I'm about to take my Sonos One back as it's not working how I want, unless anyone can help connect an echo dot to a sonos one. I mostly use my Echo to turn on lights and wake me up. This is great. I also want a better speaker to play music/podcasts on. When I come home half way through a song/podcast I don't want to have to find it again on an app and play on Sonos. With my echo I could just say 'connect iphone' and, because it's bluetooth it connects. But the Sonos One can't just stream what's playing on the phone. I still have my Echo dot, and it really just needs a speaker (old one died a month ago) to beef up the sound. I thought Sonos One would be the same, but in one unit, but without the iPhone streaming, it really isn't. The sound on the speaker is great, but...it's proving to be a pain to play fluidly through devices.
Does anyone know if I can use the Echo to just play via my Sonos One, like a speak you'd just connect via 3.5mm jack, but over Wi-Fi instead? This is a faff I know, but...worth a shot.
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Sonos is incorporating Airplay 2 into their newer products, including the Sonos One, in the new year. That will give you the functionality you want.
You can use this https://sourceforge.net/projects/aircast-airupnp/ to turn today your Sonos player into an AirPlay compatible device. Detailed instructions are here https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect. Not much to configure, just choose a computer where to have the bridge application running (Sonos == UPnP)
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