11/14/2023 0 Comments Itunes remote not connecting to sonosThis review is part of TechHive’s coverage of the best soundbars. Finally, the Ray supports Trueplay, Sonos’s superb room-calibration feature. The Ray can also be upgraded with more Sonos speakers, such as the Sonos Sub (or eventually, the rumored Sub Mini), and it works with Sonos’ best-in-class multi-room wireless audio platform, not to mention Apple’s AirPlay 2 audio-casting protocol. The good news is that the $279 Sonos Ray (slated to ship June 9) sounds terrific for its price, packing clean, crisp, and full-bodied audio, complete with impressive bass for an all-in-one soundbar. Oh, and one other caveat about the Ray: There’s no built-in microphone, which means no onboard voice assistants. Without HDMI, Ray users must fiddle with tiny and delicate optical connectors, sacrifice higher-bitrate Dolby Digital Plus audio, and manually configure (albeit with help from the excellent Sonos app) their TV remotes to work with the soundbar. The former makes sense there aren’t many soundbars in the sub-$300 price range that support immersive Atmos audio, and even fewer that actually sound good. Sonos decided to nix two key features with the Ray, its new entry-level soundbar: Dolby Atmos and HDMI. Hopefully something in the above few paragraphs however may help you to resolve the discovery issue.The Sonos Ray sounds terrific given its price, but the lack of HDMI holds this budget-minded soundbar back. Note too that ‘WiFi Calling’ and security/vpn software on the mobile controller device can sometimes interfere with Sonos device discovery, it’s ‘sometimes’ slightly more problematic if using wireless extenders, or EOP adapters, as part of the network aswell. Then set the SonosNet channel, so it’s at least 5 channels away from your chosen router channel and see if that improves the discovery issue for you. I would also reserve all your Sonos IP addresses in the routers DHCP reservation table, if you know how to do that, as that really helps with these things too. Its best to set the routers 2.4Ghz Wifi channel to 1, 6 or 11, as they are non-overlapping channels, and also set the channel-width to 20Mhz only to reduce interference. I think you are using a Sonos Boost and a SonosNet connection, so you might find that trying a different SonosNet channel will improve things for you. I do have more success with my Sonos system running on SonosNet (one device/Sonos Port, wired to the primary mesh Hub) - that works well for device discovery, but I’m just a sucker for punishment and presently running all on the WiFi signal instead. I currently run my Sonos system on a mesh WiFi system. One of the mesh Hubs is my router and the ISP provided router is operating in modem mode. I don’t get the issue so much with my iPhone XR, nor with my (cheap) Android tablet …so I’m not sure if there’s an issue with some of these iOS devices□♂️ - I’ve not (yet) found the cause to this one, but here’s hoping things improve with each new update, from Apple and/or Sonos. WM: Sonos App uses SSDP multicasting to discover the speakers on the network, sometimes (occasionally) I’ve seen this non-discovery issue too, usually with my iPad Pro (3rd gen), but as you mention, closing the App and toggling the WiFi off/on will also sort it for me, usually …then it’s fine for a while. is it the Private Networks flag under my wifi settings? There’s also some sort of security setting in iOS Wifi that I’m not really cognizant of, which I rely on explain, as he knows much more about it than I do :) I should pay more attention, it’s fixed a lot of folks systems. Which speakers do you have in your system? Are they S1 or S2 devices? If any of them are showing WM:1 (other than the Roam and Move, which should always show WM:1), try a quick reboot of the speaker, and see if it moves over to WM:0. ![]() Have you checked that all speakers in your system are showing WM:0 for all speakers? Look in Settings>System>About my system for that data. Its odd, though since you’re using a BOOST. I also have a NetGear (Nighthawk R6400) and use a Western Digital NAS to store my music. ![]() Either before cold medicine or after….I’m equally mentally vague at both points in time :) Although there are some who might say I’m always that way…. Have had a head cold before, completely understand.
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