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ulatif
Contributor I
April 20, 2021
Answered

AirPlay and Bluetooth sharing with Roam + Play:1

Hi, I have a pair of Sonos Play:1 speaker which have been of limited use due to limited connectivity (no AirPlay support and requirement to get premium plans on Spotify/ and other streaming services via Sonos App)

With the new Roam and AirPlay and/or bluetooth support - can I :

  • AirPlay from iphone to Roam which then pairs & relays to Play:1
  • Connect fireTV to Roam (bluetooth) which then relays to Play:1

Option 2 is to use Sonos S1 instead of Roam - with the downside that S1 does not gives you the portability of Roam

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GuitarSuperstarAnswer
Lead Maestro
April 20, 2021

Yes, the Roam will allow you to use AirPlay or Bluetooth to play audio to your Play:1s.

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akadri
Lyricist III
April 24, 2021

@airforceteacher are your play:1s grouped a stereo pair through the app? I have 3 play:1s and I tried different combination of stereo pairs and audio shares fine between the roam and play:1s (stereo pair) over wifi but there is no sound coming out of the play:1s when the audio is shared over bluetooth from the roam.

I spent 2 hours with the hotline yesterday and they couldn’t fix the issue. I sent no less than 10 diagnostics.

I spoke to a level 2 tech support agent who told me to book an appointment with their support engineer. I will report back after that.

What’s weird to me is that it works fine with my Arc+2 Ones+Sub set up but it just doesn’t want to work with my 2 play:1s stereo pair.

This is the number one reason I purchased the roam as well. Since airplay kind of sucks as is apple only. There used to be no way to get audio onto the system other than the Play:5 line-in or Port which are both very expensive.

airforceteacher
airforceteacher
Headliner I
April 24, 2021

Yes, they’re grouped as a normal stereo pair.  One is series A200, one is series A101, so can’t even suggest system age as a difference. 

akadri
akadri
Lyricist III
April 25, 2021

I figured it out this morning. I had a Sonos Boost plugged in and for some reason that caused the stereo pair not to play any sound. Things started working flawlessly after unplugging it. Still a mystery as to why it worked fine with my Arc+Sub+2 One’s setup and with the rest of my speakers but not with the stereo pair.

I used to have terrible wifi at my old apartment but since moving to mesh networking and to a new house I haven’t had as many issues so I don’t really need the boost. It seems like in this case, it did more harm than good.

ulatifAuthor
Contributor I
April 26, 2021

Thank you for everyone’s feedback. 
Here is a quick feedback on my experience with Roam in the last 1 week. 
 

  • upgrade everything to S2 system (and app) before hand. My play:1 system was on S1 and it was a pain trying to pair them to Roam 
  • s2 app required multiple app resets for it to work with all the devices 
  • Alexa feature is not really useful - but Realised I could have connected my Play1 with Amazon Alexa Dot even before getting Roam… which was as surprise. 
  • Enabling Bluetooth pairing mode is an absolute nightmare. It took at least 20 attempts to get the process sequence of steps. 
  • Amazon Alexa Dot does not recognise Roam when trying to setup ‘Home Cinema’ with firetv. 
  • Managed to connect Roam  with FireTV (over Bluetooth) and then relayed audio on play:1. I think there is a slight audio lag - you won’t always notice it. 
  • AirPlay mode from iOS to Roam (and then onwards to play1) works well - tried it on various apps like YouTube /Amazon Music. There is some lag in play/pause and switch to another track - Rather annoying but I am not sure if it’s an airplay issue or something specific to sonos.
  • Side note : realised the brand name SONOS is a palindrome and an ambigram.… couldn’t figure out which is the right way to place the speakers. :)



     
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