Sonos...I Beg You For Outdoor Speakers!

It would seem to be a very easy solution, and I'm still baffled that there have been no products launched for those of us who like to have music outside!

Perhaps because of the many available outdoor speakers that can be wired to a Connect Amp? Works very well at my place.
A wireless speaker would still need mains power leads, and running speaker wires may be safer and just as convenient.

I'm also hoping/waiting for an outdoor play:5 that can run on a built in Li-Ion batteriy or something similar.

I want to take it outside when sitting on the patio or leave it inside in the bathroom (plugged in).

by placing a play one inside a water proof seat. When the weather is nice outside.. Out pops the play one. I know its not ideal. I was just lucky I already had a water proof outdoor plug on my balcony

Perhaps because of the many available outdoor speakers that can be wired to a Connect Amp? Works very well at my place.


This. Very simple to run weatherproof wire to an outdoor speaker mounted under an eave. I have a dual voice single speaker on my deck that sounds great.

There is a guy on youtube who has set up a Play 1 to run off an external battery. He has shown video of it working, a strip down of the Play 1 and states the third video (when he has done it) will show us how it's done 🙂

1. Demo of it working

2. Strip Down

3........ waiting

Not for the faint of heart though 😮

How about getting something like the rCube from Arcam before they become completely unavailable - a bargain at around 200GBP. This is battery powered Kleer reciever. If you combine this with a Kleer transmitter eg from a pair of Sennheiser RS180's that takes analog input at headphone jock level and delivers "CD quality" Kleer wireless to any paired Kleer reciever. Not sure if you can get a transmitter on its own - great if you could but if not then at least you have a pair if good wireless headphones as well. I have not tried this combination but I I imagine it should work.

If you combine this with a Kleer transmitter eg from a pair of Sennheiser RS180's that takes analog input at headphone jock level and delivers "CD quality" Kleer wireless to any paired Kleer reciever.
My experience of Sennheiser RS180s with 2.4GHz Kleer wireless was distinctly unfavourable. They clobbered SonosNet to such a degree that I returned them the next day.

There is a guy on youtube who has set up a Play 1 to run off an external battery. He has shown video of it working, a strip down of the Play 1 and states the third video (when he has done it) will show us how it's done 🙂

1. Demo of it working

2. Strip Down

3........ waiting

Not for the faint of heart though :o

Thanks for that link!

My experience of Sennheiser RS180s with 2.4GHz Kleer wireless was distinctly unfavourable. They clobbered SonosNet to such a degree that I returned them the next day.

That's a shame - I assume there was no avoiding it with channel changing. I have the 170s and have not really noticed a problem - though I do my best to avoid SonosNet wireless anyway (previously with structured Cat5 and now in new property with Powerline). I was thinking to buy an rCube some time ago but the price was high - I may now give it a go.

EDIT:

http://www.avforums.com/threads/arcam-rwave-with-sennheiser-rs180-headphones-is-kleer-association-possible.1817203/

suggests it might not pair anyway.

That's a shame - I assume there was no avoiding it with channel changing.
The Kleer wireless frequency-hopped over the entire 2.4GHz band. Here is my original post on the subject.