Spaces & Setups

I bought Sonos equipment because it was Google compatible.I have a daughter with muscular issues and giving voice commands is essential for various appliances around the home…Now what? You want me to purchase another set of Google products because guys can't sort our your differences? Struth!Get over it already! Give us the functionality that the products were sold with!  

Love my new Sonos Play’s, and Alexa seems to working properly, except for one feature we love and miss in our household...All previous Sonos units support a whole-home intercom feature Amazon calls ‘Make Announcements with Alexa’ that we can trigger by saying“Alexa, broadcast: _____”https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GKACGU9SSBEYA2TX But Play alone seems to not support this very useful feature -- any plan to support it?

On my Plex Server, I have two Smart Collections (a.k.a Playlists), each having approximately 1500 tracks. These are easily browsable in the the Sonos app, but no tracks can be played from these Collections. The same tracks can be played if you navigate to the correct Album and play them from a shorter list. I guess the Sonos players are failing on the length of the queue, since all the tracks in the Collection are added to the queue…?Do the players have a limit to the number of tracks they can handle being added to the queue?

Hi!I own 2 Sonos 1 gen 2 since many years ago and I’ve recently been contemplating to buy 1 or 2 more speakers. But after digging around it seems Sonos 1 is no longer produced. If I buy for example era 100 will it give significantly different quality of sound that it will spoil the vibes when the speakers on or do you believe that it’s okey to mix and match different gen of speakers?

I have an Era 300 and a Roam Gen 1. The Era 300 doesn’t get used much any longer to its full capacity so am thinking of trading both in for a new Play.I did once have a Move but was too powerful for our small-ish garden.Any thoughts/comments welcome 😀

I have been offline for some considerable time however forums have stated huge challenges with the APP (S1/S2 ?) have these been resolved

I know this has been probably been done to death, but how the do I just get my Beam to play a BBC Radio station via Alexa? I think I’ve done everything, set up Alexa in the Sonos app, enables BBC Sounds skill in the Alexa app and linked accounts. What I am getting;Me “Alexa, play BBC 6Music”Alexa “Playing BBC 6Music”Followed by silence or Me “Alexa open BBC Sounds”Alexa “(BBC Sounds open noise)..What would you like to hear?”Me “6Music”Alexa “Playing BBC 6Music”Followed by silence So close but so far! Any tips?

Hello,When we first started setting up a service that we test locally, we used to get exceptions for not handling getLastUpdate. I put in a token regenerator so the token was always rolled. The threshold was 60 seconds. The point was for our development environments to always refresh data. But when moved to production this would obviously not be the case.For some reason now, the getLastUpdate is not being received. I checked my sandbox, value is still 60, did a refresh of the ics (refresh+send), but it looks like I am not receiving this call.Is there something that could have been done that causes sonos not to poll the sandbox service?

Why do my two moves fail time and time.again to work?  So I hold the button for five.seconds to turn it off.  Yet when I go to use it a week later the battery is half or more drained. When I try to set up Bluetooth in the  right sun it's impossible to see the blue led, but more frustrating is it's failure to be recognized as a device when trying to play music. Maybe the new moves have solved these problems but I don't think I'd risk that they have. No new moves for me.  Between the battery losing charge and the connection issues I'm done with this part of the Sonos system. 

The adjustment shortcut is missing sub. I still need to go to the room settings and jump between EQ and SUB level. 

We have the Lutron Smart Bridge Pro 2 with several picos, dimmers, etc. We’ve integrated the Sonos account inside the Lutron app and it has a green check. Inside of the Sonos app, we have turned on Sonos Voice Control for the Era 100 speaker. However, when I say … “Hey, Sonos turned main bedroom lights on” I am getting this error message from the speaker: to enable voice control for your smart home devices, activate the Home control feature on your smart devices app Things I’ve tried: both Lutron and Sonos are fully up to date, restarted the Lutron bridge, deleted and read added the Sonos integration to the Lutron app, deleted and re added voice control to the speaker inside the Sonos app.  Note: The Sonos speaker currently accepts Sonos’s voice commands for music. It is just not controlling any of the Lutron lights via voice command.

I’m thinking about upgrading my old Play:1 speakers that I’m using for surround sound on our entertainment center.  I’m considering ERA 100 and ERA 300.  Be interested in anyone’s experience with such an upgrade to either product.

