How do I add my SONOS Move 2 speakers to a second system at a friends house.

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I purchased 2 new Move 2 speakers with the hope that I could travel with them. I took them to my friends house and wanted to add them to her network/system so we could play them by the pool as part of her existing setup. I can’t figure out how to get them to add as new speakers to her system. Is this possible? If so can I return home and have them automatically reconnect back to my home system?

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Airgetlam

Sonos speakers can be part of a single Sonos ‘system’ at a time. You could add your friend’s WiFi as another WiFi source, but you can’t swap the speakers (well, easily) between two Sonos systems.

If you wanted (and I am not recommending this), you could factory reset the speakers every time, and set them up as ‘new’ on the other Sonos system, but there’s not only effort involved, but you’d also be wiping out any saved data (streaming sources, playlists, WiFi information) on the speakers.

If it were me, I’d just add the second WiFi, and use your own controller…but you wouldn’t be able to see or group any of your friend’s speakers.

Bruce

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VmanonlineAuthor

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OK so what I really want to do is use two Move2 speakers in my car. I thought I could do it initially through bluetooth but found out stereo pairing doesn't work over bluetooth.

Now I want to try to set up a wifi router in my car and run the 2 speaker from it. How do I set up a new WIFI System in my car with the SONOS 2 App? Once that is done I should be able to add my speaker to the new WIFI correct?

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nik9669a

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OK so what I really want to do is use two Move2 speakers in my car. I thought I could do it initially through bluetooth but found out stereo pairing doesn't work over bluetooth.

Now I want to try to set up a wifi router in my car and run the 2 speaker from it. How do I set up a new WIFI System in my car with the SONOS 2 App? Once that is done I should be able to add my speaker to the new WIFI correct?

First, run a long mains power cable from house to car and plug in the router…

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VmanonlineAuthor

Contributor I

haha, I have a hotspot for the car. I don't need a long cable from the house

Airgetlam

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Just follow the normal instructions for adding another WiFi SSID/Password to your Moves…or even better, set up the hotspot with exactly the same SSID and password your home network has, and the Moves won’t know it’s different (well, kinda, but they’ll just connect). Note that the controller (the app) needs to be on another device that connects to the hotspot, it cannot be on the hotspot itself. I think. The old app required that, I’m not sure about the new one, but I’d be stunned if it was different.

Bruce

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