Tray and menu bar

Speaker Volume Bridge is designed to run in the background.

If upgrading from Sonos Volume Bridge, choose Quit from the old app’s tray or menu-bar menu before launching the renamed app. Closing its Settings window leaves it running and can cause conflicting controls. Follow the upgrade guide.

On Windows and Ubuntu it lives in the system tray. On macOS it lives in the menu bar and does not appear as a normal Dock application.

Status at a glance

The menu shows:

• State: Connected or State: Disconnected.
• The selected speaker name and cached volume when available.
• Shortcuts to Settings and Diagnostics.
• Supported Sonos speaker controls.
• A checked Night schedule toggle directly above Night sound.
• Quit.

The icon uses a disconnected badge when setup or connectivity needs attention. Both left-click and right-click refresh the menu before it is shown.

Connected does not mean only one internal state

Connected covers normal synchronization, a pending Sonos confirmation, degraded event delivery, and polling fallback. These are all operating states.

Disconnected covers incomplete setup, discovery or connection in progress, unavailable speaker or output, unsupported local audio, and errors.

Open Diagnostics when the binary label is not specific enough.

Closing and quitting

Closing the Settings window hides it. Synchronization continues in the background.

Choose Quit from the tray or menu-bar menu to stop the runtime completely.

On Ubuntu, tray visibility depends on the desktop environment’s app-indicator support. Synchronization can still run when a desktop hides the icon.

Speaker controls and scheduling

Supported controls load asynchronously at startup without requiring an initial click. Slow responses do not block the interface, and results from a previously selected speaker are discarded. Speaker notifications and backup refreshes keep controls current.

The Night schedule checkmark means recurring scheduling is enabled. Use it to toggle the saved schedule; open Settings → Night schedule to edit the grid. Disabling it leaves the current Night sound value unchanged and remains possible when the speaker is unavailable. While a scheduled period is active, disable the schedule before turning Night sound off manually.