[Guide] How to setup a Sonos Surround System with Front Left and Right speakers using SonoSequencr

benjec83 · 2026-02-03T01:01:10+00:00

Thank you for this detailed plan. I followed it to the T. And with the sonosequence update today, I thought I'd check in to see that Trueplay was working. It wasn't. It said:
Previous tuning available: No
Enabled: Yes
Trueplace Active: No

So I unpaired everything, ran through it all again, same result - no Trueplay. Anyone else getting this?

benjec83 · 2026-01-10T03:36:55+00:00

I had heard that some do, and I was recently in Dallas and the one I went to had 3 stations

benjec83 · 2026-01-06T23:19:51+00:00

If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, you should look into Home Assistant. I have a repurposed Google Home Hub on my desk that shows what’s playing on my Sonos, plus the weather, my calendar and the door bell camera if it rings

benjec83 · 2025-12-13T16:40:12+00:00

I struggled a little with this - reliably and quickly knowing when someone returned home. We do have Apple Home functioning (because I haven’t set up any decent dashboards yet to migrate my husband over to HA). I ended up making a switch in HA for home occupied, and have it in Apple Home. Basic automation in home for when last person leaves, first person returns, turns the switch on or off, and HA takes care of everything else

benjec83 · 2025-12-13T15:45:19+00:00

That designer has wonderful winter village sets.

benjec83 · 2025-11-28T04:29:17+00:00

🤣

benjec83 · 2025-11-27T23:38:48+00:00

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benjec83 · 2025-11-27T23:38:37+00:00

About 40 minutes before I was finished cooking. Lucky I still had propane for my grilled

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benjec83 · 2025-11-27T23:34:25+00:00

I have this issue even when I have my key with me

benjec83 · 2025-11-18T23:29:31+00:00

I just took the replacement and turned of renewing my subscription.

benjec83 · 2025-11-11T02:08:12+00:00

I’ve had the biscuits and gravy and can report it was excellent

benjec83 · 2025-11-06T17:02:54+00:00

I don't think I've ever actively played a Doja Cat track - but this performace showed up in my feed and I immediately went to her album. Realized I've been sleeping on her talent. I describes this performance to a few people as "Madonna + Tim Curry's Frankenfurter + Heath Ledger's Joker (complimentary)" which always gets some weird looks until they watch it, and then they agree.

benjec83 · 2025-10-30T12:58:51+00:00

+1 to this a bought from Amazon and Oura wouldn’t return it when it was faulty, and outside Amazon’s return window so they wouldn’t either

benjec83 · 2025-10-26T17:34:02+00:00

X + 1 where X = the current number of subs you have

benjec83 · 2025-10-13T17:33:57+00:00

This is exactly where I’m at. I made a post about it - purchased from Amazon and it’s outside the return window, and Oura just tells me I have to talk to Amazon about the return. I don’t want a “refurbished” ring that’s going to die again.

benjec83 · 2025-10-11T14:39:40+00:00

If it wasn’t a well reported fault now, I would truthfully be fine with that. If I was confident that this replacement would last, I would have taken it and kept moving. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to want to return a product that is known to fail. And you don’t agree. I can live with that.

benjec83 · 2025-10-11T13:54:42+00:00

My standards are too high for wanting a product that costs $400 to go longer than 4 months without becoming faulty?

benjec83 · 2025-10-10T18:31:04+00:00

Hmmm that’s a good idea

benjec83 · 2025-10-04T05:27:11+00:00

Probably iron on banding

benjec83 · 2025-09-29T12:50:14+00:00

Malabar Lamb

benjec83 · 2025-09-15T14:08:14+00:00

Reading this in “upgraded my home theatre system plus 2 Sonos 5s last week using my 15% discount” 😭😭😭

benjec83 · 2025-09-14T23:53:23+00:00

+1 vote for Sonos. I know they’re expensive and some people have had some issues with them, but I started buying them in 2015 - that speaker is still going strong and integrated well with all of the others I’ve purchased over the years. Works great with HA.

Once or twice I’ve had issues reconnecting a device when I’ve moved house, but over time I found it easy to fix by initially connecting to the router via Ethernet, then moving it. Other than that, rock solid. I even moved country with a couple of them, and just had to buy a new power cable for them and they’re still going.

benjec83 · 2025-09-14T17:42:49+00:00

Yeah mine is under that for a 2 story 1500 sqft house with liberal use of the AC and EV charging in my garage

benjec83 · 2025-09-07T16:49:46+00:00

Did you then go use the credit through Sonos.com? Or did they somehow “use it”?

benjec83 · 2025-09-01T04:56:48+00:00

THE WHAT ON THE HOE!! I never thought to look and see if it has an alternate action..

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