I have music playing on my sonos via the sonos app. But sometimes when i ask alexa to play it will say hmm. you''ll have to enable the skill, but yet if i then go into the actual sonos app and press play it works.
why does alexa not always play and pause when i ask it, even if music is showing as paused on the app?
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why does alexa not always play and pause when i ask it, even if music is showing as paused on the app?
Hi michael319,
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Are you all sorted now?
All my accounts are same. Same Sonos account is the one the skill is enabled too. Plus it works if I ask Alexa to turn on lights. Must be something with inactivity. IDK.
hmm it actually seems to be when it is inactive for a while that it stops working... sorry for the contant replies
Done 🙂
should they be renamed to match the name of living room, bedroom? or can i leave them. i'm not sure how to tell which is which..
edit they can't be renamed because i already have living room, bedroom and office under settings as well and those are for the lights.
This is showing correctly. There will be two entries for each Sonos One device - one for the Alexa component and one for the Sonos hardware.
Also I just asked Alexa to play and it said same message about enabling Sonos. But when I said "play in the office" it worked.
Never had to mention specifics before. Hmm
Was this command on an Echo device or a Sonos One?
should they be renamed to match the name of living room, bedroom? or can i leave them. i'm not sure how to tell which is which..
edit they can't be renamed because i already have living room, bedroom and office under settings as well and those are for the lights.
This is showing correctly. There will be two entries for each Sonos One device - one for the Alexa component and one for the Sonos hardware.
Edit:
Can you just check in the Alexa App>Smart Home>Devices and confirm that no two devices have the same name? (I use the naming convention of Room Name + Device Type. e.g. Kitchen Sonos, Kitchen Echo Dot, etc)
should they be renamed to match the name of living room, bedroom? or can i leave them. i'm not sure how to tell which is which..
edit they can't be renamed because i already have living room, bedroom and office under settings as well and those are for the lights.
This is showing correctly. There will be two entries for each Sonos One device - one for the Alexa component and one for the Sonos hardware.
Also I just asked Alexa to play and it said same message about enabling Sonos. But when I said "play in the office" it worked.
Never had to mention specifics before. Hmm
Was this command on an Echo device or a Sonos One?
I only have Sonos. No echo devices since Alexa was built into these speakers. I didn't buy a separate echo.
That's strange, this does happen sometimes when initiated via an Echo device but not normally on a Sonos One.
I think it has to do with music being inactive.
Anything show on diagnostics
Only Sonos staff can investigate.
would deleting the actual device from the smart home tab in amazon alexa and adding it back help?
Yes you could try that but I thought you had tried section 3 of the steps I've listed in the Answer to this post:
https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/alexa-says-she-is-playing-on-kitchen-but-no-sound-comes-out-6800126
https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/alexa-says-she-is-playing-on-kitchen-but-no-sound-comes-out-6800126
https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/alexa-says-she-is-playing-on-kitchen-but-no-sound-comes-out-6800126
I had this same thing happen a couple weeks ago. Mine was resolved through the Sonos app my app and speakers needed to update.
https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/alexa-says-she-is-playing-on-kitchen-but-no-sound-comes-out-6800126
The speakers are already listed in the sonos app and they are already online. when i clicked set up it said to wait for a green light on the speaker which i never got.
I don't get it. It keeps saying enable sonos skill. The skill is enabled and linked to the same email i am using on my sonos app. so strange.
https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/alexa-says-she-is-playing-on-kitchen-but-no-sound-comes-out-6800126
so i actually had 2 sonos accounts. idk how that happened. the one i post on here is different than the one i use on my sonos app, but i made sure the sonos skill logged into the same sonos account that is used on my app.
Are you all sorted now?
Okay, can you check that your location is correct against each of your Sonos One's two components in the Alexa App>Settings and also your profile in www.sonos.com. If these are all correct, then I suggest that you submit a diagnostic and post the number in this thread.
Please look at the steps I've listed in the Answer to this post:
https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/alexa-says-she-is-playing-on-kitchen-but-no-sound-comes-out-6800126
Yep
Still not working. It says "hmm to do that. Enable your Sonos skill in the Alexa app after doing that say Alexa discover devices.
I already did that.
Weird thing is once I go into Sonos app on my iPhone and click play button then I can ask Alexa to pause and skip. But once I play a video on Hulu on my phone it's as if Alexa doesn't have music to play from Sonos. Even though it's in the player but paused.
I already did that.
Weird thing is once I go into Sonos app on my iPhone and click play button then I can ask Alexa to pause and skip. But once I play a video on Hulu on my phone it's as if Alexa doesn't have music to play from Sonos. Even though it's in the player but paused.
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