Contributor I

5.1 but want Alexa drop in

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
November 1, 2020
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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 control?

Appreciate any ideas??

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JamesPHoward

Lyricist I

Agree - just made an account to say I need this. 4 sonos ones and can’t drop in :(

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Floriooo

Lyricist II

I need drop-in as well the “incoming call” Ringer

Call ringer is there (alexa.amazon.com) but is not working.

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scoopsofjager

Lyricist I

Why the hold up? Surely everyone wants this? It’s very frustrating not having it

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nik9669a

Senior Virtuoso

Surely everyone wants this?

No: I don’t want it, so not everyone.

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kerryland

Lyricist I

Surely everyone wants this?

No: I don’t want it, so not everyone.

I definitely want it, and expected it when I bought an “Alexa-enabled" device.

You need not fear as you will have the choice to not use it, like you can in other “Alexa-enabled" devices. Currently I don't have that choice.

ps: I, like someone else in this thread, joined the forum just to make this post; it's important to people.

melvimbe

Surely everyone wants this?

No: I don’t want it, so not everyone.

I definitely want it, and expected it when I bought an “Alexa-enabled" device.

You need not fear as you will have the choice to not use it, like you can in other “Alexa-enabled" devices. Currently I don't have that choice.

ps: I, like someone else in this thread, joined the forum just to make this post; it's important to people.

I wouldn’t hold out much hope for this. Amazon and Google are going to continuosly add features to their voice assistant. They can do that due to vast size and huge customer base. Sonos, on the other hand, will always be playing catch up trying to add features that are not related to their primary purpose of being a music player. I think Sonos tried to keep up for a while, adding some features here and there, but spend their development efforts on features that enhance music and home theatre experience.

Danny

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FraiseVache

Lyricist I

Surely everyone wants this?

No: I don’t want it, so not everyone.

I definitely want it, and expected it when I bought an “Alexa-enabled" device.

You need not fear as you will have the choice to not use it, like you can in other “Alexa-enabled" devices. Currently I don't have that choice.

ps: I, like someone else in this thread, joined the forum just to make this post; it's important to people.

I wouldn’t hold out much hope for this. Amazon and Google are going to continuosly add features to their voice assistant. They can do that due to vast size and huge customer base. Sonos, on the other hand, will always be playing catch up trying to add features that are not related to their primary purpose of being a music player. I think Sonos tried to keep up for a while, adding some features here and there, but spend their development efforts on features that enhance music and home theatre experience.

Yes it's important that they focus on this primarily but features like drop in are becoming a must for these kind of devices. It adds a ton of value to them.

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kerryland

Lyricist I

I’ve been looking at the Amazon development documentation for this “missing” functionality. It is collectively called the “Alexa Voice Service” and one of the requirements is:

Devices that support Calling, Messaging, and Announcements must have visual indicators. A sound-only implementation of the ACM attention system states is not permitted.

Which suggests that Sonos are not allowed to implement this feature unless they also add some blinky lights to their speakers.

:-(

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raguidu10

Lyricist I

I’ve been looking at the Amazon development documentation for this “missing” functionality. It is collectively called the “Alexa Voice Service” and one of the requirements is:

Devices that support Calling, Messaging, and Announcements must have visual indicators. A sound-only implementation of the ACM attention system states is not permitted.

Which suggests that Sonos are not allowed to implement this feature unless they also add some blinky lights to their speakers.

:-(

Interesting. I doubt Sonos even bothered reaching out to Amazon about it- if they did they would have explained why it is still not implemented by now. Or else Sonos do not want to say it is impossible to be implemented because customers would go (more) mad if they heard the truth?

To me that’s a big feature missing in a big/expensive product.

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AmPaul

Lyricist I

I believe it is time for Sonos to have drop-in functionality. It is something that a great company like Sonos, can easily achieve at least for some of their devices where led are available.

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