AirPlay 1 and 2 in same group?

[Robert_Murray]

@support
Couldn’t find a thread that directly addressed this. I have a BeoPlay A6 which has Airplay 1 and might get some AirPlay 2 devices. Can I group these together?

[dylan (Dylan Caudill)]

Hi @Robert_Murray,

Roon does not currently support AirPlay 2, as mentioned here:

Airplay 2 Broken

We haven’t made any announcements about Airplay 2 support in Roon. Right now, Roon does not support Airplay 2. Airplay 2 devices should be able to play Airplay streams, and we fixed some issues related to this in the last few months. So, to be clear, while Airplay 2 devices should work with Roon, Roon is still sending Airplay, and people shouldn’t confuse this for Airplay 2 support.

While we do not support AirPlay 2, you should be able to play to these devices using our AirPlay 1 support and, AirPlay devices can be grouped together as noted in our KB.

[Robert_Murray]

There is a thread called “AirPlay 2 Available Today” in this forum: Airplay 2 Available Today. The date next to it says April 12th, so at first glance, it looks like you guys support it. I’d suggest some better moderation of these forums because there seem to be posts by people who are confused as to your support. You should probably modify the title of that thread.

From what I understand, the Sonos:One Gen 2 only supports AirPlay 2 and not AirPlay 1, so it won’t work anyways. I’m going a different direction at this point with 2 B&W Wedge speakers and a Bluesound which all seem to use RaaT, so it’s moot now.

Thanks for the reply.