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Alexa and BBC

  • 17 October 2019
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Until recently Alexa would play BBC Radio 4 and 6 music on request.  Now when I ask for radio 4, it plays an American station.  When I ask for Radio 6 Music, it selects various BBC stations, but not the one I want.  I’ve tried many permutations for the request.  I see some comments online about Alexa not working with BBC sounds and no longer working with TuneIn, but my Alexa does play BBC radio stations, just not the ones I request!

 

Many thanks in advance,

Andy

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Best answer by UKMedia 18 October 2019, 11:47

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UKMedia
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Hi Andy

 

The BBC has decided to remove all BBC radio stations from Tunein via Alexa.  It’s possible to use the App or use IFFFT. Just carry out these actions:

 

1/ Open the Sonos App and search for BBC Radio 2 under the Stations tab;

2/ Select the three verticle dots and add to ‘My Radio Stations’;

3/ Open a web browser and search for IFFFT;

4/ Create an account or log in and search for Sonos;

5/ Add the Trigger ‘Play a favorite with Amazon Alexa’

6/ Follow the instructions and link to your Sonos Account and select Radio Two with the Phrase that you think is memorable - e.g. ‘Radio 2’;

7/ Save this and then ask ‘Alexa, Trigger Radio 2’

Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
A

Many thanks for the advise, that works, but: I can only add one trigger.  I cannot find a way to have a trigger for radio 4 and another for radio 6.  I can’t believe this is correct, but I’ve looked and looked, but cannot see an option to add a second trigger.  Is this correct?

J

No it is wrong! You need a separate applet for every station. And for every speaker-ststion combination if you have seversl speakers you want to play through.

UKMedia
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Let us know if you want step by step instructions on how to do a second trigger.

Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
A

Thanks for the offer for the instructions, please do send them.  I try to add the “ Play a favorite with Amazon Alexa “ trigger a second time and this takes me to my first trigger, which I can edit, but I cannot see any way to add a second one.

 

Many thanks

UKMedia
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No probs, you just need to create a new Trigger via the wizard rather than select an Applet already created. :)

1/ Log in to IFTTT and then click on your profile picture and select ‘Create’;

2/ Click on the ‘+’ symbol in the phrase, select ‘Amazon Alexa’ and then select ‘Say a specific phrase’;

3/ Type in your preferred phrase for Alexa to respond to. e.g. ‘play radio 4’;

4/ Click on the newly located ‘+’ symbol and select ‘Sonos’

5/ Select ‘Play Favorite’ and then complete the action fields for the station and the rooms that you want the Audio to output on, followed by ‘Create Action.

6/ Alexa will then respond to ‘Alexa Trigger Play Radio 4’

Just repeat these steps for any other combination of stations and rooms.

Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
A

Great, that did it. 

 

Many thanks

Andy

J

Thanks for this. Just searched for how to do this in IFTTT after the BBC TuneIn change stopped my Echo using a Sonos as a default speaker. All working :thumbsup_tone1:

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