Just bought a beam 2, I’m curious as to what others have found works best in terms of the height channel settings for Dolby Atmos? I know it will be subjective based on individual space (ceiling height etc) but keen to hear what others more experienced than me have found is a good place to start, also does the height setting matter if playing non dolby atmos content? I can't say I’ve heard a difference?

1. Apple Home and Apple TV integrationI would like the Arc Ultra to fully appear in Apple’s “TV & Speakers” controls.When music is playing directly on the Arc, the song, artwork and playback controls should also appear automatically on the Apple TV’s Now Playing screen. 2. Optional Apple TV playback with Hey SonosI would like an option for Hey Sonos to launch Apple Music directly on the Apple TV instead of playing through the Sonos music service.This would turn on the Apple TV, show the music on screen and send Dolby Atmos audio to the Arc Ultra through HDMI eARC. Direct playback on the Arc should remain available because it starts much faster.

As of today I am bang up to date with all updates. My issue is playing Spotify through Sonos I cannot delete the track that I have played. I used to be able to delete the queue but can’t find it anymore? 

In the FWIW department, I wanted an easy way to spin up all my music to all speakers in my house as well as be able to quickly adjust volume, skip & pause.So if anyone is interested, here’s the initial version of my little app.  MIT open source in C#.  Suggestions welcome.HotSonos on GitHubBTW,  I mapped my controls to the keypad which I never use - add/subtract for volume, multiply for pay and divide for restart.Moderator Edit: Link removed

Hi allSearched and found closed topics.Wanted to find out whether the issue of setting an alarm and not being able to add a Group has been fixed? So I set an alarm with a station, choose a speaker (eg my Move stereo pair) and choose “Include Grouped Rooms” but it fails to also then play on my Beam which is part of this Group under “Groups”. If I set two alarms they are out of sync. Any advice? thanks 

Spotted last night on TV, wearing Ace for podcast, noise cancelling Andy Burpham? 

Hey,just one quick wish: As it would be good for battery health - it would be nice if you can limit the maximum charging capacy of move/roam/play to 80% or 90% on demand by adding a switch under options. Thank you!

Hi again In general I like the user interface in the app and I also like the changes now in july.  One thing with the GUI i don't like so much is the display og speaker groups in form in the "player". It's today as "buttons" on a single line on top of the speakers. Even though I initially made 8-10 groups I rarely use them as scrolling to get the wanted group isn't natural use for me. I would like the groups listed somehow - then will selecting a group be easier and more on intiuition. I don't have a clear solution how to improve it. It can be a list above/below speakers, it can be a tan for groups and a tab for speakers. Probably other better solutions - just look into how groups can be displayd best way 🙂Thank you in advance Amund 

I can only get 2 devices out of 6 speakers to connect the voice assistant.  I tried all the instructions multiple times.  App says they are connected but they won’t activate when asked.  

I currently have an amplified turntable that Is connected to a PORT only so I can listen to my LPs through my SONOS speakers I am upgrading my turntable to a non-amplified version. If I upgrade the PORT to an AMP will that still take the input from the Turntable and play through my existing SONOS Speakers?

HiI would realy like a function to restart one/all speakers. I experience doing that help sometimes to avoid hang/unstability, but with 10 units it's not something i like to do manually… A function in app to restart selected or all units would be verry helpfull.  Amund 

HiI have been using Sonos system for about a year. We have 8 speakers, 2 beams and are generally verry satisfied with the system 🙂 But I have some wishes for improvements regarding Tidal integration that is the music supplied I mostly use.  In Tidal app:The integration should be improved for better stability. I understand that this isn't something you can do by your own, but I guess focus from you on it can bring it forward.  I have tried to report it detaily to Tidal but it have'nt been improved so far.I experience that in example changing speaker after starting to play stops it all. Then need to stop Tidal app to get it work again. Adding songs isn't fetched, change order of songs is not fetched and so on. In short: The stability needs to be improved.Tidal in Sonos app:I have been primarily using the Tidal app to play music since I like some features there. But I til stability is improved I will try to use the built in Tidal In Sonos app. There I have this wishes for improvement: -

Hello!  I am trying to understand why the middle speaker isn’t “working” when used as rear with Arc Ultra.  I almost feel like I don’t hear my rear. I understand that the “Atmos” is working because the side speakers work. But is it ment that the middle speaker shouldn’t work as rear speakers?