Amazon Alexa and Sonos

Hey folks,Simple question. I have two Sonos Ones and one Sonos One SL, and one Play:1 in my house.  I have the Ones set up with Alexa. I have them grouped together in Sonos and in the Alexa app (under the group name “All Speakers”), and all I want is to control the volume of the entire group with a voice command instead of doing them all one by one.  If I say “Alexa Volume 3” it just changes the volume of the speaker I’m talking to only, and if I say “Alexa All speakers volume 3” it just changes only the volume of whichever speaker is on the top of the order in the Sonos app, leaving all the other ones unchanged in both scenarios.  This is driving me nuts. I factory reset all my speakers, reconnected them to my system, reconnected it all to Alexa, set up all the groups, and no change in behavior.  I tried using this new handy Zones feature but my play:1 is too old to be zoned. I am at an impasse. Thinking of just getting rid of my whole system and buying Alexa Studios just so I can cha

I’m trying to connect my four-year old echo dot to my Sonos speakers and am having a lot of trouble. Would it help to buy a newer echo dot?

I have been trying to setup my SONOS ONE SL with Alexa skills (yes I know it doesn’t have a microphone) but both my echo dot 1 and echo dot latest gen have mics so I can give commands from them. Problem is I have disabled and deleted the skill and try to re-enable but whatever I do it doesn’t work and Alexa doesn’t seem to be able to find the device although the Sonos app is working normally. 

Hello,could you please help me solve these character issues with Alexa. I can rename it but description still with special character error.what’s wrong and what is this device.Even if it’s disable I can control TV !!thanks  

Hello Sonos community! I need some help with something that has stopped working. I have many Sonos products in my house and make use of the integration with Alexa. I have a problem with two Echo Dots that has started in the last couple of weeks.A have an Echo Dot in each of my kids rooms and have them configured to always play music to a speaker in the same room ("group" in Alexa verbiage). In each case that's a Sonos Amp. For the last 4 or 5 **years** this has worked pretty flawlessly, enabling my kids to talk to their Echo Dot and say "play XYZ", to which Alexa will reply "shuffling songs by XYZ on Amazon Music, PLAYING ON SONOS" and the music starts playing out of their ceiling-mounted speakers via the Sonos Amp in their respective bedrooms.In recent weeks however, Alexa instead replies with the following: "shuffling songs by XYZ on Amazon Music, playing on Sonos. Sorry ON SONOS is offline" - and the music won't play at all.I've tried a bunch of things to resolve this: resetting the

Alexa will speak but will not connect or play  ANY music

I have the following setup:Sonos One speaker pair in the kitchenSonos Move, based in the home officeSonos beam in the loungeAlexa app on iPad and iPhoneIf I setup up a group, let's say Kitchen, in the Alexa app  to include the Sonos One pair and the Move then ask Alexa to play something on Kitchen only the Move will play anything.If I ask without specifying the group then the first speaker will play but any additional speakers I ask will start in a paused state.I've had people look and any resolution is only temporary. Any advice on how I should proceed?

Suddenly won’t play music from Apple Music?I have reset the Sonos, cleared it from Alexa app and re-added it, but no joy?I can see when looking on the Sonos app it moves from song to song trying to play but fails? is there anything else I can do?other services like playing BBC radio stations are ok I should add.thanks in advance 

Buenas tardes, tengo un sonos roam y al momento de pedirle mediante el asistente de voz Alexa, responde mi petición de reproducir alguna canción,  pero al momento de reproducir me dice que el parlante esta fuera de línea, ayuda por favor! 

Hi, I’ve moved my Arc Ultra from my flat to my girlfriend’s house and set it up there. It’s connected to her WiFi, all skills set up on the Alexa app and plays Spotify or radio through the Sonos app. The Samsung TV plays perfectly through it, my problem is when I give voice commands to Alexa, it confirms the command, then Tells me that device is offine….if anyone can help I’d be most grateful.  Alexa worked perfectly when I had the Arc set up at my flat, before I moved it to hers, and set up a new system there…….

When I ask Alexa to play a song it says that device is offline but I can play songs using the Spotify app

Cannot get Alexa to play music on my Arc Ultra via voice command 

Hi I have recently updated my wifi router and have since came up with issues regarding my sonos playing. I have updated all my speakers and my WiFi is connected to the speakers but if I ask Alexa to play the radio or play my amazon music or a song Alexander announces it is going to play but nothing ever plays. Everything works as normal if I play through the app egg Spotify it will come out the speaker then but I am having issues regarding them playing anything when asking it to do so. Can any1 help please

I’ve recently enabled Alexa on my Era 300s, with a view to replacing an existing Echo Show in the same room. I followed all the instructions for adding the skill and the voice service in the Sonos and Alexa apps, but I’m now getting a weird issue.Each time I ask Alexa to do something (change a light colour, close smart blinds, trigger a routine) it says it can’t find the device or routine - but then it does what I’ve asked it to do.Anyone who’s had a bit more experience with this type of integration able to suggest what might be the cause & solution? I’ve seen a few posts about the exact opposite (Alexa saying it’s done something without actually doing it).

Does the Era 100 have Alexa built in ? I’d like to have one in my kitchen for music but also use it for setting timers and reminders ? I can’t seem to find a definitive answer, thank you 

Since yesterday!?, the alexa voice assistant on the sonos device is louder.Even with the sonos volume set to 1, alexa announces loudly.The music volume can be changed as before from the app or alexa.This has occurred on several of my sonos devices and not on the amazon device.Also, this event is not cured by unlinking or signing out/in between sonos and amazon.Is there a solution?Am I the only one experiencing this?

