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tdifonzo
Contributor II
September 25, 2019
Answered

SONOS Move Battery Level on Bluetooth

Is there a way to see the Move's battery life while in Bluetooth mode?
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    Ryan S
    Ryan SAnswer
    Retired Sonos Staff
    September 25, 2019
    The battery life is only shown in the Sonos app. If you're connected to Sonos with WiFi, the Sonos app will show you the battery charge by the name of the room in the room screen or at the bottom of the app. Over Bluetooth, if you open the Sonos app, when off of the wifi, you'll see a new screen with the product image, it's name, and the battery life left.

    You'll also get an amber LED indicating when the unit is very low on power (15% or under), but no battery life is displayed outside the Sonos app.
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    hoganhaley
    Contributor I
    April 18, 2020

    In reading Ryan’s response again, this is NOT true for me. 

    I am on bluetooth right now to the Move, playing music.

    I’m not on wifi (wifi is down / power is out due to power grid maintenance) so I’m only on 4g cellular and bluetooth to the Move and when I open the Sonos app, I ONLY get a screen that says “you need to turn on your wifi to use Sonos”.  Zero place where it shows any product image or new screen.  Simply a screen telling me the app will not work without wifi.  (btw running the latest Sonos android app on Android 9 on a Samsung Galaxy S9+)


    You are correct. On Bluetooth there is no way to see battery level.

    HighEndMusic
    Prodigy I
    April 19, 2020

    Guys I hate to break these news to you, but what Ryan said above is 100% correct. 
    Place MOVE in Bluetooth mode, put your phone in Bluetooth mode and pair the two. Switch off WiFi on our phone and play some music via Bluetooth to the MOVE (not via the Sonos App, use your normal music App… Apple Music, Deezer or whatever).

    Then open the Sonos App while you’re playing. Click on the instruction that is shown at the top… and, you will see a screen like the attached screenshot - which shows that my MOVE is at 100% battery level.

    It works.

    hoganhaley
    Contributor I
    April 19, 2020

    You are correct. You literally have to be off Wi-Fi on your whole phone. Which is kinda dumb. 

      HighEndMusic
      Prodigy I
      April 19, 2020

      I don’t know about dumb… to me it makes perfect sense:-)

        hoganhaley
        Contributor I
        April 20, 2020

        Not an argument. But curious. Why does it make perfect sense?  Every other Bluetooth device I use I can see the battery level whether I’m on wifi or not. 
        Like, who would think they have to turn off their wifi to see the battery level? I just don’t understand the logic of that. 
        im guessing that because it can run either on Bluetooth or wifi the software guys have no other way? 

        HighEndMusic
        Prodigy I
        April 20, 2020

        Because Sonos needs to be able to manage two distinctly different modes:

        When your device is on WiFi, Sonos expects to find a Sonos system on that WiFi net. So it will expect that the Move will be part of this.

        When your device is on with WiFi AND Bluetooth, Sonos can not distinguish a Bluetooth paired Move since it expects to find a Sonos system within the WiFi.

        Basically, WiFi is the overarching backbone that Sonos expects initially as a default for all their systems.

         

          PubicZirconians
          Contributor I
          June 20, 2020

          Mine is blank. Strange

            00Hein
            Contributor I
            August 20, 2020

            All my Bluetooth speakers report battery status via Bluetooth. No app, no turning off Wifi on my phone (sorry that’s really bad UX).

            AlBonob1302a
            Lyricist I
            October 29, 2020

            I gotta say I agree with others in this thread about having battery level report to the phone. My headphones and other bluetooth speaker devices all do this and it is really convenient. Or at least have the Move report battery life when Wifi is connected, so that you don’t have toggle that off to check it in the app. It makes sense as to why you have to do that, but in use it is counter intuitive. I know so many people who leave there Wifi on even when they’re out and about on 3G/4G.

              Zabbaskeema
              Contributor I
              November 21, 2020

              This is a dubious implementation of dubious requirements.

               

              I am in a chalet with a wifi network I connect to for everything else than Sonos wifi -> email, spotify, Netflix, name it.

              Then the move is on Bluetooth because it makes no sense to reconfigure the wifi and have to do it all again when we will be back home!

              So turning wifi off to see battery left is just plain stupid and that exposes a design flaw.  Just broadcast the damn battery level as everyone else does.  

              What an embarrassment!

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