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I must be be being a bit thick, and this is obviously not a huge problem,but: Why can’t I make Alexa turn my Beam on by saying, ‘Alexa, turn on the TV’ like on the ads? I can say, ‘Alexa, turn off the TV’ and she will, but I have to say, ‘Alexa, turn on the lounge’ to turn the TV on? It took me a lot longer than you might imagine to work out how to turn it on by voice at all, I was shouting all sorts of things at her. :cool:

Got it plugged into the ARC and Alexa is working but it doesn’t control my TV. Does it not work with Directv? Thanks

Is it possible to control apple tv 4k with alexa on the sonos beam just like amazon firetv as presented on the keynote? I mean „start movie xxx“ for example.

I'm new to the Sonos ecosystem and purchased a Sonos One to replace an old Echo. So far I have really enjoy the music playback and quality of the sound. But compared to Amazon's Echo line, are the microphone significantly less sensitive on the One. Nearly 50% of the time I try to trigger Alexa in a quiet room (no background noise) and normal speaking volume, nothing happens. I would have to raise my voice repeatedly until I'm nearly yelling to wake Alexa. My old Echo in the same position in the Kitchen could be triggered with a mumbling voice, even with the water tap running. I've tried some of the troubleshooting suggestions on other threads by restarting or turning the mic on and off. Is there some settings or way to increase the insensitivity? As it stands right now, it's just not usable as a smart speaker.

Hello! I am interested in buying a cople of Sonos Connects. The plan is to have amplifiers between the Sonos Connects and the in ceiling speakers. In one of the zones I am planning to have a sub woofer aswell. [b]My question is: [/b] When sending music / sound to the Sonos Connect, will there be output from all three (Optical, Coaxial & Analog RCA) outputs AT THE SAME TIME? So I can use one of the sonos connect and connect the Coax to a amplifier and connect the Analog RCA to a sub woofer? /Daniel

I currently use only an Apple TV 4th gen to watch television. This means I use the ATV remote to change the volume of my built in television speakers with IR. I plan on adding a Sonos Beam to this set up. Will I be able to control the volume of the Sonos Beam with the ATV remote?

Hi! Since I don't have TV, and I watch movies on Benq (W1070+) projector (from my laptop or PS4) I wonder if it would be possible to connect Beam with PS4 directly, and if it's good idea? Of course I could connect Beam with projector via HDMI, but I don't trust audio compression capabilities of my Benq (maybe I'm wrong!). Also my MacBook doesn't support optical audio out. I know - it doesn't sound good, but I was waiting for product like this so long, and I would love to order it. Could anyone please help me? Here are my options: 1. Connecting my Benq with Beam via 10 meters-long HDMI (don't feel it's a good idea) 2. Connecting my PS4 via 10 meters-long HDMI with optical adapter at the end of It Another problem is my laptop. For movies I can use Plex app on ps4, but what about streaming football games? Would it be possible with airplay 2 to send audio from safari to Beam without lag? Oh man. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm lost!

So I bought a beam. Lovely piece of kit and it’s playing music nicely. Problem is getting my TV set up... My TV is about 10 years old (Toshiba 37x3030d). It has a digital out but doesn’t seem to work for the HDMI inputs, only its internal digital tuner. I have a BT YouView box, Apple TV and PS4 and was hoping to just take the audio output from the TV so all three of them would work with the Beam with minimal hassle... However the only way I can get it to work is to hook the Beam directly to the component, I.e. hook it up directly to the BT box, etc. The simple solution is to buy a new TV :D but is there anything else I can try??

my speakers have been playing fine but then 1 stopped playing. The light on top is still white and I can use the controls (pause, play, volume) but no music. I tried unpairing and resetting them up and everything worked again for a few days and now the same speaker is not playing music again. The controls work but not sound.

Sonos ONE set up, flashing orange light. Unable to connect to WiFi wirelessly sitting literally next to the router or even when using ethernet cable. Light flashes green until it tries to connect to WiFi, then flashes orange. After a few seconds of not trying anything it flashes green again but will still not connect to WiFi. This ONE is brand new and has never been connected before. Not sure if it's a hardware issue or what is going on.

