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connecting to an Ikea Symfonisk

  • August 23, 2024
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Is e bought the IKEA Symfonisk second hand .thr typers shown as E101.

 

I have no other Sonos products at the moment this is therefore my first venture into Sonos.

 

I have gone through the clearing of old data process and the light on the front is flashing green and white .

 

the speaker is plugged into the mains electricity . I believe it is a Bluetooth speaker but my Apple iPad can’t find it.

 

what other steps do I require to take . It says it is a wireless speaker so Ipresumedit could be connected to via  luetooth .Is this correct or does it have to being,used in my home network .

 

hopefully the answer is it is Bluetooth enabled thank you for any help offered .

i tried the Sonos bot but was in a queue of #1and eventually gave up .

 

It’s not been a good first experience with Sonos so I am hoping someone on herecanbdlp me

 

TeflonMan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best answer by sigh

Is it a typo in your post and the type is an E1801? That is a gen 1 bookshelf speaker.

The Ikea Symfonisk speakers don’t support bluetooth for play back in any of the range, none of my bookshelf (gen 1+2) or gen 1 lamps do. They are wifi/ethernet speakers and Ikea have a different range for bluetooth which aren’t sonos based speakers.

The Symfonisk speakers will be airplay speakers once added to your network with the Sonos App.

I have never seen mine have a green/white flashing led, although depending on lighting conditions, the led cover can look white when the led isn’t lit.

During factory reset (hold the play button and then apply power) once they flash green/orange they start the reset, you can let go of play and the led will flash green when complete.

With a green flashing led they are ready to create a sonos system with the sonos app which will set them up with wifi or if there is an ethernet cable plugged in will set it up as an ethernet speaker. With an ipad, during setup the Sonos app will ask to join the speaker wifi and use the ipad wifi connection details to join the wifi network as long as there is no ethernet cable plugged in.

Once added and setup in the Sonos app, you can use your ipad and airplay to play music on it if you don’t want to use the Sonos app.

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  • Antifon
  • Prodigy III
  • August 23, 2024

I have gone through the clearing of old data process and the light on the front is flashing green and white .

If you have correctly followed the procedure to factory reset the speaker, the light on the front should be flashing green (not green and white). It is then ready to be set up using the Sonos app.

I don’t ~think~ any of the Ikea/Sonos products support Bluetooth - AFAIK they are all wi-fi only - but that should be easy for you to find that out by going onto Ikea’s website and looking at their Symfonisk range - you can then identify it by appearance (E101 does not seem to be a name that Ikea uses as a product name).

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  • sigh
  • Prodigy II
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  • August 23, 2024

Is it a typo in your post and the type is an E1801? That is a gen 1 bookshelf speaker.

The Ikea Symfonisk speakers don’t support bluetooth for play back in any of the range, none of my bookshelf (gen 1+2) or gen 1 lamps do. They are wifi/ethernet speakers and Ikea have a different range for bluetooth which aren’t sonos based speakers.

The Symfonisk speakers will be airplay speakers once added to your network with the Sonos App.

I have never seen mine have a green/white flashing led, although depending on lighting conditions, the led cover can look white when the led isn’t lit.

During factory reset (hold the play button and then apply power) once they flash green/orange they start the reset, you can let go of play and the led will flash green when complete.

With a green flashing led they are ready to create a sonos system with the sonos app which will set them up with wifi or if there is an ethernet cable plugged in will set it up as an ethernet speaker. With an ipad, during setup the Sonos app will ask to join the speaker wifi and use the ipad wifi connection details to join the wifi network as long as there is no ethernet cable plugged in.

Once added and setup in the Sonos app, you can use your ipad and airplay to play music on it if you don’t want to use the Sonos app.

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  • Antifon
  • Prodigy III
  • August 23, 2024

I had another think about the green/white and I suspect that the OP means that it starts out flashing white (booting up) and then goes to flashing green (ready to set up).

I’ve also got a couple of pairs of the original Ikea Bookshelf speakers - for the money they are pretty good value IMO.

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  • sigh
  • Prodigy II
  • August 25, 2024

I’ve now seen the white/green flashing led. On my gen 2 bookshelf when I change the sonos network settings the speaker led was flashing white/green to identify the speaker to press the play + volume up buttons on during the wizard steps.

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