era 100 stereo pair and network requirements

Hello,

I have a pair of era 100 that I use at home as a stereo pair. Both are connected to the home WiFi and everything is ok.

i am taking both units to a wedding celebration to play some music via Bluetooth (at least that was the intention).

I now realise that without the units being connected to a WiFi network they can only operate as individual Bluetooth speakers not a stereo pair.

i have a spare WiFi extender I can take with me to the wedding party but the party is in a field hence there will be a WiFi network but no internet connection.

the WiFi extender has a dns server so it can allocate ip addresses.

I already tried the system last night on my home WiFi network and pulled the plug to the fibre to simulate the set up for the party, seemed to work OK.

Provided that both 100s are on a network with valid IP addresses should the system work without internet access?

any other way to set this up?

thanks for any and all help

Dave

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Not recommended, unless you have some sort of backup plan for music. Humans are basically bags of water, and WiFi signals don’t like bags of water, so large crowds aren’t conducive to reliable WiFi. .

Rent a decent wired sound system, you will never be forgiven for ruining a wedding.

I hope you told the happy couple you only had a pair of Era100s when they booked Dazzling Dave’s Disco...

Small wedding celebration. I was asked if I had any small speakers offered the Sonos.

i managed to use my old plusnet router to set up a ‘party’ WiFi system and connected to that.

seems to work but now one of the eras is dropping out like there’s a fault with it.

Likely some sort of wifi interference , as @jgatie suggested, a large number of humans are not great for WiFi. You might try wiring these Era 100s to your travel router with an Ethernet cable to help. But as @Stanley_4 suggested, going another route helps a lot.

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