Amazon Alexa and Sonos

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Alexa and Sonos Megathread

Since the first introduction in October 2017, we've been hard at work with the Amazon Alexa team to improve the Sonos skill and Alexa-enable...
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Resolving (the majority of) Issues with Alexa on Sonos

This thread is intended to help get you going if you get stuck setting up Alexa with Sonos, or if you have run into any errors. The setup pr...
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Ryan S
Ryan SRetired Sonos Staff
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Alexa + Sonos: How it Works

So you’ve read all about [url=https://en.community.sonos.com/forum-228971/alexa-now-playing-on-sonos-6791301]Amazon Alexa working with Sonos[/url] and you want to know more. Here’s a rundown of how the integration works. Your Amazon Alexa devices are listening for you to say the wake word, “Alexa”. When they hear that word, the microphones record what you say and send the audio to the Amazon Alexa cloud to be translated. That voice line turns into a string of text. The Amazon protocols determine if it’s meant for Amazon Alexa or for a Sonos player. If it’s for Sonos, that text is then sent directly, and securely, over to the Sonos cloud to be turned into a command using our own codes. Finally, the Sonos intended command goes down to the system. Want to try it out? Here are [url=https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3514]some fun commands[/url] to try. I like starting with: “Alexa, play some salsa in the kitchen.”

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bahna002Contributor I
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Turntable and Echo Dot on Same Sonos 5

Hi, I have a second gen Play 5, 3rd gen amazon echo dot, and Project Carbon turntable. I currently have my turntable connected to the play 5 through the line in connection through the phono preamp associated with my turntable.  I would really like to have the echo dot connected to the play 5 as well as the turntable to make it a smart speaker.  I was wondering if this is possible with the turntable connected at the same time? If so, what would my options be?  I also have an era 100 and gen 1 move if that matters for options.  Thanks in advance for the help!  

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EmichonContributor I
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Alexa skills not working

Does anyone have issues with using Alexa skills through Sonos speakers? I have a few linked to my account (Neato for my vacuum & Delta for my kitchen tap as examples). If I ask an Alexa enabled Sonos to vacuum, it will tell me it's unable to find a device or group named Neato. But if I ask the same from an Amazon Echo it works as it should. Same thing for the Delta skill. It's been like this for as long as I can remember. Alexa does work on the Sonos speaker as I can ask it to pause, play music etc. 

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scottrucciContributor I
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Voice control

I have a number of sonos speakers and voice control works perfectly. However, I have a pair of non-sonos speakers in my living room (fed by a port in another part of the house) and I want to voice control the system from the living room. Is there a way to do this. I have an Amazon echo dot in the living room but I can’t get it to transmit voice commands to the Sonos system. If I could get that to work it would solve the problem. I don’t want to buy a sonos speaker just for the microphone/voice control. Is there any type of device that could “talk” to sonos? As it is I have to walk into another part of the house to get Sonos to respond.

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jsquanceAvid Contributor I
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Alexa not controling sonos speakers

Suddenly my Alexa devices are not controlling any of my sonos speakers.  I’ve done the standard resetting of my system, disabling and re-enabling the skill etc.  no luck.  

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David16DAAvid Contributor I
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Alexa Voice Assistant not quiet working.

I have added the Alexa Voice assistant to my Sonos speakers. when I ask it to play music, it will repeat back what I have asked in the confirmation reply but the music does not play. Has anyone else experienced the same or is able to suggest a remedy? 

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Col28Contributor I
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Sonos and Alexa

Alexa is enabled in my Sonos app but when I ask to turn TV on for example it says OK but nothing happens but if I ask when Alexa app is open it turns TV on.  Also when Alexa app is open I can turn light on but not from Sonos, it says can’t find device

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deeelockContributor I
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Unable to set Sonos Era 100 as Alexa-enabled device in room/group using Alexa app

Today I’ve upgraded my two Sonos Ones with Sonos Era 100s. After adding Alexa to the speakers, I tried to go into the Alexa app to associate them with their respective rooms. I’m able to add them as the room speaker, but I am unable to set them as the Alexa device for that room (allowing for room-specific commands like “Alexa, turn off the lights”, etc).What’s weird is my Era 100s will show up under the Echo & Alexa devices section in the Alexa app, but they do not show up under Alexa-enabled devices when editing a room/group (see attached screenshots).I’ve reached out to Alexa support and they were largely unhelpful, they claimed that from their resources Alexa isn’t supported on the Sonos Era 100 (maybe their documentation hasn’t been updated since this is a brand new product?). So they left the conversation there even after showing them that Sonos clearly states Alexa built-in support for the Era 100.Has anyone else experienced this issue? Seems like a bug in the Alexa app, and

