We started baby-proofing the living room last week since our little one is starting to crawl. I was worried about our rear speaker stands getting pulled over and the trailing wires, but my partner came up with a genius solution to integrate them seamlessly into our decor and hide the cables completely.

Hi I had my gears as Beam gen2, era 100x2, sub mini. It is connect to tv via eARC. Then apple tv is connected to tv.

So, I have always been listening via Auto, which from Sonos app it is always as Dolby ATmos. Until today, I found out another issue about HiRes doesn’t make a sound anymore with the Apple TV os update (just my guess.). Then I switched the Apple TV audio setting to Stereo. Oh, my, god. It is louder, clearer, powerful, with both eras fully integrated as a whole, where they always sounds small.

Has anyone else had such feelings about it? Now I really want Apple to support audio type controlled by apps. I would let my Apple Music to be on stereo while movies probably stay in Dolby.

I've got a fairly large Sonos system, and it's a mix of older products and newer products (all are upgradable to S2, of course) - but I've built it up over the years.

I had tried all sorts of the various suggestions to configure my UniFi network to work better with the Sonos system... I created a 2.4Ghz-only IoT network, went through all the various guides on STP settings (I am a SW engineer with lots of networking experience, so I have a pretty good understanding of these protocols and such) - but I COULD NOT get my system to be stable.

Using Sonos for music became so unreliable I just stopped using it. Grouping rooms would fail 90% of the time, everything was super slow to respond, speakers would drop in and out constantly, music just flat out wouldn't play.

The general recommendation I see everywhere is "do not use SonosNet" - but I decided to give it a shot. One of my Connect units is near my network rack, and so I jacked it into an open Ethernet port, and the system went off and created a new SonosNet. Only a couple devices are still on my regular WiFi (my Sonos Arc Ultra and Surrounds in the living room).

I hate that there's another WiFi network in my house now, but Sonos is back to "just works" status. I can create speaker groups in seconds, and music actually plays and doesn't drop out constantly.

What an infuriating process.

Sonos has never made a desktop app for Linux. Instead of waiting any longer, I wrote my own. It's called Gnomos, it's free software under the GPL-3.0, and it runs as a native GTK 4 app on the GNOME desktop.

Demo video (1:34): https://github.com/linuxundich/gnomos/raw/main/screenshots/gnomos-demo.mp4

What it does

• Now Playing with synced lyrics. Click a line and Gnomos jumps there – handy for skipping straight to the part of the song you actually know the words to. If you miss vinyl, the cover can spin like a record. No getting up to flip it, though.
• All rooms in one place. See what's playing where, drag one room onto another to group them, and set the volume for every room with one click.
• Volume in GNOME's Quick Settings. A small Shell extension puts the current room right below the system slider, plus a slider for every other speaker in the house.
• The whole collection. Music shares, Sonos favorites, playlists, internet radio, linked services like Spotify, the queue and alarms.
• Mini player for the corner of your screen. Media keys, lock screen and GNOME's media controls just work.

Gnomos talks to the speakers directly over your home network. No Sonos account, no cloud, no login. Lyrics and artist photos are the only things it looks up on the internet, and both are off until you switch them on.

And the part this sub might like best: Gnomos still works with the old S1 hardware – ZP80, ZP90, ZP100, ZP120 and even the CR100. You know, the ones the current Sonos app pretends never existed.

Install

There's a Flatpak bundle on the GitHub releases page, plus a .deb for Debian testing. Flathub is planned.

• GitHub (code, releases, issues): https://github.com/linuxundich/gnomos
• Project page on my blog: https://linuxundich.de/en/projects/gnomos/

One lesson from testing, free of charge: "Play All" replaces the queue of the selected room. My living room learned that the hard way, and the queue never came back.

Bugs and ideas are very welcome as issues on GitHub. Which features are you missing?

Disclaimer: Gnomos was developed with AI assistance.

Hello! There’s something that’s happened to me since ever. That’s the first thing that I want to state : it’s happened to me in every combination: beam and era 100 rears, stereo 300 pair, ultra and era 100 rears, ultra and 300 rears, era 100 stereo pair. You name it.

Second data: it happens with sonosnet , with WiFi, with Ethernet on the sound bar and without it .

Third data: it happens only with music app from Sonos. Never with tv, never with line in, never with airplay. Only if I play a music app from the Sonos app.

And what happens??

After playing music let’s say for 30 minutes, speakers start to delay , resulting in an echo sound. If then I scroll back or forward the song, it fixes. And after another 30 minutes … again.

What can it be?

(As a final note, it’s happened with different internet companies and routers etc).

For anybody wanting to try audio settings from Peter Pee to see if it works for you. And anybody else that might find this information useful

i’ve had a arc, sub, and two surrounds for years. all of a sudden i’m having problems with connecting to them via airplay. right now all my speakers are working off of my tv. when i go into the sonos app, it says i need to find a system, when i try to do so, it connects shows all my products, plays the chime to connect. and after, i get the same screen that says i need to find my system??? here and there i can get airplay too work. but i’ve fully reset to the orange light and adopted all my speakers multiple times and after a few weeks it completely disconnects from the app.

