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I have a Playbar, Sub and just added the Sonos amp so I could use my in ceiling speakers to create 5.1 surround sound. When I added the ceiling speakers to my setup I chose to add them as surround speakers. I was under the impression that with the new Sonos amp, I would be able to use the Airplay function. I tried to send music from my iTunes library via airplay to the Sonos amp and Playbar + Sub, however I don't see that as an option under Airplay. Why? Do the speakers via the Sonos amp need to stand alone and be incorporated as music speakers vs. surround? Additionally, if I use an old iPod via analog line in on the Sonos Amp, will the music make use of the Playbar and Sub and the ceiling speakers?

My two Sonos Ones have previously been playing BBC radio stations via TuneIn without any problems: 'Alexa, play BBC Radio 4' would return 'Playing BBC Radio 4 from TuneIn' and the appropriate audio stream. Something strange has started happening today. Alexa is now trying to use a BBC skill and, depending on exactly how I ask, may or may not play audio. If I say 'Alexa, play BBC Radio 4', it returns 'Here's Radio 4 FM (tone) the BBC' and no audio stream. If I say 'Alexa, play BBC Radio 4 from the BBC', it again returns 'Here's Radio 4 FM (tone) the BBC' but now with the correct audio stream. Weird, I know: I have tested it again and again. When I look at my Alexa settings, it has added a new BBC skill. If I remove the skill, it just adds it back whenever I request a BBC radio channel. I don't mind using TuneIn or the BBC, but I don't want to have to specify the source every time. I don't know whether this relates to yesterday's 8.6 upgrade or perhaps Amazon have made a c

Is it possible to stop Sonos from muting all zones when alexa is answering a question. My daughter was very chatty with Alexa in her room this evening and it made listening to music in the living room unbearable. At first I thought the music was cutting out but it was just that she was asking her alexa questions.

Hi Sonos, I'd like to setup a home theater with the Sonos Beam as a center speaker, two Play:3 as front and two Play:1 as rear channels. Is this possible? Thanks Michael

I just invested in a Sonos Connect:Amp, which I'm successfully using with with a turntable I received as a Christmas gift. I love the setup. I happen to have two Audio Engine A5 powered speakers in the same room connected to my PC that I would love to integrate into a pretty extensive Sonos ecosystem spread across our home. Is there absolutely no way of connecting the two A5's without having to replace the Sonos Connect:Amp with something like a Sonos Connect (no amp)? Any other suggestions to preserve my current investment?

I am looking into your system to use for my home theater system but I am wanting more sound for my front channel than just a playbar. My question is can I buy the playbar and connect two of your play:5 speakers as my front channel using the playbar as my center and then also connect two play:1 speakers as my rear and also connect your sub to the system as well?

When I ask Alexa to play on a particular named speaker it will play on whatever group of speakers where playing at the last usage. Rather than just the one I ask for.

Dear all Earlier, hvem setting up alarm automations in Home assistant, I was querying http://:1400/support/review for the various alarm ID's, that I need for the purpose. It doesnt seem to be listed anymore. Does anyone know another way to identify all alarm ID's, so I can pick the correct one ? Michael

For a variety of Home Automation tasks I would like to know whether Sonos is in "Play" or "Pause" state for the whole group and for each individual speaker. I use SmartThings and Stringify - how can they (or another tool) see the current state of the Sonos?

I have a playbar, sub and x2 play ones. I stream as well as have directv. I wish i would have done more research before biting off the expense of sonos. I could have bought a system designed specifically for surround sound. Sonos is designed for music but just happens to function, terribly, as a surround sound system. That being said Im looking for some help with settings or something. Audio play back is fine for everything but Amazon video. The background noise is far too lpud and you cant hear what any of the actors are saying..... any advice other than sell my complete sonos system for pennies on the dollar and invest in an actual surrpund spund system?

I purchased a sonos playbar and subwoofer 2 months ago and have be very pleased with the quality. Last week I purchased another subwoofer and it worked great for 2 days. It now has a solid white light and will not work. I've unplugged the sub and tried to reconnect and it does nothing. Can anyone help?

It is really confusing! I purchase SOnos One in Switzerland , some time ago. At the time Alexa was NOT available in Italian, so I found some trick with the location to run in English. Now it seams that it is available in Italian, but it is NOT possible to switch the language (like if you ask Alexa how to change the language!!). I already try to Reset SONOS, but no way, Alexa is really stupid, no way to switch to Italian! I already try to set the location to Italy, but no way. The Alexa support and integration on SonOS is really confusing. Any suggestions? Stefano

hi. i am using sonos one. is there a way to play radio (from tunein) and turn on hue lights...in one-single alexa voice command ? every morning, i will turn on my radio and switch on my kitchen lighting. by doing these, i need to tell alexa to 1) alexa switch on my kitchen lights. 2) alexa play radio. is there a lazier method to link both commands up? haha. i understand that i cant add sonos one audio to "routine"...

Hi everyone, I need a way to determine if a sonos device is a coordinator or not. But I don't want to use the simple http request method where you just parse the response of /status/topology. Instead I need to know how this works with upnp. Is there also a way to determine this in upnp? Help would be much appreciated!

i am going to be moving in to my brand new home. 1714 sq ft. I want to know what it the best setup for my home. I have a living room and kitchen open concept. I want to be able to have music all through the house especially 2nd and 3rd floor. so 3 bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathroom

Hi, I have recently added an Apple TV4K and 2 One's to my living room setup which now has a Playbar, Sub and the 2 new One's. My Television is a pretty dated Panasonic Plasma P50U30A. If I set my ATV4K to Dolby Digital I am not getting any audio and in Sonos > About the Audio is showing as "Silence". If I switch my ATV4K back to Best Available I get Audio and Sonos > About shows the Audio as Stereo and not Dolby Digital . Pretty certain the Netflix content I am testing with is DD content. Any ideas how I can get Dolby Digital output on my 5.1 setup or is the limitation due to my TV not being able to pass through the signal?

