Sonos via Optical in on Dialog ?

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Hi
Still have not bought myself a Stereo pair as....
Had this question up before but then the Phantom / dialog was not up to the task to use the Sonos Optical out ( Toslink).
I don't want to use Spark as my main controller, understand it is necessary to be able to make the set-up in Spark, but then I hope to be able to control all via Sonos.

Seen users say they use optical in directly on the Phantoms, but I would like to use the optical in on the Dialogs so the phantoms can be connected/ working wireless

Questions:
1. Will this work ?
2. How stable is it
3. Do the systems up-start on signal in ( like on Sonos) ...or do I need to start the dialog / Phantoms manually every time

Thanks in advance

The optical output from Sonos will provide only the audio data to the Phantom.  I don't know whether the Phantom can auto-detect a digital input signal and start up automatically - maybe so.

As far as I know, both Sonos and Phantom use proprietary control protocols; in the case of Sonos (and I assume Phantom as well) this is over a network connection.  There is no reason to expect that they can talk to each other, so I think your hope of being able to control Phantom via a Sonos controller is unlikely to be realised in practice - sorry...  (As a Sonos user, I would love to be proved wrong on that point!)