Grouping 3 Speakers...

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I’ve been using a single Play 3 and two One SL as two separate groups in the same room to create a 2.1 surround sound. Adjusting the volume balance manually is a pain.

Is there a way to put all three speakers in a group together?

...and if not, why not?

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Ian_SAnswer

Prodigy III

I kind of get what the OP is trying to do here, he’s not bothered about perfect stereo imaging etc, but just wants to fill the room with sound without having to faff around with volume adjustments all the time via normal grouping of speakers.

Unfortunately there is no way in the Sonos App to permanently ‘bond’ a set of speakers that don’t fall into either a stereo pair or home theatre setup.

You can create a pre-defined group (under manage system) which appears in the top of the screen when you select a speaker to group, but if you have other speakers it doesn’t appear to work correctly and just adds the group to the currently selected speaker. (Unless you hit everywhere first followed by your group...)

There is an app (costs money) that may do what you want called ‘Soro - for Sonos’ on Apple products which used to have the facility to preset volume for a group of speakers.

It’s something that used to be in the Sonos App once upon a long ago and got lost in the drive for ‘improvement’. Perhaps @Corry P could mark it as a feature request?

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

Sorry to contradict you, @Ian_S but in his second comment above, the op said “The reason for this is volume calibration and distance sat from speakers.

At the moment I have to do it manually and can increase all speakers using the volume button on my phone.

Small in/decreases are proportionate but larger changes unbalance the output.”

What is that, if not a request for proportional volume change in grouped speakers?

And that’s why I explained that I didn’t see it as a viable development option.

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Ian_S

Prodigy III

I missed that line, so apologise.

However, the idea that you could create pre-defined groups with the option of a preset volume would still help here as you could simple create different presets for different major listening levels. It’s very little development effort for Sonos, but would allow a lot more flexibility in cases like this. It’s not a perfect solution but it’s one that could have uses and could integrate nicely with things like Alexa.

Schlumpf

Virtuoso

Just my 2 cents, but I think keeping the balance between useful features and clean ui within an app sometimes is not easy. So as a developer you really might have a close eye on what users ask for and how many users ask for that. I can't imagine that so many users are asking for preset volume for preset groups.

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