LukeB
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I searched the forum thinking this may be a hotter topic but I found a few dated posts regarding scanner audio in the home but nothing specific to Sonos. If there is a more current thread that I may have missed, please point me there and accept my apologies.
I've run dedicated scanners for streaming in the past. My gripe with using this type of setup for audio around my home was the delay. There was no control over the delay, at least to my knowledge. The delay was a minimum of 1 minute, up to about 3:30. Of course, there could be a ton of variables at play to cause such a delay. I've been looking to pull the trigger on Sonos products for a couple of years now. It got me thinking.
Can you hook up a scanner/radio to say a Sonos Connect or a Sonos Amp and divert the audio to any speaker in your house that way? This would bypass any traditional streaming and utilize the "Sonos network" hopefully eliminating any long delay. Within the Sonos app, there could be the option for say, Scanner. From what I can tell, there are audio jacks on the back of some Sonos speaker models. I don't want to hook up a scanner to a speaker in the living room but I am looking to create a hub, with stereo, music streaming services and a scanner as options to pipe through the Sonos speakers. This would allow me to stream the scanner audio to any speaker in the house, on the Sonos network.
I'm not very familiar with how the two options available from Sonos work so I'm seeking any information from others who have knowledge of the Sonos Amp or Connect or who have set up a stream strictly through Sonos products. Below, I've linked to the 2 possible products to make this work. Many thanks in advance.
Sonos Amp - $599
Sonos Connect - $349
I've run dedicated scanners for streaming in the past. My gripe with using this type of setup for audio around my home was the delay. There was no control over the delay, at least to my knowledge. The delay was a minimum of 1 minute, up to about 3:30. Of course, there could be a ton of variables at play to cause such a delay. I've been looking to pull the trigger on Sonos products for a couple of years now. It got me thinking.
Can you hook up a scanner/radio to say a Sonos Connect or a Sonos Amp and divert the audio to any speaker in your house that way? This would bypass any traditional streaming and utilize the "Sonos network" hopefully eliminating any long delay. Within the Sonos app, there could be the option for say, Scanner. From what I can tell, there are audio jacks on the back of some Sonos speaker models. I don't want to hook up a scanner to a speaker in the living room but I am looking to create a hub, with stereo, music streaming services and a scanner as options to pipe through the Sonos speakers. This would allow me to stream the scanner audio to any speaker in the house, on the Sonos network.
I'm not very familiar with how the two options available from Sonos work so I'm seeking any information from others who have knowledge of the Sonos Amp or Connect or who have set up a stream strictly through Sonos products. Below, I've linked to the 2 possible products to make this work. Many thanks in advance.
Sonos Amp - $599
Sonos Connect - $349