I bought my Sonos system specifically to make a home theater setup and almost never listen to music in the room they are set up.
The ONLY way to link more than just 2 speakers to the Sonos Soundbar is by linking them together wirelessly as a GROUP instead of connecting them as an external sterio-pair.
(You COULD have 1 connected as a stereo-pair & 1 on its own & link them as a group but since you would have to forfeit individual influence over the volume of the attached set & they are not completely centered anyway, that seemed counterproductive in my particular situation)
Once I manage to get the tuning & volume lined up how I like, they actually work well. TRUEPLAY doesn’t work in any sense, the speakers I could successfully turn it on on actually ended up sounding terrible. Overall, Once I got it how I liked, it worked well.
The ISSUE I am facing is that I can’t keep them in sync. The remote/ir only influences the speaker that’s attached to the TV directly & I’m over the limit that I’m able to do unless I use the method as detailed.
The only way to keep things in sync is to use the sliding bar on the app, which adjusts all the bars proportionally. I can’t even access it from my Lock Screen. It said that was possible but I followed the steps & it didn’t work.
PLEASE tell me there is a way to control the full group without the hassle of pulling up the full volume bar on the app. I would REALLY like a way to control it with a remote that I can keep with my theater setup. It would also be great to hear that the limit on linking only 1 pair of speakers to a soundbar is being eliminated.
Any news would be greatly appreciated!!
(As far as the limits on linking devices together to form a “Room” being so limited, I am wondering why? I assume they link as Rooms and/or Groups via the same form of connection but Groups have far less restrictions. If the Group is merely a Room that is broken up by a generic limit & being reformed each time, then is there a benefit to the limit existing like this in the first place??)