I have the Play One with Alexa which works amazing. I also have an Echo Dot in another room that works beautifully with my Sonos system. The only slightly annoying thing is that I have to tell my Echo Dot "Play Rock in the Living room". If I don't specifically say "in the living room" the dot plays the music (which is technically correct). Does anyone know if there is a way to change the default player/speaker so that I no longer have to specifically say the location of the speakers I want to use? In other words I would just say "Play Rock" and my Sonos speakers would kick on.
I can't seem to find anything specific to this question while searching the Alexa forums.
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Echo Dot - Sonos as Default speakers
Best answer by UKMedia
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Nope, this is the difference between a Sonos One vs a Play:1 + Echo Dot combination. If you think about it, this is the logical way for Alexa to work; you are asking Alexa>Smart Home>Device 1(Echo Dot) to output music on Alexa>Smart Home>Device 2(Sonos Player)
This all may change when/if Sonos supports Alexa Groups but there is no time frame for this at present.
Nope, this is the difference between a Sonos One vs a Play:1 + Echo Dot combination. If you think about it, this is the logical way for Alexa to work; you are asking Alexa>Smart Home>Device 1(Echo Dot) to output music on Alexa>Smart Home>Device 2(Sonos Player)
This all may change when/if Sonos supports Alexa Groups but there is no time frame for this at present.
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It does for several weeks now. Add the Play:5s within 'Kitchen Sonos' as 'Preferred Speakers'.
When you say Set the Speaker, do you Preferred Speaker or did you only include the Kitchen within the Group? (They must be set as 'Preferred Speaker'. If it still doesn't work, please Disable then Enable the Sonos skill in the Alexa App.
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