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Connecting multiple speakers thru wifi


Having issues using 2 Sonos roams at the same time.   Both “connect” but music will only play from one, when I try to apply changes for both to play, then sound goes away on both speakers, until I revert back to only one playing 

 

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  • Senior Virtuoso
  • 5647 replies
  • November 30, 2024

Are they on wifi or Bluetooth?
If on wifi, are you trying to group them, to play the same source? If so, get the source playing on one, and then add the other to the group. 
Or, please explain more clearly what you want to do. 


Pools-3015
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  • Prodigy I
  • 1076 replies
  • November 30, 2024

I hate to ask, but can you post what your network consists of? It may be a simple configuration change that you need to get things working as it should.


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  • Contributor I
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  • November 30, 2024
nik9669a wrote:

Are they on wifi or Bluetooth?
If on wifi, are you trying to group them, to play the same source? If so, get the source playing one one, and then add the other to the group. 
Or, please explain more clearly what you want to do. 

It’s  giving the same problem on both sides Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.  I am trying to get both speakers to play from the same source. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to when the issue occurs either.  These are Sonos roams. If that makes any difference.  


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  • November 30, 2024
Pools-3015 wrote:

I hate to ask, but can you post what your network consists of? It may be a simple configuration change that you need to get things working as it should.

I’m sorry,  I don’t understand the question.  If it’s a configuration issue, I am all ears


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  • Senior Virtuoso
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  • November 30, 2024
Sixoneoh wrote:

It’s  giving the same problem on both sides Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.  I am trying to get both speakers to play from the same source. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to when the issue occurs either.  These are Sonos roams. If that makes any difference.  

 

Are you saying that sometimes it works?

Have you tried it in the sequence I said in my first reply?


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  • Contributor I
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  • December 1, 2024
nik9669a wrote:
Sixoneoh wrote:

It’s  giving the same problem on both sides Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.  I am trying to get both speakers to play from the same source. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to when the issue occurs either.  These are Sonos roams. If that makes any difference.  

 

Are you saying that sometimes it works?

Have you tried it in the sequence I said in my first reply?

Correct.   Sometimes they both do work;  I am having the issue  when I do the sequence above, that’s when the speaker that does work, stops working until I undo the change.  Then it will work again.  Sometimes both work, sometimes only one does.  It’s very strange 


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  • Senior Virtuoso
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  • December 1, 2024

Just as a precaution, make sure your system (app and speakers) are all up-to-date. 


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  • December 5, 2024
nik9669a wrote:

Just as a precaution, make sure your system (app and speakers) are all up-to-date. 

This was actually the first thing that I did


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  • Senior Virtuoso
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  • December 5, 2024

What source are you playing from? Does it allow play to multiple speakers?


  • Lyricist III
  • 7 replies
  • December 18, 2024

How many speakers can i connect to my ERA 100 2 room


jgatie
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  • December 18, 2024
KirbynKris wrote:

How many speakers can i connect to my ERA 100 2 room

 

Depends on what you mean by “connect”.  You can group as many as 32 speakers together.  But that is temporary.  For a permanent room, you can have a stereo pair or a soundbar/Amp + surrounds, with or without subwoofer(s).


  • Lyricist III
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  • December 18, 2024

Looking for a whole house system if I get the ERA 100 how many speakers can I connect to that and scatter through out the house?


jgatie
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  • December 18, 2024
KirbynKris wrote:

Looking for a whole house system if I get the ERA 100 how many speakers can I connect to that and scatter through out the house?

 

You can have 32 Sonos devices total on a system, plus 32 controllers active at the same time. 


  • Lyricist III
  • 7 replies
  • December 18, 2024

ok, so we are clear before i place my order, if i get the ERA 100 2 room, what device (speaker??) do i purchase to extend this to a whole house type set up?  Do i purchase and additional era 100 or is there just a speaker that i can purchase instead of another era 100?


jgatie
  • 27784 replies
  • December 18, 2024

Any Sonos device currently sold can be used in the same multi-room environment.  They all will allow grouping of individual rooms.


