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Alexa Default all audio through Sonos Speaker

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
October 6, 2017
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Trying out the alexa app with an echo Dot today. Is there, or will there ever be a way to simply have all Echo audio playing through my Sonos speaker? At the moment you have to specifically tell Alexa the speaker to use, i.e. Alexa play the Beatles on *speaker name*. I would prefer if I could have all audio by default going through my sonos, without having to state the room on every command. Maybe I am missing an obvious setting for this?

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aidanfenn

Lyricist I

+1 yes please, single greatest feature request

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amsquires83

Lyricist III

+1 I’d Love my Alexa Dot to just route all music and radio playing requests to Sonos. This could be set as a “default speaker for music and radio” Alexa setting...

We need to provide this feedback to Amazon, via ‘Help & Feedback’ section of the Alexa app and https://forums.developer.amazon.com/idea/99589/set-default-music-output-to-non-amazon-speaker.html

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amsquires83

Lyricist III

A fix is coming!
http://view.email.sonos.com/?qs=877143a5d39fa711dc7b3862e66cc23e3421e2e1a9d3d87c51e84699467baaf894e0930bc92507a25ad0ce49da54fd8759d41441b90caea9e877a56dcd162b40e7a345ee889182dac629324d5e7f6d36

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WeClarks

Lyricist I

+1 It’s annoying to specify the speaker when it’s in that room. Also, my wife and kids are lazy and don’t want to say, “on Living Room”or “on Dining Room”

Supremely lazy, it’ 3 words! Maybe if we all talked to one another using more specifics, there’d be less miscommunication. Thank you for the bemused smile!

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rftoomey

Trending Lyricist I

I don’t think it’s lazy to expect Alexa to be able to default all audio output to a connected Sonos system, it’s just the expectation that any voice recognition system should strive to mimic human communication. It’s all about intuitiveness and flexibility... it’s counterintuitive to have an Alexa Dot use its feeble/tinny speaker when it’s connected to a far superior Sonos audio system.

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amsquires83

Lyricist III

I don’t think it’s lazy to expect Alexa to be able to default all audio output to a connected Sonos system, it’s just the expectation that any voice recognition system should strive to mimic human communication. It’s all about intuitiveness and flexibility... it’s counterintuitive to have an Alexa Dot use its feeble/tinny speaker when it’s connected to a far superior Sonos audio system.

Spot on!!! Come on already. Sonos.....

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chrisredmayne

Avid Contributor I

Any updates??? Swems like it shoupd be possible with the amazon groupings

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hyuz

Contributor I

Please can you reshare the fix in an image? When we follow your link it says expired. Thank you!

A fix is coming!
http://view.email.sonos.com/?qs=877143a5d39fa711dc7b3862e66cc23e3421e2e1a9d3d87c51e84699467baaf894e0930bc92507a25ad0ce49da54fd8759d41441b90caea9e877a56dcd162b40e7a345ee889182dac629324d5e7f6d36

UKMedia

I'm not sure if all audio will be output but you can now create an Alexa group containing an Echo Dot and a Sonos Speaker and define a 'Preferred Speaker' for that group. Any requests for streamed music will be output on the preferred speaker without the need to include the speaker name in the command.

Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)

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SOCalistic

Renowned Enthusiast I

I was hoping it would work with all audio like alarms etc but oh well.

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