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Ability to Add Sonos Roam to Multiple Sonos WiFi Systems?

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Is it possible to add a Sonos Roam to multiple Sonos WiFi systems?

I recently purchased a Roam and took it with me on a road trip. My in-laws have a Sonos system and I wanted to add my Roam to their system so I could get all of the benefits of using Roam over WiFi instead of Bluetooth.

However, the only way I could get the Roam to connect to their system was to reset it to factory and set up the Roam as a new speaker in their Sonos system. When I came home I had to repeat the process by resetting to factory and adding it back to my Sonos system.

The feature I’d love to see is the ability to add a Roam to a second Sonos system over WiFi without having to remove it from an existing Sonos system. Ideally, after initial setup, the switch between Sonos systems would be done automatically based upon the connected WiFi network.

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Corry P

Sonos Staff

Hi @j_roc

Welcome to the Sonos Community and thank you for your feedback!

I’ll tag this post as a feature request and it will reach the relevant team for consideration.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

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pup

Avid Contributor II

I’ll second the request. We have a camper with its own wifi, which we use with our Move, and of course will do the same with our new Roam. It’s a real pain to add them to the trailer’s wifi when camping and then back to the house again.

melvimbe

You should be able to setup the Roam and Move to multiple different WiFi networks. If I remember correctly, they store 7 different SSID and passwords. That said, I’m not exactly sure how that’s done and don’t see any support documents on it.

The original question was different wanting Roam and Move to be able to belong to multiple Sonos systems, not WiFi networks.

Danny

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pup

Avid Contributor II

You should be able to setup the Roam and Move to multiple different WiFi networks. If I remember correctly, they store 7 different SSID and passwords. That said, I’m not exactly sure how that’s done and don’t see any support documents on it.

The original question was different wanting Roam and Move to be able to belong to multiple Sonos systems, not WiFi networks.

I’ve actually got a Beam mounted in the trailer which I should have mentioned. I’ve tried the instructions here but couldn’t get it to work and had to reset my Move to make it work. Perhaps I was doing something wrong or it doesn’t work with the Move. For me, if I could get those instructions to work, I’d be happy. In fact personally I’d rather have some control over it than have the switching done automatically.

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GottSeattle

Lyricist II

How is this not the number one feature? It’s called ‘roam’. The PM on this one messed up big time.

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GottSeattle

Lyricist II

Hi @j_roc

Welcome to the Sonos Community and thank you for your feedback!

I’ll tag this post as a feature request and it will reach the relevant team for consideration.

This is a P0 feature. How did this thing ship without it? No one is ‘roaming’ around their house with this thing. It’s small. It goes with you on trips. Wow.

Corry P

Sonos Staff

Hi @GottSeattle

The Roam is designed to be added to your Sonos system and work with it just like another Sonos speaker - and then use Bluetooth individually while away from the home system. It was not designed to jump from one system to another without need for reconfiguration - this is systemic to how Sonos Households operate.
However, it is not outside the realms of possibility that we may be able to add a feature whereby a Roam could jump from one Sonos system (Household) to another which is why I have tagged this thread as a feature request.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

Just_Bob

Lyricist I

I have a similar interest. At home, I have four speakers (3 Play:1 and Sonos 1 and my Roam) that I play using a computer-based music library (118 GB). I maintain copies of that music library on two laptops and my car via thumbnail USB drives. I’d hoped to use my Roam with my laptop when on the road at hotels over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. When I launch my phone or laptop app away from home, it can’t find my system (which makes sense) and wants to set up my new router/IP. Can I set up a second instance of the App on either device to use the laptop-based library when I’m traveling? I could forgo connecting my Roam to my Home system if I had to.

controlav

Lead Maestro

Even I am going to +1 this feature request (doesn’t happen often).

Ordered my first Roam today and will be using it on multiple Sonos households in different countries and a factory reset seems excessive. It has the largest flash configuration of any Sonos device to date, so should able to store more than one set of Household data.

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GottSeattle

Lyricist II

Hi @GottSeattle

The Roam is designed to be added to your Sonos system and work with it just like another Sonos speaker - and then use Bluetooth individually while away from the home system. It was not designed to jump from one system to another without need for reconfiguration - this is systemic to how Sonos Households operate.
However, it is not outside the realms of possibility that we may be able to add a feature whereby a Roam could jump from one Sonos system (Household) to another which is why I have tagged this thread as a feature request.

So then you can’t use voice assist on the run...just saying. Should easily swap between wifi networks. Not a hard thing to design and deploy.

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