Amazon Echo / Dot and Sonos Integration

@jgatie i think youre confused. the dots are all individually assigned and always have been. if anything you cant CONNECT echos. if you ask the echo upstairs a question, only the one upstairs will reply. you have to make the harmony skill regardless of how many echos you had. i have multiple dots connected to multiple speakers in each room and theyre all independent of each other. i CANT daisy chain them like the sonos. i think what spcdust is trying to ask is if sonos will be working the software on their end so the entire system isnt connected by default and the speakers themselves can be individually assigned, as if they were bluetooth, for example, without having to go into the app manually every time. not the dots. the dots are all independent of each other. always have been.

You are completely missing the point. The OP wants to say "Alexa, play the Beatles" to his bedroom Alexa and Alexa will know it's in the bedroom and play only to the bedroom. Right now, I can't say "Turn out the lights" in the bedroom and only have the bedroom lights go out. I have to make a group called Bedroom Lights" and say "Alexa, turn off bedroom lights".

None of this has to do with linking the Echos together to play the same music.

I think with Sonos your going to have to say alexa play the beetles in bedroom. What really needs to happen with the alexa integration is the long asked for supergroups. So you can say alexa play the beetles downstairs and it auto group all the downstairs speakers. That is going to be key to successful implementation I think.

no, youre missing the point. if you have a dot connected to a speaker in a room at the moment, right now, right this instant, wether bluetooth or input, all OP has to say IS "alexa play the Beatles" to his bedroom alexa and have it only play in his bedroom. it's not going to play anywhere else BUT his bedroom. given that sonos doesnt do bluetooth and only the play 5 has input, op wants to know if sonos will work on a solution for pairing speakers to echos instead of the main system "hub".

Reading back, I agree with Chris. I don't see Sonos developing voice control to be nothing more than a wireless audio link between an Echo Dot and a single Sonos speaker. I think voice control will be just that, full voice control. So I can be in the bedroom and tell Sonos to turn on music in the kitchen, or turn it off in the bathroom, or group two rooms. Just like I can with my lights, my tv, etc. I think it would be a waste of Sonos' capabilities to just have the Sonos speaker be a higher quality output for a single Echo Dot.

no, youre missing the point. if you have a dot connected to a speaker in a room at the moment, right now, right this instant, wether bluetooth or input, all OP has to say IS "alexa play the Beatles" to his bedroom alexa and have it only play in his bedroom. it's not going to play anywhere else BUT his bedroom. given that sonos doesnt do bluetooth and only the play 5 has input, op wants to know if sonos will work on a solution for pairing speakers to echos instead of the main system "hub".

As I posted above, I think this would be selling it short. Why would one buy Sonos for this when you could just get a quality Bluetooth speaker?

Jgatie i agree. like i said, thats the set up i have at the moment. but that's what OP was asking and thats what i was trying to clarify for you guys. i have given no opinion on the matter. wether sonos will or wont offer to individually pair speakers "bluetooth style" i dont know. only they know. but that was his question. it had nothing to do with the echos themselves. echos are already independent by default. youre comparing lights that require a central hub to control to smart speakers that are capable of running independently.

however, some of us owned sonos BEFORE echo dots. not "why woukd one buy sonos for this". could be OPs situation and he's just maybe trying to figure out if he's going to be able to make it work or maybe dump his sonos for something else like the denon heos that DO have bluetooth and line in.

Right. I was not imagining the "pair one Sonos to one Dot" scenario when I made my explanation. I had never considered it, so I immediately went to the control hub scenario (which I still prefer). If I wanted a Bluetooth speaker, I'd buy one. OMMV

The point I was enquiring on is how far the integration will go - Echo only having the capability to control Sonos is rather a dull proposition. If you already have Sonos speakers in rooms then so much better to have them also act as the voice of Alexa - I don't want to populate rooms with additional speakers / Echo units just so I can hear Alexa's voice. Instead link a specific Dot with a specific rooms Speakers so you get the full Echo / Alexa experience enabling the individual user to ask Alexa questions such as "tell me the traffic", "What's the weather" and then taking advantage of their already installed superior Sonos speakers in that particular room.

Like I said, surely under the hood, they could achieve this by using each devices MAC addresses.

well i actually have both. ive the connect amp in my kitchen and play 5 in my room. each connected to an echo dot. i only listen to pandora, pretty much these days so i dont need more. daughters have an echo in their own rooms. when im in the kitchen ill talk to alexa and get my music going. same in my room. when i want to throw it to both I'll just go through the app. best of both worlds as far as im concerned. basically just added voice to my sonos when i bought the dots. but like i, and OP, said before, this set up only works if you have the play 5. anything less and, for the time being at least, youre out of the loop.