Alexa routines work fine to play music from one Sonos speaker or let Alexa say things like the time on a given speaker. But I cannot get this to work multi-room. The Alexa announcement feature is meant to let Alexa say something on all speakers, and it indeed works across Sonos and Echo Dot when activated by voice command – but not if I activate an announcement through an Alexa routine (although I can select Sonos and Amazon devices here).
Has anyone been able to make this work?
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Thank you Simon
It is quite odd and very inconsistent that the announcements feature does work in a multi-room type fashion, i.e. on all speakers across Echo and Sonos at the same time, when I activate the announcement feature by voice, but that it is not possible to activate that same feature from within an Alexa routine.
There may be all sorts of complex engineering reasons for this, but ultimately, for me as a consumer, it should “just work” and “if you start the feature this way, it works, but if you start the same feature that way, it won’t work” is just bad customer experience.
Never mind.
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