A Sonos One in each kid's room... working via voice command from one Spotify account?

Essentially every time you say “Alexa” to give a command it turns down and muffles all of the music.

Well - when you have an Alexa (or a Sonos One) setup on an account. If you say "Alexa" the music/sound will go lower as to hear you better (Ducking). So example if both Sonos One's were setup on the same account. If you said Alexa in one bedroom - the music in the other room would lower. Not optimal. Thus in what you are looking to do and you setup each Sonos One on a different Alexa account - you wouldn't get that ducking.

Now - having never setup a Sonos One - I'm thinking though that both of the Sonos have to be setup as separate Sonos accounts too (thus you wouldn't be able to group them both together playing same music). I Don't particularly know how you setup alexa initially on the Sonos One vs. I don't have a Sonos one but use my Echo dots around house (and the alexa account has to be linked to the Sonos account). So I think you would have to setup both Sonos Ones as separate Sonos systems. Which really defeats a lot of the purpose in having Sonos.

So if your kid is in their room and gives it a command it will turn down the volume on your music and the music on the other sonos one until their command is complete. I imagine they are trying to fix this issue because it’s super annoying and essentially defeats the purpose of multiroom music

Oh its super annoying. I have 12 sonos units and 8 Alexa's. If I am on 1st floor and speak to an Alexa it will lower the volume on sonos units throughout my house.

It is why I actually don't keep the Alexa skill enabled most of the time.

Sonos has said their wish list is to have an Alexa linked to a specific Sonos speaker so that #1 only that speaker is ducked and #2 you don't have to say play "on room name" to play to the default speaker.

Hopefully this comes sooner then later.

Wow, I've just upgraded to spotify family, and linked to email addresses (for the kids), and also now have amazon accounts associated with those emails. dang, that's a lot of infrastucture. will give it a go, probably tonight!!

I can see the other side of the coin though. if it did not duck the music people would be equally frustrated they could not control The Alexa device or that they’d have to shout at it. That’s one thing I didn’t like about the sonos one. I had to shout at it. I returned it for an echo dot and a sonos play 1.

I did like that you didn’t need to specify exactly where it needed to play as the default was the sonos one and whatever group it was associated with. I figured saying Alexa “play Chris Stapleton radio on Pandora in the living room” was better than screaming at the top of my lungs.

In general I think a Play:1 and Echo dot is currently more versatile a setup.

I ended up putting my other Echos dots on a different SSID on my WiFi. They do not control sonos. However you can set up multiroom music with them as well.

"So I think you would have to setup both Sonos Ones as separate Sonos systems." This sounds like something I should figure out beforehand. I don't want to set it up "wrong"... I'm guessing there are issues with reverting & modifying the set up. (always are with complex launches like this!) How would I set them up as separate Sonos systems? Would this be obvious to me in the setup process? I'm OK with the two speakers acting independently... that's a LOT more important than being able to act in concert. But, it would certainly be simply if they could manifest under the control of a single sonos "log in"/account/system. And... others' opinions on the need to set up as separate Sonos systems? Thanks so much everyone for your assistance here...

The more I think about it I don't know if your even going to be able to do two systems - since you can't really have two sonos systems on same wifi network. Your going to have to setup as normal and see if you can associate two different alexa accounts to the two different Sonos units. I don't know.