Spaces & Setups

Hi All, I've been using a pair of Sonos One and love them. I wanted to add a sub to it but don't know if I can just add one or do I need to get an echo to make them work together. Any help would be appreciated.

I have an epson VS250 that is currently running a chrome cast out of the HDMI port on the back of the projector. I am running a 3.5mm to (red & white) RCA which is directly plugged into my play 5 with line in turned on. I haven’t been able to get any sound out of the play 5. I’d be super appreciative of any tips to get this working! Thanks a ton!

This is really frustrating. I have a Sonos One, a Connect hooked to the main stereo and 2 Play 5s. Usually, I control things by yelling at Alexa but today I was in the kitchen and grabbed my iPad. Searched for Stan Getz, found the album and pushed play. As the music started on the Play 5 closest to me, I saw a popup saying 'some of your devices are hooked to a wifi extender and may not play correctly.' The message was right; I only had sound out of one of the four devices. I checked the app, all 4 devices were selected but no sound out of 3 of them. I moved the volume sliders up and down, nothing. The iPad was hooked to the main wireless network, so is everything else. The only reason I even have an extender is because I have a cable TiVo that must have an ethernet connection to update the guide. Yeah, I don't get that, either. At any rate, I updated all the software, shut the iPad off, tried to start music with Alexa, tried from my iPhone and my desktop. Only one Play 5 would play.

So I recently updated to the new Sonos integration, per Smartthings' recommendation in their September 17th email. That is, I changed the 'type' to "LAN Sonos Player Websocket". This, of course, broke my existing scenarios involving Sonos, such as playing a white noise playlist when I turn on the "goodnight" routine. In trying to do something similar with the new app, I cannot find the setting to play a playlist (or any sound, for that matter) from any of my Sonos speakers. The only options available are to set the volume, or to mute/unmute. Does anyone know how to accomplish this simple task which was quite easy before? Thanks!

Im frustrated with my Sonos system! I always have to restart my router, restart my phone and then open the Sonos app in order to get the app to recognize the WI-FI and allow me to control the sound. I've called into customer service but they couldn't help correct the problem except to elude it's my internet provider's issue, however all my streaming services work and so do my other apps when I use my WiFi. It's a Sonos issue and they won't recognize it. We either need to hardwire or be able to use Bluetooth.

Greetings - Newbie here, OK So I am not really looking for surround sound for TV (Which I think most posts tend to be about). I am fine with TC sound... But my old Denon Receiver does not have Bluetooth and has an old ipod dock that is not working.. and well its time to upgrade. I do have 2 Klipsch Ikon series speakers... but anyway looking for better sound then a $12 portable speaker. So need to outfit my bedroom (currently have Alexa - 1 tiny speaker) and my kitchen/great room. So my home has 1 large area for kitchen/dining room/ living room. 17 foot wood ceilings (And a loft upstairs). The living room /kitchen / great room is about 28 feet long by 22 feet wide (616 Square feet( and my master bedroom is about 15 by 16 (Plus a hallway leading to bathroom) so 240 sq feet+. So what do you recommend to play music off my iPhone or Alexa? Radio etc... Right now I have Amazon music and pandora - but that could change. So looking to enjoy music in great room and then in my bedroom

I have a Sonos Zoneplayer (ZP80) and I'm browsing for a potential replacement. Is there a recommended product or line I should be looking at?

Hello All, I have a question about the Sonos Amp. Is is possible to use the HDMI and analog RCA input simultaniously and stream their signals to different Sonos speakers? Example: Stream the audio of a playstation thats connected through the HDMI input to the speakers near the TV and at the same time stream the audio of a turntable thats connected through the RCA input to the speakers in the kitchen? And/or would it also be possible to stream an internet service (eg, spotify) to a third pair of speakers while using the other input(s)? Cheers!

My new beam's audio cuts out intermittently, say every 15 minutes, for several seconds on my Sharp smart tv. I only have a beam + tv setup connected via HMDI ARC (no additional surround speakers). My diagnostics number is: 727740947. Any help would be appreciated. I noticed this issue only recently. All cables are in and not loose.

Hi all, I’ve been looking through the Sonos website and some forum posts and I’m still feeling very confused. I have a turntable and I already have a Sonos Beam and a Sonos One. I’m looking to find a way to play the turntable through those speakers. I believe the turntable has a phono preamp (from a listing for it: “It features a built-in switchable preamp, so it can used with a standard phono preamp or receiver with a phono stage, OR it can plugged straight into any aux or line input.”) Previously I have just been running it into a stereo system with the rca cables. I also don’t see anything “switchable” on it which confuses me as to whether or not I do not to buy a preamp (or if the “switchability” is internal?). Any help with what products/accessories I would need would be much appreciated! Thanks, Nick

I’m curious how Sonos would work in the following setup: 1 x amp for front passive speakers 1 x amp for rear smaller passive speakers + Sonos sub is the sub crossover setting global or could I set different crossover for the front and rear speakers?

Has anyone managed to get Sonos speakers to show up as devices in the Shortcuts app? I have Sonos Ones and they are set up in the Home app, but they won’t show up as devices in the Shortcuts app so I can add them to scenes/automations.

