Sonos 5 to LG TV please help!

Question

please help :( i can't connect my sonos 5 speaker to my lg tv.  i think the sonos 5 has bluetooth, but the tv doesn't detect it when the light is flashing blue and white.  the speaker chimes when it's flashing amber, not blue and white, but the tv doesn't detect it at all, no matter what that light is doing.  the input jack on the speaker looks like a sort of dummy ethernet port, not an HDMI or an audio jack, and i can't see any other input jacks.  no instructions came with the speaker, of course :(  help!  i'm in my fifties, so, you know.  thank you!

Airgetlam · Accepted Answer

Not sure if you have a PLAY:5 of either generation, or a Sonos Five…there is no Sonos 5.

Under the assumption you have a Sonos Five, no it does not have Bluetooth for connection to your TV, it does have BLE for setting up the network, though.

It isn’t designed for TV use, the line in on the Sonos Five is an analog line in, 3.5mm, and would be subject to the 75ms delay as the Sonos system buffers the input for playback.

There is also an Ethernet port on the Sonos Five, but it isn’t for a network connection, and is not an audio line in.

The link to the ‘instructions’ is https://www.sonos.com/en-us/guides/five

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