Speakers

Seeking any suggestions as spent an hour with customer support trying to connect a pair of Play:1 speakers to Bridge. The issue was that the Play:1 speakers have S2 software and Bridge is S1. We tried unsuccessfully to downgrade the Play:1 speaker software to S1. I wondering if someone has another idea. Is it possible to eliminate the Bridge (which was being used to drive external speakers that we no longer use) and use the two speakers individually? Or must I purchase another device that uses S2 software to drive the two Play:1 speakers?

I have several rental properties and use Sonos in each. The voice recognition fails constantly and it 'seems' that remote systems are clobbering each other?  Not sure if thats just renters not figuring things out. What's the best and simplest way to provide a good interface to the music systems in all these places using my own Apple and Amazon Music accounts, blindly of course. ? Moderator edit: corrected typos

Thoughts?After the S2 controller release my entire system quit working. Many customer service call later I just decided to wait until the S1 downgrade was release. My system has been idle ever since, I downgraded most of my equipment yesterday (Play 3, Play 5, Playbase, Amp, and Move). What wouldn’t downgrade was my sub (gen 3) and my one SL. There’s no way the S2 app is getting anywhere near my system.Should I attempt to sell the sub and One SL? Or hold onto them for some magical S3 controller in the future that will make everything play nice? Also, all these ran together on the original controller, why won’t they now? Any ideas?

I set up a playbar, 2x One speakers and a Sub back in 2016, but since then have changed ISP and router so a new wifi network. I can get my playbar to connect, but everything else I can`t seem to even find. I tried to factory reset so I could do a full new setup, but still can`t seem to find anything except the playbar.

Hi, I own several Sonos products. Playbar + Sub, 3 x Play3 and 1 x Play1. Issues have occurred after I have changed router (attempting to migrate from old network to new)Some devices have moved over onto new wireless network without any issues, Playbar + Sub, 1 x Play3 and 1 x Play1 are working fine.2 x Play3 are not working correctly, They are both seen under the “Rooms” list with the correct names, but both say “needs update” and have a “spanner” icon next to them.If I click on the device (on iPhone App / Sonos S1) it tried to go through the update process on both devices but both fail giving error code 1013. I have tried all the suggested steps but I now appear to be stuck in the doom loop.Anyone experienced this or got a possible resolution?Many thanks :)

I gather Play 3s have power issues sometimes and I may have joined the club if anyone can help. My Play 3 stopped playing and the led went out. No noise, nothing, it just stopped. When I switched it off and on again I got the led to go white but then it went out and nothing else. Ive tried holding down the mute button when switching on and the same thing happens - a brief white light (not flashing) and then nothing. Can anyone explain what the issue is or whether the speaker is dead? I find it strange that I get a light for about 3 seconds though if the power has failed completely.

I’m hoping to get some help as I’ve exhausted my efforts in trying to resolve this.  I bought a new Sonos Beam Gen2 in July 2024.  I got it installed and setup but I cannot run TruePlay without getting an error.  When i run trueplay tuning  it gets to the part where it plays the tones and then says something went wrong. We were unable to custom tune etc.I have tried to run it on my iPhone 15 which is on the same 2.4 wifi network as the Beam.I have also factory reset the entire system.I’ve deleted the app and redownloaded it And checked system update in the app and on the Beam and both are current.Note:  I’ve got Verizon 5G Home Internet if that matters.I know there have been a lot of issues with the new Sonos app.  Perhaps that’s the culprit?  I really don’t know.  I’ve tried everything I can think of but am totally stuck at this point.  Hoping someone can help me get this working. 

does anyone know what the hardwire connection is called on the sonos 1? i have a first gen if that makes any difference. Thanks in advance for your help.

We have 3x Play 1s, an Alexa Play 1, a surround system with a playbar, sub, and 2x Play 1s, 2x Gen2 Amps, and 2x Gen1 Amps. Since the recent app update all of our speakers except one single play 1 have disappeared from the app. Occasionally they show back up but as soon as you try to select them to play musica they all disappear again. I can sometimes see them in Update Networks but they just continually show up there even after following the procedure. I have also tried completely resetting speakers and re-adding them to no avail. Our system is completely unusable right now.

We updated our router a few weeks ago. Our Sonos Systems (Play 3are having difficulty connecting to the Wi-Fi. We’ve tried rebooting, and it will, and Sonos One) l works for a nanosecond and then stops working again.  We are constantly rebooting the system or trying to hook to the router, but all have been unsuccessful. I tried calling Sonos customer service but was on the phone for an hour waiting for someone to answer.  I’m looking for suggestions for other things I could try. If it matters, we have Verizon. 

I set up my era 100 at home with WiFi and ran trueplay as well as adjust the eq. I have since moved my era 100 to my office where I can only stream to it over Bluetooth. Am I correct in understanding that the trueplay and eq settings carry over from the last tuning? Since I’m streaming over Bluetooth and can’t connect to WiFi I have no way of adjusting the trueplay and eq settings at my office.  

