Amazon Alexa and Sonos

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Alexa and Sonos Megathread

Since the first introduction in October 2017, we've been hard at work with the Amazon Alexa team to improve the Sonos skill and Alexa-enable...
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Resolving (the majority of) Issues with Alexa on Sonos

This thread is intended to help get you going if you get stuck setting up Alexa with Sonos, or if you have run into any errors. The setup pr...
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Alexa + Sonos: How it Works

So you’ve read all about Amazon Alexa working with Sonos and you want to know more. Here’s a rundown of how the integration works. Your A...
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StackContributor II
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Will Sonos make use of the Play 5 mics?

I have the 2nd generation play 5 which from what i understand has 2 small mics built it that are deactivated. I'm excited about the newly announced Alexa built Sonos One but what about the Play 5 (2nd gen)? It already has 2 mics built in so i thought play 5 was the perfect candidate for voice activation.

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jgatie
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ulischultzContributor I
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Alexa and Sonos setup sucessfully but not playing music

I setup the new alexa skill for sonos and alexa understands my commands correctly. I replys correctly, that the e.g. tunein program is played on a specific sonos device. However, the music just does not play. Also if I speak a command to stop playing music on a sonos device, it just does not stop it.

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QuartyContributor I
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Default Playback device

Right now it appears that if you don't specify a playback device the music will just play on my echo dot. I'd like to instead have it default to 'play in the living room' without having to specify a room. Is this possible? I can't find it. I only have one echo dot to try this out (waited a year haha) and I'd like to get one for each room I have a Sonos in and have each echo dot default to controling the Sonos room its in.

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5 years ago
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John_432Contributor I
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Petition to Add Local Library Playback to Alexa/Sonos Voice Control

Let's let Sonos know we would like this feature added. We've all spent years cultivating music we own, and we'd like to listen to it using the new voice control feature that Alexa has added. Thanks!

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angelr91Avid Contributor I
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Grouping Alexa Echo Speakers with Sonos speakers

First of all this is not a request to support grouping sonos with sonos speakers for particular rooms, rather this is a request or an inquiry to find out if there are any plans (or rather that there should be plans) to support "grouping" of Alexa Echo Speakers with Sonos Speakers. In my opinion, if the desire is to be truely agnostic of AI (Alexa, Google Home, Siri, etc.) then supporting other speakers (third parties or by Amazon, Google, or Apple) in unison is a must. If i am sonos owner it is obvious i want to use more sonos products together because they are truly sound (no pun intended) and quality speakers, however if I want an AI in my house (alexa for instance) i want it to be supported everywhere even if i invested in an Alexa Echo Plus (for instance). If you only allow to have Alexa control sonos and all Echo Speakers or other third party speakers are blocked away then you are seriously limiting the user as they will not be able to benefit from let's say buying an E

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6 years ago
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makoListener
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Apple Music Support?

Saw the support list on: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/5/16431688/sonos-speaker-alexa-voice-commands-how-to-setup ... Any chance Apple Music via Echo coming any time soon?

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6 years ago
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KySonosListener
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Alexa volume control

Alexa says she doesn't have the function to control my volume.

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6 years ago
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joshioContributor I
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Grouping Sonos with Alexa Echo

Can I play a Pandora station on both the Echo and my Sonos Play:3 simultaneously so it's essentially having two connected speakers?

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jgatie
6 years ago
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OlstarContributor I
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Stops after one song

Updated my Play 5 and link to Alexa dot but will only play one song, even after forgetting all devices, still only one song?

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5 years ago
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amarchantContributor I
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Forget a Sonos device on the Alexa app

How do get the Alexa app to permanently forget a device. One echo is hardwired to the sonos connect amp but it keeps rediscovering it.

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FrankRContributor I
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Music Quality

Is the music quality the same when requesting music through an Amazon Echo to Sonos as it is playing directly from the Sonos App? I assume that the Echo simply passes off the instruction and gets out of the way when the Sonos speakers start playing. The sound seems the same but ive only tried for a few minutes. (It's pretty cool!)

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falco_rocks922Trending Lyricist I
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Sonos one outside fully alexa supported countries

I own an echo dot and I live in the netherlands. It works perfectly well. The only workaround is I have to tell it I live in the UK. I use it in english set to united states, just to be clear. I can set all these things through the alexa app. If I get a sonos one, will it actually work in the netherlands? I really want this product, and the limitation is silly to say the least. When I try to preorder one it says: --------- Voice control for Sonos is not supported in your country, yet. These features will be available when Sonos and a voice service launch together in your region. Amazon Alexa support for Sonos One is available in: Austria Germany United Kingdom United States ---------- Can somebody from Sonos reply to this simple question: - will I be able to simply change the country setting and have it work perfectly, like I do now with my amazon echo dot?

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Dfenes
6 years ago
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BadnewsContributor I
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Alexa app not discovering any sonos speakers

Trying to integrate my 4 sonos speakers with my alexa app and its just not working. I search for devices as instructed and my nest heating is appearing as are my hue bulbs but no sign of sonos. I have updated both the sonos and alexa apps. Anyone any thoughts?

