No, Sonos has to be hard wired to the router. This can be achieved by either wiring one of the players to your router if your router is in a room where you also want a player, if not just use the Sonos Bridge and connect it to your router. The bridge then creates the Zigby network which is what all the other Sonos players use to communicate with each other.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brent Harding Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 4:20 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Sonos multi-room Wireless music system was: Bluetooth speakers Can these things just hook to a wifi network? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <siegh...@live.ca> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 4:55 AM Subject: RE: Sonos multi-room Wireless music system was: Bluetooth speakers Hi Krister, I have had my Sonos system for 4 years and for all these years the app was useable with a few areas where improvements would have been nice. Some of these seemed simple, e.g. the labelling of some buttons, but Sonos seemed to ignore repeated requests for accessibility improvements. Neil Barnfather as well as myself continued to impress upon them that they really needed to make accessibility a priority and this finally occurred several months ago. I first received an invitation to Beta test and once again the first Betas seemed little improved. Then they came out with a major release which totally changed the app. Accessibility was apparently given a lot of consideration as everything in the app is beautifully accessible now. I feel that Sonos has made a commitment with respect to accessibility and personally am not very worried at all that suddenly they release a version which makes the app completely inaccessible again. I will check with respect to Mac accessibility, as I said, the Windows controller works just fine with Jaws, one of the few things I can think of right now which is not accessible is the information as to what is playing. For example, if I play a particular radio station I can see in the app on my iPhone who the artist is and the song title. I have not figured out a way to do this on the PC although I haven't spend a lot of time checking since mostly I just find music and play it. Even on my iPhone I rarely look at this information, but of course for others this might be more important. Basically when you use the app with Jaws you have to use the tab key to tab through the various controls similar to how you tab around in iTunes. You then use enter or the arrow keys to expand menus or select something and if you check the screen with the Jaws cursor it reads absolutely nothing just as it doesn't really read anything useful in iTunes or how in Firefox you can't read the screen with the Jaws cursor. But it works well with the tab, enter and arrow keys, it would be nice if Sonos was able to enable keyboard shortcuts for some stuff, but the app is fairly simple so it's OK. As I said, I'll check with their tech support about the accessibility of the Mac app and let you know what they say. Maybe in the meantime a Mac user who also has a Sonos system can contribute something more. I haven't seen Neil post anything for some time, but I'm pretty sure he's a heavy Mac user and I also know he has a lot of Sonos players. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. 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