I had 2 Sonos Play Ones grouped and as a stereo pair along with 2 Ones SL and a sub.  After the “upgrade” app the ones no longer play with the group and says they’re not connected?  This is an upgrade?  I have to manually hit the play button every time I want those speakers to rejoin the group?  I also have 2 Play Ones for rear surround speakers grouped with an arc and a sub. Those have no issues for now and are still grouped with the Arc and sub.  What is going on with this “upgrade”?

I have an arc connected to my tv and two era 300 speakers as well. they are all connected as surround and works perfect. My question is that i have someone coming to play at an event at my home and they are bringing a Bose Bluetooth enabled speaker with an allen and roth amp. NOT in a place that I can connect a direct cable to the sonos , so the question is how do i play the music from the live performer into my sonos sytem without connecting a direct cable and what would need? I AM NOT electronic savy at all so please have some grace when you reply so that i can fully understand my solution, what i need to buy and how to set it up. Thanks to anyone that can assist me 

https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/era-100-proWhat is this new Zones feature?

I recently got new WiFi and was able to successfully connect my other Sonos One devices via WiFi. My older Play:1 though wouldn't factory reset so, based on other questions & answers here I connected it via Ethernet to my router and was able to successfully reboot and add it to my system. The problem is that it wont get added to the WiFi and no matter how many times I go through the steps to “manage/update network” the device never pops up. I've tried unplugging it from the Ethernet and adding it but no dice. Trying to do a factory reset without the Ethernet connection doesn't work either. 

Currently my sonos 5 is physically plugged into the router by ethernet cable and my sonos 1 is paired with the 5. I have attempted to find a blutooth option instead but am unable to get this to work. Can i set this up without physical ethernet connection to the router?

I've had my Sonos system for about 2 months now, but I notice that every so often it disconnects from the app and gets unconfigured, having to reset the entire system and reconfigure it with some kind of problems. How can I avoid this? My WiFi signal is 100%

I’m sitting on my couch trying to watch The Witcher using 2 Play 5s and 1 Play 1. They WILL NOT group despite multiple attempts, reboots etc. I just get a simple non descript message saying “could not connect” related to the SINGLE Play 1. This is just 1 problem of dozens since I was forced to adopt the s2 update turd that dropped in May.  I’ve just about given up. I’m embarrassed for Sonos. What a piece of crap this system has become. I’ve had people over to listen to music or watch tv crippled by lack of sound through my Sonos speakers. So I should say I am embarrassed for myself for choosing to invest in this hunk of cow dung known as Sonos. 

Hi all, Since the latest app this week I can no longer connect to the second system at our holiday house. It works on the Windows app but not on iPhone or Android. In other words, it's not really usable to have to get out a laptop to launch music, manage volumes, etc. The Apple and Android apps just say they can't find a system on this network then ask to update the network. When we do that, it still doesn't work. The fact that it does work on Windows suggests the issue is with the new crApp. Another fail from the super heros we pay lots of money to. Sorry to say that SONOS team but you are very clearly not testing your software before launching it on us, your paying customers.  GET IT RIGHT...please. 

My Sonos has just gone, died! stopped playing radio and cant access hard drive for music. Have messaged a friend and she’s having same issue. What’s going on? Anyone know. This service is getting worse and worse.

when playing music from my Synology NAS drive using the ds audio app, i get no sound from Sonos speakers.  Files show they are playing, but no sound

I have in parts a pretty old system:two play:1 from 2014, paired with a sub from 2019 two move from 2020it’s never hard connection problems. e.g. I see all speakers in my system. and I can always start music on them. but the reaction time is terrible. changing a song sometimes can take 10-30 sec and is almost never instant. same for changing the volume. sometimes it doesn’t react at all and I can not even stop the music any more. there is one peculiar effect, that might ring a bell with someone: if I switch from bluetooth to sonos the music continues on spotify, but I don’t have any sound. only if I change the position in the song the sound will come.I did the commonly recommended things like resetting router and speaker. but if you think it makes sense to do it again, should I try with only a subset of speakers first? I never have any other problems with my WIFI/router. obviously it’s not the internet connection (via bluetooth everything is fine) I usually control the music via the sp

Would like to connect what is playing in the Era 100 Bluetooth speaker (the turntable, a phone) to the rest of the Sonos speaker system, primarily play speakers. Is that possible?

Trying to add a Play 1 to my system. Have done a factory reset and power cycled.App finds the Play 1, has done an update, and my mobile connects to the temp WiFi but the speaker doesn’t play the chime. It then asks for a button press and doesn’t detect that either. Bit stuck now. White light is flashing on top. Any help gratefully received.

Hi all, I was wondering whether someone could help me with an issue I have been having. I have a Sonos era 100 pair and a beam gen3 with a sub in my lounge,And a pair of Sonos era 100s in my kitchen! 80% of the times I go on the app to merge the speakers I get "era 100 pair not Connected" message on my kitchen pair, but my lounge speakers are always there and working fine. I have done the reset speakers and turn them off then reconnect to my wifi which sorts it out, but I can't do this evertime they don't show up, Is this a app issue which they are sorting or is there a solution to this that I can do myself? I'm so frustrated after spending a lot of money on this kit. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rich