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October 5, 2017

Amazon Alexa: Backwards compatible with existing Sonos speakers

  • October 5, 2017
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When it was first mentioned last year that Sonos was going to team up with Amazon to allow Alexa your music, it was stated that it would be backwards compatible with existing Sonos speakers. This was also re-iterated when there was a sale of Sonos speakers earlier in the year. So could someone advise me on how I upgrade my existing speakers to understand Alexa's commands. Thanks
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melvimbe
melvimbe
October 9, 2017
Your question was a good one. Nothing wrong with it all.

@235ca....the kind of integration you want was available the day Echo came out. You can always take the line out from an echo to the line in on Sonos devices that have a line in.

Also, the Alexa device itself does not interpret any commands, other then the wake words. It sends everything to the cloud for interpretation, and then back down to the echo device, or some other companies cloud in the case of smart home devices, for execution. There are a few smart things that an echo can talk to directly, but it's rather limited...which is the reason they are coming out with the Echo Plus. In the case of integrating to Sonos, it definitely is going the 'cloud route'.
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