Amazon Alexa and Sonos

Hi everyone! I'm interested to buy a Symfonisk sonos speaker at Ikea. I already got two Amazon Echo paired as a stereo couple, should be fine to add a Symfonisk and play music on the Echos and the Symfonisk at the same time. Is It possible? Reading Sonos skill description in the Alexa app I found that you can stream music "from an Amazon Echo device wirelessly connected to your Sonos speakers (in open beta)". This means that is possible? Thank you all!

Is there a way to adjust the volume of the alarm played when set via Alexa? (searching for this I learned there's a Sonos alarm option as well, which I've never used on my other 7 speakers)

Finally Alexa and Apple Music integration has come to Sonos in Australia. This would be great if it actually worked. I have added the Sonos skill and the Apple Music skill to Alexa. I have added Apple Music as the default music service. I have added Alexa to both my Sonos One and my Beam. When I ask Alexa to play a particular artist, it will default to playing via Amazon Music (despite Apple Music being set as my default). When I specifically request that the artist play from Apple Music, Alexa responds that it “could not find that on Apple Music”, despite the songs being available to play via the Sonos app manually. The only command that works is if I ask Alexa to “play music” and it will play a personalised radio station from Apple Music. However, requesting any particular artist, album, playlist, etc. always either starts playing from Amazon Music or not found if specifically requested to play from Apple Music. I have completely removed Alexa from my Sonos devices, restarte

How can I just turn ducking off completely? I don't care if Alexa doesn't hear me sometimes. Sonos is my computer speaker, its so annoying having youtube videos duck in volume when I give a command.

Hi I have just purchased a Sonos One Gen 2. I use Apple computers and phones. All of my music is stored in a NAS Drive on my network, and is the default music library in my Sonos setup. I am trying to get Alexa to use this when I ask it to play me some music, but it only seems to want to play music from Amazon. I am clearly missing something when setting up or when asking Alexa to play the music. Can someone point me in the right direction please? Thanks

Just added two Play 3s to my living room beam and now Alexa won’t come up or respond. Tried to turn on the microphone button on the beam and nothing. Looked in the Alexa app, Devices I see that the Beam is offline. Not sure how to get it “online” OR if that is even the issue. HELP. I attached a screen shot of the Alexa app.

Trying to disable the Alexa on the Sonos beam and have an echo dot be the Alexa instead. How do you connect an echo dot to the Sonos beam? It’s not connecting through Bluetooth.

I use my standalone Amazon Echo to control my Sonos Beam (I disabled the built-in Alexa). The Beam is my default speaker. When I say something specific, like “Alexa, play The Beatles” it works great and streams music to the Beam. But it when I say “Alexa, play my music” (which should play all my Spotify “liked” songs, Alexa acknowledges the request, but nothing happens. Any thoughts? Clearly Alexa and the Beam are integrated, but the command to “play my library” or even “play my library in the living room” l is broken somehow? Thanks!!

Hi, Spotted that the Echo Input is down to £15 due to Prime Day. Does anyone have experience of linking this to a Play 3 in the absence of it having a line in?

I was going to buy a pair of Sonos ones when they first came out but the inability to change the "wake word" from Alexa was a deal breaker for me as I already have a multi-room Sonos/Echo/Alexa Home autmation setup in which I use the "wake word" "computer". Therefore any expansion to my existing setup has to also have the abilty to alter the "wake word" to "Computer" as with the Echo/Echo dot. Has this issue now been addressed? If not, can this issue please be addressed in a future update to allow the Alexa Wake word on the Sonos One's to be changed from "Alexa" to "Computer"?

Hello, I've just purchased a Beam and Sonos One and went through the installation process. I'm having a lot of trouble activating Voice Services on both of them, as I keep getting the "There was a problem adding Alexa" error message after it logs in to my Amazon account. Both speakers appear in my Amazon account under "Devices" and also in the Amazon Alexa app (I can play music through them using voice via the Alexa application), however I can not control them via the microphones on the speakers. Really eager to get to this fixed as I'm loving them otherwise. Thanks

I'm re-posting this in the hope that someone may have a clue to the solution, please. Having been very disappointed to find that there is no Alexa link to my music library, I was hoping that Spotify would give my wife an easy way of playing the music she enjoys. Instead this is proving very frustrating. Alexa on my Sonos One will not play music from Spotify. It responds "to play music from Spotify link your premium account first using the Alexa app" I have a Spotify "premium account" in its trial period so haven't paid anything yet. All Sonos devices are listed in the Alexa app: playing radio works OK Spotify is set as the default music service in the Alexa app Sonos skill is enabled Do they both have to be registered to the same e-mail address? Do I have to wait until I'm paying for Spotify? Another answer? Thank you

Hello, I have a Sonos Beam (Alexa built-in) and a Ring Video Door Bell at Home. I have added the Sonos and Ring Skills, and Alexa can see my Ring Video Door Bell as : a) a Camera and b) a "Motion Sensor", which is perfectly fine. I understand that Ring Skills (for video) work only for Echo Show or Fire TV, so I am trying to use the "Motion Sensor" capability of my Ring Doorbell via an Alexa Routine like follows: 1) WHEN "device" (ring doorbell motion sensor) DETECTED MOVEMENT THEN Alex Say "Intruder" But when trying to create the Routine, the save will fail because Alexa couldn't find any audio device. How is that possible if Alexa lives "inside" de "Audio Device" SONOS BEAM? Any help will be appreciated! Thanks

No matter what I ask Alexa, she can’t find it on Apple Music. If I open up the Sonos app, I can play anything there manually through Apple Music but it doesn’t work with voice commands! i’ve signed out of the skill and back in and I’ve signed out of all Alexa and Amazon accounts and back in but all to no luck. any suggestions as what could be wrong? thanks!

