Thanks for completely breaking £2000 worth of Sonos gear

To clarify regarding satellitie wifi, I didn't mean to imply adding wireless access points. I don't care for those either, since they don't really expand your network, they just create multiple networks in your home. I was thinking along the lines of Netgear's Orbi and similar products, as they create one large network, not multiple.

Hello everyone

I ran a diagnostic and the confirmation number is 7970523.

John, I forgot about your suggestion regarding deleting the Wifi network login and password. The Surround was better, but still patchy. It's annoying because it seems OK for a couple of minutes then there will be a dropout or worse, a succession of really quick dropouts. It's got to the stage where if it's on, I'm constantly listening for them and not concentrating on what's on the gogglebox.

Hopefully the diagnostic will reveal something. It may yet turn out to be a hardware fault, and no amount of troubleshooting will help that.

It did, and it is. Looks like there's a problem with the wireless card on the PLAYBASE. Likely, the reboots from the update caused some network mayhem as whatever was allowing those PLAY:1s to connect wirelessly through another device stopped working right. You'll want to get that PLAYBASE replaced.

I'll pass the details for this on to the team and you'll be getting an email from them shortly to follow up.

Geoff Simmonds,

Reserving IP addresses would be a solution to your network problems, especially if your router is prone to crashing or reboots. Once you reserve an address, it will be assigned to one and only one device, no matter the state of the router. It is not that difficult a task, if you can setup a WiFi username and password, you can reserve IP addresses. List the make/model of your router and we can help you out.

As to rebooting Sonos devices remotely, there is an undocumented feature for that. Open a browser and type the following:

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1400/reboot

Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the Sonos device. You can get this IP at Settings->About My Sonos System on the Sonos app. But hopefully, if you reserve IP addresses, you won't have to use this too often.

I’ve seen it mentioned in the community that occasionally, some 'old' (stopped) Amazon Sessions on Sonos Room Speakers occasionally get stuck and appear to Alexa as though the music is still playing in that room, when in fact the music was stopped sometime ago... if this happens, it can be slightly annoying for several reasons...

One is when you start music playing in another separate room and try to go to the 'next track', Alexa will try to change the track in the other playing room with the stuck Amazon Session... or if you want to change volume or start music etc. in another room, Alexa says that music is streaming on another device and starts asking which room do you want? ... and you know full well that the other room is stopped and not playing music.

Anyhow, I’ve seen some people here, suggest powering off the speakers just in the room where the stuck Amazon Session persists, or even send the command http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1400/reboot to restart the room speakers, but that sometimes (in my experience) does not always clear the stuck Amazon session.

The best way I have found so far, to clear such a stuck session, is to start another Amazon Session in a completely separate room and then temporarily group the 'stuck room' with the latest playing session. Then stop the music and ungroup the two rooms... and the stuck Amazon Session will then completely disappear.

There maybe other solutions, but this method has worked 100% of the time for me and I thought it worth sharing here.

I have had just one stuck session today since recently upgrading to v8.1 and forgetting my smart home devices and disabling and reenabing the Sonos Skill in the Amazon App, and it may have been just a left over Amazon Session prior to that recent upgrade.

I hope this information on the beta voice control may prove useful to others who may encounter this issue ...and if it happens again, I will submit a further diagnostic.

The diagnostic on this occasion is 7977405

So - the latest update is creating issues - still don't like this new app AT ALL but trying to make the best of it - now only my Ipad can see all the speakers.... my android phone and laptop can only see 3 of the speakers. I have restarted devices, re-set the router, everything off and on several times - still only see 3 speakers out of 8... diag 8054758 for the laptop seeing only 3 - hope you can fix this soon as it is making our very expensive system unusable!