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Makingtheleap
Contributor II
November 30, 2019
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Can i ask Alexa via Sonos Ones to play music everywhere

  • November 30, 2019
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Really struggling to ask my Sonos Ones to play music (Amazon Prime) in other rooms or everywhere.

 

it sounds like this functionality is now available (I think) and I’ve tried to set up an ‘Everywhere’ group via the Alexa app but my Sonos speakers are shaded out/not selectable.

 

I have 3 x Sonos Ones, plus an Echo Dot although don’t need to use this. I’ve looked at selecting and deselecting preferred speakers but don’t really understand the intention of this.  I can see the speakers in the ‘All Devices’ area and there is also a group for each of the 3 Sonos speakers showing the room name (Kitchen, dining room, landing).

 

Can anyone help to clarify if this feature is available and how I set this up.

 

Thank you.

 

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    MakingtheleapAuthor
    Contributor II
    November 30, 2019

    Thanks Ken,

    I suppose I wanted to enable this so that in any of the 3 Sonos rooms I could ask the speaker to play individually or everywhere. (The Echo Dot is in the bedroom, and so not always within reach.)


    I’ve now removed those 3 singular groups (not used for any other smart devices) and configured an ‘Everywhere’ group with the 3 speakers in, and with all 3 as preferred but still not getting the desired result.
     

     

     


     

     

     

    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_Griffiths
    November 30, 2019

    Oh dear… 🤔 you’re making it rather difficult for yourself, if you want to control the speakers separately (and grouped), you will need the separate groups to also do that.

    You could have just left things as they were and played the music by default to the individual (separate) Sonos rooms and then when you wanted to group them, just add the words ‘on Everywhere’ to your Alexa voice instruction.. but now you’ve deleted your individual rooms that has made it (perhaps) more difficult for yourself … I think you were better off the way I mentioned to begin with.

    i would do this…

    1. Remove/uncheck your Sonos One devices from the first section of the Everywhere Group, but leave them as 'preferred” in that overarching group. 
    2. Put each Sonos One in its own individual Group… 'Dining Room', 'Kitchen' and 'Landing' … you can give the Groups the same names as their speaker. Not only add them to their own group, but you need to also set each one individually as the Groups 'preferred' speaker.

    You can then control each room individually or …

    by adding “on Everywhere” to your Alexa voice instruction, the music will play to All.

    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_Griffiths
    November 30, 2019

    So Just to clarify you will likely need 4 groups to achieve what you’re looking for...

    Everywhere .. No speaker at all enabling/controlling the group, just your 3 Sonos rooms ‘preferred’.

    Dining Room .. Dining Room enabling/controlling the Group and also set as ‘preferred’.

    Kitchen .. Kitchen enabling/controlling the Group and also set as 'preferred'

    Landing .. Landing enabling/controlling the Group and also set as 'preferred'

    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_Griffiths
    November 30, 2019

    What you wish do with the Echo Dot device, (Chris’s Alexa), is upto you, but I guess you could set it to perhaps enable/control one of the 4 mentioned groups. (including the Everywhere Group).

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