About ducking time

Doesn't seem to work for me. I set up groups for my son's room, living room, office, kitchen, bedroom... and accessing Alexa in my son's room still kills the music in other rooms.

I was just playing a podcast using Airplay to the One in my living room, paired with my office :1, and went into my son's room to test it. Podcast not only ducked, but simply stopped playing entirely.

Edit: Tried it again with Spotify playing directly to the :1 (not Airplay) and the same thing happened. The music not only ducked but stopped entirely. This is even worse.

They have probably been putting a fix in and out of different versions. As we haven't seen any announcement - the fix must not be ready for prime time yet. That would seem to explain it working sometimes for people.

Hopefully we see a bunch of new alexa changes soon. And google.

I read a bit of this thread a while ago and thought there was a ducking solution. Also to confirm it doesn't work for me yet - I have my two echo dots in a smart group thingy with the Sonos devices in those rooms but all rooms duck when talking to the dot.

I would hope they will have some kind of update by November

I would hope they will have some kind of update by NovemberWhich year?

It's already at least 12 months after it should have been sorted.

Ducking is now fixed.

Ducking is now fixed.

I believe you, thought no official announcement from Sonos ??

Rather than universal ducking I now have no ducking at all, though I have Ip each Sonos device in groups with a preferred speaker. Am I missing something ?

Andrew

Strangely enough there was an official announcement on twitter, which was deleted.

Do you have ALL of your Sonos Speakers assigned to an Alexa group? So I have a Sonos speakers in rooms without an alexa device but have still set the room as a group and added the appropriate Sonos Room speaker and set it as default music device. If not that may be the cause.

Otherwise I do wonder if they removed the tweet because of a bug like you have found. For me it works as intended.

Some have been seeing support via the last Alexa update (ducking and setting for Sonos speakers to be set as default music speaker for an echo device - ie no saying "in room" anymore). It seems to work most of the time but seems to be a work in progress where Amazon just put out their part and Sonos must have a few thing to do as well in getting it to full speed. Thus I think no announcement since its a WIP. Hopefully see something soon on Sonos end.

But enjoy it while it is working.