Blog ≫ 2026 ≫ Sonos Roam 2 arrived
I said I would not buy any more Sonos kit after they fouled up the app for about a year. Since that has all been working again and I can actually play my own music on my own expensive system again, I have softened slightly. Been wanting to stream music off my phone on the speakers and mostly Sonos don't do bluetooth, they use wifi. However the Sonos Roam does, it's a portable bluetooth speaker that also works with the Sonos wifi setup. So the idea is I stream to that and it passes it on to all the other devices. There was always going to be more to this, as I was tempted by the Roam before this, thinking I can take it out on the balcony or the garden, or even further afield to listen to music. It's wireless, rechargeable, and weatherproof, so good for general outdoor and travel things. But then there was a third reason; one of the macbook speakers is buzzing so basically unusable, but I can pair this speaker with that and give this laptop some more life.
It arrived today, and it's set up now, and all is good! Maybe next month I'll get another one to make a stereo pair, and then get the optional charging docks for them.
While setting this up I finally looked up what could be wrong with this laptop that I can't click on pop up dialog boxes on this laptop.
I can mostly work around it, if the box has a button you can hit enter, and the cursor keys, and escape to close it, so all good. But the bluetooth and audio setups weren't having this so I had to do some research. Turns out it's the macos dock on this one goes a bit made and hogs the interface. Restart that and all is good again. So this is now set up and everyone is happy again.
Still have not done any painting but I have dropped stuff off at the tip and the charity shop.
Wife is still hogging the TV, she just watched a film. But I should be painting now.
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⬅️ MJ Hibbett has written for Radio Times again :: Another project for today ➡️