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Sonos One and Alexa Issues

  • 21 November 2018
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I have two Sonos Ones a sonos play one and play 5. They all work perfectly through the sonos app.

Both Sonos Ones have been working with Alexa for last year - no issues. Then in the last few weeks the issues have begun!

Asking Alexa to play an album or playlist - the first song plays and then nothing.

Asking Alexa to stop - it “bings” to let you know it’s heard you and then does nothing, continues to play.

And this week - I say Alexa, it bings. I ask it to do anyone and there is just silence.

My microphone is on, it hears me saying Alexa but does not perform command.

I’ve disabled the skill and re added it. Same thing happens.
The app recognises all of the devices.

All of devices appear in my sonos app twice - which is another weird thing!

I’m at a loss - I’ve never needed to ask for help before and I’m not sure how to go about getting the diagnostics check - can anyone advise?
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I’d be interested to know this outcome as ive had my Sonos one a week and all was fine except til today. Alexa acknowledges me but can ignore my commands. It also tells me the song is playing on Spotify (as other articles have), but it doesn’t play.
I, too have disabled skill, plugged in Ethernet, reset the router but it hasn’t fixed the issue.
I only bought mine for a quality Alexa speaker.
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I’d be interested to know this outcome as ive had my Sonos one a week and all was fine except til today. Alexa acknowledges me but can ignore my commands. It also tells me the song is playing on Spotify (as other articles have), but it doesn’t play.
I, too have disabled skill, plugged in Ethernet, reset the router but it hasn’t fixed the issue.
I only bought mine for a quality Alexa speaker.


Sorry for the long post but this type of issue is normally down to one of three things:

1/ Duplicate device names - Alexa prefers that names for Devices, Groups and Scenes are unique,
1.1/ Please open up the Alexa App>Smart Home and make a note of any duplicate device names;
1.2/ You can then change them in the source app. e.g. Use the Sonos App to change the name of Sonos players. (I personally use the naming standard Room Name + Device type. e.g. Kitchen Sonos, Kitchen Echo Dot, Lounge Sonos, etc)
1.3/ Once you have changed any duplicate names then please open the Alexa App on a Browser (https://alexa.amazon.co.uk or https://alexa.amazon.com)>Smart Home>Devices and select 'Forget All' followed by 'Discover'. NOTE: This will remove ALL Actions from ALL Alexa Routines! (Only the Browser version has this functionality.)

2/ Some form of Account Linking or Authorisation has not completed successfully. There are a number of causes for this and it's best to try these steps 1 at a time and test before moving on to the next step if the problem persists:
2.1/ Open the Alexa App>Skills>Your Skills>Sonos and 'Disable' followed by 'Enable';
2.2/ Ensure that you don't have multiple Amazon accounts logged into different Apps on your device, as this can confuse the Amazon Authorisation. If yes, then please log out of the other accounts and then complete step 2.1 again;
2.3/ If the problem still persists, please logout of all Amazon accounts then select the Alexa App>Skills>Your Skills>Sonos and 'Disable. Now power down all Sonos devices for 10 secs, allowing for any wired devices to boot before booting the remaining Sonos players. Now log back into the Alexa App>Skills>Sonos and 'Enable'

3/ If the problem persists then an entire reset of the Authorisation & Account Linking process is required:
3.1/ In the Alexa app, select Skills>Your Skills>Sonos and then 'Disable';
3.2 In the Alexa app (Browser version), select 'Smart Home>Devices'. Now select 'Forget All' at the bottom of the screen;
3.3/ In the Sonos app (Android or iOS), select Settings>Room Settings and for each of the Sonos One's sign into 'Voice Services' and select 'Remove Amazon Alexa from this Room';
3.4/ If you have any wired Sonos devices, please power down for 10 secs and then switch on and wait for it to boot;
3.5/ Now power down all other Sonos Players for 10 secs then switch them back on and wait for them to boot;
3.6/ In the Sonos app, Select Manage>Add a player or sub' and add the Sonos One's again. This will complete the set-up process again;
3.7/ In the Alexa app, select Skills>Your Skills and ensure the Sonos skill is 'Enabled', if not please 'Enable';
3.8/ In the Alexa app , select Smart Home>Devices>Discover. Ensure that your Sonos One's are displayed correctly and not shown as 'Off Line'.
3.9/ Also check one last time that there are no devices with the same name. Remember, if there is a need to rename any then you'll need to select 'Discover' again.

Let us know how you get on.
Thanks for the reply, yesterday when I used it, it seemed to work fine as if it’s righted itself.
I will check the above solutions if I have any more issues.
Thanks again