My Beam flashes White, then goes to flash green and then a constant red light before it starts över again. I cant turn off the light and even if it works fine it seem a bit unstable from time to time loosing connection Any clues?

macbook pro not connecting with sonos

Hi, I have been running a Sonos 5 for a few years now and it works mostly good. But sometimes, the app does not find the Play5 speaker and it mostly happens at parties when it's most "critical" that it works. I have been searching for a detailed description on the networking that Sonos is using, but haven't been able to find it. I'm a network and security engineer and have been working with networks for 25 years. At work, I do enterprise networking, security and routing/firewalling/load balancing. I would like to understand what network topology Sonos is using for the system to be able to debug the system when it doesn't work for me. Is it available ?

HI i hope someone can help me, when i am watching a film auto going thru sonos the talking is at normal so i can here it but then when a action scene come on the volume is TOOO loud, if i turn the action volume down then when they actor start talking agin i can hear the talking, so all the way thru a film i am turn volume up and down.. i have tried changing the setting on the tv to speech, action, theatre etc but nothing makes any difference at all ?

I have 2 play5's and 1 beam. Since the last release, I have been having connection issues. Oddly depending on which app I'm using (Win 10, Android, or Amazon Fire OS) it is a different speaker that disappears. Currently, on my WIN10 app I can control the beam, but neither play5. My android (Pxel XL, Android PI) can see the kitchen speaker. My Kindle Fire HD8 can see the bedroom. I have really solid connectivity for the last few years - up until the last update. Ever since then I am getting horrible dropouts. Luckily, my alarms are still working in the morning so far. Resetting the wireless does fix this, but it is very frustrating.

As per title, can you have a Sonos One and Play:1 paired for stereo sound, or do you need two Sonos One's?

I am looking to install two pairs of Bose virtually invisible 791s in one large room. Will one Sonia connect amp be able to power both pairs?

My current system consists of a playbar grouped with 2 play 1s for the TV room, 3 other play 1s in other rooms, a connect Amp, and a gen 1 play 5 and also a Sonos bridge. I am having a whole home wireless network installed. Basically 2-4 access points on PoE back to the router. Do I upgrade the bridge to a boost or just use the new whole home wifi? Thanks

how do i connect 2 or more sonos connects together

I am a musicholic, have been since forever. I have a long history with music & audio & audio systems. SONOS has been one of my favorite purchases for some time until today... "screen lock controls" are no longer available and the experience of having songs pause or be interrupted continually is brutal and annoying. Does anyone know if SONOS intends to correct this issue? If not, I will be looking for a new way to listen to music wirelessly.

I have a proplem with my recently bought Sonos/Alexa. When I tell Alexa to connect to Spotify it responds saying 'sorry that device is offline'. Similarly, when I ask it to connect to a radio stn, Alexa acknowledges request but nothing happens. Can anyone help me to solve this problem please?

Is there a way for multiple poeple in the household to be adding songs to the same queue? For Example: Adam is playing music from his Iphone/Sonos Player using his spotify acount and Bob and Charles want to add thier own songs to the current queue on the Sonos Player from thier phones using thier personal Spotify Accounts. Is there a way to do this?

Any chance we could see this?

Can I watch a movie on Apple TV and send movie's audio to speakers being powered by a Connect:AMP?

Hi I've been unable to get voice control activated on the Sonos One. It seems that the set up process is not completing correctly. This is what I'm doing: 1) Open Sonos app 2) 'More' page menu 3) Voice Services 4) Amazon Alexa...Requires Alexa app 5) Add Amazon Alexa...Add to Sonos 6) Steps to set up Alexa...Connect your Amazon account this takes me to ps://na.account.amazon.com 7) Click 'Allow' to sign in to Alexa enabled Sonos speaker Clicking 'Allow' just brings me back to step 2). Voice control has not been activated and the microphone light remains off. I have an Amazon account, an Echo dot in another room with Alexa all set up and working fine. I have the Sonos skill enabled in the Alexa app and I can ask the Echo dot to play music on the Sonos One which it does. But I can't ask the Sonos One anything. Well, I can ask, but it ignores me. I have pressed and swiped the mic icon on the Sonos One but nothing happens. Have tried all the suggestions like un