Home theater

I read most of the posts on this topic but still a little unclear on the Sonos Components required. Currently have regular Paradigm in Ceiling Speakers ( for Rears), a Paradigm Powered Subwoofer. and a newer Sony TV. Mostly stream and use a media server to watch TV and movies. Also have an older Sonos Playbar. In order to use my existing components I assume all I need is to buy a Sonos amp, connect my TV (via HDMI), plug into the sub port and connect my rears all to the AMP. Would this be correct and would it work and will the Sonos be able to “tune” the room? Of course the Soundbar would be my Fronts and Center (for now) and can I assume nothing needed to plug into the soundbar other than power?. Any assistance appreciated. Thanks, John

I have just setup the Sonos Beam and am very disappointed with the output from the TV. Volume has to be set 5 times higher than normal but Alexa and Google are nice and loud. Does anyone have a solution for this? 

I've recently purchased a sonos arc, sub and 2 one sl's and set them up as a home theatre using the panasonic -TX-55HZ980B eARC. When I watch dolby atmos content via Netflix app on the TV, the TV is showing dolby vision and dolby atmos, but the sonos app is only showing pcm 5.1I've tried disconnecting the TV and arc bar, turning off the power and then reconnecting everything. Briefly I got dolby atmos through the arc and it showed in the sonos app.  Went to bed, turned off the TV as per normal and came down this morning and had no sound at all. Disconnected and re connected the hdmi cable and got sound. Still no atmos.  All the TV settings are correct. eArc is enabled, it's connected to the hdmi 2 eARC so why does it keep losing atmos? Very frustrated as I purposely purchased a TV that supports dolby atmos and eARC to work with the sonos arc yet it is very intermittent.   

I have a sonos one and a new SL (I have just added)Both are on the same wifi, both working fine and appear on the Sonos App (under different rooms on the app - though they are close by)When I try and add a stereo pair to either the One or SL it just comes up as ‘Two Compatible Sonos Speakers are required….’Can anyone help me please with how to fix this?Many thanks

Hi Sonos community, I sometimes get my Arc on green when switching from TV to Amazon Prime or once I’ve lowered the volume to zero Today, it’s not changing and it’s not muted.. I can’t hear my TV nor Amazon Prime - yet, Alexa and Apple Music display sounds Could you please help me and advise - Report 712585842 Thank you!Cheers

HelloIs it possible to install the Sonos Arc under a shelf like in this picture ?Thank you 

An option on the app to play a test tone to each speaker. Allow user to adjust vol of each speaker or at least better balance arc (left, right,centre,Atmos) Vs rears and sub.

Just got the Beam. It worked fine Day 1 then when I went to use on Day 2, the Fios remote no longer controls the volume. I checked all the settings, did a restart, and tried reprogramming remote with the app with no success.

I was able to move my Beam to another room/TV.  I have a single Sonos ONE SL speaker I’d like to operate with the Beam as a “group” so I can place the One SL near a chair where the user is sitting.  (This is in a room for an elderly person with poor hearing.)I was able to create “group” with the 2 and that works.  The volume control on the TV remote is tuned to the Beam, but the volume of the One SL can only be controlled through the app.  Is there any way to get the One SL volume to “slave” to the Beam volume control?

Is redoing the Trueplay required for the new updates on height audio? Hope the experts here can advise, thanks a lot!! :)

I just purchased a new Beam for our RV to use with the TV as a soundboard.  Does it require WiFi after setup?  So, every time we go to a new campground, we have to access the WiFi of that campground?  Seems weird.Any work around would be great!Thanks.

My sonos beam keeps dropping off my network.  i have to reset the beam everytime and when I get it set it plays for a little while and drops off again.  Any suggestions?

Hi - I’m trying to set up my ARC but am stuck on the step where it searches for CEC.  My setup is an Apple TV → HDFury Arcana → Sonos Arc / BenQ Projector.I’ve tried troubleshooting every way I can think of:Powering everything off and on. Trying every combination of CEC On/Off between the Apple TV and the Projector. Confirming firmware up to date. Disconnecting and reconnecting all HDMI Cables. Connecting the Arc directly to the Apple TV Meanwhile the Apple TV sound is coming through the ARC speaker. The biggest issue is I can’t control the volume with the Apple TV remote. The Sonos app remote setup doesn’t detect the Apple TV remote volume buttons being pressured, and the Apple TV learn device option wants to learn from the device’s remote, which doesn’t exist for ARC. Also, CEC is working - when I wake the Apple TV it powers up my projector. Many thanks for any guidance.

Brand new, out of the box Sonos Arc. Completely unresponsive. Forget about even trying to add it to my existing system; no lights even come on. I’ve tried various resets and ‘leave unplugged for 30 min’. Nothing works.  Figured I’d try customer support. Oh, they don’t work on weekends. That’s crazy!I’m a long time Sonos user (I still have a set of Sonos non-powered speakers that I use) and have had over 50 of their various units. I sing their praises to all of my friends. But no support on weekends; Sonos you disappoint me…Anyone have any trouble shooting tips?  I have approximately 40 hours before Customer support is available.

Voices are low on the arc when tv is playing but everything else is much louder. All sound affects sound good but the voice volume is to low. 

