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Has anyone had experience with a Sonos Sub in an outdoor patio environment?  This is covered and not exposed to rain, but the relative humidity (Houston, TX) can be pretty high.

Hi. I recently installed a Beam. It works (worked) fine. Last night my daughter got the Beam and my Bridge to group and I had sound from my speakers and the Beam. I turned it on tonight and initially had no sound from the Bridge/speakers. I grouped and got sound from them and lost Beam sound. Catastrophe ensued. I pressed lots of buttons here and there, reinstalled the Sonos app, unplugged and replugged in stuff.  Question is... Should I expect to be able to group the Beam and the old Bridge or was it a fluke that my daughter did it?  Many thanks for any insight.

Hello...How can I tell what generation my bridge is?  and should I switch to a boost? Thanks

I am currently in contact with various Hifi-installers, as I am trying to decide on the right contractor and setup for a new house we are building.    One firm I spoke with this week sounded fairly knowledgeable and we had a good chat on Sonos and implementation of AMPs and build-in speakers.    When we talked about the well-known Sonos-limitations in terms of codes, he firmly stated and repeated that Sonos had recently committed to Dolby Atmos and other codecs.    I was surprised as I thought I had been paying attention to any such statements and had not read anything but rumors   Has Sonos made any such official statement?

Hi Guys, Great Sonos has a forum like this! I have already set my mind to some Sonos purchase, but need some help making the right picks; I'm considering getting 4 Sonos Ones (2 for in the living room to be positioned left and right of the couch that faces the TV; 1 for in the kitchen; and 1 for in the bathroom) and am considering also getting the Sub for in the living room (predominantly for when listening to music, but also for watching the occasional movie). What I'm wondering is if having a living room setup with just 2 Sonos Ones and 1 Sub, without the Beam, makes sense? Or should one never do this as perhaps a better experience can be achieved at a more favorable price by getting the Beam instead of the Sub? Reason I'm not fancying the Beam so much is that there's no place to nicely position it below my TV and that my priority lies with bass for music over bass for movies. What would you recommend to get? Also, how much of an experience improvement would the Beam add to a setup t

Hey Sonos fam,   quick question about outdoor audio setup on my roof patio. I have two outdoor bose speakers connected to my Sonos:connect. One of the speakers crapped out on me and i was planning to replace it. The sound in general (from the working Bose speaker) has been underwhelming and sounds tinny and lacking any bass. I brought my Sonos move to the roof and got a taste of what good sound can be with the right amount of bass. I’be also been exploring the Sonos outdoor speakers from sonance but i can’t find a review that talks about quality of sound and bass level.  If the bass is good I’d rather move in that direction and not have to get a subwoofer for the roof (which would require more complicated wiring to hide it). So I’m down to these options and would love your opinion as to choose which one makes the most sense: swap out both Bose speakers for the Sonos outdoor speakers by sonance and connect to the connect:amp (no sub).,,(this is preferred but want to make sure the sound

Looking for guidence on how to connect my Audio Technica Bluetooth® turntable (AT-LP60XBT) to my BEAM soundbar. Would appreciate any advice you’d like to share. 

I can’t seem to get the Sonos Playbar to detect the Apple TV 5th Generation remote in order to control the sound… What can I do to get this to work…??   (Note:  The exact same Playbar and Apple TV previoously worked fine together and the remote could control the sound.  I now get a new TV and can’t get it it work.  I have tried factory resets on both the Sonos Playbar and Apple TV… And everytime when trying to pair the remote with the Playbar via the Sonos App on my iPhone i get the error that nothing is dected…. One in every 5 times, it’ll tell it me notices the remote, the screen on the app will switch and say “now press the ‘+’ 3 times...”  which Ill then try long, presses, short presses, everything… and no luck…  What gives?   (And yes, the Remote is fully charged.)   If it helps, prior TV was Samsung Qled (perhaps a 2017 model), and new TV is TCL Series 6 (September 2019 model).   Please help!!

I have a Sonos One in my bedroom that is set to a very low volume using the buttons on the top of the device. This is so I don’t bother anyone in the next room. However if I say “Alexa volume 1” this sets the Alexa volume higher than what I’ve set the Sonos device manually. So when I say “Alexa, news”, I get the following”   “Here’s your news” (at the louder Alexa volume) “from Sky news” (at the lower manually set Sonos volume) “from Sky news” (yes, repeated, at the lower manually set Sonos volume) Then the news follows at the lower manually set Sonos volume.   So I have a couple of questions. How do I get Alexa to reply in the first instance at the lower volume? Why is Alexa repeating “from Sky News”.

