Reconnecting Bluetooth from android phone to Sonos Roam SL

I understand the difference between using the Sonos app to select rooms and the player app (in my case BeyondPod) to play the track.  Unfortunately you have to go back to the Sonos app and its room selector to adjust volume.  Regardless, that problem I described is not solved by the memo you refer to although it does explain why I cutting off all the other rooms, putting the Sonos SL back in play alone, getting that to work and then bringing the other speakers back in.  It works but takes several minutes of tinkering to get running every time I come into the house.  Using a JBL bluetooth speaker, it just works when I come back into the house.  So, sorry to say, the problem is not resolved. 

What happens if you’ve created and saved a group which includes the Roam? Then get home and Bluetooth to the Roam, and the rest of the group are there too. 

Hi @kgwlunar 

This should not be the case - you should be able to adjust Roam’s volume by adjusting the phone’s volume while Bluetooth is connected.

I think, therefore, that I’ll need to classify this thread as a feature request to get Roam to re-establish itself as the “leader” of a group it was the leader of before it left the network - this would be the only way to get Bluetooth audio shared across the system without going through the app. At present, that last part is not possible, though @nik9669a’s idea above certainly has merit.

I’m hoping “several minutes” is hyperbole? It’s okay - I’m not unknown for being hyperbolic myself. If not, however, please let me know in more detail what’s happening and I’ll be happy to assist further, if I can.

It’s not uncommon, but it is a little unfair, I feel, to compare the Sonos Roam with products from other manufacturers that are classed as “Bluetooth Speakers” - unfair not just to the Roam, but also to the others! I prefer to think of my Roam as predominantly a Sonos speaker that happens to have Bluetooth functionality, and portability too. “Standard” Bluetooth speakers typically do not have voice assistants, and almost certainly do not have integration of multiroom playback functionality, which is the main purpose of the Sonos ecosystem - and what it is that you’re trying to do here. Would I be correct in guessing that your other Bluetooth speaker can’t play with/to up to 31 other speakers, which may well have been doing their own thing(s) in the time that the Bluetooth source was away? Note that you can play only to the Roam without involving the Sonos app, just like your other speaker.

I hope this helps.

Thanks for the reply.

As to the time it takes to reconnect, I have had the experience of wanting to listen to something starting right now and, yes, being 3 minutes in before I get connected.  I know most of that is me being clumsy, but it still seems more complicated than it needs to be. At best there are several steps to get things running again.  I just returned from a drive and when I called up the room selector in Sonos app, after reconnecting bluetooth, it came up with all selected except my Roam.  I ticked that and it stuck this time.  I had my sound playing within a minute.

I does help to know that the Roam needs to know it is the leader of the group.  Understanding that helps me.

Yes, feature request is a good idea.

I agree, the comparison to a bluetooth speaker device that is simple but doesn’t do the things the Roam does is not fair to this device which, by the way, I have no regrets in buying.  It works great, just working on finer points here.  I am a happy Sonos user and didn’t mean to sound otherwise.

Love your Einstein quote.

Ken