Alexa and playing BBC Radio via Tunein

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October 13, 2019
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Hi all - apologies if this has been covered, First Post.

Previously I could play BBC Radio via Alexa and Tunein on my Sonos Play 1 and Play 5. Just read that BBC no longer works with Tunein due to not being able to find an agreement about data sharing or similar.

Is there a workaround where I can use Alexa to play BBC Radio on my Sonos? Thanks

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UKMedia

You may want to check this post: https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/step-by-step-guide-to-play-bbc-radio-station-via-voice-control-6834993

Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)

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Barney_2

Contributor I

Install the BBC Skill then say ‘Alexa, ask BBC to play Radio 4’. This will play on your default speaker rather than the Dot.

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Sparkywheels1961

Contributor II

I managed to work around this using IFTTT. I connected the Alexa and Sonos services and then created an applet that starts bbc radio 4 on my Sonos device when I say ‘Alexa, trigger bbc Radio 4’. Works well.

How do you manage to create more than one IFTTT applet to do this?

Hit the '+' sign in the top right hand corner of the screen to create a new applet.

Hello JohnB. Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately there’s no “+” sign on my IFTTT account. I tried it looking with different web browsers and also using my Android app but with no luck.

Here is a screenshot of the “My Applets” page you said to go to in your reply in another thread.

https://imgur.com/wHmdszQ

Any ideas?

There is a button “create” and it allow you to build your new applet.

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