When I added two Sonos Ones to my existing Sonos-filled house last year, I was excited about Alexa integration. However, I disabled the Sonos skill within days because of the "Ducking all speakers" issue. My six Sonos speakers and Connect are unusable when linked to Alexa because of this real irritation to the entire household. I make no apology for again asking: "When will the 'all speakers ducking' issue be fixed?" Thanks.

Please delete this post. The original problem was my inability to properly read instructions.

Hi, I'm new to the community. Just bought an Sonos one and activated Alexa on it. But it seems to be a delay when I ask her to change volume. It takes about 2-4 sec before she changes the volume. I've tried to reset the sonos and reinstall it but no luck.

Hi there, I'm a new Sonos user with a Sonos One and have encountered strange behavior with Alexa when trying to run routines. I currently have a routine set up via the Alexa app which runs when I say "Alexa, good morning" - it turns on the lights in my living room, gives me the weather and my calendar for the day. When I say "Good morning" to Alexa on Sonos One, the following actions occur: - The lights in my living room turn on - She says "Audio actions in routines are currently not supported on this device" - She tells me the weather - She gives me my calendar entries for the day I have read in previous threads that routines are not supported on Sonos One, but clearly, as we can see above, Alexa is able to run my routine it in its entirety. Why am I still getting this error even when it seems to run perfectly? Any ideas? Thanks 😃

I want to get a Sonos One but I'm confused how it works with multiple people. From what I gather it's possible to log in with our different Spotify accounts so that's OK. But what about the Alexa part and voice control? First of all is it possible for multiple people to use the voice commands? And if so, my issue is, Amazon household seems to only allow 2 adults which is ridiculous because my oldest son who still lives at home is 18 and so he's an adult. So as it stands now, I can add my husband and my two younger kids but my oldest is just stuck in no man's land? Can someone explain like they're talking to a 5 year old how this all works? It seems pointless to get one if I'm the only one who can use it. Thanks.

I set up two Ones in the bedroom and said "Alexa play flash briefing" and Alexa responds with "here is your flash briefing" and then nothing happens (silence). This has happened about 50% of the time. Meaning it plays sometimes. I just got these and am debating between using two play1's and an Echo Dot. I want to use whatever will have the least amount of problems. The cons of using the Dot aren't a big deal to me (flash briefing on the dot).

Hi there, Just playing around with the new Alexa integration - I have Play 1's dotted around the house, and a Playbar / 2 x Play 1 surround setup in my living room connected to the TV. No problems on the single Play 1's dotted around but have a problem with the TV surround. Normally the source input would be 'TV' and would play the sound from there, and when I say 'Alexa play *band name* in the living room' it happily switches to music from my Amazon Music account. All good so far. However when I say 'Alexa stop music in the living room' it stops the song, but leaves the song it was playing as the source input, so I cannot switch back to the TV volume without physically selecting it in the Sonos app. This obviously defeats the purpose of voice command control. Is there a specific command I should use or something I can do to rectify this using a voice command? Thanks in advance.

This question was asked a couple times a few months ago by others, but since I didn't see a response from anyone at Sonos, I thought I'd try again. When I ask Sonos to play a song (via Spotify) it plays the song and then it keeps playing other songs by other artists. In other words, even though I've disabled "Autoplay" in the Spotify app, the end result is the same as if Autoplay is enabled. When I ask my Echo Dot to play a song, it only plays the one song, which seems to indicate the problem is on Sonos's end--not Alexa. I even tried adding the Echo Dot to my Sonos "Living Room" group in the Alexa app and using the Sonos as the Preferred Speaker. But even this doesn't work -- the Echo Dot correctly plays the music on the Sonos, but with Autoplay enabled. Is this a recognized bug, and does Sonos have any plans to fix it? Thank you.

Looking for a bit of help or guidance. I have multiple Sonos speakers, Alexa Devices and Alexa enabled devices. If I ask any of these devices to play a playlist from Spotify, nothing happens. Alexa acknowledges the request, it sounds like it works, but no music starts. This all started within the last week. I’ve reset all my devices, delinked and linked Spotify through Sonos, delinked and linked Sonos and Spotify through Alexa. Asking to play a song or an artist works fine. Any ideas?

I have a Sonos Beam connected to a Sony TV by HDMI3 (ARC). Both are connected to the internet by ethernet cable using an unmanaged switch. When I ask Alexa to turn on the living room TV she fails to do so and says that living room tv is not responding. However, once the TV is turned on, then Alexa will respond to all the usual commands such as changing channel, changing input to HDMI2 or turning the set off. I think I have got all the settings right, but has anyone else experienced this and, if so, what is the solution?

How do i get the microphone to activate. when i connected alexa on my sonos one speaker the microphone light came on.but when doing it on the beam there is no light or alexa.