Don't Buy. Never been able to get it working properly. You can't even make it useful by plugging in your iPhone into it with a 3.5mm to 3.5mm lead. Its not plug and play which is basic for most systems.....You have to tell it to do that function with the controller.....Absolute S**T
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I'm guessing Ray has other issues besides getting two speakers to work.
They have doubled their sales every year since 2010, and are approaching $1 Billion in sales this year. Your marketing analysis needs some work.
System Engineer doesn't always equal network engineer.
DHCP requests happen at startup, then renewals happen at half the lease time. This is automatic as part of the DHCP process. As long as a device remains active on the network and the DHCP server remembers what leases it has handed out, there aren't usually issues with a device's IP address becoming used by a new device.
As for the neighboring devices part, all of the Sonos devices are regularly broadcasting their presence on the network anyway, for a variety of reasons (controller discovery, DLNA/UPNP, etc.), so it really doesn't matter if it has the same address all the time or not. Sonos devices will know and track each others' IP addresses because of those broadcasts.
Personally I set up DHCP reservations for my Sonos devices, so they all have the same IP address all the time. I also give them unique hostnames that resolve through my router's DNS, so I can uniquely identify them with a ping command or in a browser (rather than have them all register with the hostname "SonosZP"). Is this a necessary step? Not at all. But I do it because I want that level of control on my network.
Flawless performance. Amazing sound. Perfect audio sync. Op expends the energy to complain but never once considers calling tech support. Sonos tech support is the best - they're all network experts. One call and it could all be fixed. But it's more fun to post drivel.
Mine works fine
The reviews, both professional and amateur, decidedly disagree.
Mine works great! Everyone who uses it says it is the best and easiest system they have ever used.
Love mine and works great. 🙂 Perhaps if you're having issues you could elaborate further and the forum can help you resolve the problem. Graham
Yes ... simple things like you can set the speaker so you don't have to use controller and 3.5mm input will autoconnect.
My suggestion: Get a teenager!! They I purchased Play5 and bridge yesterday. It took my 15 year old daughter less than 15 minutes to take it out of the box, download onto her IPod and my laptop, and connect with our Pandora account. And that's with miserably slow DSL internet in our rural area.
Great one PJ - the next Sonos promo - coupon in box to borrow a teenager for 15 minutes to setup. Better make that 30 minutes so they have 15 more minutes to show how it works.
I don't think so, he is right i liked the sonos and i have them all around the house but now i consider to trow them away it's becomming crap.
1. if you pickup a sonos controler he needs at least 10sec before he finds the network and can play music (was never the case)
2. HD audio becomes mainstream users ask for it sonos say s NOT PLANNED ???? why the hell not if streaming becomes the standard, and mobile phone providers are the main sponsors from streaming music services and prices pro mb are going down then the want to sell more mb's if you can hear the differents or not.
3. if the prices from the harddisk drops and storage will become cheaper and cheaper more people have huge music collections Sonos says 65000 numbers is more than enough. why ??
4. everything becomes wireless the demant for ip adresses will increase in every home your windows sees all those products why can't we give then names instead of ip numer only (i'have about 20 sonos devices ) and let me give them a ip number so i can make a dedecated for them.
5. i can go on and on but i made my statement
No if i see the massive product campaing (in nederland) and if i see the way the developement in the products are all mainstream low end, lets be honest the speaker from sonos sounds like crap take a connect-amp with piezo speakers and it sounds 10 times better for less money
i think the people who created the sonos with there passion for quallity sound have now there passion in money and i think that within 2 to 3 years the company goes to the stock exchange and management cash in or the sell the company to another major brand. one way or the other its the end of sonos
and i hope that the get a lot of money but for the users of sonos it's a shame
As an fyi. Each sonos unit gets an IP address. You can find the ip address for each under help... About my sonos system. Then you can go into router and make them static addresses.
Read it, understood it. My comment stands.
Like I said... is this a necessary step? Not at all. I do it because I want more control over my network. My Sonos equipment worked just fine before I went that far.
Since yours is the only thread calling it crap, I suggest the number of them being used as doorstops is infinitely small. In addition, Sonos products are ranked among the best consumer electronics products on Amazon.com (earning 4.5 stars out of 5 from over 2000 reviews), and the Play:1 is the #1 best selling bookshelf speaker. You don't get those rankings by selling "crap". If they were really crap, word would get out and Sonos would fold like the many competitors before them (i.e. Squeeze, Linksys, etc.).
I have a neighbor who's high dollar installer added Airplay to his Crestron system and it wouldn't even play a song all the way through. I helped him remove the airplay and add in Sonos.
He never has a problem.
And he never comes on this board because he "never has a problem"
Millions of buyers - I don't see millions of people with problems.
I personally never have to wait several seconds for any of my controllers to connect. They are instantly usable. There is obviously something wrong with your network, because latency between controller and Sonos devices is not a universal problem.
The biggest problem I ever had was try to use all this with the crapbag Comcast Arris modem/router combo. Once I bought a real router things have been flawless.
Love my Sonos! I now have Playbar, sub, Play 5 X2, Play 3 X2 and Play 1 X2! System works great and has changed the way we listen to music and watch TV!
Maybe the teenager is a good idea! I thought it was simple to set up but maybe not for all?
Ray, that is not very polite. Chris was just trying to point out some of the technical marvels that Sonos offer.
If you are having problems you could try asking in a civilized manner instead of coming here to insult people.
The issues I was originally referring to do not require an engineer.
@Ray Foster,
Do you have some type of socialization problem that you must berate and insult anyone who tries to help you? Seek professional help.
You should call sonos especially with your other units most likely needing a manual update because the firmware is too old for an auto update.
Bbc issue is a bbc issue not sonos. Sonos has made statements they are researching what they can do regarding bbc changes that are effecting all streaming devices.
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