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2 systems on one app

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Evening all.

My father in law has an existing set up in his house on a Vodafone WiFi. It has a playbar and a play 3. All working harmoniously.

He now has a play 1 in his workshop and garage a ways down the property. The house WiFi does not stretch to these outbuildings.

He has run a cat cable from the router down to the garage underground into the workshop. And it is connected to a new WiFi extender type thing that emits its own WiFi signal.

The aim, is to have a separate system from this house WiFi on this "new" WiFi signal.

My belief is that if he resets the Sonos app, and then creates a new system, he can add his play 1 on this new WiFi network and operate it as a separate system. Ans then switch between the 2 systems once all set up . Is this a good line of thought ?

Attached picture of the device at the other end of his cat 5.

In that photo he has another lead plugged into the play1. Is it better to hard patch or set up wirelessly.

Cheers all

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buzz

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I assume that the PLAY:1 has been used elsewhere. If so, Factory Reset the unit before attempting to install it. Don’t Factory Reset the other SONOS units.

You could have the PLAY:1 operating within the hour if you wire it to the network, then add it to the system. Take care with this step, don’t accidentally create a new system or your workload will explode. Do this while it’s in the house. Once you have the PLAY:1 operational, you can take it to the workshop, wire it to your network connection, and temporarily ignore the UBIQUITY.

Surprise!!! If your workshop WiFi is too weak, you will not be able to use a wireless controller in the workshop to operate the PLAY:1 until you deal with the workshop WiFi, however, you could select music while the wireless controller is in the house and control a few functions such as Play/Pause/Volume using the PLAY:1 buttons. You could also wire a computer to the workshop network connection and use this to control SONOS. Note that a computer cannot be used to setup a system.

Further note: I haven’t tried this, but it may be possible to operate the system (including the wired PLAY:1 in the workshop) using the Web Controller over the cell network.

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