Hi, I have an HDMI projector with a Sonos Beam and 2x Sonos Ones.  The main way I want to use the projector is via mirroring my phone (Android) or computer (Mac), instead using services provided through Apple TV, Chromecast etc.  So, what’s the best way to do this? I’m thinking of getting a Chromecast, and casting from my computer or phone to the chromecast/projector. But I don’t know if this set up will work with the Sonos speaker I have.  Any ideas?   Thanks 

Ciao,  I'm trying to connect the minidlna server on Debian 8 to my sonos playbar 11.0. From the TV I see media shared on server correctly, but from the playbar no. I saw that there are some posts about it in the community but very dated and they did not help me to clarify if this type of scenario is possible. in the “add services” section I saw that there is plex, but I would not like to switch from external services. Do I have to add the source manually? if yes, how? thanks to anyone who wants to talk about  or share their experiences and/oropinions.    Andrea. 

On my Mac, two Sonos speakers are listed as output options with AirPlay. That is a Sonos One and a Play:5 (first generation). I know that Sonos One also supports AirPlay 2, but I couldn’t find any information about AirPlay (NOT AirPlay 2) compatibility. Which Sonos devices support AirPlay? I would have expected that Play:3 and Play:1 to also support AirPlay if Play:5 (Gen 1) does.

Hi, Do you expect that Google assistant will be supporting Yousee Music streaming anytime soon? Yousee Music is a danish music streaming service. Regards  Claus 

Hi,   is it possible to use my PC with iTunes and start a song to be played to my Sonos One SL? In short to stream it from iTunes on PC to Sonos.

Bought Sonos move yesterday - extremely disappointed it does not support Bluetooh calling - please bring the feature  I wouldnt have bought it if I knew this feature - as I need a speaker for music as well as my home office

We recently had to return our One’s to factory setting after we changed our router and couldn’t re-connect. All is now working, except that Alexa announces a requested song playing from Amazon Music, but then silence. I’ve searched answers on here and tried disconnecting Sonos on the Alexa app and vice versa, then re-connecting but the same thing happens. I’ve checked my Amazon account and Music is there. I can’t think what else to do to solve this.

My SONOS system works great with Amazon Music and Sirius. However, when I switch to my NAS server to play recorded music there is a real “in and out” problem with the music. The connection throughout the SONOS speaker system in the house is not good.  Does the NAS server need to be hard wired into the Boost in order for the NAS server to transmit the music throughout the SONOS speakers system?

Hi guys,   This new issue crops up a few days back, whereby the sound output from Sonos stutters whenever I play something on Netflix Apple TV (4th edition). And this doesn’t happen when I play movies/news on Hulu or Reuters app.   The problem occurs when I opt for HDMI output on Apple TV, but resolves when I chose airplay 2  instead. Can I know what is the solution to this?

Hi, my system (two original play 3s, two original play 5s, a connect amp, & a sub) are at present connected via a Sonos bridge. There is also a NAS drive that contains my music library connected via an Ethernet cable direct to my router.  I’ve just switched ISP & their new router is now in a downstairs location where I am unwilling to plug in the NAS drive due to it being so noisey when it powers up! I basically need to re-set my system connected to the new WiFi network & was wondering if I could connect the NAS into the bridge rather than the router? I realise it’s old no longer supported technology but seems to be working ok so intend to keep using it. Any suggestions please?  

Adding music to a wake-up routine, trying to get the playback device or "Alexa will respond from" to be my Sonos speakers, but only see Amazon devices available for selection. Only other choice is to respond from "the device you speak to," but that throws an error when the routine executes and no music plays from my Sonos. Thoughts?

Whenever I tell my Sonos speaker (a Beam with Google Assistant) to play and it had been previously playing from Spotify, it seems to start playing from a random artist’s playlist, rather than whatever was last playing on that speaker. Why is this happening…? Diagnostics: 1513315051

Hi guys, I’ve recently bought a sub to complete my front room 5.1 setup. I love the sound - the neighbours will hate it. I’m looking for options to minimise sound from Sub transferring through floor down into my neighbours apartment… whilst maintaining a decent aesthetic. Open to wall mounting, or putting the sub on a stand… has anyone had any luck with this? Cheers, Jonny 

I just setup my Sonos 1 second edition. When I try to use Amazon music I get an error 701 cant load Queue or if I try to play a station it says can’t play. I have reauthorized my amazon account I have reset me Sonos and my router and nothing works. I can get Spotify to work I have setup Alexa and can get her to play music but nothing works through the Sonos app. 

Hi, I have a Sonos 5.1 speakers set and I am pretty happy about the experience. I am looking to buy a music streamer now, because I understand this will improve the experience with digital music. Since the Bluesound node is deemed superior to the Sonos connect, I wonder what happens if I connect the Node to my speakers. Will I get the 24 bit audio quality of the Node, through its DAC, or Sonos will downgrade it? In my experience so far, I get that downgrading if I use the Sonos app directly hooked to the speakers via wireless, but I don’t if I go through an external DAC.

Hi, I have a Youtube Premium account and have linked Youtube Music up with my Sonos app. However, there are certain songs/ artists that will not play through my Sonos speakers via Youtube Music. For example Coldplay songs will play fine however, if I select a song by the Artist Daniel Ferri for example and press play nothing will happen - no error message either which is kind of frustrating. Please can someone help?   Thanks in advance. Graham