Amazon Alexa and Sonos

Can sonos one or SL be used as wifi speaker in amazon echo dot?Devices: amazon echo dotsonos oneProblem: Want to use alexa in Hindi on sonos which is not supported,sonos skill is not available on alexa app in my country  Want to know/ possible solution  : if i can use sonos as a wifi speaker for my echo dot , if yes then probably it makes sense for me to purchase sonos 

I have an Arc, Sub and two OneSLs connected to a Samsung The Frame (2019) and with the TV off, when I ask Alexa “play BBC Radio2” she responds “here’s BBC sounds, here’s Radio2” but then nothing comes out of the Sonos system.I can connect to the BBC Sounds app through the TV, but then the screen has to be on - which I was trying to avoid.Any advice welcomed, thank you

I just triggered an Alexa routine on my Move that ends in an audio response. Up until now I always got the “audio actions and routines are currently not supported on this device” message, whether Alexa decided to respond as programmed or not. But today, she didn’t argue with me at all. She just very pleasantly responded like she was speaking through an Amazon Echo device. I tried it on my Beam. Same thing. And on my Sonos Ones as well.Am I losing my mind or has the Alexa integration on Sonos devices gotten a big improvement or something? Does anyone know if there are other things she’ll do on my speakers that she wouldn’t before? 

I just put a Sonos Beam in our living room. We currently have an Echo in the kitchen. Problem is, we sometimes get a response from the wrong Amazon device… i.e. Echo responds to command for the Beam and vice versa. Suggested workarounds for this?

I estimate my Sonos One forgets Alexa every other day. De-registering everything and having to set up Amazon etc all over again every time is driving me mad, especially in lockdown when I am at home all day and my Sonos One is in the room where I work and I rely it for all sorts of things. Surely this is not normal? Anyone else experienced anything as frustrating?

Has anyone worked out how to group Sonos One and Amazon Alexa together in the same speaker group ?So that they all play the same music perfectly synced together. When i have tried it’s either the sonos or the alexa that can be selected , never both.Many Thanks

Beam was working fine with Alexa. About a couple of months ago Alexa volume decreased to 25% of the regular TV volume. The only way to hear Alexa’s replies is to manually increase the TV volume. This seems to be a ongoing issue. Is there a solution to this problem on the horizon?

I have a Sonos Beam setup in surround sound with a Sonos One and a Sonos SL. Right now, when communicating with Alexa, everything is coming out of the Beam.  Is it possible to set Alexa to come from the Sonos One instead? It’s more central in the room and would be a much better experience.  The other issue is that the Alexa coming out of the beam is SO QUITE. Regardless of the volume of the music coming out of the Beam.  Any ideas?

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It takes at least 7 seconds for Alexa to be ready for another command after one is processed on my Sonos One speaker.  Regular Alexa speakers have just 1 or 2 second lag times.  Why can’t Sonos have the same, lower, lag time between command execution and readiness for a new one?

Love the new sonos one i bought about a month ago except that it keeps disconnecting from alexa and requiring me to go into app and remove alexa and reinstall.  i have read this is a know bug and would like to know if anyone here has a fix.

Hello! I have several Echo Dots and several Sonos Ones throughout my home.  Recently (perhaps coinciding with my update to S2), when I say, “Alexa” in a room with an Echo Dot, a Sonos One in a different room responds, which of course I can barely hear.  Is there a way to choose a primary device for responding if multiple devices hear the wake word or to adjust the sensitivity of listening for the wake word per device? This used to work perfectly but now if I don't whisper to my Dots, the Ones always respond. Thanks!

Please be aware - Amazon have changed the Group settings and “Preferred Speakers” are no more.   Using an Alexa Device Group to get over the BBC dropping TuneIn problem can still work though. Create your Device Group and put your Sonos speaker(s) and the local Alexa device into it.  Ensure the Sonos speaker(s) are set as the “Speakers” for the group.BE SURE TO SCROLL RIGHT DOWN THE SPEAKER LIST to find the “Playback Options”.Chose “Change” and select “Always” Job Done. 

I have an Alexa routine that turns off all my lights, televisions, plugs etc.. on my way out the door with “Alexa, I’m leaving” voice command.   No other device has an issue but Sonos. I can’t seem to figure out how to simply add a stop music command in a routine. Yes there is a stop music command with my echo speakers but I only use Sonos speakers to play music so that’s useless.   If my music is playing via Sonos speakers I literally have to say “Alexa, stop my music” BEFORE OR AFTER the “Alexa, I’m leaving” voice command.    

Alexa controls one echo dot and Sonos one.  Different rooms.  No groups.  Every morning I will listen to BBC sounds on the Sonos, and then say ‘Alex off’, and usually the Sonos goes quiet.  About every 5 or 6 times I do this it listens (vol drops and light brightens), and then carries on playing regardless.  I have looked at Alex/settings/history, and it clearly hears ‘off’  but does not respond.  It usually responds to other obvious things like ‘music off’ or ‘turn off’, but when it fails to respond to ‘off’ it also fails to respond to any of these other commands as wellWhy is this - it is odd that it is intermittent and correctly ‘heard’ is it fixable?  I end up turning it off at the wall.

