Two independent systems

Hi all; Sorry to tag onto this thread, but I’ve sort of got some history here.

I received my (4) Era 100’s order and before I begin to add one pair as surrounds, I find that I am confused by this sentence in the Sonos instructions:

“Your home theater product, and products you want to use as surrounds, must already be added to your Sonos system as separate rooms.”

I already have my Arc and Gen 3 sub in place in my house living room (also labeled as Living Room in the app) so if I plug in a pair of 100’s physically in that room and then “add product” it sounds like I have to create another “Sonos room” to put them in before I will be able to add them as surrounds to my “Living Room.” 

Do I have that right?    

I want to clearly understand how to add them, as backing up from a tech mistake is usually a painful experience :-) 

The other two pair I bought I’m not worried about, they’re going in another house room, which should be more straight forward…I hope.

Thanks in advance, and Happy Holidays!                                                                                                                         

Add as a new product and name them anything you wish.  It could be Fred and Ethel.  It doesn't matter, because the name is going to disappear once you add them as surrounds.

“I already have my Arc and Gen 3 sub in place in my house living room (also labeled as Living Room in the app) so if I plug in a pair of 100’s physically in that room and then “add product” it sounds like I have to create another “Sonos room” to put them in before I will be able to add them as surrounds to my “Living Room.” “
 

You’re right about this.

Sonos has had great fun (at our expense) by renaming Zones as Rooms, making things confusing.

A Sonos Room is just a name, as said Fred is fine. It can be a single speaker, a stereo Pair or an AV setup.

They used to call these Zones to avoid the “house room” versus “Sonos Room” confusion. Much less confusing to assign a Sonos Zone to a room in your house.

The room concept Sonos uses (a room is a speaker defined set of speakers) has become more confusing since other companies use a different concept dor a room (like Google, that let’s you put just anything in the same room). Changing this again would make it even more confusing though….