Purchased Sonos One speaker 3 years ago, using Alexa voice control, connecting to Pandora.  Everything worked perfectly until 3 weeks ago.  Now, “Hey Alexa, play Thumbprint Radio on Pandora”.  Alexa repeats my request “Now playing Thumbrpint Radio on Pandora”, and then follows up immediately with “What would you like to play next”.  NO MUSIC!  If I unplug the Sonos speaker, then plug it back in, it will work for the rest of the day, but then not connect to Pandora the next day, unless I unplug the Sonos speaker again.  Another work around is “Hey Alexa, play 70s Hits on Spotify” and Sonos begins playing that station (or any other station).  And then I say “Hey Alexa, cancel music”, she cancels Spotify.  THEN, if I say “Hey Alexa, play Thumbprint Radio on Pandora”, she will play the music!  I’ve had 7 (Seven) calls in to Sonos Tech Support and they cannot figure out the problem.  I’ve gone through ALL necessary steps (disabling SKILLS, enabling SKILLS, removing Pandora app, re-downloadi

I can no longer control my Sonos system through alexa and i’m tearing my hair out. Note, i’m referring to control via an echo device linked via an alexa skill, not adding a voice controller directly to a speaker.I request a song, alexa states the name of the song, and the zone where i’ve requested it to play, but followed immediately by “hmm, I’m having trouble playing that right now”.I have been through the following steps multiple times based off reading people who have had similar, if not identical problems, but it has not resolved my issue.Disable Alexa Skill De-register all Sonos devices from my Amazon.co.uk account (4 zones in total) I’ve tried this via the Amazon web UI and directly through the Alexa app Remove any voice controllers configured directly onto a speaker (in my case, removing alexa from 1 Sonos Move) Delete the devices from Alexa following the de-registration - did this only on my 3rd and final attempt to sort this Log out of all amazon.co.uk accounts, and alexa ap

Hi I have a dilemma with the Alexa announcements not working on all my Sonos One devices. I have 3 Sonos Ones all on the same network, all with the same firmware version. all configured the same but 2 work perfectly and one refuses to make announcements from Alexa routines. Everything else works perfectly on all 3. The only difference between the devices is colour, the 2 that work correctly are both white whereas the rogue device is black. Any clues would be appreciated. 

I have tried to play my Audiobooks using the Alexa voice command on my Sonos Roam, but even though I have a Spotify premium account with access to Audiobooks it says that I need to purchase the title through Audible. I even specify Spotify Audiobooks when asking for the title, but it keeps giving the same response. Is this deliberate?

Until recently I regularly used my Amazon Echo Dot (Alexa device) to start playing music from Apple Music on my Sonos speakers using the Alexa Sonos skill. Recently it stopped working--either nothing plays or Alexa gives some “I can’t do that” error. If I have the Sonos app open on my phone while this failure is happening, I can tell my request to Alexa has succeeded in part because I see a stream of messages like this in the app:In the Sonos app I can search for something and pick a match from Apple Music and successfully play the matching track. All of this implies to me that there’s neither a networking problem nor a problem with my Sonos system’s connection to Apple Music. (I did the “reauthorize” operation just in case; it didn’t help.)Any ideas?

In the lounge I have an Amazon Echo speaker and a Play One SL. For the last few years I have been able to ask Alexa to Play Apple Music and it would play over Sonus. Two days ago is started having trouble and displayed a message in the Sonos App “The connection to play.iTunes.apple.com was lost” I can use the Alexa voice command on the Echo speaker to play Apple Music on the Echo speaker so the Apple Music Skill is connected correctly. I can use the Sonos app on a mobile device to play Apple Music and I can then use Alexa commands on the Sonos speaker to skip tracks. I can use Alexa voice commands on Sonos to ask for time, weather, control lamps and TV. If I change to the Sonos voice assistant commands I CAN play Apple Music using voice commands. The only combination that does not work is using Alexa voice commands and asking to play Apple Music on Sonos. I CAN use Alexa voice commands to play streaming radio. To date I have:Followed the advice on the Sonos help pages by Disabling and

I have sonos throughout my home and sonos amps connected to non sonos speakers. When I send an alexa announcement it goes to my sonos devices and alexa devices like echo show...my ecobee thermostats.....  but is there anyway to get it to announce to in built home speakers , I have 12... connected to all my sonos amps? Even if I need a pass through device? I hate that it doesn't go to all my rooms... you would think sonos would somehow enable this....

My go to voice assistant for Sonos is Alexa Voice control. That said I’ve been playing with Alexa Plus * and here are my impressions thus far.  As advertised It will accept multiple (or string commands). However, contrary to Amazon promotion, IMO they must be spoken deliberately and not too fast. Here’s an example:Turn on TV, kitchen and bedroomThe first command was my Sonos Room with Arc Ultra home theater setup. The second and third were smart lights. I can also ask Alexa Plus to play music in any of my Sonos rooms.  Such as:Echo play Sirius XM Watercolors on FireplaceHowever, I have not been able to incorporate such a command as part of a string. I’ve tried starting the string command with the request to play music in the beginning and at the end; to no avail.I’m not going to be using my Alexa branded devices to initiate multiple commands on a regular basis; if at all.  My needs as far as voice assistances are concerned are simple. The only time that I might find Alexa Plus convenie

Can I have the preferred speaker for my Sonos smart edge be the Sonos Amp similar to how an Amazon echo can have its preferred speaker be the echo link amp?