Alexa in canada

Fixing this was easy actually. Change your Alexa app location to somewhere in the states and then update you Sonos profile to somewhere in the states. I just got my Sonos Ones working in Canada. BAM!

Can anyone shed some light here? I got my Echo dots setup a few weeks ago here in Canada, but at the time was only able to install the Alexa Sonos skill by "moving" my Amazon account device registration to USA temporarily. Spotify integration has been working nicely, with the exception of asking to play music by genre "I can't find any Christmas music on Spotify". It seems others have experienced this issue, and it seems to be an issue with the registration locations for the accounts (mine are all currently set back to Canada). I previously had my Echo device language set to "English (Canada)", but changing this to English (USA) resolved the issues I was having with a separate alexa skill, however it didn't fix this Spotify integration issue.

My understanding is that alexa’s Spotify skills are a bit limited at the moment. Mine always plays Christian rock music...

Hi, I am a happy Sonos user as well as many other automation devices including Harmony Hub and recently Echo Gen 2 and Alexa. My goal was to use Alexa as the voice prompt for all other integrated home automation. The Sonos speaker is far superior to Echo so I was planning to use Sonos as the main speaker in the Kitchen where the Echo also sits. Was disappointed when so many skills and features were missing from Alexa in Canada.

I started to post a lot on Echotalks.org and got them to open up a separate Category for the support for the Canadians using Echo.

I encourage Sonos to proceed with the Canadian skills roll out like others have such as Harmony. I did get Sonos to work through Harmony Hub and Alexa but it was a bit complex.

However, some users might want to setup the Echo as a US device like I did where you can have the best of the US features as well as Canadian local awareness. Through this method I also got the Sonos skill to work quite well. Now I can just ask Alexa to play any song on My kitchen sonos.

You can see more details at the link below or just go to Echotalk.org and look for the Maple Leaf Canadian Support section.

http://www.echotalk.org/index.php/topic,3263.0.html

When is Alexa skill for Sonos going to be in Canada, why is the engineering so complex that it takes this long to role out as you already have it

Indeed. How about an update on when this will work in Canada.

Yes! I bought Amazon instead of Goolge home for this feature. If this already works in the US then what is the hold up?

Yes! I bought Amazon instead of Goolge home for this feature. If this already works in the US then what is the hold up?

The holdup is they have to integrate and test the Sonos cloud with the Amazon cloud in Canada and prepare for millions of new possible users. It is an infrastructure thing. It's not a simple matter of flipping a switch.

The responses are nonsense. I can take my sonos one to the US and it works as advertised but, in Canada they require additional engineering? Also, it is Alexa compatible but Amazon music is not one of the streaming services offered. I have never been more disappointed in a piece of technology.

The responses are nonsense. I can take my sonos one to the US and it works as advertised but, in Canada they require additional engineering? Also, it is Alexa compatible but Amazon music is not one of the streaming services offered. I have never been more disappointed in a piece of technology.

Yes. The infrastructure to connect the Sonos cloud to the Amazon Canada cloud, and the ability to support the potential of hundreds of thousands of more users on that infrastructure requires more engineering.