Plexamp: Stream music from my home server to office Sonos speakers?

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I have noticed an odd thing in Plexamp.

When I try to stream music from my home server to the Sonos speakers at my work office, the only speakers that shows up are the ones at my home; not the ones at my work office.

At work, I’m always connected my office’s wifi, not using any VPN or such. I can control our office speakers using the Sonos app, on both iOS and MacOS.
But Plexamp (mac/ios) does not ”see” the speakers.

My Plex server (at home) runs on a Synology NAS (Plex .SPK).

Is it a bug causing this or is this normal behaviour?

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The Plex Sonos integration relies on the cloud and possibly the office speaker aren’t connected to your account? That’s a guess, at least.

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Thanks for your response!

You’re right, it is not my Sonos account the office speakers are logged into (and by that, not my Plex account linked to the Sonos account). I didn’t know it was a prerequisite.

For me as a an end user, a solution that utilizes some sort of direct streaming to the Sonos speaker would be prefered (something like Spotify Connect).

Cheers!

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if the Sonos speakers are Airplay compatible (many of them are), you could use that instead.

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Thanks. Unfortunately the speakers are old Play 5’s so AirPlay is not an option.

I know there are alternatives, as AirConnect and such, but I thought it would be nice to connect to the speakers directly.

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