I have a Sony TV, about 3 years old. I have bought a Samsung soundbar and Sonos One SL speakers to set up a surround sound sytem, but cannot get The TV bluetooth to connect to anything wirelessly. Any ideas please?

Hi All. Just after others experiences. We have a bridge and have never had a problem with dropping etc. SONOS are obviously pushing the switch to boost with a discount on it for bridge owners. Is it worth it given that we have no problems with he bridge set up? TIA

The discussion about export, import, backup and sharing playlists is at least 6 years old and diverse in requested functionality. In the 6 years I use SONOS this topic continues to pop up... There are lots of threads, questions, answers and frustrations on the theme, often asking different functionality. There are also 3rd party tips and tricks to be found in the forums but none of them is really easy - or they simply don't work anymore. . I know from my ICT experience import and export is very difficult and tricky functionality. So I can imagine SONOS stays away from import/export functionality to avoid trouble. So decided to put the question another way. What I ask in this request is a VERY BASIC function: just make it possible to make a plain text file from a playlist, just holding the songname,artist and album title as they are displayed while playing. Either as a pop-up or as a small file to desktop or set destination. PLEASE support this question as much as possible: lots of

The kids can control our tv through their playstation, and sometimes do so by accident even. We have 1 network and don't plan on getting an extra one just because of a super basic feature which should be a very fundamental thing... I was planning on buying all the extra speakers, surround sound and subwoofer too, but no chance now. It's 2020, and like many other people are saying also, even coffee machines have password protection on wifi's... Interesting to see that this basic request has been an issue for hundreds of people using Sonos hardware I've seen on here alone, beyond 2006 ! Sono's make a lot of money.. please listen to your consumers in future. It really isn't much to ask.

Does anyone know for certain if the Sonos return policy is 45 days or 100 days? I have seen documentation for both. Sonos page stating that the policy is 45 days: https://www.sonos.com/en-us/legal/terms?#return-policy Sonos page stating that the policy is 100 days: https://www.sonos.com/en/legal/terms#return-policy

I am considering getting several AMPs. I plan on hooking 1 up to the TV via hdmi ARC. The other AMPs will be in other rooms. 1 of them in the guest bathroom. What I would like to do is stream online music to the guest bathroom unless something is playing on the TV. In that case, I’d like the sound in the guest bathroom to be the same as the TV... When the TV is turned off... back to the online music it was streaming before. Is this possible to kinda “set and forget” this? Or does it require going into the app and switching back and forth?

Hi, I can't seem to get my TV remote to pair with my Sonos system. Otherwise the hook up went as normal. I have tried on numerous occasions, the Sonos system doesn't recognise my input on the volume button. Any help gladly received! Thank you

I was really getting ready to IKEA to get some Bookshelf speakers until I came across some Sonos Play 1's for only $30 more. I know the 1's are older (and only slightly) more expensive but from what I've read they sound better than the bookshelves. I'm beginning to sway towards the 1's. What would you get?

Hi everyone, We are at home Sonos users we have 4 play:1 and a sonos connect. They are both used by my husband and I who have different uses: He uses sonos for music and use only spotify which work absolutely fine for him; Me: I barely uses spotify, my main use of sonos are for podcasts (for which I use the pocketcast app and it works well) and audiobooks and this where I have a problem with Sonos. Let me explain, when I listen to an audiobook (well they can very lengthy (50 hours say)) I lose my position in the audiobook everytime my husband later in the day take over the sonos to play a song on Spotify. This is so frustrating, this is my only complaint but it’s a huge one because this why I use Sonos. Is there any way to “bookmark” where you are at in file and come back to it if spotify has been used? Is there an app ? I have testing adding my audio files to google play and no luck I can’t keep my position on audio file, my nas is connected to to sonos and again no luck.

Hi all, I already done my homework and learned that watts are not the most important when considering the quality of a speaker. I have been reading recently about Play:5 and I only found good reviews almost everywhere I looked, but I couldn't find any technical details about the speaker. To be more precise, I am trying to find out what is the speaker sensitivity for a Play:5? Maybe it's a dumb question, and if so, I apologise for that, but I feel like maybe other people have been searching for this as well and it could provide some guidance, if not finding the answer at least having a better technical understanding of the system. Thank you for considering my request and I am looking forward to your answers.

If the objective is the most powerful SonosNet setup, can a wired Sonos One (Gen2) really be as good as a Boost (3 antennas 360 broadcast etc)? Does the Play One also have 3 antennas in ?

i have a 4 door Jeep Wrangler and would like to upgrade the factory speakers. I’m curious if the Sonos Move would be a better sound quality option provided I had a docking setup within the Jeep for the Move. Can you pair two Bluetooth sources at the same time as well so a person could connect to the car audio and the Sonos Move simultaneously from a smartphone and play music through the Move and car audio?

I have a Sonos Connect connected to my stereo and 3 sonos:1 speakers. My Sonos Connect will not stay connected to the network and when it does, only works for a short period of time before I need to unplug and re-plug it. Even that sometimes will not work to get it back on the network. Is Sonos Connect so sensitive that it needs to be so far away from any other wireless hardware? I have no connectivity problems with any other devices, including Apple TV, PCs, phones, iPads, etc. I recently connected the Connect again and ran a diagnostic: 8234741