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Contributor I
December 26, 2022
Answered

syncing playbar with gen3 sub

So I’ve had the playbar for a few years now and for Christmas my wife bought me the subwoofer gen3 and the Sonos one gen 2 but I can’t sync the playbar with the other 2 what do I need to do to get them all to sync together 

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Ken_Griffiths
December 26, 2022

Buzz I tried disconnecting all of the other except playbar the app can’t find the playbar but still finds the sub amd ONE 

It seems to me that you have likely already split your Sonos system into two Sonos Households and so have two options, you can either…

  • Upgrade the Playbar from S1 to the S2 App (using the S1 App) and then factory reset the Sub/One and add that to the original existing Sonos HH.

or…

  • Factory reset the Playbar and just add that to your new S2 Household that already includes the Sub/One and it should upgrade to S2 when adding it to that Household.

The second option is probably the easiest to do (but it’s entirely up to you). You can then bond the Sub to the Playbar. 

You need two Sonos Ones to bond those to your Playbar as it’s not possible to ‘bond’ just the one surround, but you could ‘group’ the Sonos One with the Playbar, but whilst that’s fine for music audio, you may notice a delay/echo when playing TV audio ‘grouped’ due to audio buffering across grouped rooms. Personally speaking, I would add another Sonos One and ‘bond’ them both to the Playbar, as that will eliminate the audio buffering delay issue.

21 replies

Ken_Griffiths
December 26, 2022

You need to ‘bond’ the Sub and Ones to the Playbar (goto Settings/System/[Playbar Room Name]’) note you can only bond two Ones to the Playbar - it will not let you ‘bond’ a single surround speaker, it’s not clear if you only have the one ‘One’?

Also note (if applicable) .. you do need to use the S2 Sonos App, not S1, for a Sub gen3.

106rallye
December 26, 2022

And you need two One SL’s for a surround set up.

Contributor I
December 26, 2022

Ok so I already downloaded the s2 app and it doesn’t even find the playbar but finds the sub and the one gen2 speaker 

buzz
Grand Maestro
December 26, 2022

Do you have any other SONOS components?

buzz
Grand Maestro
December 26, 2022

Don’t Factory Reset anything without further consult.

Contributor I
December 26, 2022

All I have is the playbar the sub and the one and can I add more speakers to this to have a true 5.1 system 

Mr. T
December 26, 2022

Ok so I already downloaded the s2 app and it doesn’t even find the playbar but finds the sub and the one gen2 speaker 

Were you using the S1 app for the Playbar?

The Playbar is S2 compatible. In the S1 app are you able to upgrade the Playbar to S2?

Contributor I
December 26, 2022

I didn’t even have the app until yesterday the playbar just ran off the optical from the television 

Mr. T
December 26, 2022

I didn’t even have the app until yesterday the playbar just ran off the optical from the television 

In that case, the Playbar is likely running an old version of firmware and will need to be updated.

Are you able to connect the Playbar by Ethernet to your router and try setting up that way?