Zone Grouping
When grouping, you combine several rooms so they play the same music, perfectly in sync. One zone acts as the "master": it determines what's playing, and all other zones in the group join in.
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What problem does grouping solve?If you start the same source separately in each room, the rooms won't play in sync, and between the kitchen and living room you'll hear an echo. You'd also have to control each zone individually. With a group, you start the music once, and all rooms play in perfect sync, whether it's web radio, NAS or a streaming service.
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How does trivum implement grouping?
In the trivum app, tap the zone name in the top left, then tap "Group", and tick the rooms that should join in. Done. For combinations you need often, create fixed zone groups in the setup, for example "Living Room and Kitchen", and then combine or separate them with a single tap. |
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Benefits of groupingOne tap, and the music plays throughout the whole ground floor or, for a party, throughout the entire house, perfectly in sync. The group behaves like a single zone: change the source, skip a track, everything applies to all rooms. Even the alarm plays throughout the whole group if it's set in the master zone.
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How can you customise grouping in the setup?You can save frequently used combinations as fixed zone groups. Using a KNX button, you can switch groups automatically, ideal for a "party button" that combines all rooms at once. And via the HTTP interface, groups can also be formed from other control systems.
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What limitations does grouping have?As long as a zone is part of a group, it doesn't play its own music, it always follows the master. If grouping spans multiple trivum devices, the audio runs over the network: this requires a switch with IGMP snooping, and group playback isn't supported over Wi-Fi. For rooms that are acoustically fixed together, such as an open-plan living and dining area, trivum's "Connected Spaces" offer the better solution.
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