Amazon Echo integration?

I have an Echo downstairs and a Dot upstairs. My townhouse is loft style, with the entire top floor the bedroom and master bath. Each floor is easily covered by the Echos because of the open floor plan, so I don't think I will be needing any more. In fact, both Echos sometimes hear the same command and start answering in tandem, leading to confusion. One performs the command, the other babbles on about not understanding. It's like living with addled twins.

An option might be to use the Amazon Echo remote to control the echo from wherever you are in the house.

Well we now know that the Echo Dot is back and available for $50 or 6 for $250. That they will work in multiple rooms and not respond over each other. So for $250 you can fill your house with Dots that will control the Sonos system in 2017.

Did you see something about them not responding over each other? Haven't seen that.

"This function is improved with the new Dot thanks to a faster speech processor combined with Dot’s feature called ESP (Echo Spatial Perception). The latter helps the device figure out which Dot is closest to you and should respond to your voice query. Amazon says ESP’s performance will improve over time, so it will resolve the problem of multiple Echo devices answering you simultaneously."

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/14/amazons-connected-speaker-echo-dot-returns-is-now-only-50/

Nice

By the way, the article I read on that (maybe on Engadget?) seemed to say that this software update (the ESP stuff) will be rolled out to current devices in the next couple of weeks. Which makes me happy, I can change my devices back to the same trigger word, rather than having to try both of them in both rooms in order to get it to pay attention to me. 🙂

Do we have any news (Update) on Alexa and Sonos ?

Do we have any news (Update) on Alexa and Sonos ?

The press release stated the private beta would be the end of this year, and Sonos never says anything about private betas (if there is one). So silence is to be expected until they announce it going public.