only fix is to plug my physical Boost back in, and they magically re-appear!  This Boost must have the magical key that gets them to connect.The fix for this?  RESETTING my entire system one-by-one.  Tech support told me not to, their forums as well.  But the moment I finished spending 30 hours trying t

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1 year ago
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ratdaddyContributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services

Unable to Stream Amazon Music Ultra HD when pairing Sub with Sonos One Products

I’ve spent months trying to figure this out.  Through trial and error, I confirmed that when pairing a Sonos sub with a Sonos One, or One SL, I can only stream Amazon music in HD, and not Ultra HD.  A post from Dec 2021 confirms this as another user had the same issue with Play 5s.  Pairing the Sub with my Arc is fine, and streams Ultra HD.  Again from the other post, this is true for the Sonos Beam.  I will be reaching out to Support.  Looking forward to a fix.  I bought a 2nd sub to pair with my speakers for the enhanced music experience.  It would be great to stream to this setup in Ultra HD.

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1 year ago
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bombadilAvid Contributor I
posted in Components and Architectural

title or file not correctly coded

Since the last two days, the Sonos app (on my Imac) reads a title coming from Deezer for a minute or so and then suddenly stops the music and says that the title or file is not correctly coded and jumps to the other title. It does that with 2 out of 3 title that I listen, whatever I am listening to. Never had that message before. Didn’t change Deezer app or Sonos app. Only thing I did was updating Sonos app about a month ago to the latest update. 

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Sotiris C.
1 year ago
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bombadilAvid Contributor I
posted in Controllers and Music services

Le morceau n'est pas correctement codé

J'ai une question. Lors de la lecture d'un morceau de musique, l'appli stoppe le morceau et me donne un message comme quoi il a arrêté la lecture parce que le morceau n'est pas correctement codé. Il fait cela avec un morceau sur deux depuis deux jours, peu importe le morceau. Quelqu'un a une idée de ce qui se passe?

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Sotiris C.
1 year ago
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ScorgiContributor I
posted in Portable speakers

Sonos Roam loosing connection

When playing music from spotify I select one Move, 2 One and 2 roams.Everytime I need to switch the roams off and on before they start playing. Can I do something to make them play instantly like the others.  

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Corry P
1 year ago
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Pete5254Contributor I
asked in Portable speakers

Roam SL issue

I’ve recently received a Sonos Roam SL as a birthday gift, I’m having issues turning it off and it remaining off, as per the instructions I push and hold the on/off button for at least 5 secs (minimum) until I hear the second tone, indications are that it has turned off, even the app says it’s off line, after about 5 to 10 mins the white status light comes back on and the app I dictates it available. Any ideas please.Thanks

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1 year ago
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babyarcosContributor I
asked in Home theater

Phillips TV does not have HDMI ARC or Optical ports

HELPJust bought Sonos Beam for my Phillips TV 46PFL3706/F7Tv does not have HDMI ARC or Optical portsHow do I connect ? 

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106rallye
1 year ago
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pismopoodlesContributor I
asked in Components and Architectural

Volume for Amp seems low

We have one of our Sonos Amp’s connected to outside speakers and it seems that the volume has to be over 50 (on the iPhone app) in order to hear any music. But the rest of our amps and speakers don’t go much over 20ish and have good sound. Do you think its a problem with the amp? or the speakers? any suggestions...

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1 year ago
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AlderkingContributor I
asked in Home theater

Samsung TV + Apple TV + Sonos BEAM suddenly stopped working

I have a Beam (Gen 2) hooked up to my Samsung TV and Apple TV box. Everything has worked like a charm for the last year or so.Having changed nothing, as of last night, I suddenly have no sound through the Anynet+ (Samsung HDMI-CEC) connection. Sonos still works fine via Airplay 2 with other devices. The TV sees the Sonos Beam, but when I increase the volume, rather than registering a volume number, I get a series of dots sweeping up and then it disappears (see image 1).I have spent several hours trying everything I can think of. I’ve powered everything off, removed the HDMI cables, turned everything back on and reconnected step by step. Everything is working -- except the sound through the Beam.I’ve tried re-setting up the TV through the Sonos App, but I get stuck at images 2 and 3.I’m stumped and very frustrated. If anyone could help I’d be truly grateful...Apple TV iOS 15.6Samsung TV 6100  

