CasaTunes provides 2-way integration with SONOS. CasaTunes allows you to listen to your SONOS music on your CasaTunes speakers, and (optionally) listen to your CasaTunes music on your SONOS speakers.
To add one or more SONOS streams to a CasaTunes multi-room audio system (matrix), and to play your CasaTunes music or other matrix connected sources on your SONOS speakers, soundbars and devices, you must add a SONOS Port or Connect device. This devices acts as a bridge, allowing CasaTunes access to SONOS audio via an input source on the matrix, and allowing SONOS devices access to CasaTunes music via a preamp output on the matrix that is connected to a SONOS Line In.
To listen to your SONOS music on your CasaTunes speakers, simply add a SONOS Port/Connect device, and physically connect the audio output from the SONOS Port/Connect device to an available input source on your matrix. Depending on the type of input source connection available on your matrix use either the analog L/R, digital optical, or digital coaxial output.
To listen to your CasaTunes music and other sources connected to your matrix on your SONOS speakers, soundbars and devices, you must also connect the preamp output of an available matrix zone to the SONOS LINE IN on the SONOS Port/Connect device.
After you have configured all your SONOS Port/Connect devices, add any additional SONOS speakers to the household and follow the SONOS instructions for configuring these.
CasaTunes works with all SONOS speakers (that support the SONOS Control API), including SONOS Era 100, Era 300, One, Five, Arc, Ray, Beam, Playbar, Port and Amp.
CasaTunes discovers all your SONOS speakers and automatically configures these speakers as additional rooms in CasaTunes.
To listen to more than one SONOS stream at a time on your CasaTunes speakers, or to listen to more than one CasaTunes source on SONOS speakers at the same time, you will need to add multiple SONOS Port/Connect devices.
The number of SONOS Port/Connect devices you can add to your matrix depends on the number of input sources available on your matrix. For example, on a CasaTunes CT6X6 matrix amplifier, you could add up to six SONOS Port or Connect devices (or streams). However, in practice, you probably need only one, or perhaps two at the most, SONOS Port or Connect devices.
Depending on the number of SONOS Port/Connect devices you are using, we recommend 2 different SONOS device naming strategies for these devices. If you are using a single SONOS Port/Connect device, we recommend you set the name of your SONOS Port/Connect device to SONOS. If you are using multiple SONOS Port/Connect devices, we recommend you configure the name of each SONOS Port/Connect device based on the name of the primary user of the device, for example, "David's SONOS" or "Jodi's SONOS". Assigning a user's name to each device, makes it clear to users whose SONOS device is selected, and helps prevent users from interfering with each others listening.
This completes configuring your SONOS devices, as well as the wiring of your SONOS Port/Connect bridge devices. The next step is to configure the CasaTunes software.
The next step is to configure the SONOS Port/Connect devices as CasaTunes Sources using the CasaTunesX App, and configuring the preamp output to use to allow the SONOS devices access to the CasaTunes music.
Use the CasaTunesX App to configure and Control CasaTunes. The CasaTunesX App is available for Amazon, Android and Apple networked devices, as well as anyHTML5 browser. To start the browser based version of the CasaTunesX App, open your browser and type in the following URL:
Now, select Menu > Settings > System Setup > Sources option (see below) in the CasaTunesX App.
For each SONOS Port/Connect device you want to configure as a CasaTunes source, follow these steps:
Note: CasaTunes automatically configures your SONOS Port/Connect devices to use a fixed volume output.
Next, we need to configure the matrix preamp output you previously connected to the SONOS Port/Connect Line In. This is used to play CasaTunes music and other matrix sources on the SONOS speakers and soundbars
Note: CasaTunes automatically hide these outputs, and configure them to use a fixed volume output.
CasaTunes uses SONOS Port/Connect devices connected to your multi-room audio system as a 2-way bridge, bridging the SONOS and CasaTunes systems together. The SONOS Port/Connect devices connected to your multi-room audio system appear as sources, while the SONOS speakers appear as rooms.
With CasaTunes you can listen to music playing on any SONOS Port/Connect device or SONOS speaker in any combination of rooms, regardless of whether they are CasaTunes multi-room audio powered speakers or SONOS speakers.
To listen to SONOS music in a room, follow these steps:
Similarly, you can listen to any CasaTunes source on any of your SONOS speakers and soundbars in any combination of rooms, regardless of whether they are CasaTunes multi-room audio powered speakers or SONOS speakers.
Depending on your SONOS devices, you can select to listen to your TV Audio1 (on SONOS soundbars), or a music source connected to a SONOS LINE IN (for example, a vinyl player), anywhere in your home.
To listen to your TV Audio or Line In source in one or more rooms:
1Note: When you group a SONOS soundbar with other SONOS speakers, SONOS injects an audio delay, anywhere from 75 ms ~ 2 second, on the audio played on the grouped speakers. You can configure the amount of latency using the Group Audio Delay setting in the SONOS App. To avoid listening issues caused by this latency, do not group a SONOS soundbar with other speakers in the same room.
When you want to listen to your music in various rooms in your home, pick the Group Rooms menu option, as illustrated below:
When a room is grouped together with other rooms, you can change the volume for the group of rooms, or each individual room.
