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Grouped rooms play the same audio in sync. Somos InControl lets you build and break groups from any room page, keeps every room’s volume within reach while grouped, and lets you save a group you use often so a single tap rebuilds it.

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Grouping and ungrouping

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Open the room you want as the anchor

Whatever this room is playing is what the group will play.
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Tap the group button

It’s in the top-right of the room page. The Group Rooms sheet lists every other room on the system with a switch.
3

Turn rooms on or off

Switch a room on to add it to this room’s group; switch it off to make it standalone again. Changes apply immediately. Tap Done when you’re finished.
Two rooms that share the same name can’t be told apart by Sonos® when grouping. If the sheet points this out, rename one of them first — press and hold the room name at the top of its page, or swipe left on it in the menu.

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Volume in a group

While a room is grouped, its status line reads Grouped with … and its page shows one labelled volume slider per room in the group, so you can balance each room to taste — the group keeps playing together regardless of the individual levels. Presets, EQ and the other controls on the page still apply to that room only.

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Group Audio Delay

When a soundbar is grouped with other rooms, a Group Audio Delay stepper appears in its EQ card. It steps the delay applied to the other rooms so their audio lines up with the bar instead of echoing — the same setting the Sonos® app keeps under System settings. It’s hidden on an ungrouped room because it has no effect there.

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Saving a group as a favourite

At the bottom of the Group Rooms sheet, tap Save as favourite to keep this combination. Saved groups live on the second page of the bottom bar (up to 4 slots) and are rebuilt with one tap. See Favorites.