Hello community!  We today received our Sonos Beam to improve TV’s sound, but also to function as a nice voice controlled Spotify speaker in the kids room.To achieve this I connected the Sonos Beam to the TV with the HDMI cable to the HDMC ARC port of the TV. TV is Philips (Philips 32PFK5300/12) and the TV has in the Audio/Sound settings the TV speakers as ”Easylink” and HDMI ARC is on.But switching back to TV seems to have it’s issues. I have read other topics about this but I don’t seem to find answer.I have audio on the TV, e.g. playing Netflix on the chromecast — audio works on Sonos Beam — ok  I start playing from mobile phone’s Spotify and set the speaker to Sonos Beam — TV audio stops and Beam starts to play Spotify — ok Then — I’d like to stop Spotify and return to the TV audio. Following the tips and tricks here, the first thing I tried is ”Alexa, switch to TV”. She replies shortly ”okay”, but Spotify continues to play music on the Beam. Second what I tried is to stop the spo

HiI have just swapped from sky to virgin broadband but for some reason my one sl are not recognised,  I've hard wired my arc and used WiFi for my sub but when I try to add the ones it just says you need 2 compatible sonos speakers to add surrounds? Any help gratefull.

hiI am new to raspberry PI. I have a sub and 3 play 1’s and plan to ad the ARC at some stage. I want better sound quality than streaming off the phone or PC so I was planning on some changes.I like the rasperry pi so I was wanting to guy a PI hat audio streamer and play all my music through it to my sonos speakers. I was thinking of using roon too.I also have a Synology NAS and I want to stream from that too.Is there a way to make this happen?? I cant seem to work it out. Thx in advance.

Ok, need some helpnew house:34 in ceiling speakers all wired up to media closet7.1 surround set up one room wired to media closetwant ceiling speakers to play TV SOUND IN  7 of the rooms so assuming I will use HDMI ARC ON THOSE AMPS but want amps to all be in media room which is quite a run to the respective rooms so how do I use the ARC from that distance and not run new HDMI FROM MEDIA CLOSET AMPS TO TVS? 17 potential zones  bit crazy but 17 AMPS? Basically speakers in all the rooms not including two more zones for back yard.one connect for receiver Seems nuts    

Hello ALL,  I have recently been having issues where the sound from my Sonos ARC drops and doesn’t return until I switch the TV sound to internal TV speaker(s) and then back over to HDMI eARC - it does not return on its own.This has happened a couple of times while watching a Blu-ray/4k movie but tends to happen a lot more while streaming movies/shows from Hulu, Prime Video, Discovery +, etc….More specifically, it happens when the streaming service goes into an add or at the beginning of a show/start of a new episode.I have the Sonos ARC hooked up via the eARC HDMI port to my 65” (Model: 65NANO85UNA) LG NanoCell TV. The ARC, as well as the TV, are only a few months old. The Sonos worked fine at first but then started having this issue about a month after owning it, now it seems to be happening more often. My biggest challenge is determining whether or not it’s an issue with the TV or with the Sonos ARC. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you!  Jack 

I have a song 4K TV, with a shield as my OS. Shield then goes into an HD Fury Arcana (as TV does not have eARC) which then goes into my Arc 5.1.2 surround system.However I cannot get the volume to work over CEC. It works if I bypass the Arcana, but the Arcana is set to use CEC, so I’m at a loss. If I take the Arcana out of the equation and keep the same settings then CEC works.Has anyone got this setup to work with CEC and if so any tips on what else I can try.TIA

I’m trying to determine how to best setup the following scenario.  I would like a Smart TV and a TiVo Mini to be able to send their audio signals to a Sonos AMP that powers two speakers.  The TV is separated from the AMP and TiVo Mini.  There is a single CAT6a cable that runs from the TV to the AV Closet.Sonos AMP - located inside AV Closet, powers 2 outdoor speakers.Outdoor Smart TV - outside on rooftop deck, its video sources are its own internal streaming apps and a TiVo Mini Vox.  This TV has HDMI ARC as well as additional HDMI ports.Tivo Mini Vox - as noted above,  a video source for the outdoor TV and located in the AV Rack next to the Sonos AMP. I’m almost certain that i’ll have to use an HDMI extender (HDBaseT or other) as the only cable between the two locations is the CAT6a run that is about 130ft.  Since i’d like the TV’s own audio from its streaming apps and the TiVo Mini’s audio to play over the Sonos powered speakers I’m pretty sure I need the HDMI ARC port of the TV to c

Hoping this helps out a Panasonic plasma owner in future  🙂 This tv has 3 HDMI ports. HDMI 2 is the one with Audio Return Channel (ARC).  Initially I plugged my Firetv 4K into HDMI 3 and did appropriate setup.  Nothing   Changing the Amazon stick to HDMI 1 did the trick   Cheers   

hello,The Sonos phone app is not connecting/ finding the Sonos beam, i.e. When I got to the Sonos app, it does not discover my product during setup. When I first installed the Sonos beam, the app worked but it stopped working without any changes to the system or network. I haven’t been able to get it working since. My setup   I have a sonos beam connected to my TV using HDMI-ARC. The TV has a ethernet connection to the router. The beam works fine as it is playing the TV sounds. I have no other Sonos devices. The beam is not connected to the router directly (only through the TV). I have 2 wireless networks - one from  eero and other from FIOS router. I have tried the following but without successreboot the beam install/ reinstall the Sonos app rebooted my phone tried connecting to beam using 2 different iPhones (don’t have an android phone to try) tried from different distances (close to the beam and further away) setup both wireless networks on the TV and tried connecting with both net

Hello Experts, I’ve got a pretty square room and the ARC works great. We are planning to get a new TV unit which has a raised shelf on the right and i’m worried it might act as wall and reduce the distance the ARC needs to bounce the sound. The ARC will sit on top the Unit above the hole. Will the ARC be able to cope with the slightly elevated section on the right or will it be a problem?