I’m considering setting up Sonos speakers for a hotel and am planning to install over 100 Sonos Era speakers, mainly to allow guests to use Bluetooth in their rooms. What would be the best way to set up these systems?
From my research, I've found two potential options: 1. Create multiple VLANs and SSIDs, or 2. Set up multiple systems under a single SSID.
How do these two options differ, and which would be more effective in this context?
Best answer by Pools-3015
There are a few things I see that could go wrong with implementing Sonos for hotel room audio.
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+18If you want your guestS to use bluetooth, what’s the use of Sonos (a WiFi enabled system) for you? Would it not be easier (and probably cheaper) to install Bluetooth only speakers? This way you don’t have to worry about WiFi a feauture your clients would not use anyway.
+17There are a few things I see that could go wrong with implementing Sonos for hotel room audio.
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I don’t think SONOS would be a good choice for this application. SONOS is designed as a home system, not a hotel system. There will be constant issues that your staff will need to be able to deal with -- starting with the “smart” guests who will Factory Reset the SONOS units in order to use their own SONOS controller and play their own music using their own travel router. There will be requests from guests who are using multiple rooms wanting to play the same music through all of their rooms. While this can be accommodated, you’d need a very sharp staff person available to setup the rooms, give user instructions, then reconfigure the units back to the regular settings after the guest signs out.
There’s also a limit to the number of devices in a system so you’ll need multiple accounts, adding to your administrative requirements.
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