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MattypsContributor I
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No volume from speaker in an Alexa group

In the last couple of months I’ve had a really annoying issue with a Play 3 speaker when using Alexa. I have an L shaped kitchen with a Sonos 1 and 1SL stereo pair (called Dining Room) and a Play 3 (Playroom). These speakers are in an Alexa group called Kitchen and until recently this setup worked well. A couple of months ago sound stopped playing from the Play 3 when requested via Alexa (Alexa play music in the kitchen), I can see the speakers are grouped in Sonos app and the app thinks it is playing, but sound can only be heard on the One / One SL pair. Removing and readding the play 3 doesn’t resolve.Playback is fine via the Sonos app and playing music from Alexa just to the Play 3 also works fine, issue is only present when playing in the group.  I’ve tried recreating the group in the Alexa app, resetting and renaming the Sonos speaker and nothing is fixing it. Has anyone else had this issue and know how to fix it?

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SanderLeContributor I
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Alexa Volume split

I just started with sonos ones (5x) coming from Alexa speakers.Immediately I hit this problem that the volume of alexa is the volume of sonos.That way alexa is unusable when the volume of the sonos is low. It is just impossible to hear the reply from Alexa.When music is playing round 2-6% alexa ls response is not hearable.Please can this be separately splitted?

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Max.belgiumContributor I
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Sonos skill not available due to geo restriction

Hi,I have sound system Symfonisk from Ikea and i cant link ot to Alexa. In the Alexa app Sonos does not appear at all in the list of available skills. I have spent hour with customer service from both Amazon and Sonos but nothing seems to be working.They even sent me a link directly to the skill but when I open it, it says that “skill not available due to geographical restrictions” (I am based in Belgium)Can someone please help me!? There must be a way to fix it and frankly I don’t know why it would not be possible in Belgium.I’ll add that already tried changing location to US on the device, Alexa and Amazong account.

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Sean6253Contributor I
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Alexa wont play music from Tune In

This has only started happening recently where I ask Alexa to play a certain radio station or stations from tune in and her prompt is “sorry I am having trouble playing the music “. I’ve updated Sonos and the app . I’ve reset my network setting . I’ve reset the speaker . I’ve updated  Amazon Alexa . Still not working . Not sure what else to do . 

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Corry P
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ChefRayBContributor I
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Sonos Enabling Voice Alexa Troubleshooting Once and for all ( including tools )

Greetings Sonos Tech Support,I feel I lost a few hours of my life troubleshooting sonos and this is making me want to sell all my sonos gear.  It shouldn’t be rocket science and Sonos should provide the tools or better GUI to understand where the problem relies because at the end we are using sonos to activate Alexa. I have over 15+ sonos devices, they are all connected to my router, they get allocated via DHCP ( I don’t want to reserve an ip address for each sonos devices), they have been working fine for over 7 years and all of a sudden nothing works. My problem is Alexa voice stopped working, i removed it and tried to re-add it and I get the “There was a problem adding Alexa”  I am at a point to consider install alexa puck in each room, not ideal but getting tired to troubleshooting for something that shouldn’t be too hard.  I don’t want to call sonos support, can you please share the tools to be self-serve, put a big disclosure for extremely advanced users.   Can you share the way

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mushroomhunterAvid Contributor I
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Can I use Amazon Alexa to play music on my Sonos speakers from YouTube Premium?

Works fine for Amazon music but I’d prefer YouTube so I can also get their videos. Is there any way around Amazon’s lack of support for using YouTube as a music source when asking Alexa to play certain music on Sonos? Thanks

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dynAdZContributor I
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Alexa volume issue since 12.1

Hi folks,I’m experiencing issues related to the volume of Alexa since the Sonos update to 12.1. I’m using a surround setup with one Sonos Beam and two Sonos Play:1 in my living room. Since a few years, the Alexa response volume was just static and not related to the music volume set by Sonos. This was a good thing because you could listen to music in very low volume while you could talk to Alexa and get a normal, relatively loud response.Since 12.1, the Alexa volume seems to be related to the overall speaker volume. Now when the volume is set maybe between 1-20%, it is just impossible for me to communicate with Alexa because her responses are extremely quiet. I can only start to understand her again when the volume slider is maybe at 25-30% or higher, but then of course the music is also proportional louder, which is not good.Is there any way to set the Alexa volume independent of the music volume?Thank you very much in advance.

