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alexa/echo with arc

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December 9, 2024
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Hi.

the issue im having here right now is that I can’t change the wake word on arc as someone in the house has a similar name. The only way to change (as I have researched) is to get a dot, place near the arc, disable the arc voice control.

then group the arc and dot in Alexa app in the same room (living room in this instance). And set preferred speaker as the arc.

now, here’s where it gets messy. I have change the wake word to echo on the dot. When I call out echo on the dot, it responded on the dot. I thought it was suppose to respond through the arc? When I call echo on the dot to play music, it somehow says…playing Spotify on Sonos and the arc plays music.

i tried bringing this dot to another room, group it with a full fledge echo speaker, set preferred speaker to full fledge echo. When I speak to the dot, it responded through the echo speaker. When I speak to the dot to play music, it DID not play on the echo but on the dot. Wtf..?

I don’t really care about the echo and dot scenario. I just want the first issue to be resolve, ie speak to the dot and Alexa reply through the arc. Help please?

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melvimbe

I would have thought that this depends entirely on the options made available by the manufacturer of the fan / light in their Alexa integration. You need to find out what the legitimate forms of command are.

I don't think this has anything to do with Sonos.

Agreed. In case, the light and fan where originally setup to two different wall switches, I replace each dumb wall switch with smart ones, one for fan and one for the light. One of the switches is named ‘bedroom fan’ and the other is named ‘bedroom light’. I cannot simply say ‘turn on the fan’ as Alexa doesn’t intuitively know what the switch does per say, but using the exact name, ‘bedroom fan’, works perfectly. In short, how the electrician originally setup my wiring made things simple for me.

However, if you only have one switch, than you’re going to need some sort of smart fan/light that Alexa recognizes accordingly. Again, nothing to do with Sonos directly.

Danny

MoPac

Headliner III

I have Echo speakers in different rooms. It does not matter which one I use as long as I ask her to “Play music in the ( Sonos Room name )” it works just fine. I could be in the room furthest away from the Sonos Room and it still works. All my Echo speakers have different Wake words.

As far as Echo commands for lights, plugs, fans etc just give those devices unique memorable names rather than using the default names given to those devices.

I also use Sonos Voice Control on some of the Sonos Rooms.

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