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grouped sonos speakers separate every morning

  • March 18, 2026
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We have 11 Sonos devices in our home and group 9 of the together virtually every day. However, each morning, the group has dissolved—no group is present. Why does this happen?

Best answer by jgatie

Groups should survive a low power state.  It’s not going to survive a reboot, so if power is being cut to any/all of the units, the grouping will be lost. 

Also, if one or more of the rooms is connected to a TV, a group will be broken up when the TV input is used.  You can prevent this from happening by setting “Ungroup on Autoplay” to “Off” under the “TV Autoplay” settings. 

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  • Senior Virtuoso
  • March 18, 2026

Sonos speakers are designed to go to a lower power state when not in use, which may be what’s affecting the group.
 

Have you tried creating them and saving as a named group rather than a dynamic one? 


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  • Contributor I
  • March 18, 2026

Haven’t done that. Will need to search how to create a named group.

 

Thanks.


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  • Senior Virtuoso
  • March 18, 2026

Settings, scroll down to Groups, then Create Group


jgatie
  • Answer
  • March 18, 2026

Groups should survive a low power state.  It’s not going to survive a reboot, so if power is being cut to any/all of the units, the grouping will be lost. 

Also, if one or more of the rooms is connected to a TV, a group will be broken up when the TV input is used.  You can prevent this from happening by setting “Ungroup on Autoplay” to “Off” under the “TV Autoplay” settings. 


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  • Contributor I
  • March 18, 2026

Thanks so much! Will try your last suggestion.


Stanley_4
  • Grand Maestro
  • March 18, 2026

Is your router or wifi doing anything unfriendly in the middle of the night? Reboot, channel change or the like?


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  • Local Superstar
  • March 18, 2026

Any alarms set? Could they ungroup, if the ‘Include Grouped Rooms’ is not enabled on the alarm(s)?


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  • Contributor I
  • March 18, 2026

Nothing with the router; seems that it was the use of the soundbar with the TV. I’ve now set up a named group that we can use in the future.

Thanks, everyone!