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antny024Contributor I
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Alexa volume VERY low on Sonos Beam

When my Sonos Beam volume is set a comfortable level for watching tv and I ask Alexa a question, the volume of her response is too low. I am unable to hear the answer.  If I raise the volume of the Fire Cube it doesn’t change the volume on the Beam. If I raise the volume of the Beam I can hear her response, BUT the volume is WAY too loud to watch tv.. 

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tdellaringaContributor I
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How to have Alexa only play on 1 speaker

I just factory reset my two Sonos 1 speakers. I installed Alexa on one of them, and Sonos voice control on the other. For the one with Sonos voice control, I don’t want it to play Alexa music when the other speaker is doing so - but they always both seem to play the music when Alexa is triggered, even though she is not on the second speaker.When I go into the app and look at that speaker, Alexa is not installed as a voice control, only Sonos is. Yet it still plays. How can I fix this?

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haumanosContributor I
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Alexa

Alexa does not appear to be working through my system. (Beam). How to reset?

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Corry P
23 days ago
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vandintContributor II
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Getting Alexa to play the specified group

I have groups setup in Alexa per the instructions. Currently though it seems like it just plays to whatever speaker or group was last controlled instead of the specified group. Alexa says it is saying what I said to do, but doesn’t actually play to the expanded or reduced set of speakers, just changes what some speaker/group is playing. My understanding is that regrouping speakers isn’t supported with Alexa, but that playing TO a group is supposed to be.   

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Greg1903Contributor I
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spotify, Alexa and Sonos

My Sonos system has started having issues when playing Spotify through Alexa. My phone will play via Alexa ad my sonos system will play Spotify when I manually play it. To make it worse one speaker seems to be worse than the other.I get the response "I'm sorry I'm having difficulty with that music.". This is an Alexa response.

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Ken_Griffiths
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dr1818Avid Contributor I
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Troubleshoot 3rd party file server/Alexa skill issue

I'm using a third party music service in which I use an Alexa skill to control. Third party music service is serving up files for my file server. After a while, the music always stops. This doesn't happen to  streaming services. At this point, support for that service has run out of things to check.  Any ideas where to start?  Ping looks fine and I've got plenty of bandwidth. Ipconfig on the speaker, does show dropped packets.Using a Roam on 5gHz wifi.

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Ken_Griffiths
27 days ago
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FBC2Contributor I
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alexa not seeing one speaker

I have 6 Sonos speakers (mostly one’s) and Alexa is seeing all but one of them. Help!  

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Corry P
27 days ago
Rik Parkinson
Rik ParkinsonContributor I
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SONOS ONE - Amazon Smart Plug

Hi EveryoneI have Alexa enabled on my SONOS One to control Spotify.I have just purchased an Amazon Smart Plug, with the intention to control the plug via the SONOS One. From reading the forums it seems I need to enable a skill within the Alexa app, but which skill is it? Or is this wrong, and do I need to do something else? OneThanks :) 🙏

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UKMedia
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SpicyMackerel16Contributor I
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Error setting up all of the Voice Services - Sonos One

Getting an error when setting up any of the three voice assistants in the Sonos app. More details below:I’ve used Sonos One and Alexa since 2019 with very little issue I’m using the same router too, however in the last couple of weeks Amazon Alexa has sporadically lost connection and required setting up again. This has typically only taken a few minutes and it goes back to normal for a few days. However, this happened again and went to set up Alexa up via the prompts on the Sonos app however I’m get an error now and get the same error when trying to set up any of the three voice assistants, Alexa, Google and SVC. I’ve done a factory reset, rebooted router, checked for duplicate IP addresses, signed out of all Amazon accounts on my mobile device, removed skill, deregistered devices and gone through set up multiple times but still no luck with any of the voice assistants. I click on Amazon Alexa set up, it says Getting Amazon Alexa ready...then seems to time out and says There was a prob

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cyhefeContributor I
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Alexa announcements and routines

Alexa announcements generated from Alexa routines do not work on my Sonos One (2nd Gen). Although, announcements do work from voice activated commands.Announcement through routines also seem to work fine on Beam and Arc, it's just my Ones that it does not work. Confirmed the Ones have alexa setup properly.This was a previous tropic, but that topic was closed, and no resolutions were provided. So, I’m re-opening this issue. The last one got a response that it would be investigated, but I could not find any additional follow up.Alexa announcements not working from routines | Sonos CommunityThanks for your help!  

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