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Airgetlam
1 year ago
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DinnertimeBanditContributor I
asked in Components and Architectural

Sonos App refreshing at launch on ios

Hi all. I've been experiencing this for a while now. I'm not sure if it's normal or not.  When I open the sonos app on my iPhone 13 pro max it will refresh or search for the sonos system for a while. Initially saying no system available or errors are present and then eventually everything works fine. It's not really a big issue but sometimes it can take a while to open up and control the system. I've screen recorded what I mean. See the link here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ieZo8X4MTgK1MB9V4fBP-gng_AWi_T6Q/view?usp=drivesdk My system is a playbar, two play:1’s and a sub. They're all in the same room as my router. Playbar is connected to TV and wired to the router.  Does anyone know if this is normal or if it is an issue with my system?  Is there a fox for this? I have reinstalled the app and factory reset all speakers.  TIAMike 

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1 year ago
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ElsaMContributor I
asked in Portable speakers

Sonos Roam has stopped charging

Hoping someone can help (I’ve tried Sonos Support but couldn’t connect through to a live person)… My Sonos Roam has stopped charging entirely. I’ve tried different chargers - the same charger is still powering other devices, so that doesn’t seem to be the issue. I’ve also tried holding down the button at the back, holding down the play/pause button and pushing on the button at the back. It is making no sounds/ no lights etc (I figure because it is out of charge? maybe?). I don’t seem to have anyway to get it to work! Ideas/suggestions would be very welcome! Thanks :-)

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Ken_Griffiths
1 year ago
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User679232Contributor I
asked in Home theater

What can I do if New Sonos product is linked to someone else's email

Today I bought a new Beam Gen 2 Sonos product at Costco and now that I’m trying to set it up it is requesting an e-mail and password that does not belong to me as if someone else linked their e-mail with this hardware. It seems that I won’t be able to fully use my new product if it linked and governed by someone else.

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1 year ago
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SpudInfinityContributor I
asked in Home theater

Sonos Port + Sonos Sub Gen 3 + Kef LS50?

Hi all I currently have an arc + sub setup for TV watching and a pair of KEF LS50 Wireless actives for music. The great bass response I get with the Sonos setup has now made me want to hook up a sub to the kefs :)  is there any way to use my existing Sonos sub 3 for this? I know I can’t connect the sub directly to the kefs but would a solution be to use a Sonos Port? Would connecting the Port optical out to the Kef optical in allow me to group them together with the sub? I think I’m getting a headache

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1 year ago
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MikeE67Chromatic Producer I
asked in Home theater

Sonos Sub 3 stopped working on WiFi

Hi. For some reason my Sonos Sub 3 has stopped working on WiFi but I have since solved the problem by connecting my Sub directly to my router.However I am curious as to why this should happen on WiFi but not on an ethernet connection?I now have my Arc and Sub connected directly to my router with just my 2 One SL's connecting via WiFi as I have had no issues with my 2 surround speakers!It was only with the Arc and Sub that I had connection issues.It was strange as when I had the problem the Sub was showing on the Sonos app but no sound was coming out of the Sub whilst it was on WiFi.Just curious. By the way I have tried all the usual things like rebooting my router etc.Just to add that before when I only had the Arc on a wired connection (I think it's called SonosNet), on the Sonos app under 'About My System' I only used to have the Arc on WM:0 but now not only is the Sub on WM:0 but the 2 SL's are as well and they are still on WiFi?How is that?I would have thought that my 2 SL's would

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1 year ago
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Brd4funContributor I
asked in Components and Architectural

sonos s1 will not connect

My Sonos S1 gen 1 will not connect to my phone so I am unable to connect to wifi.I have done multiple factory resets. I have 3 units but none will connect.

