Sonos: Flashing red and white

What Sonos says to do

1. Reboot the product and try the update again.
2. If it keeps happening, contact Sonos Support.

The same colour on other speakers

Another maker’s speaker can use this colour for something else entirely.

• Echo: Solid red — The microphone on/off button has been pressed: the device microphone is disconnected and Alexa is not listening.
• Echo: White — When you change the volume, white lights show the volume level.
• Nest: 2 solid red lights — An update is taking longer than expected.
• Nest: White lights slowly pulse — Your speaker is ready to set up.
• Nest: White lights run back and forth — Your speaker is connecting to Wi-Fi.
• Nest: White lights light up from left to right — Your speaker is downloading or installing an update.
• Nest: One solid white light, for about 10 minutes — Your speaker is reminding you that a notification is available.
• Nest: 4 white lights pulse quickly — The voice assistant is listening.
• HomePod: Static white light — Your HomePod speaker is playing audio.
• HomePod: White flashing light — A white light shining on and off repeatedly means HomePod isn’t responding normally.
• HomePod: White pulsing light — Your HomePod speaker is ready for setup.
• HomePod: White spinning light — Your HomePod speaker is turning on or updating software.
• HomePod: Red spinning light — You’re resetting your HomePod speaker.

Other Sonos lights

• Solid white
• No light
• Flashing white
• Solid green
• Flashing green
• Slowly flashing green
• Solid orange
• Flashing orange
• Flashing orange and white
• Flashing red
• Flashing blue
• Solid blue
• Flashing pattern of red, white, orange and green
• All Sonos lights on one page