Has anyone in the group experienced Alexa losing its connection when it’s close (in proximity) to a sonos speaker?   I’m ticking off possible issues with our Alexa dropping (intermittent wifi) connection.   The rest of the house WIFI is ok (verified already and other iOS devices operate when Alexa is down).  I’m wondering if there is a channel interference issue being so close.   Thanks

We are fairly new to Sonos, at present we only have one Sonos speakers, it’s a Sonos One. We have a couple of new Amazon Echo Dots. While we both love the actual sound from the Sonos, the Alexa side of it is a bit of a disappointment, we find we have to shout loud to get it to use commands, we are going to buy a couple more Sonos SL speakers to use in another room to use in stereo via an Echo Dot, have no problems with echo dot and commands. The Sonos One is approx 3.5 meters away from were we sit, and having to shout loud command is a pain, especially is the lady in the house has to shout them..lol. Can I switch the mic off on the Sonos One and control it by an Amazon Echo Dot which will be right next to we’re we sit, we never have to raise our voices with any of the Echo Dots.

I’m new to Sonos and I installed my first device, a Sonos Move, about 10 days ago.Everything was working fine until this morning when Alexa wouldn’t respond while I was playing an m3u playlist from my Music Library. Through trial and error I determined that she does respond if I pause playback but not while the playlist is playing. I also verified that Alexa responds normally when I’m playing a playlist from Amazon Music.I tried powering it off and on to no avail.Anyone have any ideas?I[I posted this in the Amazon Alexa  and Sonos section but now see that I should have put it here...] 

I have an Echo Show and newly purchased Move device within the same room. When I ask ‘Alexa, xyz’, both respond and milliseconds off. I have reviewed all the configs, and while I can config the echo device, there is nothing to adjust in the ALexa app for the Move. Any suggestions on having only one device respond? Music is playing fine. I could disable alexa on the Move, or shut off the Move mic, but that is not ideal as I take the Move to another room.

I have searched but “wireless” just gives hits on wifi issues.  My question relates to searching for radio stations.  In particular Virgin Radio UK.I have enabled Virgin Radio UK and using Alexa on my Sonos One it can find it.  However, the default search via TuneIn does not find it, instead it tells me that it has found it on “wireless” (which I assumed would be a service or app).However, I cannot seem to find either a service or an App that is called “wireless” to install to my Sonos system.  Does one exist?  What is Alexa referring to when it says it has found my station on “wireless”?I am a bit baffled. Geoff

When is this issue going to be addressed? There are topics about the same issue going back over 2 years and nothing has been done to remedy the issue on Sonos’s part. Enough of the same ole response of “we are hoping that when the next update comes out that it will help remedy these issues”, yet nothing ever happens! We are tired of the same old same old. Customers have paid you good money for your equipment now step up and do the right thing in return! “FIX YOUR ISSUES NOW!” “IT IS REDICULOUS THAT THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN ALLOW TO CONTINUE FOR THIS LONG!”

Hello, I’m sure this has been around for a while but I can’t find an uptodate answer….If I use the Sonos app I can play 3 different Amazon music streams in 3 sonos zones. But if I use voice command to ask the Sonos ONE with Alexa to play some music then try to play Amazon music in another Sonos zone (Using the app) I get a message saying that Amazon Music is being used by another device. I’m pretty sure the Amazon accounts dealing with Alexa and Amazon Music on Sonos are the same.Why does the voice command limit the stream? Is it because you can’t use the same amazon music account on Alexa and Sonos at the same time?Maybe it needs to be a family account?Maybe I need 2 Amazon music accounts?Apparently there is a work around but I haven’t found it yet.  Many thanks 

In the new Sonos App where can i find what quality of stream is playing. I have seen online how to find it in the Sonos App1 but not in the 2nd version. 

I have a bunch of Echos AND a Sonos Beam.  When I am playing music and say something like “Alexa, louder” or “Alexa, next song” then the command is executed as long as I am loud enough for the mic to pick up my voice.  The Move I just bought doesn’t seem to behave that way.  Even if the volume is low and I basically yell into the mic, it doesn’t have an effect.I note that when the sound is off and I use one of the standard voice commands (e.g. “Alexa, play my playlist”) it starts up just fine.Does the Move work differently than the Beam and the other Alexa devices, or is there something wrong with my Move?

HiI have just bought a Sonos Beam to add to my existing system of two Sonos Ones. I have updated the app and put at all three speakers in. All is working ok, TV and Music (spotify), but I can’t add Alexa. When I try this on the app it says to check the wifi connection. I don’t understand this as the wifi is fine, streaming music is fine. It says to check the time and date in the settings, but I have checked at they are all ok. The app doesn’t give any more help. I noticed that the small light on the microphone symbol on the Beam is not on and when you touch it does not come on, I don’t know if this is a problem. Any help would be very welcome.