Connect: AMP surround speakers setup with Beam.

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Hi everyone - I’m moving my Connect: AMP which is S2 compatible to my Beam and Sub and In-ceiling speaker setup. The in-ceiling speakers were powered by another Connect: AMP which is only S1 compatible and when I set it up years ago, it was configured via using that strange way of using its IP address.

Now it seems like you can’t do that method and requires the Connect: AMP to be connected via Ethernet to the Beam and the router at the same time. My router is located in a different room that’s about 20 metres away so I am wondering is the only way I can do this is getting a 20 metre ethernet cable? Seems like a pretty crappy way to hooking up the system. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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jgatie

Connect:Amps used as surrounds have always required a wired connection. Both generations lack the 5 GHz radios required for wireless surround use.

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apgloAuthor

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yep - I am justing referring to configuring them. do I have to have them simultaneously connected via a hardwire ethernet from the Sonos Connect Amp to the router and the Beam at the same time when I pair the connect amp surrounds to the Beam and Sub?

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John B

yep - I am justing referring to configuring them. do I have to have them simultaneously connected via a hardwire ethernet from the Sonos Connect Amp to the router and the Beam at the same time when I pair the connect amp surrounds to the Beam and Sub?

The wired connection needs to be permanent. As @jgatie says, the C:A was designed long before Sonos had even thought of HT applications. The C:A doiesn’t have the hardware to do the connection wirelessly..

The current Sonos Amp does not need the wired connection.

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apgloAuthor

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so if I'm reading this correctly, with S1, I could have my C:A configured to run my in-ceiling surround speakers connected by ethernet to the Beam and wired with speaker wire to my speakers but not wire connected to my router, but with S2, the C:A has to be connected to what? Ethernet connected to my router?

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John B

Nothing has changed in this respect. There needs to be a wired connection from the Beam to the C:A if the C:A is driving surrounds. It can be a direct wire from the Beam to C;A, or they can both be wired to a router or a switch. You also have to have at least one Sonos unit wired to your network so that you are in ‘Boost’ mode.

So if you have direct wire, and neither the Beam nor the C:A is wired to the router, you need something else wired to the router.

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apgloAuthor

Contributor I

So I'm trying to emulate the same network topology I had with the non-S2 compatible C:A. It’s just that it seems that I have to use two ethernet cables to configure the S2 compatible C:A to drive the in-ceiling surrounds. Correct me if I'm wrong, I will need to have ethernet cables running from my C:A to my router and also from my C:A to the Beam concurrently in order to pair them. Once I do that, I can remove the cable from my C:A to the router and the C:A will operate “wirelessly” alongside the Beam but will naturally be hardwired to my in-ceiling speakers. Have I got that right?

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John B

So I'm trying to emulate the same network topology I had with the non-S2 compatible C:A. It’s just that it seems that I have to use two ethernet cables to configure the S2 compatible C:A to drive the in-ceiling surrounds. Correct me if I'm wrong, I will need to have ethernet cables running from my C:A to my router and also from my C:A to the Beam concurrently in order to pair them. Once I do that, I can remove the cable from my C:A to the router and the C:A will operate “wirelessly” alongside the Beam but will naturally be hardwired to my in-ceiling speakers. Have I got that right?

No. The connection has to be permanent. But please read my post that crossed with yours. What is it that is making you think your previous connections no longer work?

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apgloAuthor

Contributor I

So my old C:A setup (old C:A that is not S2 compatible) was wireless in that it didn’t require the C:A to be connected to the router. All it was connected to was the Beam via Ethernet and the in-ceiling speakers via speaker wire. Surely that wouldn't change with S2?

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John B

Did you have any Sonos device wired to your router in the old setup? Do you in the S2 setup?

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apgloAuthor

Contributor I

The only sonos device I have hardwired to my router is the Sonos Boost. I haven’t actually upgraded anything to S2 yet.