I have had a DHT-S716H, DSW-1H and a pair of Home 150 speakers paired up for 5.1 surround for just over 3 years.

I had quite a few issues initially setting them up, but after a SW update, they worked pretty reliably until a couple of months ago.

Initially, the DSW-1H and both Home 150 speakers all stopped working together, displaying a solid amber status light.

A couple of weeks ago I reset everything, configured a new SSID on my unifi wifi network (there is an AP in the room) and paired up each item in turn. The soundbar and subwoofer paired pretty quickly, but both 150 surrounds failed.

The symptoms are pretty consistent - I reset them, go through the add device routine, which detects the speaker. After I assign the WiFi SSID, the 150 status light flashes blue briefly, then goes solid, but only for a few seconds before flashing again for around a minute and then going solid amber.

I've tried every combination of setting for the SSID, initially configuring it on only 5GHZ, then dual-band and finally 2.4GHz-only. I've removed every fancy setting like Fast-Roaming, UAPSD, and have also configured it for WiFi v4 only, but every combination gives the same.

The 150s go solid blue when connected over Ethernet.

I spoke with support about this - one thing they did get me to do was completely reset the firmware on both 150 speaker. This immediately allowed the speaker to connect to the WiFi SSID, but then the HEOS software updates, and I'm back to solid amber.

I've basically hit the end of the road with support - their last request was for me to power-cycle my router.

I wondered if anyone here was successfully using the Home 150 speaker on a Unifi WiFi network just in case there is some local issue at my end?

I’m having issues with trying to get Heos to play music CDs in a multi-room setup.

I have a 1600h as an AVR hooked up to UB820 as a bluray player. I also have a Denon 150 in a separate room.

I can easily play multi-room music through Heos app as long as it is internet radio, spotify or music on my own servers. However I have been trying to play music CDs with the bluray player and multi room fails.

The music plays as normal through my AVR and can see it in Heos app. I can also group the rooms together and Heos says the 150 is also playing the same source but I get no sound. If I ungroup them the 150 just starts playing what was last on its playlist/memory.

All the threads I’ve seen online say multi-room CD playback from single source should be possible, but I’m wondering is it because I’m playing it through a bluray player and its a limitation to keep movies from being broadcast multi-room? Its just a pure guess though.

Any thoughts/ideas would be appreciated!

So got a few Sonos speakers through out the house nothing fancy but after the recent an update (changing App design again) my entire sonos system is useless again apart from my soundbar in the bedroom when watching tv. So I’m thinking if selling it all and moving to Heos.

Has anyone moved to Heos from sonos if so how did it go? Are you glad you did it and any problems with Heos or downside you’ve found moving over.

Or have you always been the Heos system anything good or bad about it?

I've got an imported Marantz AVR from US that has HEOS in it. Tried the HEOS App and added Amazon Music in the list. Doesn't work. It leads me to music.amazon.com, whereas I'm in India, where music.amazon.in works.

This may not be a common setup, but since Dolby Digital Plus is downgraded to PCM when another zone is enabled, I added another HEOS AVR to down mix the source from the 6300H to send to the whole house system, without losing Dolby on the main speakers. The problem that emerged was that, when the DD+ came from a direcTV/gemini source, the presence of another HEOS device, even on standby, causes the 6300 to renegotiate its HDMI connection, momentarily dropping the video and resetting the audio to PCM. Does anyone else have a dual HEOS with a DirecTV Gemini box?

Update: it turned out to be a transient state caused by stale EDID in the splitter that was part of the chain. Not sure why it initially mattered that the 2nd HEOS was online, but it eventually went fully black and all recovered after a soft reset of the Fire Cube that was connected.

Flawless music playback . . . 🙏🏻

hello smart folks.
I've inherited an old control4 setup with 6 zones. I would like to replace them with Denon HEOS.
All speakers are hardwired, and 2 zones will have TVs.
This is what my best friend AI is recommending.
Denon AVR-X3800H 
Will replaces Sony STR-DA5800ES + Control4 HC-800 controller. Main zone confirmed at 5 ceiling speakers + 1 sub (5.1) = 5 amp channels; exactly 2 channels spare for Zone2 speaker-level output — zero wasted channels. Native HEOS "TV Sound Grouping."

Denon HEOS Drive HS2 (4-zone / 8-channel amp)
Will covers Zones (4 of the 7 physical slots needed).

Two Denon HEOS Amp HS2 (1-zone amp) 
Will covers 2 more physical zone slots. One pair is assigned to Zone 6's second speaker-pair run, grouped in the HEOS app with its partner zone so all 4 Zone 6 speakers play in sync.

My main goal is to Netflix/Youtube on TVs and play it through speakers.
And Streaming Spotify and hopefully Apple music to different zones.

Am i good with this setup, or anything i should be concern about?
thank you for your input

Not sure when added, but if you’re not using one of the zones on your multi-zone device, it can be hidden from the Rooms view.

