AirPlay and Bluetooth sharing with Roam + Play:1

It’s also worth noting that you can use the Free Spotify Version with Sonos now.  That was changed over a year ago.

Your reference to S1 is for the Sonos One speaker, correct?  Not the S1 operating system?  The Roam will not work on the S1 operating system.

Also, although you you should be able to connect FireTv to Roam via bluetooth, and then group with your play:1, the resulting audio will be buffered for multiroom audio.  In other words, they audio you hear will be delayed and not match the video on your TV.

Thanks @melvimbe  : Correct, I was referring to Sonos One SL.

Is the same lag expected if using Sonon One SL with Play:1?

Yes.  Sonos is a multiroom audio system at it’s core, so you will always get a buffering delay of audio to accomodate this.  Sonos does make the Beam, Arc, and Amp specifically designed for TV use that will play the audio right away to match video, but other Sonos room grouped to the TV playing room will be delayed.

I just received my roam. I cannot bluetooth share with my Play:1s. It works fine with Sonos One but not Play:1. The apps shows that it’s grouped properly and sharing but there is no audio coming out of my play:1s. 

@akadri Do you hear Bluetooth audio from your Play:3 grouped with the Roam?

Try unplugging the Play:1s from power for about a minute.

@GuitarSuperstar I experimented a little bit more and this is what I noticed:

• it works fine with individual play:1, play:3, play:5, One, Move, Arc
• it doesn’t work with stereo paired play:1s. I managed to get it to work sporadically but it mostly doesn’t work.  No sound comes out of either speaker but the app shows that it’s grouped and playing properly.

It might be worth reproducing the issue, then submitting  a system diagnostic within 10 minutes, and calling  Sonos Support to discuss it.

There may be information included in the diagnostic that will help Sonos pinpoint the issue and help you find a solution, or at least have some hard data from your system that would help them track down what is going on.

So, one of the first things I tested with my Roam was grouping and delay, because that Bluetooth bridge capability was one of the primary reasons I purchased the Roam.  There is no discernable delay.  I just tested it with an iPad Pro playing Amazon Prime Video, Bluetooth connection to the Roam, and grouping in a Play:1 stereo pair.  I cut the volume to the Roam to zero so I only hear the Play:1s, and mouth / voice is in sync as best I can tell.  If there’s a delay, it’s imperceptible to me.

I’m pretty sure the reason is that Bluetooth is a digital transmission method, so there’s no A/D conversion as there’d be on a Line-In.  Without this conversion, buffering for sync is much less necessary, so the delay is shorter to non-existent.

Tl;dr - you can absolutely do this with your Firestick