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Hi @Darren_Judge 

Thanks for your post!

Unless you woke up at 6:26am and immediately unplugged the ethernet cable to your Boost and plugged it back in again, 4 times in one minute, I highly recommend that you replace your ethernet cable. 😁

Seeing as you’re probably buying a new cable anyway, I recommend perhaps getting a slightly longer ethernet cable if that’s what it will take to get your Boost further away from your router than it is presently. 1m should suffice. This will reduce interference which may not be the cause of the problem reported, but is nice to get rid of.

I hope this helps.

Edit: If the issues persist after replacing the cable, please submit a support diagnostic once more. Thanks.

Hi @Darren_Judge 

Thanks for trying those steps - there are still the same errors happening, but it was good to clear that as a possible source of the problem.

Now that we have done that, we are in a better position to move to the next step - please disconnect the ethernet cable from your Playbase. It is currently acting as the connection point for all your speakers, barring two - and one of those is a Roam so only ever connects to WiFi! Given that the Playbase is likely surrounded by other electronics, I think the Boost is now in a better state to take the load.

After disconnecting the cable, all you need do is wait one minute or so and then test. If things still don’t go well, it’s more likely to now be the configuration or connection of whatever is hosting the library (updates can sometimes reset certain settings). I recommend you get in touch with our technical support team, who have tools at their disposal that will allow them to investigate further and assist directly. Please reboot your entire Sonos system to clear the current error logs and recreate the issue once more before getting in touch - this will make it easier for the agent to see what is current in the diagnostic summaries and speed up the call. Please also allow 20 minutes between the reboot and calling so that enough transmission performance data is logged for assessment, seeing as the topography of the Sonos system has now changed.

I hope this helps.

Edit: It’s probably a good idea to reboot your router too - switch it all off, wait 30 seconds, turn on the router. When WiFi is back on, turn on the Boost and when it has a solid white light, turn on the rest.

After about 2 hrs and 4 different Sonos agents on 4 different phone calls this issue has been resolved. It turns out there was a very slight issue with the network path used for the library. Call it word blindness but the network path contained ‘iTunes Media’ which I was continually typing as ‘iTunesMedia’ the rest of the network path was accurate and correct so Sonos thought it was a genuine path when added but when it tried to read it to find the music it couldn’t . Once it was typed in correctly it indexed the library, (a lengthy operation) and has since been working well once more.

I have no idea why it occurred in the first place but it’s fixed and that’s pretty much all I’m worried about.

I would perhaps double-check the path is correct (again) and check any cable connections. Keep the Boost at least ‘one metre’ away from anything else that has a wireless.