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dalasher84
Contributor I
September 7, 2023

Airplay 2 unable to connect to Sonos

  • September 7, 2023
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I have around 11 sonos speakers and 3 Apple HomePods. The HomePods work flawlessly for Airplay. But only certain speakers work on the Sonos side for Airplay and no matter what I do, (unplug all speakers and reboot router and modem and finally hard reset most speakers, nothing seems to work I consistently get “unable to connect to “speaker name””. However they all lseem to work on the Sonos V2 app. Has anyone found a fix to this issue?

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    RaCohen
    Contributor I
    April 29, 2024

    same here. Called sonos support after sending my report. stayed online with them over na hour. best answer was that my wifi channel was too crowded. changed the wifi channel using the router automatic setup. nothing happened. 

     

    I use my apple tv with a beam gen 2 and my iphone with a sonos five. no windows or other firewall to mess with that.

     

    everything was working like a charm until last week. really disappointed. I have several sonos speakers in my place and my mothers, (beam + sub mini, five, 4 ones, 4 roams, amp) and can't keep resetting them.

     

    not to say the trouble the roams have syncing with all the other speakers. whole lot of money and really bad support...

    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    April 29, 2024

    As I’ve said before, I frequently have to reset the Apple device sending the AirPlay 2 stream, but not the Sonos device. Even recently, with a significant amount of electrical brownouts, it hasn’t been the Sonos I have to ‘reset’, it’s been the Apple TV that needs to be reset. 

    I will note, however, that after rebooting a Sonos speaker, it takes a few minutes for it to show up as an AirPlay 2 device in the Apple interface, sometimes as much as 10 minutes.  At this point, if I’m moving a Sonos speaker, by unplugging it in one location, and moving it elsewhere, I usually wait half an hour before even attempting to ‘see’ it in my iOS device’s AirPlay 2 connection interface. 

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