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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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Airgetlam

Please note the last sentence in the post immediately preceding yours. This includes not only progress, but indeed what features Sonos is considering. We usually find out when the new feature is released.

Bruce

melvimbe

Please can you advise if and when this feature will be added to Roam?

The post above you is from a Sonos support staff member that states they can’t share that information. From my experience, they only Sonos talks about future features is when it involves working with other companies or it’s a big feature that would have an impact sales.

One additional complication with this feature would be the likelyhood that the two Sonos systems are owned by different accounts. Perhaps it would be possible if the two systems (households) were under the same account, but with different owners, you’re asking the device to store the service logins, etc, from two completely different customers. Even under the same household, you could have different services setup.

Danny

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GoodGuyTX

Lyricist III

I agree on getting this feature, have a separate Wifi and media server and want to use a Roam or Move between the RV and home. I can’t justify having to buy separate Roams or Moves for each location.

Hopefully this comes soon!

Ken_Griffiths

I agree on getting this feature, have a separate Wifi and media server and want to use a Roam or Move between the RV and home. I can’t justify having to buy separate Roams or Moves for each location.

Hopefully this comes soon!

This can be done right now with a Sonos portable speaker (Roam/Move) and what you’re asking for is a completely different scenario to the earlier point raised in this thread, which was asking for the Roam to connect to multiple Sonos Systems or Households… that is an entirely different thing to allowing the Roam to attach to multiple WiFi networks.

I have a Roam that automatically attaches itself to my Home network (Localnet-PC). It works too in the Camper van when we travel the U.K. and attaches to its network (MobileNet) …and then when we stay at the Holiday Bungalow, it will switch and attach to its WiFi (MobileLink), plus if we’re camping, the Roam can be made to switch and link to a mobile Hotspot (Ken’s iPhone XR) when required outdoors and away from all other WiFi connections.

You simply need to add the WiFi networks through the Sonos App network settings. See screenshot attached.

Airgetlam

Unfortunately, “the image can not be loaded”….

Bruce

Ken_Griffiths

Unfortunately, “the image can not be loaded”….

Thanks @Airgetlam …I’ve posted it again - hope it’s working now? Not sure why this seems to happen occasionally?

Airgetlam

It can now. :)

Bruce

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John B

The problems with this thread start with the title. If only it made sense. If only the OP had used either:

Ability to connect Sonos Roam to multiple WiFi networks

OR

Ability to add Sonos Roam to multiple Sonos systems

Instead, these two totally different concepts were conflated.

The answer to 1 is ‘you can already do this”

The brief answer to 2 is:

“The concept of the Sonos system, with its unique identifier, is fundamental to Sonos’ design. A system at any one time will comprise a particular set of speakers, playlists, favourites, settings, music services, voice services, music library, whether it is S1 or S2, firmware version number, and much more besides. Moving a speaker between two different systems (without a reset) would have to somehow work out how to resolve any conflicts between these elements. And then resolve them again when the speaker is moved back.

The reset allows the speaker that is being moved to adopt all the features of the system to which is now attached”.

The posters on this thread who claim this feature would be easy to implement, or should clearly have been included from outset, are merely demonstrating their lack of understanding of the Sonos system. Factory resetting the speaker and adding it to the existing system each time takes about a minute and ensures no conflicts or inconsistencies. So I would say the answer to question 2 is “You can already do this simply and quickly, and in a way that ensures that there are no unpredictable changes to any of your Sonos systems”.

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jongirard

Lyricist I

Yep, thanks melvimbe, this is was a good workaround for me and probably everyone with two locations.

1. Set up the Roam regularly at home (location A)

2. Go to location B and take your Roam and your phone or laptop with you. Create a Hotspot at B that has the same SSID and Password as the WIFI in A. Your Roam will connect automatically.

3. Connect your Sonos devices from B to the Sonos system of your Roam (so they're all connected to your Hotspot)

4. Still at B, add manually, through the Sonos app, the native WIFI of B to the settings of all devices, including your Roam.

5. You now have one singe Sonos system for location A and B together and you could bring any device from B to A and it would work right away. However, A and B are not linked over the internet and will feel like they're separate.

I think this is quite the most brilliant thing I have seen posted here in a long time. Can’t wait to try this with my Roam (from A) when I next travel with it to my location B.

@controlav I’m attempting to go through the listed workaround here. Did you ever get a chance to try this out and can you confirm whether or not you were successful with the steps?

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John B

@jongirard - are you having problems getting this approach to work? I have my doubts about this approach, but I’m open to persuasion. Step 3 seems potentially problematic to me, depending on how the two systems were set up in the first place.

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