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Amazon Alexa and Sonos

Your one-stop shop for discussing Amazon Alexa with Sonos. How do you add Amazon Alexa to Sonos One or Beam? How do you pair an Echo device with a Sonos speaker? Get your answers here.

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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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It seems it is not possible to control Family Spotify with Alexa using Sonos as the Sonos app only allows one Alexa account per system

I have numerous Sonos devices and all three of my children have Sonos “Alexa Enabled” devices but it seems it is not possible for my children to independently use Alexa to control their speakers and listen to their music from their own Family Spotify account. I, like many parents, do not want my kid...

Alexa groups suddenly stopped using Sonos as default speaker

HiI have an Echo Dot 3rd Gen and Sonos Speaker in most rooms and I have Alexa groups setup to use Sonos as the default speaker.I have used this with no problems for months with Spotify, Audible and Stitcher all playing by default through Sonos when started via voice control from the Echo Dot.Now, as...

Need command for temporary mute (English)

Is there a command for my Echo Dot that will mute whatever is playing (for example) 5 minutes? At the end of the 5 minutes, I would like the Dot to continue to play automatically. I have tried all types of commands and the Dot will mute but never comes back on unless I command “Play” Thanks

Virgin Radio UK only works on TuneIn

On a play one or one using Alexa to play Virgin Radio causes the sound to constantly drop out, using the command play virgin radio using tuenin works perfectly. I suspect the Virgin Radio Alexa skill has problems

Is it possible to play music to Sonos Amp and Alexa devices?

Hi,I have a Sonos Amp and two Alexa enabled devices (Echo Show 8 and Echo 4th gen). The Amp is in my dining room connected to two bookshelf speakers. The Echo is in my living room, and the Show is in my bedroom. I’d like to group the Amp and all my Alexa devices together so when I play music, it’s...

5.1 but want Alexa drop in

I have a playbar, sub and 2 sonos 1's as my rears with Alexa built in. Since alexa doesn't allow drop in with Sonos, I am trying to figure out if I can use an echo dot for alexa (turn off alexa feature on the 1's) and still keep the surround sound as well as the easy access of playing having alexa c...

Starting Deezer from Alexa -- FLAC??

Several years ago, I read on the forum that if you started streaming Deezer using a voice command from an Alexa device (button), the Deezer stream would not be FLAC. I paste the response from that thread below:“Alexa will play Deezer in 320 kbps AAC/MP3 formats, not FLAC. This doesn't change based...

voice services no ahowing in my sonos app S2 Iso

Hii recently buy Arc and need to setup the Alexa, in Sonos App S2 I can not find any voice services listed in the service section, I tried to setup disable the skill and deregister from Amazon but again not showing any voice service in Sonos App ?! please help

Problemi con amazon music

Ho Alexa come assistente vocale sul mio Sonos one, funziona ma se richiedo di ascoltare musica o una stazione, mi conferma la richiesta ma non sento niente, viceversa informazioni tipo orario, meteo etc funzionano benissimo, come posso risolvere?Grazie

System vocal alexa ne fonctionne pas dans mon Pays Maroc

Je viens d'acheter Sonos beam a Casablanca maroc mais malheureusement le système vocal Alexa ne fonctionne pas dans pays. Est-ce qu'il y a une solution à mon problème Merci infiniment de votre aide

Alexa recognizes but not controlling services

When saying “Alexa, play Spotify” Alexa chimes and responds “here is Spotify” but nothing plays. Same result when requesting to play SiriusXM or any other service. However, Spotify plays when using the Sonos app on my phone but when saying “Alexa, pause” Alexa chimes but doesn’t pause the music. Ale...

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