Comment by petepete
2 days ago
I did this in 2023 and my experience has been the same. Had 0 problems other than Sonos being, well, Sonos.
Recently set up CCTV at my parents’ with a Cloud Gateway Max, set up a site to site VPN in 3 clicks and now I can support remotely and their Sony smart TV can see my Jellyfin server.
IIRC some Sonos issues are related to STP. AFAIK it's, like you said, Sonos being Sonos. Lol.
Yeah, that was exactly it. Unifi have a special page in their docs for dealing with Sonos.
https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/18930473041047-Best-Pr...
I ended up connecting everything with a wired connection and disabling WiFi. Thankfully I have cat6 to every room so it wasn't an inconvenience.
It's worked perfectly since.
How could a Sonos device possibly interact with spanning tree? Are there Sonos devices that act as bridges?
Most of their devices act as bridges; some of the newer ones don't. Some have multiple ethernet ports, and anything that has both an ethernet port and is part of their "sonosnet" mutant-wifi will bridge between sonosnet and their ethernet port(s) with spanning tree using classic (pre-RSTP) link costs.
If you're not careful you can end up with the "best" path between two switches going over the sonos-to-sonos wifi.
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