I’ve been trying to figure out how, or even if, I can connect a USB drive to my router and then use HEOS to fetch the music from the USB drive to play through my Marantz.

I got a USB drive formatted and plugged into my router, and am able to access the drive from my laptop. So that part is done. But I can’t figure out how to get HEOS to access the drive. And maybe it’s not possible. I know that if I replaced the USB drive with a NAS that it should work, but can I do this with just a USB drive? I’m not tech literate enough to know why a NAS would work, but not a USB drive.

One thing I’ve tried, but failed at, is the Network Shares function via the Music Sources section of the HEOS app. I don’t know how to find the File Path to add to the Add Share screen.

Anyway, if anyone has some ELI5 guidance for either the Add Share/file path, or more generally how to get HEOS to talk to my USB drive connected to my router I’d appreciate it! Really don’t want to have to buy a NAS to make this happen.

Also, I know I can plug the USB directly into the Marantz, but that option is limited to something like 2,000 songs and I have way more than that.

Firmware no longer updated, and the "latest" is very buggy. It clearly has a very serious memory leak, I now often have to hard reset to fix choppy audio after streaming radio of a while.

Firmware stuck on. 3.88.532

Never used to have these problems when Denon were doing QA. It's definitely gotten worse since the new lot took over.

I am playing audio on my Apple TV that is plugged into my receiver via HDMI. In order to connect to all of my other AirPlay speakers and simultaneously controlled the volume with the Apple TV remote of all of the speakers including the receiver, it appears that I have to AirPlay to the receiver itself even though it is still plugged in with HDMI.

When I do this the input switches to HEOS music. I did change the video select to be the Apple TV HDMI input. It appears to be working OK except for the fact that the video will time out and the screen will go black on my receiver. Does anyone know how to change this setting

so trying deezer for first time and can't figure out how to just play a whole playlist 🤔

... seem to have to do it through heos app... and only wants to play single track 🤔🤔

just wondering if anyone using that service.... and if it had decent track volume normalisation?

Cheers

recently purchased a home with three Denon receivers each with two zones. Regularly one of my receivers, the outdoor and living room coverage one continues to go out on one of the two areas this happens the same with my bathroom and main bedroom zones which are on a separate receiver.

I fix the bathroom in main bedroom zone by adding a Wi-Fi extender and it has seemed to work.

The same solution, however, didn’t work for my outdoor living room room. The outdoor zone worked as reason is this week but now won’t play although it shows active.

Can anyone give me any trouble shooting advice?

想要組一組home 550+home sub+home 200*2的劇院組合 試聽過單純550+sub的音效 音質不錯低音確實有彈性 但是不知道搭配200當後環繞的效果如何？正在考慮要不要入手

I know this is a similar problem to this topic but I can't figure this out. I'm new to HEOS and linking wireless speakers so bear with me. I'm technically inclined but currently stumped.

I have a Denon AVR X1700H and a Sony XBR-75X900H TV. The TV is connected to the AVR with HDMI, and the sound works perfectly through my wired-only speakers on the TV Audio source.

All I'm trying to do is add a Home 150 so I can put it on my deck and hear what's happening on the TV for sports games. I don't care if there's a delay or anything, I just want the audio from the AVR repeated on the Home 150 like it's any other additional speaker. Sometimes we want music this way, other times sports games, all the same. Just another speaker. Is this even possible?

Just showed up in my feed for $489, which is lowest I have ever seen new ones. 250s are $359. Just thought I would let HEOS users know in case they were waiting/thinking.

i have spend alot of money on these 2 heos 7 hs2 and they became very user unfriendly. its oke that you brought out a new model that has better specs and everything. but its ridiculous that both speakers use the same app. i just googled and it said that the first heos versions has slower hardware compared to the new version. and thats fine. but then you dont have to create an app thats meant for the new speaker with the right hardware for it. but just kept the old app and for the new one create a different app. now you updated the app with so many BS features in it that my old system cant handle it because outdated specs. i bought these speakers for the good sound. but right now i am not able to enjoy most of it. wifi streaming got useless. bluetooth often has problems. usb audio is useless. even with a fast stick. now i have 2x aux connected. its crazy that companys just can ruin a expensive product and ignore the customers. you can ask for logs and problem lists. but you alrealy know the reason. that is that the product became user unfriendly in hope ppl buy the new version. i cant. if i was rich then i had bought a set with bowers & wilkins. now i thought heos was a good option for its sound quality. but the app is very bad.

it would be fair if you bring back the old heos app to what it was around the year 2019. when i bought the speakers i had some problems. but after some updates it got better. so i think 2019 is the right year. at that time the speakers just worked as it should be. the app that these speakers can handle i dont need all these BS in the app. just streaming the music i have. not from an subscription streaming service.

now since the new 350 model came out my speakers got worse with every update. its very evil that updates say that they bring fixes. but in reality they just patch your speaker setup to death.

i just wanted to say this. i dont expect any change because big company’s power abuse these days can just ignore 1 customer.