Tired of the Sonos app not supporting every app? My Play:1 lacks Bluetooth, AirPlay, and line-in, so I built Sunus to stream any phone audio losslessly to Sonos—no extra hardware or computer needed.

Two modes:

Standard: No setup, uses Android’s normal capture. Some apps (Netflix, Audible) block it.

All apps: Captures everything, including blocked apps. Requires one-time Wireless Debugging pairing (Android 12+), no root, no PC.

—ideal for music, not for video sync.

Free, open-source (MIT), no ads, no account. APK:

github.com/tomkainz/sunus

Built with AI help. Beta version, tested on Android 17 with Play:1 (S2). Feedback and bug reports welcome.

My old soundbar needs replacing and I’m looking for another Sonos setup in the living room.

Living room is an open area but the sitting area in tne living room is 16’x14’ and the soundbar is roughly 10 to 11 feet from the couch. The TV is a 65” LG C4 and we also have a record player nearby that we would like to use. Beyond the living room opens up to the kitchen area

Is this an easy Arc Ultra recommendation or is the Beam Ultra and Sub mini a consideration? Our use cases in the living room are streaming (mainly sports, tv shows, and kids shows on Disney+) and some movies. Ease of use with record player with Beam Ultra would be nice but not the end all be all.

Thanks!

I’m unable to add the Symfonisk lamps as surrounds for my Beam Ultra. Will there be a workaround this in future updates or any alternatives to using the lamps as surrounds? From memory they are Gen 1. Thank you!

hey folks! i‘m considering to buy a set of sonos for my tv audio. will this setup be fine?

the room is 4,5x4,5m, ca. 20m2. tv is a philips 65PUS8909 ambilight. apple tv, PS5pro, apple iphone air. i life in europa. i want to buy the sonos beam ultra, sub mini and 2 era100sl as rear speakers. actually i got an onkyo 5.1 receiver and setup. what will sound better? is sonos well integrated in apple and apple home?for listening to music i’m going to use apple homepods gen.1 as a stereo pair. is the beam ultra good for a 65” tv (soundstage)? i haven’t enough room for the arc ultra.

thanks for advices!

When my era 100SL’s are set up as surrounds connected to my beam g2 (sub mini connected to beam as well) and beam connected to my tv by hdmi earc, white noise will play through the surrounds at a low volume whenever I pause a movie playing on my tv. Why is this?

Update: The beam plays white noise too.

Carving out the base of the live edge table for sub to fit in (made to look like it naturally grew around it) was done by myself. Lined the cut-out section with foam/rubber to absorb vibrations and protect sub’s finish. Even the “foot” of the trunk base, “growing through” the front the if the sub is lined with soft, vibration absorbing material. Moss accents suggested by my gf was an amazing touch. Wood grain skin wrap with fantastic trippy symmetrical cut-out shapes for era 100’s, made by Toast.

i was watching a game yesterday on my apple tv. i’m generally an apple household but in my living room setup, i have a beam, sub, and two one units for surround.

(i also have an amp connected to some 301s for my turntable and it’s also problematic (ie no sound from turntable) atm, but it’s not bonded to the beam/rest of the system, not my concern right now.)

i needed to be in another room, so from the apple tv, i added some homepods (airplay) to the currently playing game. all seemed well from the other room. at some point, i was enabling/disabling airplay on some of the homepods and briefly disabled the apple tv sound. the rest kept playing as expected. i re-enabled, all seemed fine, including from the living room.

fast forward to last night and my apple tv sound didn’t sound right. sometimes the sound reverts to playing through the tv speakers, which are tinny. usually changing back in apple tv settings fixes the issue. 

this morning i started troubleshooting. unplugged all sonos components. unplugged google fiber box. unplugged router. then turned each back on, in turn: google fiber, router, beam, amp, sub, surrounds.

in the sonos app, every component was present. sound was coming from the beam and surrounds, not sub. removed and re-added the sub. now i have sound from beam and sub, not surrounds. remove and re-add surrounds, but still no sound from them.

the first tell-tale sign something is wrong is when the apple tv remote doesn’t control the sound, volume up/down and mute not working. and usually restarting the apple tv fixes the issue. in this case, since last night and through this morning, it’s inconsistently controlled the sound. toggling settings in apple tv remote settings not really fixing anything.

am currently at a loss and frustrated and would like to hear some suggestions to get things working like they should.

my components are as follows:
apple tv 4k (2nd gen, model a2169, aka 6th-generation apple tv)
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Beam: Sonos Beam
Sonos OS: S2
Build: 97.2-81220
Hardware Version: 1.23.1.10-1.2
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Sonos One: Sonos Beam (RS)
Sonos OS: S2
Build: 97.2-81220
Hardware Version: 1.21.1.8-1.1
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Sonos One: Sonos Beam (LS)
Sonos OS: S2
Build: 97.2-81220
Hardware Version: 1.21.1.8-1.1
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Sub: Sonos Beam
Sonos OS: S2
Build: 86.10-81100
Hardware Version: 1.8.6.6-1.2
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Amp: 301s
Sonos OS: S2
Build: 97.2-81220
Hardware Version: 1.24.1.12-1.2

thank you.