When streaming to Sonos from Roon, I am getting dropouts every 30 seconds to 1 minute. Roon does not lose control of the Sonos speaker, but the dropouts are regular and lasts 2-3 seconds each time. The tracks I am playing are on a hard drive in the same PC as the Roon Core. When I play these same tracks via the Sonos App, I don’t get dropouts.
Some of my Sonos devices are hardwired and some are connected via WiFi. Both connections experience dropouts via Roon but not via Sonos App.
Hammer I went through this a few years ago and it was really frustrating. It seems to me that Roon requires way more bandwidth than Sonos on its own. I also found that if I was playing lower resolution than CD quality the problems went away (not a solution but a good testing point)
I had a boost in my network that while it should have helped, caused a lot of dropouts, especially when I had it plugged into the same switch as my Amp (so I took it out and put the Amp on Ethernet)
Have you disabled WiFi on the device’s with Ethernet.
Thanks…that’s helpful to know. Just so strange since I tried putting a hardwired access point in the same room as the Sonos device that was dropping and still the dropouts remained. How do you disable WiFi on the Sonos device? I think I’m using sonosnet since when I check the device, it says WM:0. I also recall using WiFi instead of SonosNet was worse and so I switched to SonosNet.
I am on holiday at the moment so don’t have access to my gear.
There is a setting under settings->Networking (from memory) but you can enable Ethernet under the settings for each device in settings menu. That helped my setup a lot (along with Orbi Mesh that I could plug into in different room’s