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Audio Matrix > Sonos line-ins, is this going to work?


timbooo

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I have a system where pretty much every room is going to have a Sonos device hooked up to in-ceiling speakers. I also have a c4 video matrix and a c4 audio matrix. There are 3 video sources - a sky box and couple of Apple TVs - and 6 of the rooms have TVs hooked up.

If I run connections from the outputs of the video matrix into the audio matrix, and then make connections from the outputs of the audio matrix to the line-ins of the relevant sonos boxes, and make the relevant connections in Composer, I'm assuming/hoping the system will be able to route the audio and flip the Sonos box to the line-in source. I'm also quite sure I need to NOT turn on the automatic line-in function on the Sonos boxes, in case the matrix leaves outputs live when they're not wanted.

What I'm not so sure about is whether C4 will break any previously formed groups.

e.g. user is listening to music in the living room and dining room, grouped in Sonos. User decides to stop listening to music. Sonos doesn't break the group at this point it just stops the music. User uses his SR260 to turn on the TV in the living room to watch the Sky box. Control 4 should turn everything on, make the video matrix connections, make (hopefully) the audio matrix connection, and flip the living room Sonos to line-in. But will the living room and dining room still be grouped? Do we have a command available to ungroup?

I know there's a fair bit of anti-Sonos sentiment (and yes the integration is a poor shadow of it's old self, sadface) but "dump Sonos and use C4 native music" is simply not an option. I've got to make this work *bites fingernails frantically*

Thanks for any input.

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