1.2 Sonos goes KNX
Crystal-clear hi-fi sound and virtually unlimited sound scenarios: The Sonos sound system gives digital
music a diversified landscape made up of different wireless loudspeakers and audio systems. This
acoustic marvel has just one catch: Up until now, it required laborious operation using a special app,
especially when used with Sonos zones.
The ise smart connect KNX Sonos opens up the world of KNX to the family of sound, making it even
easier to handle. Sonos can finally be operated with KNX operating devices, either in party mode or by
room. Up to five Sonos master devices with dynamic group creation can be connected via IP. Each of
these master devices, in turn, can be networked with up to five slave devices. Here, either a separate
music program is assigned to each master device or a master device operates the entire device land-
scape.
Connecting KNX and Sonos opens up new possibilities:
Door contacts enable dynamic group creation.
If you select the "Relaxation Music" playlist, the shutters will be lowered and the lighting adjusted
accordingly.
These and other application examples can be found in more detail in Chapters 2 Application scenarios
– Comfort solutions in the living environment and 3 Commercial Application Scenarios.
1.3 Definitions and explanation of terms
Sonos device
Each Sonos wireless loudspeaker is referred to as a Sonos device in the following.
The following Sonos devices are currently supported:
o Sonos PLAY:1
o Sonos PLAY:3
o Sonos PLAY:5
o Sonos PLAYBAR (the OPTICAL television input cannot be selected at present)
o Sonos CONNECT (the OPTICAL and LINE IN inputs cannot be selected at present)
o Sonos CONNECT:AMP (the LINE IN input cannot be selected at present)
o Sonos SUB and Sonos BRIDGE (These devices are never addressed directly via the ise
smart connect KNX Sonos, but instead directly via the Sonos application linked with other
Sonos devices.)
Room/Zone
A room (zone) is the area in which you listen to music with your Sonos devices. Multiple Sonos de-
vices can also stream the music for a room/zone here. Different music cannot be listened to within
a single room/zone.
Please note that the terms room and zone are used synonymously by Sonos. They are exchangea-
ble.
Group
Rooms can be combined dynamically into a group. Here, the music is played in sync in all the
rooms of the group. If the groups are terminated, different music from different sources can be
played again. When groups are created with KNX, precisely one master must be defined for each
group. This must be taken into account when creating master-slave groups.
If several rooms are part of a group, they behave as one room with regard to control. Thus "group"
in the following always refers to multiple Sonos devices being controlled by a master.
Please note that the common term group addresses in KNX has nothing to do with a group of
Sonos devices.
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