SoundUplink Support: help for the Bose SoundTouch app

First check that your phone and the speaker are on the same Wi-Fi network. Guest networks often keep devices apart. On iPhone, SoundUplink needs access to the local network: iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Local Network. If the search still does not find the speaker, enter its IP address in Settings, in the App section.

In your router's device list. The address is four numbers from 0 to 255 separated by dots, for example 192.168.1.40.

On Android, go to Settings › Speaker › Connect new speaker. The app briefly connects your phone to the speaker's setup Wi-Fi and hands it your Wi-Fi credentials. On iPhone this setup comes later; until then, set the speaker up with the Bose SoundTouch app, which according to Bose still works.

The six preset buttons on the speaker used to fetch their stations from the Bose cloud. SixBack is a small server on an ESP32 on your network that takes over this job. Turn on “Use SixBack” in Settings, in the App section, and SoundUplink writes your presets to it so the buttons play again. For the hardware buttons, SixBack needs an ESP32 with PSRAM, such as an ESP32-S3. Without SixBack, presets exist in the app only.

Open Multiroom, pick the speakers that should play along and tap “Done”. Each speaker has its own slider, and the shared volume moves them all together.

Under Alarms, set a time, the weekdays, a station and a speaker. On Android, SoundUplink switches the speaker on at wake-up time and starts the station; the app needs the “Alarms & reminders” permission, and the phone has to be on Wi-Fi. On iPhone, the alarm rings on the iPhone and “Radio on” starts the station on the speaker. Without tapping at all, use a Shortcuts automation at wake-up time with the action “Start alarm radio”.

Yes. The safest choice is the direct stream address, a link to the audio itself. The speaker plays MP3 and AAC, but not OPUS. You may enter https addresses; the app passes them to the speaker as http. If a link ends in .m3u or .pls, it is a playlist file, so look for the direct address instead.

SoundUplink is free and funded by ads from Google AdMob, shown only in station search, podcasts and settings. You can change your ad choices in Settings under “Ad privacy settings”.

Stations, presets, favorites, alarms and history stay on your device only. There is no account and no SoundUplink server. The details are in our privacy policy.