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cpressley46
Contributor I
July 14, 2018
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Use Beam as speaker without TV on?

Setup my Beam, happily listening to streaming music from Sonos app (Spotify), turned off power to TV and music stopped. Please tell me I don’t have to keep the TV on?
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    Contributor I
    July 17, 2018
    Well, I can’t reproduce this, so I guess that’s good news. This wasn’t a TV app to answer one of the questions. It now functions as I had hoped. Thanks all.
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    ratty
    ratty
    July 14, 2018
    Did you try restarting the music? Had the speaker switched to the TV input?
    Smilja
    Smilja
    July 14, 2018
    Setup my Beam, happily listening to streaming music from Sonos app (Spotify), turned off power to TV and music stopped. Please tell me I don’t have to keep the TV on?
    Is that Spotify app actually a TV app? Then yes, the TV has to be kept on.
    »And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind.« (›Windmills Of Your Mind‹ [1967]. Music by Michel Legrand ; English lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
    Ryan S
    Ryan S
    Retired Sonos Staff
    July 16, 2018
    If the beam was still powered up, but had been stopped, it's possible the TV send a burst of audio that switched the Beam over to the TV audio source when the TV turned off, that could stop the music playback until you re-start it. What did the Sonos app show the Beam doing when you turned off the TV?

    Alternatively, if the Beam shut off (as in lost power) this could happen if you were using some sort of smart power strip that turned off everything connected to it when the TV is turned off (unlikely, but I've seen it happen...).
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      Contributor I
      July 17, 2018
      Well, I can’t reproduce this, so I guess that’s good news. This wasn’t a TV app to answer one of the questions. It now functions as I had hoped. Thanks all.
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