Bluetooth on Roam

This is very frustrating. I just bought the Sonos Roam on a store to go on vacation and now I don’t have wifi and can’t set up the device to connect it  to my phone to play music. This is stupid. I’m in an island and can’t get wifi. Is there any other options? Thank you 

I have to say that the Sonos Roam is one of the most disappointing products I have purchased. I wanted a portable blue tooth speaker to travel with, and this is far from the ideal product.  Many issues with just trying to connect it to phone or laptop while using hotel wifi.  if it is a bluetooth speaker, what is the point in the requirement of connecting to a wifi network to connect it to a device.  Beyond usless now.  And before anyone asks, I have a lounge room full of Sonos products which work fine, it is just this useless ‘Roam’ speaker.  Calling it roam is almost false advertising.

Whereas mine works perfectly as a Bluetooth device. I set it up initially at home as required, and after that, I’ve had zero issues connecting to it using either Bluetooth sending device I have, no matter where I am. 
 

Have you tried contacting Sonos directly to see if they can help figure out what issue you’re running in to? 

Does it work if a friend wants to play his music on his phone? 

I have a vacation home and I want a speaker where guests can play their music. If I set it up with wifi and then put it in bluetooth mode, will guests have to download the sonos app or can they just connect to it with bluetooth and play their phone music on the sonos speaker?

It would, assuming I turned off the Bluetooth on my phone, and then connect it to their Bluetooth, sure. But as long as I leave my Bluetooth signal active, it won’t connect to another one. 
 

Bluetooth, unlike WiFi, is a one to one connection, in most cases. Neither of the Sonos devices that have Bluetooth for music streams can connect to multiple Bluetooth sources at the same time. 

Yes, once the Roam has been registered and setup on a Sonos account, it can be switched to Bluetooth mode and BT-paired with your friends mobile. They will then be able to play their music from that device to the speaker without the need to install the Sonos App.

Ok but what I wanted is my Sonos app to work on the go with the roam. 

Now when I'm away with my roam I cannot access my Sonos app and play list, I can only play things from outside Sonos. 

Well… I love my Roam, but at the same time,  I don’t like it at all as an Airplay and being sometimes a buggy   speaker. I’ve had  great experiences with this wonderful little waterproof portable speaker, but at the same time I’ve been unhappy when the software behaves unstable and the music cuts off. Being the good speaker it is, I went to the beach on vacations to Mazatlán Sinaloa Mexico, I tested near the beach listening to my favorite music, it sounds amazing and it’s Bluetooth connection works fine sometimes, and during the trip it worked absolutely fine, the music never cutt out, It immediately paired with my phone without struggling, it sounds great outdoors of course being fine, but when the audio cuts out, it becomes into an expensive  paperweight or either a buggy computer, so I rather the Sonos Roam being good, stable and errors free, that’s why I bought it   

I’ve never had an issue with my Roam on Bluetooth.