Roam wouldn’t work at hotel using their internet?
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It won’t work on any network that requires a user sign on, which is most hotels, and needs to allow peer to peer communication between phone/tablet and the Roam, which is not allowed in most hotels. You can get around this by using a travel router.
Of course, you can always just use it as a bluetooth speaker in those situations.
Hi Danny, thank you, yes I had found that information, thank you for confirming.
however I couldn’t connect to my Bluetooth even on 4/5G ?
thank you
Chris
Hi Danny, thank you, yes I had found that information, thank you for confirming.
however I couldn’t connect to my Bluetooth even on 4/5G ?
thank you
Chris
Bluetooth is a private connection between your phone/tablet and the Roam, it has nothing to do with how your phone connects to the internet. You can probably have your phone connect the the hotel internet (if mobile network (4/5G) isn’t strong enough, and then connect Roam to your phone. You won’t use the Sonos app at all in this scenario, just use whatever music streaming app you want.
I will have to give it another try, the last time I tried to connect to Bluetooth it didn’t come up at all ?
Something seems wrong, Then. As Danny suggests, there’s essentially no connection between the hotel’s Wi-Fi signal and the ability of your phone in connecting to the device using Bluetooth. The Roam does need to be ‘set up’ first, of course, you wouldn’t be able to connect if you hadn’t already set up tHe Roam on your home network.
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Did you set up your Roam on wifi first? It won’t connect to bluetooth without being set up on wifi. Set up can also be doen with two phones - one for using the Sonos app and one for providing the wifi connection.
Hi it was set up at home on wifi and worked off Sonos app .
took it on holiday it wouldn’t connect to wifi in hotel so then tried to connect to Bluetooth, but wouldn’t connect even when I disconnected from wifi in hotel and went on 4g?
Ok, so it was set up at home first. That’s great. At that point, all you should have needed to do is connect to it using Bluetooth, completely ignoring any WiFi, and it should have worked (I’m doing the same right now with my Roam).
What do you mean when you say you ‘disconnected from wifi in hotel and went on 4G”? What did you disconnect, your phone, or some connection the Roam had? The Roam should never see any 4G connection, and using Bluetooth on your phone has nothing whatsoever to do with wifi connections, either.
Hi I’m not sure what happened on holiday?
but I’ve managed to connect via Bluetooth now .
thank you for your help.
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