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Homekit creating multiple Sonos groups playing the same thing

  • March 22, 2026
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I have a HomeKit scene that plays music to multiple Sonos speakers. I just noticed that for some reason it’s creating multiple groups, each playing the same thing, except one group. As an annoying consequence of this, as they’re playing an Internet radio station, the different groups sometimes get out of sync slightly, resulting in an annoying echo effect as some speakers are very slightly behind the others. If I go into the Sonos app and move all the speakers into a single group this fixed is, but that kinda defeats the purpose of having an automation to play the music.

 

Is there anyway to control this to get it to just create a single group? My assumption is that this would need to be on the Sonos side of things, as HomeKit just sees the individual AirPlay speakers.

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Corry P
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  • Sonos Staff
  • March 23, 2026

Hi ​@Josh_13 

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

I’m sorry to hear about this issue you are having with Apple HomeKit creating multiple speaker groups and them therefore getting out of sync.

We do not receive training on Apple HomeKit, and I do not have any Apple devices myself, so I cannot help you directly, I’m afraid. As far as I am aware, HomeKit cannot put Sonos rooms into Sonos groups.

I can only really suggest recreating the Scene so that it does what you ask properly, perhaps?

My posting here will get your question back on to the list of those threads recently active - hopefully, someone with HomeKit experience will see it and be able to assist further.

I hope this helps.

 


MoPac
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  • Headliner III
  • March 23, 2026

 Not that familiar with Home Kit, but can’t you create a “Group” in the Sonos app and have Home Kit initiate that group automatically??  Maybe Home Kit can’t see a Sonos group.