Sonos/TuneIn/BBC Local radio issue

J_B

I listen to BBC Radio Stoke and /or Shropshire on my new Sonos One speakers through TuneIn

Today I'm betting the prerecorded message 'sorry inavailable' message on both channels.

Asked BBC Shropshire who replied ...

<<Hi J..

Once again, the signal’s been “geolocked” for the Winter Olympics from midnight last night for the duration of the games.

As we discussed previously, it’s likely your radio uses a third-party server in the US to call up its stations (ie a service like vTuner or TunedIn). If you want to send me a model number, I’ll see if I can see any way around it.. though I suspect unless we can point it directly at the BBC Sounds stream, you might struggle.

Sorry – I don’t think manufacturers considered some of these issues when they designed the products!

Thanks for getting in touch>>

I'm not at home currently to try, but can I get BBC Sounds on Sonos?

MSE_James

Are you able to use Radioplayer instead of Tunein? 

 https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3510?language=en_US 

J_B

As above, I'm not at home to try it currently.

Radioplayer plays both stations on my phone so will investigate when home next week.

J_B

J_B said:

As above, I'm not at home to try it currently.

Radioplayer plays both stations on my phone so will investigate when home next week.

Home safe and sound!

Swapped all the channels to Radioplayer and all is good.

It seems that Absolute Radio is stopping using TuneIn so sounds like T/I is having issues!

Thanks all