I've had a Playbar for the past 18 months, with the volume controlled by my Virgin Media Tivo remote. On Sunday the remote control stopped controlling the volume on the playbar, but works fine with the Tivo box. I changed the batteries and got no improvement. I tried to re-pair the remote, and am unable to finish the process. The first stage of the pairing process where it asks me to press Vol+ will often say 'no input detected' after a split second, and I've not even done anything. Other times it will move forward to the 2nd stage after me hammering the Vol+ from 2 inches away. On the 2nd stage, it's hit and miss whether I can press the Vol+ button 3 times and get the white IR light to respond. HOWEVER, when I have successfully done that (and the light has flashed with each of the 3 presses), the next screen says "No input detected", even though it has to have detected something to switch to that screen!?!? I have tried my Panasonic TV remote as well to no effect. Turning the TV

Can I setup a PLAY:1 and a Sonos One as a stereo pair?

When connecting two rear speakers via Connect:AMP for 5.1 with a Sonos AMP for the from two channels do you have to connect an ethernet cable between the Sonos AMP and the Connect:AMP and then a second ethernet cable from the Sonos AMP to the router or switch? You can't setup a 5.1 setting with Connect AMP during the initial Sonos AMP setup for a TV setup but it does give you the option in Room Settings - Surround setup and it suggests this cabling but it words it like you are connecting to an AV receive so I just want to confirm that this is the correct setup and you need cabling between the two amps and from the Sonos AMP to the router/switch. Thanks.

Hi, we have a Sonos Beam hooked up to a Samsung TV, have it connected with Anynet+ (HDMI-CEC). However, the TV keeps being turned on for no reason. Is there a setting I'm missing or something we have set up incorrectly? Cheers, Phil.

Hello I works on simple integration sonos to my system (web-service). I wondering that exist some[b] sonos cloud web-api [/b]to direct controll particular speeker or group speekers using created user account which allow me just : - play/stop music from file stored on HD on server or smartphone - controll volume Actualy I read information from https://musicpartners.sonos.com/?q=docs On this page I not find information about how controll speekers but only about how to create own music service. I don't need create all service and implment all API I need only simply function as above. [b]I find how to controll speekers using UPnP[/b], using SOAP body request but this is available only on local. If I want to controll from external (my web-service)I will need to forward 1400 port on my routers. Any way this is not safe, and I would like to controll speeker from sonos cloud (if exist) using autorization via account. If I good remember Philips HUE has available cloud integ

I have 2 physical rooms very close to each other. My TV room has 2 Sonos Ones. The other room has 2 other sonos ones that are paired and stereod and connected to a sub. I would like to be able to have 5.1 in the TV room after getting the sound bar in the TV room when watching TV. But also have the sub paired to the speaks in the other room when watching TV. What are options for doing this? I would rather not buy 2 subs as the rooms are essentially almost 1 big room. I think my options in most desirable order -- ) Have the sub in two different groups simultaneously ) Use the app and remake the groups Everytime I go from listening music to watching TV ) Create group of 1 with the subwoofer and enable it along with the other ones I want depending on watching TV or listening to music Any help appreciated

Anyone know if you can control a Sonos Playbar and Fire Stick 4k remote? I want the remote to control the sound through Playbar only and not the TV speakers. I have a brand new 75" Samsung TV (bought and connected same day as Fire Stick) and I cannot figure out how to make it work. I have the app and can control through that, but that is inconvenient and leaves the rest of my family without the option. The PlayBar is connected with an Audio Optical cable to the TV....the same way it was to my last Vizio TV (only two years old). Thanks for any help!

I've scoured the internet and this forum for help with my issue and feeling hopeless. My Setup: * Turntable (Orbit turntable) is connected to Sonos Connect via the IN ports. * Playbar connected to TV via optical cable. Note: Playbar works fine with TV and other audio stream services via Sonos app. * Play:1. Works fine with TV and other audio services I've double checked the preamp on my turntable is ON. The RCA cable is connected correctly (red to red and white to white) and connected to the IN ports on the connect. And the Line-In Source Level is set to 10. However, when I drop the needle, I don't hear any sound coming from the Playbar or Play:1. If I max out the volume on the Sonos app, I can hear sound coming from the speakers; probably 10% volume. Backstory: Rewind a few months, everything worked fine. Fast-forward, I have new apartment, new router, and no sound from turntable. Could the Connect or preamp have broken during the move? Is there something else I could

Obviously, this question has been discussed in this forum, I want to clarify some questions. 5Ghz is only used in a 5.1 set up I suppose? In terms of connectivity bond, projecting sound from Tv (Movies) 2.4Ghz is employed in multi-room usage? In terms of projecting your movie audio to different rooms; Streaming music from Spotify (I believe that a 5.1 streaming music is using 2.4ghz then) So how Sonosnet have anything to do with this? If I'm using a standard set up for my 5.1, I'm actually getting my router to work on 5ghz? if this statement even make sense