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ARC (when playing TV via ARC) goes quiet for ~15 seconds after Alexa command.

  • 10 December 2022
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I have disabled followup on my Echo (Devices->Echo and Alexa->Living Room Echo->GEAR->Follow-up Mode - OFF.

Where is “Arc Alexa component” to be found?  My ARC has no voice assistant defined at this time so the ARC shows up in Alexa as a Speaker connected Via Sonos with no GEAR.

Ah yes, didn’t you uninstall that component?

Whilst it’s not installed you cannot add it to the first section controlling area of the Alexa enabled group - it’s a component that is usually embedded inside the speaker room name in the device list - give me a minute and I will see if I can create an animation to post here to show you precisely what you should see… i may need to edit things though to hide my address etc. 

So my Arc is called ‘Living Room’ and in the animation it’s shown with a green arrow in the Alexa device list - if I select it, it then shows the Alexa component (embedded) called ‘Sonos Living Room Alexa’ (the name I assigned to it) so that’s where you will see the follow-up mode as ‘off’ for that device, but it needs the assistant in place to put the Arc - Living Room - into the controlling section of the Alexa ‘enabled’ Group. Hope that makes sense and that the ‘rough & ready’ animation attached is self explanatory.

@yossie,
You can perhaps refer back to my much earlier post to see where ‘Living Room’ (Arc) is placed in the controlling area of the Alexa Group (screenshot).

In my use-case, the Arc just ‘ducks’ the playing audio the same as the echo device, to hear the user voice instruction and then the TV audio returns immediately with little, or no, delay - there’s no 15s delay and it certainly does not stay ducked any longer than the echo dot in my setup.

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So my Arc is called ‘Living Room’ and in the animation it’s shown with a green arrow in the Alexa device list.

Meaning that you have Alexa voice assistant installed on the ARC.  I don’t.  I am trying to use it as a speaker only.  I will keep on trying..

So my Arc is called ‘Living Room’ and in the animation it’s shown with a green arrow in the Alexa device list.

Meaning that you have Alexa voice assistant installed on the ARC.  I don’t.  I am trying to use it as a speaker only.  I will keep on trying..

You ‘might’ have to disable the speaker in the Alexa App to achieve the non-ducking outcome in that case, but anyhow hope you manage to sort it.👍