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AirPlay 2 works for exactly 1 hour and then disconnects - anyone else? (Sonos Arc)

  • July 28, 2022
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I noticed that when playing music over AirPlay 2, the connection would frequently disconnect. So I started timing it from the moment it connects to the moment it disconnects, and found it to be consistently 1 hour exactly.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas what might be causing it?

I strongly doubt that it’s due to wifi connectivity issues, because:

  • it’s so consistent, and such a neat length of time, that it can’t be coincidence
  • I have very few other devices on the 2.4ghz network (everything else is on 5ghz), so it’s not a crowded network, and the Arc has direct line of sight to the wifi router

The only other info I’ve found on the internet is this ancient post from 2014: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6138924. The only comment on that post suggests checking the router’s DHCP lease, but mine’s set to 10 days - not 1 hour.

I also have a HomePod Mini in another room which I also AirPlay to from the same device (MacBook Pro 2019), and have never had it disconnect on me in the middle of playing music.

Best answer by 6twenty

This seems to be fixed now. I had tried restarting the Arc, which didn’t help, but annoyingly I didn’t think at the time to try rebooting my mac. After doing that AirPlay has stayed connected to the Arc for well over an hour now without disconnecting, so I think it’s working fine again now.

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  • August 3, 2022

This seems to be fixed now. I had tried restarting the Arc, which didn’t help, but annoyingly I didn’t think at the time to try rebooting my mac. After doing that AirPlay has stayed connected to the Arc for well over an hour now without disconnecting, so I think it’s working fine again now.

Stanley_4
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  • August 3, 2022

I was thinking 10 days was a bit long. I am running my router’s defaults 7200 seconds (2 hours) to 86400 seconds (24 hours) allowing the client to request within that range.

I do set static/reserved IP addresses for my Sonos though.

Looking at the DHCP specification: The DHCP specification allows a lease to be up to 232^2 seconds (49,710 days, or about 135 years).

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