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Two different Era 100's, one can handle Airplay and the other cannot

  • February 28, 2026
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I’ve read some of the threads on here about Airplay 1 support being broken with a firmware, which, if I’m reading correctly, have been resolve? I’m not sure if my issue is related but I’ll try to describe it as best I can.

I have an Era 100 that I purchased several years back, and which I use pretty exclusively by Airplaying from Lyrion Music Server with the Airplay Bridge plugin (which uses ROAP protocol). I just purchased a second Era 100, and opened up my Sonos app for the first time in years so that I could set it up. While I was at it I updated the software on my older Era 100, and now both speakers are running version 93.1-74010. This was the first time I updated the software on the older speaker since I bought it, and maybe that’s why I never ran into the issue where an update broke Airplay 1 support for over a year or so.

But now I find that the older speaker works with Airplay 1 just fine, but the newer one does not. Both speakers can be used as a device from the Spotify app on my Android phone, as well as from the Sonos app.

Using the diagnostic information you can see at http://192.168.10.94:1400/support/review the “Zone Player Info” tells me that everything about the speakers is identical except for the following fields (not counting obvious fields like serial number): 

Old Era 100 (works with Airplay 1)

  • HardwareVersion    1.38.1.10-1.2
  • SeriesID    A102


New Era 100 (does not work with Airplay 1)

  • HardwareVersion    1.49.1.4-1.2
  • SeriesID    A200

 

Any ideas on what I should try or if there’s any more information I can provide that might be helpful?

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Corry P
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  • March 2, 2026

Hi ​@ceberz 

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

I am sorry to hear of this issue you are having with playing AirPlay content to one particular Era 100 speaker. We were tracking an issue with some speakers showing on the AirPlay picker, but not able to play, though this was resolved with the update that came out on the 18th of February this year. As a result, and as you already seem to have this update, I can only recommend that you get in touch with our technical support team who have tools at their disposal that will allow them to give you advice specific to your Sonos system and what it reports.

I hope they are able to help.