Newbie to Sonos

SPG · 26 Jun 2015 at 14:05

Just to about to move house and will have the freedom to play my music as loud as I bloody want without idiot neighbours that can grumble when you fart.
(detached houses FTW)

I have a old NAS drive D-Link DNS-320, which I bought years ago and i think is pretty basic these days. Will a SONOS be able to use this NAS ?

Oh and does SONOS work well with the network electricity plugs ?

M1k3H · 26 Jun 2015 at 15:03

I can access my computer's music library from my Sonos App and stream to it. You can tell it to scan every so often for new additions to your library. If my PC is off it will just say something along the lines of "file not found".

Don't have any experience with network plugs, but my playbar connects via wifi to the Sonos Bridge (which in turn is physically plugged into my router) and can output 2 ethernet connections, which I have plugged into my PC and TV as router is in the bedroom.

Basher · 26 Jun 2015 at 15:05

Are you using a bridge with Sonos or connectly it directly onto the Wifi? In my experience Sonos doesn't like network extenders (other than their own!).

Is there a reason you can't connect the speakers wirelessly?

kinobestew123 · 26 Jun 2015 at 17:13

If your router/network is in the right place then you can connect a single sonos device to the network wired at which point that sonos device will become a hub of its own for all the other sonos devices to connect to. All sonos devices connect to each other to create a mesh across your house. This will overcome any wireless issues as you're no longer utilising the wireless at all.

Similarly, rather than having that one sonos device wired to your router, you could have it sufficiently close that it can connect wirelessly and thus bypass any repeaters you have which may be causing an issue. As before, a mesh will then start to be created with other sonos devices.

I personally use a sonos connect as my device hardwired to my router and it works flawlessly. I do this because my router is near my amplifier and so it's easy to have the sonos connect in there too.

Edit: Realised this doesn't really answer the question above. I'll leave it anyway as it answers a query that comes up a lot.

Lewist · 26 Jun 2015 at 19:25

As above I would simply use the wireless assuming there is no reason why this is not possible. Buy the boost if required.

You only need a wire into a sonos device for the initial setup process which takes 5 minutes. After this you can move that device and add additional devices wirelessly.

Connecting to a nas is easy you input the network share and it indexes the drive, this takes a while the first time if you have a large catalog!

SPG · 26 Jun 2015 at 19:51

Excellent thankyou.

Just need to arrange a demo now

Basher · 27 Jun 2015 at 10:09

Lewist said:
As above I would simply use the wireless assuming there is no reason why this is not possible. Buy the boost if required.

You only need a wire into a sonos device for the initial setup process which takes 5 minutes. After this you can move that device and add additional devices wirelessly.

Connecting to a nas is easy you input the network share and it indexes the drive, this takes a while the first time if you have a large catalog!

You don't even need a wire into it for the setup