Missing Sonos and Xbox Series listings

[norrishh]

Going through the app this morning, it only lists two Sonos soundbars (arc and playbase, I believe), missing a bunch-- the beam gen1, beam gen2, and ray. The arc setting probably works, I can't test due to either USB-C or the broken windows software

Xbox is similar, it only lists Xbox One not Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X. The Xbone setting probably works, but that's confusing for users and just generally feels like a beta product. I suggest changing to "Microsoft Xbox (One X/S and Series X/S)".

[Nathan]

32 minutes ago, norrishh said:

Going through the app this morning, it only lists two Sonos soundbars (arc and playbase, I believe), missing a bunch-- the beam gen1, beam gen2, and ray. The arc setting probably works, I can't test due to either USB-C or the broken windows software

Xbox is similar, it only lists Xbox One not Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X. The Xbone setting probably works, but that's confusing for users and just generally feels like a beta product. I suggest changing to "Microsoft Xbox (One X/S and Series X/S)".

I replied in another thread, but yep, this is something we're going to start working on. 

[Flieger37]

A few months ago, my Harmony remote suddenly stopped controlling my Sonos Arc. After searching in the internet, there seams to be a change at SONOS and not all remotes are supported anymore. The suggestion was to teach the TV remote to control Mute and Volume up/down. This can be configured in the ARC settings in the SONOS APP and runs quite good with the remote of my Philips TV. In the Harmony APP I had to change my activities in that way, that the TV controls the Volume.

In the same way I have configured my Skip1S Activities after experiencing, that the Skip didn't control my SONOS ARC (like Harmony didn't): Volume is controlled by the TV. What's missing is the button to adjust the speech volume.

But don't forget to configure/teach the TV remote in the ARC settings in the SONOS APP firs (ARC settings -> TV-Setup -> Setup remote)

Maybe this also works with other Soundbars like SONOS Beam Gen 1. and 2.

Edited January 30, 2023 by Flieger37

[norrishh]

Harmony native Sonos control is indeed largely broken (it's unusably unresponsive, is the actual problem) and I use HDMI CEC to do it now. That isn't a Sonos problem, it's that Logitech no longer supports or sells Harmony, which is why products like the skip1s have a real opportunity to enter the market. HDMI CEC would work on skip1s also, although it should be able to control the Sonos directly via IR too.