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El Wi-Fi
Contributor II
Dec 13, 2017 10:36 AM UTC
Question

Sonos One and Samsung Smart Televisions

Why am i seeing my two "One" speakers in the list of connected devices on my samsung Smart TV. they are both referred to as "Media Server"s andI did not initiate thes connection, it appears to have happened automatically
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Stuart_W
Stuart_W
World-Class Superstar
Dec 13, 2017 11:57 AM UTC
Because they are connected to the same network as is the Smart TV. It's not saying the TV is connected to them
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monsterkeeper
Lyricist II
Jan 7, 2018 10:58 PM UTC
But on my tv I can seemingly access them as servers with folders. The folders just seem to be empty. Is there any function we can do there?
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Airgetlam
Airgetlam
Jan 8, 2018 5:51 AM UTC
No, there isn't, at this point.
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Ryan S
Ryan S
Retired Sonos Staff
Jan 11, 2018 10:26 PM UTC
The TV is registering that Sonos players are UPnP devices and it thinks they are hosting something which they aren't. I wouldn't worry about it, and there isn't really any functionality there that you're missing.
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MikeV
MikeV
Jan 12, 2018 12:36 PM UTC
UPnP and DLNA are two network protocols that are very similar, but also very different. Unfortunately, they both use broadcast data to identify devices on the network, which is the way that they are similar. Some devices don't recognize the difference between the two protocols, and will display UPnP devices (like Sonos) when they really mean to only display DLNA devices (like NAS drives, Plex and Subsonic media servers, some networked TV tuners, etc.).

Like Ryan says, there's no functionality you're missing... it's a matter of the TV simply showing everything it finds on the network rather than filtering out devices using a different protocol.
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