I just purchased a Sonos Five and Sonos Roam 2 to cover a room in my house. These are added to my collection/setup of other Sonos devices. The cool feature incorporated with the Roam 2 is the ability for it to act like as a Bluetooth bridge/port. This feature works great with the Sonos Five, which I created a group for together with the Roam 2 through the app. The only thing is, whenever you connect to the Roam via Bluetooth, you have to keep checking the five in the app each time you connect to allow the synced Bluetooth sound. Now I noticed that the group function works very nicely where I can hold the play button manually on the five and it automatically plays whatever my roam is playing via Bluetooth since they are in a already created group in my Sonos system. The same does not seem to be the case when music is playing via Bluetooth on the roam but holding the play button on the roam instead of the five does not automatically have my five activate in the group and sync the sound. Would it be possible to press anything on my Roam to auto group my five into playing the Bluetooth audio since it works the other way around? It’s not a very big deal; I can just do it through the app but would be very cool if I’m across the room with only the roam in hand and able to get my five synced with the touch of a button. Any thoughts?
You group a speaker by pressing the button. It will find another speaker that is already playing and group with it. This does not work the other way around - you can not group from the playing speaker.
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That sounds like a good idea to me - it could even be extended to all Sonos players, not just the Roam 2.
Thank you - I've marked this thread as a feature request and it will be seen by the relevant teams for consideration. Keep the ideas coming!
The grouping feature would be a cool addon to activate devices in an existing zone with the Roam or other devices on the move in the house! I now have just made a zone with an Era 300 and Five in the room with the Roam 2 grouped in.
I do wish the tech was able to allow the Era 300 to play Dolby Atmos audio while other speakers are grouped/zoned and playing stereo audio. I know that concept is probably more complicated than it sounds simple.
Thank you.
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