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Edward R
4 years ago
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mlsredContributor II
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Alexa voice control - for one night only

Set up the new Alexa/Sonos intergration app last night (UK) worked fine last night but no longer works this evening. The Alexa app can see all my Sonos speakers and if I ask Alexa to play some music on one of the speakers she says that she play selected music on selected speaker then nothing plays. Back to the Sonos app.

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6 years ago
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Echo Plus integration - smart home automation

I had a thought regarding how the sonos integration may factor into the Echo Plus. The Plus is supposed to boast to have a smart home hub built in, so you don't have to have a separate phillips hub (for example) as well. There hasn't been much said but it's supposed to boast Alexa features built in to your smart home scenes. In other words you can script commands to turn on a light AND play a radio station, for example. I would assume then, since Alexa now has a lot of control over sonos, that a sonos zone can be included in these smart home scripts. Is there any confirmation on that? BTW, I know that you can do this with other third party hubs already, just seems like it might be more integrated with the Alexa smart home since Alexa is more aware of the 'state' of the sonos zones. Also, I've heard little about the Echo Plus capabilities. Not much on supported devices, scheduling capabilities, or any conditional logic.

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divaesqContributor III
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Alexa/Audible and Sonos?

Just got the new Alexa integration working but where are the Audible Audiobooks???!!! This is my number one use case and been waiting for two years since Sonos broke the previous integration. Come on people!

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Chris
6 years ago
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235caContributor I
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Is Alexa-Sonos anything more than just a stupid skill?

Alexa is a big ecosystem. It isn't just music. It isn't even mostly music. So is it seriously the case that I can't use my Dot to hear my commands (shopping, weather, podcasts, news, grocery list, translation, etc.), and hear Alexa's voice respond to me through my Sonos speakers? So this much ballyhooed integration is just. . . cueing music from time to time? This is truly pathetic if so. I hope someone can enlighten me.

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5 years ago
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davisonlineContributor I
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Sync Sonos speakers and Alexa

I have successfully hooked up Sonos and Alexa - I can control the speakers via Alexa. Awesome. Now, how can I sync them so the same song plays from Sonos and Alexa? Possible?

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6 years ago
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cm100Avid Contributor I
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Best way to get notified when Sonos One and Alexa will work in my country?

Here: "Sonos unveils smart speaker with support for multiple voice services" http://press-us.sonos.com/159680-sonos-unveils-smart-speaker-with-support-for-multiple-voice-services It says US, UK & Germany will get Alexa working on Sonos One first to ask what the weather will be tomorrow. I live in Sweden though, so if I buy a Sonos One today I can only use it as a Play:1. Whats the best way to get notified when other countries (such as Sweden) will get a working Alexa on a Sonos One?

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jgatie
6 years ago
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dingcuppieEnthusiast I
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List of Alexa Commands

Is there a list of Echo commands that we can use now? It would be nice if ALL of the Amazon Echo Skill’s designer would make these lists and keep them current.

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rubberduckRenowned Enthusiast I
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Alexa and voice control excuse to be forced into paying for renting music?

It seems to me the wholealexa integration has been deliberately compromised to ensure the full feature set works only with streaming services and not with any purchased or owned media storage. What is sonos plan here? I did not purchase sonos to only be able to use Alexa for digital steaming services. It is already documented that amateur code has been out there before sonos spent nearly a year developing this version that has a far greater feature set than current. Including being able to use Alexa with local media. Why are sonos not making this feature available?

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Chris
6 years ago
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cahAvid Contributor I
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Solution to using Sonos, Alexa and Smart Bulbs in a Room all with the same name

As has been noted, there are issues when you have Sonos speakers with the same name as either your Echo devices, or other smart devices - essentially Alexa doesn't seem to understand where/how to route the query. However ... If you create a [b]Device Group[/b] in Alexa called, for example "Office" You add your smart bulb called "Office" to that Device Group You have your Sonos speaker(s) in that room called "Office" And you have your Alexa named something differend "Office Alexa", for example Then it appears that Alexa can correctly route your requests. "Alexa, Turn the office light on" works "Alexa, Play Katy Perry in the office" works - and so on. It doesn't seem the 'official' way, which is to name everything differently, but I've been running with this setup throughout the Beta without issues; initially by mistake, and then intentionally as I found it solved my issues. One final note, you may need to remove or rename your smart devices to create the Device Gro

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tcaiazzaContributor I
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Sonos Play 1 as default Amazon Echo speaker?

I would like my Sonos Play 1 to be the default speaker for my Amazon Echo but so far, yesterday's update only allows me to play music on the Sonos through voice commands. Have I missed a setting or is this not a feature?

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jctkContributor I
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Alexa and Music Library

Does the new Alexa functionality permit playing music from my music library or is it limited to specific streaming services? What if I am playing music from my music library and I just want to pause the music or change the volume?

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chrisagerContributor I
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Unable to play whole album

Have recently set up Alexa with Sonos and it works OK, but if I ask Alexa to play an album (play album name, by band and where I want it played), it just plays (queues) the first song in the Album. None of the other songs in the album appear in the queue on the Sonos app. Do I need to word the question to Alexa in another format?

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