Amazon Alexa and Sonos

Is there any way to use voice commands (such as play music, volume up/down, stop, night-mode) on the Sonos beam without using/enabling Alexa? I love the soundbar, but after an unfortunate few events using Alexa and an echo dot (some funny, some not so funny), I'd rather not enable the full features of Alexa to get the voice activation

Alexa either won't recognize playlists- mistakes "work out," for "work," (I don't have a work out playlist). Or if asked to play an artist, states "shuffling music by [artist]" but then nothing actually plays. I've tried disabling and enabling the Sonos skill within Alexa several times. How do I enable so that music actually plays through Spotify?

Are there are any general rules for naming Sonos speakers and rooms in an environment with Amazon Echo devices and Airplay 2 to avoid issues and conflicts? I have a Sonos Beam in one room and two Sonos Ones bonded as a stereo pair in another room; in addition, I have an Amazon Echo and an Amazon Echo Dot in two other rooms. I use the Sonos app as well as Airplay 2 to play content. 1. In the Sonos app, I have named the room the Sonos Beam is in "Office" and the room the Sonos Ones are in "Bedroom." 2. In Apple Homekit, I have named the Sonos Beam "Sonos Beam" and placed it in the "Office" room and the Sonos Ones "Right Sonos One" and "Left Sonos One" and placed them in the "Bedroom" room. 3. In Amazon Alexa, in the Alexa Devices setting, I have named the Sonos Beam "Office Sonos" and the Sonos Ones "Right Bedroom Sonos" and "Left Bedroom Sonos." Amazon Alexa automatically created two other Alexa devices named "Office" and "Bedroom" during setup. Under the "Smart Home" set

I’m planning out where to add various sonos speakers and dots in additional rooms in my house. In rooms with smart lights I’d like to be able to control them with the new alexa enabled smart groups. So can I add the Sonos One as the alexa enabled device in an alexa smart home group?

Got the Alexa and my Sonos 5 connected, now it plays about 5-10 seconds then stops

Hi does anyone know if I can connect the echo dot to the play 1 or 3?

I've been enjoying Sonos for more than a year now, and I've been recommending it to my friends outside US. I especially have friends who love Sonos in Japan and other countries in Asia, but they've been complaining about the facts that they can't enjoy SONOS' Alexa skill, while they are willing to opt for Sonos instead of other smart home devices. Japanese media are also very much loving Sonos: https://www.gizmodo.jp/2017/10/sonos-one-launch.html https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/17984 https://robotstart.info/2017/10/05/sonos-one-with-amazon-alexa.html I know Sonos have long term strategic plan to deploy their product all over the world, but from the zeal I've been feeling from my friends, I kindly advice them to lift the geo restriction for voice recognition service i.e. Alexa asap, so that the rest of the world can know how great it is 🙂

So I open my new Sonos Beam this afternoon and after going through the relatively straight forward setup using my Android tablet, on completion and attempting to ask Alexa to play a song or in fact anything at all from Amazon music I was greeted with "I'm now playing blah de blah by whoever etc ... then ...... ....... ...... ........ ........ ........ ......... .." complete silence. After wasting about 4 hrs this evening trying to get it to work (thanks Sonos! love you x x) I finally got there in the end and thought I'd share it in case anyone else has the same thing. After doing the recommended steps given on the sticky post on the forum with no success etc... I swapped over to the windows PC Sonos app (Windows firewall initially prevented this from connecting to the speaker as well, even though I had chosen the option to configure the windows firewall in the setup. This added another 1/2 hr of wasted time itself. Eventually found that disabling the firewall - connecting to the

I have a Sonos One And would like to play songs from Amazon music using the App (i.e without using Alexa voice control). Can I do this?

Development so that Sonos One can be used to make calls

Will my new Sonos 1 with Alexa read my kindle books for me? I hope so as this was one of the reasons for purchasing!

Apologises if this topic has been covered elsewhere, but have looked and nothing similar has come up. I have an Amazon Echo Plus (plus bit is irrelevant I think), and a Sonos One. I can play music on the Echo or the One, but not both at the same time. I have a group for both the Echo and the One, however Alexa on the Echo, does not recognise this group. Can anyone assist me in getting my One and Echo to play the same music at the same time?

