I have just bought a Roam (not realising initially it required S2). I have an S1 system with a mixture of S1 and S2 compatible products. I want to leave that as it is and set up a separate S2 system with just the Roam. Is there a simple way of doing this?
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HTH.
I got to that screen Ken - but the next screen is the one I mentioned where it then connects and sees the non-S2 compatible speakers and won’t go any further regarding a ‘new system.’
Give me a minute and I will try it here with a factory reset Roam and post back what screens I see. I have an S1 system on the network (and an S2 HH which is irrelevant) but I will leave all devices powered on and create a third system with just the Roam only.. I will post back shortly.
Give me a minute and I will try it here with a factory reset Roam and post back what screens I see. I have an S1 system on the network (and an S2 HH which is irrelevant) but I will leave all devices powered on and create a third system with just the Roam only.. I will post back shortly.
OK - I’ll be really interested if you can do it as previously described - I went around in circles for a while but couldn’t get there - even though on the next screen it said one of the options was to ‘Set up a new system using the Sonos S2 app.’
Okay after the screen referred to in my earlier post, the App invited me to sign in with my account credentials (which I did) and there was an invite to join the existing system with this screen below. Clearly it sees the system on the network. I dismissed this screen and simply closed/reopened the App, See my next post…
On reopening the App I was greeted this time with this screen… and I am about to choose to add the factory reset Roam. I won’t choose to join the system detected nearby.
It then setup the Roam in the new HH and I added the WiFi password to the Roam, in my case it then updated the Roam (as I hadn’t yet done yesterdays update for this particular Roam) … all was successful… see below 4-screen ‘collage’ of the App screens, post setup:
So it’s then just a case of going onto setup the music services, playlists etc.
So it appears the answer is to simply close the App and reopen it, rather than joining the existing HH and it should then prompt to setup the Roam, without powering off your existing devices.
HTH
If it was me and you are on S1 I would buy the Move.
Personally I wouldn't want S1 and S2 apps on the same device (phone), but others have with no issue.
We have one S2 speaker but it is on a different household, different account and different device.
I managed to get it done (reset App and Roam).
After the above you get this one: the key was to click outside the white popup..
Which brought up this: (which you ‘OK’ to Cancel.
Then this pops up and you can indeed carry on:
If it was me and you are on S1 I would buy the Move.
Personally I wouldn't want S1 and S2 apps on the same device (phone), but others have with no issue.
We have one S2 speaker but it is on a different household, different account and different device.
It seems OK with both Apps on the device, time will tell of course. If Sonos had stuck to what they initially announced and allowed you to ‘Control your S1 just as you do now.’ without forcing a Factory reset on it and losing everything from the S1 devices, I’d have been tempted to Split and go that way before - but all speakers get similar use and I’ve invested too much time curating those Sonos playlists over many years to needlessly have them deleted.
The Roam is better for me (I think it’s probably what the Move should have been) as it’s just to throw in a bag and take on holiday and play in the room etc.
For me the Move is a portable Play:1, with the presence of the Play:1 which was what I wanted, I can see the Roam is a lot lighter and easier for long distances.
Personally the Move ticks all the boxes, but it mainly resides in my workshop or next to the bbq!.
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