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K
1 year ago
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CraigsterContributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services

Recent Update has all Sonos Devices dropping connection

Hello All, I have a Sonos setup in my home with a Play5, 3 Sonos One, and a Sonos Port connected to powered monitors. I have successfully run with no issues for years on my Netgear Orbi Mesh.Since the last Sonos update, each speaker drops connection randomly every day or so. The only way to recover is to power down and reboot the device. I show no issues in the network or router, have done packet tracing etc (Im an engineer) and there is no anomaly in any other device on the network (PCs, TVs, cell phones, etc). Even though it was a waste of time, I reset and re-setup all devices on the network, but the problem persists ONLY with the Sonos devices and the Sonos app. Anyone else seeing similar issues?

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1 year ago
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John ScottContributor I
asked in Components and Architectural

Unable to connect Sonos One to Nest Wifi

I have attempted to connect my Sonos One to my Nest Wifi. Quick Help suggests adjusting my router which has has both 2.4 & 5 GHz to 2.4 GHz. Why is the Sonos not automatically connecting to the 2.4 GHz? 

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Airgetlam
1 year ago
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ErezaContributor I
asked in Home theater

Samsung Tv q90r & Sonos arc & Apple tv 4k Dolby Atmos

Hihave spend a whole day trying to figure out what the problem is. But didn’t succeed, so I hope maybe someone here could help me out. my problem is that in my Sonos app Dolby Atmos is not displayed when watching movies from my Apple TV 4K. It only displays Dolby Digital plus 5.1.alle the movies in different apps (Netflix, Disney, HBO) shows the Atmos option in the info title. Normally when this is displayed I am also receiving Atmos on my Sonos app.  when using the mentioned apps from my tv instead of Apple TV 4K I am also getting Atmos on my Sonos app.  Anybody who can tell med what the h… is going on :) 

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1 year ago
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comoContributor I
posted in Components and Architectural

Roku Remote lost volume features

I have a Sonos Ray hooked up to a TCL Roku TV.I like it a lot ~ but have 2 problems that did not exist before the soundbar. 1)The Volume Level is not displayed on the TV.2)The Volume does not increase when you hold it down. You need to keep pressing it.Is that correct. If I upgraded and got a Beam with an HDMI cable will that solve the problem?

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1 year ago
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dsturchioContributor I
posted in Advanced setups

Sonos Arc and Orei HDA-931 Audio Extractor

Hello all,I just wanted to see if anyone has any advice or suggestions for addressing an issue I’m experiencing with my set up.  I currently have a Samsung JS8500 from 2015, which means it has ARC, but no EARC.  I use a Chromecast with Google TV for all of my streaming.  And I recently purchased a Sonos Arc to replace my previous Pioneer soundbar.  I understand that I cannot get Atmos directly from the TV to the ARC because the TV lacks EARC, so I purchased the Orei HDA-931 Audio Extractor (https://www.orei.com/products/dual-hdmi-earc-audio-extractor-converter-4k-60hz-18g-hdmi-2-0-arc-support-hda-931) hoping to feed the Chromecast into the device and then split the video to the TV and send the EARC to the ARC soundbar.I can confirm that this set up works - I can watch movies on Netflix and the Sonos app shows the audio as Atmos.  I also see the Audio In under the system info as Dolby Atmos (DD+).The problem is that when I hit the power button on the Chromecast remote to turn the TV (an

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1 year ago
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robkingiContributor I
asked in Controllers and Music services

Music Library

I added a new album (cd) to my Music Library folder on my computer, but it is not showing up in my Music Library on Sonos.  I have re-booted, etc.  Do I have to remove my Music Library and re-install in Sonos?

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1 year ago
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KD3TBContributor I
posted in Home theater

Sonos Beam Stand-By Mode

My Sonos Beam is connected to my Samsung TV. It is plugged in to the TV using HDMI. When I am away for an extended time, I sometimes unplug the TV.   If I do not use the Beam for an extended time, will it go into a sleep mode or is it better to un plug  the power too.Thank you, Irwin 

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Stanley_4
1 year ago
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