  • Lyricist III
  • 7 replies
  • December 18, 2024

So if I purchased the ERA 100 2 room What device do I purchase to make it so I have speakers throughout the house connecting to my ERA 100


Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • 11223 replies
  • December 18, 2024

As said any other Sonos speaker will Group with your Era-100. 

You just need to purchase the number of Sonos you want and add them to the Era-100’s setup.

You do not need anything else.


  • Lyricist III
  • 7 replies
  • December 19, 2024

Do you have a specific Sonos that would work the best to pair with my ERA 100 to accomplish my whole house effect?  If you were buying this system new, what Sonos would you buy to pair up with my ERA 100 2 room system?


jgatie
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  • December 19, 2024
KirbynKris wrote:

Do you have a specific Sonos that would work the best to pair with my ERA 100 to accomplish my whole house effect?  If you were buying this system new, what Sonos would you buy to pair up with my ERA 100 2 room system?

 

I don’t know how to say it any clearer:  ANY* Sonos device you can purchase will be able to be grouped with any other Sonos device for whole-house audio.  You can group and ungroup to your heart’s content.  Read about it here:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/group-and-ungroup-rooms

 

You can group them (pairing is something different) with a single Move, all the way up to the Ultimate Arc Immersive Set.

*Note:  Ace headphones can only be connected to a Sonos soundbar for TV sources.

 


  • Lyricist III
  • 7 replies
  • December 19, 2024

I don’t know how to make this any clearer, I am asking you for advice on your product.  Sorry for not using the correct terminology but I am sure you understand my question.  Do I need to buy multiple ERA 100’s or will the ERA 100-2 room and just buy a speaker only to GROUP.  Your link does not specifically answer my question.

 

Not sure why you can’t answer my question.  If you owned an ERA 100-2 room what speaker would YOU buy to group, to accomplish a whole house system.  


jgatie
  • 27784 replies
  • December 19, 2024
KirbynKris wrote:

 

 

Not sure why you can’t answer my question.  If you owned an ERA 100-2 room what speaker would YOU buy to group, to accomplish a whole house system.  

 

Anything listed here (Except for the Ace headphones): https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop

In other words, there are no special requirements to accomplish whole house audio.  Just buy whatever Sonos unit you wish to buy and they will all work together to give whole house audio.  That’s all you need to know. 

PS - All the posters in this thread are users like yourself.  Sonos employees are marked as such.  We are simply users and it is not our product.  Just an FYI.


Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • 11223 replies
  • December 19, 2024

If i was buying new,

TV Room Arc Ultra, Sub 4, two Era-300

Bedroom Beam, mini-Sub, two Era-100 if it has a TV two Era-300 if not

Kitchen two Era-100

Office two Era-300 either mini-Sub or Sub 4 depending on room size

Bath Era-100, maybe two

Dining room Era-100s two or four depending on room size


  • Lyricist III
  • 7 replies
  • December 25, 2024

We have the Sonos era 100-2 room and a single era 100 for a total of 3.  After downloading the app, going through set up until complete.  We open the app and it doesn’t recognize any of them are connected.  Please help.


Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • 11223 replies
  • December 26, 2024
KirbynKris wrote:

We have the Sonos era 100-2 room and a single era 100 for a total of 3.  After downloading the app, going through set up until complete.  We open the app and it doesn’t recognize any of them are connected.  Please help.

Sadly you kind of buried your post in a different topic, I only noticed it by accident.

Did you use the App to create a Sonos system for your first 300 and then use the App’s ADD function to add the other speakers to that system?

If you set up three different systems, by also setting up the other two speakers, not ADDing them you’d be where you are now.

Pick one speaker. Power down the others. Power up ONE, Factory Reset it. Use the App that is connected to the first speaker to ADD it to that system. Then do the third the same way.


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