1. Connected to HDMI ARC (HDMI-1) 2. CEC settings modified to allow controlling TV turn on/off 3. This is an Insignia TV (non smart) 4. HDMI-2 is connected to Amazon FireTV

I got myself two Sonos Ones to replace to Play:1s and got them all set up yesterday. I had to reset and remove devices and start over, but all seems to work. There is just one small problem. In my Alexa app after adding a Kitchen and Living Room Sonos One, I now have 4 new devices showing. Kitchen, Kitchen Sonos, Living Room and Living Room Sonos. If I speak to Alexa and ask her to play music, she says 'Playing ...... on Kitchen Sonos', likewise if I want to play music in another room I have to say 'Alexa, play ...... on Living Room Sonos, I can't just say Living Room. To play to a Bedroom Play:1 I can just say 'bedroom'. I assume that the 'Kitchen' device is Alexa and the 'Kitchen Sonos' device is the actual speaker for playback. Does anyone else have the same, and is this correct? It's not a deal breaker but a little bit annoying.

I just want voice control for simple things like volume control, skip, repeat, play, pause, etc. Not interested in all the other stuff and actually got rid of Alexa's to get Sonos and have no interest in linking Sonos to Alexa account for what should be obvious reason... Can Sonos please consider adding this for Sonos One, the mic is there, why not?? I would buy more for the rest of our rooms but right now I am not sold on this being the speakers I invest in.

When will a voice controller be able to control the volume of my grouped rooms? Will purchase a voice controller (Alexis, Google, etc) when one of them can control my Sonos grouped rooms We rarely play play just one room. Useless tool for Sonos without that feature.

Sonos One in the bathroom, my wife likes to talk to it and tell it to play her favorite Ed Sheeran songs while she's getting ready for work. The past few days, she asks Alexa to play Ed Sheeran on Spotify and gets no response, only silence. This was working fine until the past few days. Any ideas?

Hi there, brand new to Sonos - one whole week! I played music via Spotify and Alexa was working all weekend, but now I can't get either to work on Sonos. I can get Sonos to play downloaded music from my iphone. I did turn the speaker off one night because the light was annoying me - could that be it? Should I start again and if so, how should I do that? Sorry if a newbie rookie question. thank you :? It says that the wireless connection is disconnected (something like that).

I have a spotify premium account linked to my phone but when I try to play music from spotify through the sonos speakers I am given the error message to upgrade to a premium account, which I already have. Is there a fix for this. Thanks

Just bought a sonos beam to allow me to connect to other sonos products and TV but it won’t connect to anything not even Spotify that is on my sonos app. Going to throw it out of the window shorty it’s so difficult and frustrating. Not what was advertised...

Hi Guys, I have a group of Sonos One speakers. They are in my lounge and kitchen. Can get Alexa to adjust the volume for the group? It would be good if we could name the group and refer to the group rather than an individual speaker when talking to Alexa.

I originally worked through successfully setting up a new Sonos Beam to my older Sharp Aquos TV. I was able to use voice commands to Alexa to turn on/off the TV up until a recent series of power outages. After the power outage, both Alexa and my Sonos ecosystem weren't behaving but after following other community posts, I was able to get everything working again. The next day is when I noticed that I couldn't use Alexa to turn off/on TV whereas it was working previously. All other functions via Beam work fine (various audio sources, other Alexa commands, etc). Setup: Sonos Beam connected to HDMI 1 (ARC port) on Sharp Aquos TV. I verified menu settings on TV to enable Sharp Aquos Link on TV for Auto Power ON (presumably Sharp's version for CEC setting). NOTE: This setting worked previously. Troubleshooting thus far: Validate in Sonos App and Alexa App that all devices appear and online. I have gone to the Alexa website (not mobile app) to 'Forget' the 'Den TV' device .

The only way I can get Sirius XM go play is to request Sirius XM without specifying a specific channel. Alexa will then pull up the last station. When I request a specific station the response is “I couldn’t find Sirius Channel 33” Any ideas on what to try ?

Hi there! I have seen some older posts on this issue but there doesn't seem to be any resolution, so I'm posting it again and hopefully highlight this issue again for Sonos/Amazon to resolve. There are many of us who have the Sonos One speakers and Amazon Echo around the house. Currently it's not possible for the two speaker systems to link despite they all run Alexa and support multi-room play. Apparently it is a problem that can be easily fixed with some software updates from Amazon's end to allow the systems to link. I hope Sonos can have this conversation with Amazon and allow this feature to be available ASAP.

Hi there, when I ask Alexa to turn on “sky sports radio” she says “I could not find a station called “sky sports radio” I have tried every variation including “Alexa play sky sports radio on tune in” etc. I have saved it to my list of favourite radio stations and my favourite radio shows. She recognises every other radio station on my list and has no trouble playing them but refuses to recognise “ sky sports radio”. It is my favourite radio station and the one I listen to the most so it is quite irritating but it’s the only one she doesn’t recognise. does anyone know why this might be?