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When Somos InControl detects a room built around a soundbar (Arc, Arc Ultra, Beam, Ray, Playbar, Playbase), it unlocks a set of home theater controls that only make sense in that context. They appear automatically in soundbar rooms and are hidden everywhere else, so your music-only rooms stay uncluttered.

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What every room gets

All rooms — single speakers, stereo pairs, portables and soundbar setups — share the same foundation:
  • Volume slider with − / + and mute
  • Bass and treble EQ, Loudness
  • Subwoofer level, on/off, and crossover (when a Sub is bonded)
  • Sound presets (three TV, three music)
  • Trueplay, Status Light and Touch Controls tiles
  • The Music sheet with favorites, playlists and the queue
  • A room diagram, room grouping, and room rename

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Home-theater-only controls

TV / Music source pills

At the top of a soundbar’s page, a source row shows TV and Music pills. Tap TV to send the soundbar back to its TV input — the same as pressing the input button on a remote. Tap Music to open the Music sheet and switch the bar to music; the TV audio is parked until you tap TV again.

Audio-format badge

Next to the source you’ll see the connection (HDMI ARC, eARC, Optical) and the format the soundbar is decoding right now — Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS, PCM Stereo and so on. It updates in real time, so you can confirm your TV is actually sending what you expect.

Night Sound

Compresses the loudest moments — explosions, music peaks — so you can follow the action without waking anyone. Also available as a chip on the Live Activity.

Speech Boost

Lifts dialogue above effects and music. On most soundbars it’s an on/off tile; on the Arc Ultra it’s a five-step slider (Off, Low, Medium, High, Max — Medium is roughly the old “on”). If the speaker refuses the change, the switch goes back and the app tells you instead of pretending it worked.

Surround level and on/off

When surrounds are bonded: a Surround slider (−15 to +15) sets how loud the rears play for TV, and a Surrounds switch mutes them without unbonding. Music has its own Music Level and Ambient / Full controls on the Music sheet.

Height channel

Sets the level of the overhead (Atmos) channels (−10 to +10). Shown only where there is real height hardware — the Arc family’s up-firing drivers, the Beam (Gen 2), or Era 300 satellites — never on a Ray or Playbar.

Subwoofer

Level (−15 to +15), an on/off switch, and — on a Sonos Amp — the crossover frequency (50–110 Hz). A second Sub, including two older-generation Subs, is supported.

Group Audio Delay

Appears only while the soundbar is grouped with other rooms. Steps the delay applied to the other rooms so they don’t echo against the bar — the same setting as the Sonos® app’s Group Audio Delay.

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Building the home theater

Press and hold the room diagram on a soundbar’s page to open Home Theater Setup, where you assign speakers to Front Left, Front Right, Surround Left, Surround Right, Subwoofer and Subwoofer 2 — including separate front speakers, which the official app doesn’t offer. See Speaker Setup for the full walkthrough.

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Subwoofer in non-soundbar rooms

The subwoofer controls are not exclusive to home theater rooms. They appear in any room that has a Sub bonded — including stereo pairs and single-speaker rooms. A Sub that isn’t bonded to anything gets its own page explaining that there’s nothing to control until you bond it to a soundbar or stereo pair.