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How do I make what's playing the kitchen also play in the living room using Alexa commands

  • December 2, 2020
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If I am playing music in my kitchen on my Sonos One and then walk into the living room, how do I ask Alexa to start playing the same music in the living room on my Sonos Beam. I know I can press and hold the play/pause touch button, but I want to ask Aexa to do this for me.

  • Option 1 is I want the music to stop in the kitchen and play in the living room
  • Option 2 is I want the music to continue playing in the kitchen but also play in the living room.

I have groups set up in the Alexa app:

  • Group 1 called Kitchen
  • Group 2 called Living room
  • Group 3 called downstairs which is Kitchen group + Living room group

Any help?

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jgatie
  • jgatie
  • December 2, 2020

Unfortunately, Alexa cannot group/ungroup on the fly.  This is one of the limitations in the Alexa interface.

melvimbe
  • melvimbe
  • December 2, 2020

Amazon doesn’t like you using voice commands to do things on Sonos that you can’t do with their echo devices.

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  • boogey
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  • December 4, 2020

Adding speakers isn’t possible, but moving and removing is. I do this so, that I tell alex to “play music in the <group name with relevant speakers” (I have fore example group “all sonos speakers”), which causes the music being played to play in all speakers of this group. Then I tell, if I need to, alexa to stop playing in some rooms: “alexa stop music in the bedroom”. 

This method works surprisingly well. I have trouble most in starting the music as I have to tell Alexa to play twice if it isn’t already playing music.

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