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suitedupgeek
Contributor I
Sep 28, 2018 10:42 PM UTC

Alexa MRM + Sonos - any update yet?

Alexa MRM has been a thing for around a year now, and I'm aware that as things stand at present you're unable to group Sonos + Alexa devices together but I'm also aware that the API's now exist to make this happen.

I'm wondering if there is any update now that Amazon are freely posting things like this to the public domain - https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/a9acaabd-d5a0-4fdf-b74a-c20cfe4d4ef9/deliver-whole-home-audio-with-alexa-multi-room-music-and-device-targeting.

You would have to presume that Sonos are either:

A: Working on this and it's in their roadmap
B: Purposefully not working on this

As a customer of both businesses, and with rooms in my home where I just can't justify buying a Sonos One for small spaces (like spare bedrooms for example) I'm very keen to know if this is ever likely to be possible in the coming months. I already have 2 x Sonos One and a Sonos Beam and they work together beautifully. It would be brilliant if we could just get this extra feature and I think my home automation project would be damn near complete 🙂

Thanks and much respect for making amazing products
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      Ryan S
      Ryan S
      Retired Sonos Staff
      Oct 29, 2018 10:59 PM UTC
      Hi everyone, I'm happy to make sure your voices are added to the request. We can't speak to this request at the moment, but I'll make sure the team knows you're asking for it.
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        suitedupgeekAuthor
        Contributor I
        Dec 21, 2018 7:10 AM UTC
        For those following this thread:

        https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/sonos-now-playing-with-alexa-groups-6817588

        Works brilliantly 🙂
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        lehighbri
        Lyricist II
        Dec 21, 2018 9:31 PM UTC
        For those following this thread:

        https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/sonos-now-playing-with-alexa-groups-6817588

        Works brilliantly :)

        Interesting - thanks for the heads up! Not quite MRM yet, but seems to be getting closer....
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        Sonoson
        Enthusiast I
        Dec 21, 2018 10:00 PM UTC
        For those following this thread:

        https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/sonos-now-playing-with-alexa-groups-6817588

        Works brilliantly :)

        Interesting - thanks for the heads up! Not quite MRM yet, but seems to be getting closer....
        I don't think MRM is any closer today than a year ago. The update Ryan gave in https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/alexa-multiroom-music-simultaneously-on-sonos-and-echo-devices-6817442/index1.html#post16295080 sounds like Sonos hasn't decided if they are going to do Alexa MRM.
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        jgatie
        jgatie
        Dec 21, 2018 10:26 PM UTC
        Well, while I'm waiting around for Sonos to get closer to MRM, I'm going to watch a movie on my Playbar.

        Perhaps I'll choose Logan.
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