How to switch/share Play:5 speakers between stereo pair and surround speakers for playbar (& back)?

Thanks for getting back to me.

So this will re-purpose the stereo pair as surrounds by doing this - OK, sounds good.

How do I then go about then switching them back to a stereo pair afterwards?

Rgds

Gary

Note: When setup as surrounds under surround settings if you set to Full then the Play:5s will play full stereo music when playing Sonos music and act as surrounds when playing anything coming via optical input into Playbar.

I don't think that I want this, as when I play music, I only want to use the Play:5's and not include the Playbar.

Hence my question as to how to switch them between the two configurations - what is the easiest/best way of doing this?

yes to play just the Play:5s you would then need to remove them each time from surrounds in the app.

I have to say I used to not like the Playbar for music but since Trueplay tuning added I really like the music sound that comes from it.

So you remove them from being surrounds to the Playbar and then I need to then re-add them as being a stereo pair again (in their own room)?

I am a bit of a music purist - I love the stereo sound through the Play:5's and don't like it with the addition of the Playbar.

I also like the Stereo separation and I listen to music in a different location in the room to watching the TV - ie sit on the couch to watch TV and would want the surround speakers behind the couch for this, whereas listen to music from a completely different location and 90 degree different orientation

I think when you remove them from being surrounds they go back to being the pair they were before with their old room name. I think.

I am in a similar situation and went through the whole process several times. Turns out it's a massive pain, not only do you lose the pairing when disabling the surround you also lose the trueplay tuning on your playbar. And then when you turn the surround back on, you lose the trueplay tuning on the pair of Play 5. If, like me, you've seen how much of a difference trueplay does to the sound bar you won't want to go through that pain.

It would be awesome if you could configure a room to switch to a different mode automatically when you go from listening music to using the optical input of the soundbar... Until then, the best option is to get a pair of Play 1 just for the surround.

Yes - agreed. I finally went through the whole process last night to see how the Play:5's sounded as surrounds with the Playbar - it all sounded great.

But it's such a convoluted process to have to re-tune them both when adding them to the Playbar and removing them back to a stereo pair, that I doubt I will do it again - which is a real shame.

This pretty much sucks. I mostly love Sonos -- I wouldn't have dropped > $2500 on about 5 devices now otherwise. But I HAVE DROPPED $2500 on it. For the price, they need to address stuff like this. People have been asking for this for like 3-5 yrs (I was looking at some old threads on the topic). I just bought a 2nd gen2 Play 5. Like the original poster here, I want to use it both as a stereo pair (most of the time) and as surround speakers for watching movies. For the money I've spent, I shouldn't need to additionally by a pair of Play 1s (and def won't be doing so).