Alexa lowering volume

Just use the app instead of the stupid voice control

This is a very serious bug ! I can't undersrand how the Sonos team missed that or passed that through their quality control. How come a simple Alexa call in my daughter's dot in the bedroom mute all my quality Sonos music system across my home. I really hope Sonos fix that immediately.

Not really a bug when known to work that way. Currently Amazon doesn't have a way for them to single out specific units to duck the volume. It was no ducking at all or duck everything. Sonos chose duck all over no ducking. As above, sounds like though if you delete a sonos speaker from the alexa app it will not duck (but you will lose voice control over that particular speaker). If you want voice control enabled on specific speaker it will duck.

Frankly if thats a decision and not a bug that makes it even worse. Its sad that after all that wait for the integration, Sonos had to go with such a huge deficiency even if this is from Amazon. My personal opinion, if i were in their shoes and if the situation is what you described, i would have opted for No ducking for Sonos speakers at all rather than ducking all ! I hope Sonos comment on this thread .

It was a decision. I personally would have gone. I ducking as well but I think a lot of people were having issues with Alexa hearing them this they went thensucking direction.

Hopefully the nia not long before amazon pushes out ability to link the echo and playing device as a group so that then Sonos can only suck thensingle speaker and also you won’t have to always say “play in room name”. That is the key missing part of current integration and once in place will really improve the user experience.

Listening to The Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 yesterday lunch time and the review of the year. One of the reviews related to Alexa which had recently been introduced so they were trying one in the studio. Even though my Alexa is not in the same room as my Sonos every command resulted in my reduction in the Sonos volume for 30 seconds or thereabouts. I have experienced other times when there has been a volume reduction even though my Alexa has been inactive.

I really hope this is resolved soon. It's so annoying when listening in one room and somebody else is chatting with Alexa in another room.

I agree, I wish I had read these comments before purchasing a Sonos One. I already had 5 other Sonos speakers that I can control easily with my computer or phone. The Sonos One with Alexa doesn't do anything better than the Echo Dot. I thought I would be able to group speakers and have the same song in sync throughout the house or select rooms simply by telling Alexa. Now when I want music in multiple rooms, even when requesting the same song or playlist, the music is not in sync. If the speakers are grouped in the Sonos app, you can't tell Alexa to play music in a specific room, it plays in all rooms that are grouped.

Glad for the functionality so far, but I too vote for being able to tell Alexa which Sonos devices it's near to, to have better focussed ducking.