Playbar with multiple remote controls

The Sonos PLAYBASE will accept one set of signals, as you have programmed it. As long as you set all of your remotes to use the same set of codes, it will accept signals from any of them. That's the only restriction, and why you can use a programmable remote like a Harmony remote. If you were to set up the LG remote to emulate the TiVo remote (or vice versa), and tell the PLAYBASE to react to the one set of codes, then both remotes would work with the device.

It just can't deal with 2 different sets of transmissions for the same command.

Just bought my play bar yesterday.. Had I known this, I would have bought a much cheaper sound bar that wild wort with two remotes. This is a real inconvenience.

I too found myself bemoaning the fact I could only control the volume of my Playbar with one of my 4 remotes and my Iphone, my Ipad and my PC.

Then I stopped, slapped myself about a bit and then got on with my life

I’m glad you can move on from life, but this is a pain in the rear for me. I’m trying to cut the cord and TiVo, AppleTV, and my LG OLED set don’t have the same apps available. I may need to move to a mix of two or more remotes vs my old world of just using the TiVo. My $699 PlayBase should be smart enough to handle three stupid IR codes (vol up/down and mute) from a couple sources. Or at least accept the. Same damn codes from multiple remotes. My TiVo remote can mute the TV, my LG remote can mute the TV as well. All seem to work fine and my TV sees all of the remotes fine. Sonos? Heck no. Mute only works on one remote no matter what contortions I try.

If you’re ok with your seethe, great. In the meantime please don’t belittle other people’s request for a solution to a basic feature.

It’s a non-problem. Your making an issue where there isn’t one. Unless your different remotes aren’t available when you’re viewing a different video source the. It matters not one jot which one I should used to control the Playbar/Playbase volume.

You call it belittling, I call it pointing out nonsense.

I called it belittling because that’s the definition of the word: make (someone or something) seem unimportant. You called it nonsense which again belittles my concern (and misused the word nonsense since my concern is comprehensible). I have multiple remotes which cannot fulfill each other’s functions but no matter the programming I cannot get the mute button to the Sonos to work consistently across them. Yet this has never been an issue with other components. My TV sees the mute signal from all the remotes so the coding I’ve set them all to apparently works. My Marantz AV receiver worked fine with these remotes previously.

Again, I am not asking for the Sonos to be programmed for two or more different IR coding schemes, I just want it to work across multiple remotes all programmed to control the same TV. You may not consider that something worth worrying about and so perhaps move on from this thread. I find it strange that I am ridiculed for a basic request in a forum on fairly extravagantly priced wireless speaker systems. Then again, I should not be surprised.