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Trending Lyricist I
April 16, 2024
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Sonos System with missing rooms on Google Nest Wifi

I have my Sonos system connected to Nest wifi pro. Every few days or so one of my speakers or rooms of my Sonos system disappears. I have to then restart my WiFi network and then the problem is solved. But then it happens again in a few days. What can I do to stop this from happening?

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Corry P
Corry PAnswer
Sonos Staff
April 24, 2024

Hi @Pz8675309 

Thanks for sending me your case number via DM, I've reached out internally and a colleague should contact you soon, if not today then tomorrow.

I hope this helps.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

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Lyricist III
May 1, 2024

Very interesting @keithers! Thanks for replying. 
 

I can’t believe there’s still devices that need networks to be split for different frequencies :(

If that is the case then the issue is really one for Sonos to address. 
 

Let’s see what their support teams say. 

Pz8675309Author
Trending Lyricist I
May 1, 2024

@keithers thanks for the info. That sounds crazy to have to split your network, start hardlining some pieces just to get Sonos speakers to work properly. 

I had sent my diagnostics over the them as well, a couple of times. They did not mention the frequency issue you referred to. Hopefully that was looked at. 

Lyricist I
May 5, 2024

Sonos with Nest Wifi Pro is a hot mess.  I ran the original google wifi mesh and sonos for several years with no issues.  Upgraded to Nest Wifi Pro, life with Sonos immediately sucked, no issues with the other 40+ devices attached.   Drop outs, serious lags, inability to group, and speakers going missing, need to reboot.  These products just don’t seem to work well well together, for several complex reasons I’m tired of investigating and trying to workaround.      

I have had much more stability switching back to using sonos net for speaker connectivity.  Direct ethernet to as many of the sonos units I could by attaching an unmanaged gigabit switch off the main Nest wifi pro unit.  Ethernet backhaul the mesh points while you are at it (if you can)  The Nest Wifi Pro should be able to navigate the increased wifi noise from the sonos net.  Sure beats getting angry with your Sonos and Google purchases and rebooting the world every few day.  

Lyricist III
May 5, 2024

Sonos with Nest Wifi Pro is a hot mess.  I ran the original google wifi mesh and sonos for several years with no issues.  Upgraded to Nest Wifi Pro, life with Sonos immediately sucked, no issues with the other 40+ devices attached.   Drop outs, serious lags, inability to group, and speakers going missing, need to reboot.  These products just don’t seem to work well well together, for several complex reasons I’m tired of investigating and trying to workaround.      

I have had much more stability switching back to using sonos net for speaker connectivity.  Direct ethernet to as many of the sonos units I could by attaching an unmanaged gigabit switch off the main Nest wifi pro unit.  Ethernet backhaul the mesh points while you are at it (if you can)  The Nest Wifi Pro should be able to navigate the increased wifi noise from the sonos net.  Sure beats getting angry with your Sonos and Google purchases and rebooting the world every few day.  
 

 

This didn’t work for me and my Nest wifi pro network. I have 3 routers all hardlined to modem with an unmanaged switch. 
 

I hardwired my arc and sub (living room). And all I have additional is 1 era 300 (kitchen), 1 era 300 (office). 
 

I even reserved IP addresses for each speaker and the Sonos app still loses rooms on a daily basis. 
 

Love the sound of the speakers when they work but it shouldn’t require a degree in IT to be able to get them to be able to get rooms to be able to group consistently :(

Lyricist III
May 16, 2024

Anyone have any new fixes for this?  The very first version of the newly released Sonos app worked to keep my rooms and speakers visible, but I accidentally did not turn off “auto update” so now I’m stuck  on version 80.00.80. 
 

I have tried everything. I have 3 rooms in total. 
 

Living room (has arc/sub) - both are hardlined

kitchen (has single era 300) - connected to 5ghz

office (has single era 300) - connected to 5ghz

I have also reserved IP addresses inside the Google nest Home app for each speaker. 
 

None of these solutions has been a permanent fix. 
 

Every time I enter the house either the living room is missing OR I have the kitchen and office and NO living room.  Every once in awhile I’ll have just the office but I can NEVER get all 3 to be available to play at the same time.  I have to power cycle the speakers repeatedly to get them to be visible. 
 

I can airplay to the speakers even when they’re not visible in the Sonos app.  I have over 50 devices in our household and Sonos is the ONLY one that has still has issues It’s so frustrating. 
 

i thought it was fixed with the new version of the app but it immediately broke again when accidentally updating 
 

 

Pz8675309Author
Trending Lyricist I
May 16, 2024

@keithers i never found a fix. For me the new app seems to have (at least for now) fixed my issue. Although I had a few differences. When my rooms, speakers would disappear they would disappear from the app as well as airplay. They were totally inaccessible. My fix was always to restart my Nest wifi points and everything would reappear in the app and AirPlay. 

Lyricist III
May 16, 2024

@keithers i never found a fix. For me the new app seems to have (at least for now) fixed my issue. Although I had a few differences. When my rooms, speakers would disappear they would disappear from the app as well as airplay. They were totally inaccessible. My fix was always to restart my Nest wifi points and everything would reappear in the app and AirPlay. 

I’m now experiencing what you’re talking about.   My kitchen speaker completely disappeared from even airplay on my phone I could still see it connected to the internet in the device list inside the google wifi app the whole time.

 

So I factory restarted the kitchen one and re-added into my Sonos system again today.  I went through all the prompts and sounds and whatever.  When It was completed it told me that my new Era 300 had been added to kitchen.   When I went back to  the Sonos app immediately after, the kitchen speaker had already disappeared again.   It is seriously getting past the point of ridiculousness.    Having to power cycle everything multiple times just to get a speaker to play.   I’m over having music by that point because I’m all frustrated.   

I screwed up by not disabling auto-updates once the new app rolled out and everything worked for a single day.   I am so glad that I didin’t invest in a larger system of Sonos speakers in every room because it would be actually impossible to get them all to show up if I cant even get 3 speakers to simultaneously be visible in the app.

We are about to add a pool in the backyard and I was going to use Sonos there too as I thought I’d be able to sync everything.   I don’t think I’m going to go that route anymore.   

Lyricist III
May 16, 2024

I wonder why the Era 300s are unable to use Sonosnet, people at least report some success with that.  A mesh network is in almost every larger home nowadays and the fact that my electronic window treatments (blinds) work better than my sonos speakers is laughable.  

Contributor I
May 25, 2024

I can confirm that I have this same issue with disappearing wifi zones on an Orbi mesh network.  Extremely frustrating without any idea of how to get my zones back and functioning.

Pz8675309Author
Trending Lyricist I
May 25, 2024

@kgerman it’s ridiculous. My “fix” is having to reboot my entire wifi network every time. I have zero issues with any other devices on my network except my Sonos speakers. 
it’s pretty clear Sonos has become a company that just wants to push products (the don’t work properly) and then not stand behind them at all. Horrible.