Can't get Alexa to play on multiple Sonos speakers

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August 6, 2023
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I have enabled Alexa on my Sonos One and Roam speakers. One is in the master bedroom the other is in the master bath. I created a group for bedroom and I e doe bathroom. I then combine them into a group call upstairs. Both rooms and both speakers show up in the new combined group. But when I say Alexa play <Spotify playlist> on Upstairs" it only plays on the bedroom Sonos. I have deleted the group and recreates it but nothing I do seems to get music on both speakers. No idea what is going wrong here.

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Best answer by Ken_Griffiths

Goto the two speakers in the Upstairs group and scroll down past your devices to ‘playback options’ (see screenshot attached) and set that to ‘ALWAYS’ then say to the Alexa assistant on either speaker - ‘Alexa play some music’ —→ the two speakers should automatically Group and begin playback.

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As another Sonos user, like yourself, I initially had some frustrations, but have used Alexa with Sonos for some years now (and of course SVC in more recent times) and now have no issues with it - it’s fairly straightforward once you get your head around how things work. I also use Google too at a holiday home mostly, but I’m not so keen on that assistant as it’s quite limited when it comes to controlling Sonos. It’s a pity that Google do not allow their assistant to work alongside other assistants, as I would add SVC and Alexa and then use all the available assistants on my devices.

How does using SVC and Alexa work together for routines in Alexa. For example I have a good morning routine now that does some things with lights, other things in Alexa, that also starts music. The issue is trying to get that routine to start music in both the bedroom and the master bath. For something like that do you make Alexa call to SVC to start the music? Seems straight forward enough, but also seems like an added layer of complication.

Ken_Griffiths

How do

As another Sonos user, like yourself, I initially had some frustrations, but have used Alexa with Sonos for some years now (and of course SVC in more recent times) and now have no issues with it - it’s fairly straightforward once you get your head around how things work. I also use Google too at a holiday home mostly, but I’m not so keen on that assistant as it’s quite limited when it comes to controlling Sonos. It’s a pity that Google do not allow their assistant to work alongside other assistants, as I would add SVC and Alexa and then use all the available assistants on my devices.

How does using SVC and Alexa work together for routines in Alexa. For example I have a good morning routine now that does some things with lights, other things in Alexa, that also starts music. The issue is trying to get that routine to start music in both the bedroom and the master bath. For something like that do you make Alexa call to SVC to start the music? Seems straight forward enough, but also seems like an added layer of complication.

Here are the available SVC instructions you can use…

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/list-of-voice-requests-for-sonos-voice-control

Here is some further information about Alexa and the basic instructions you can use with that assistant…

https://www.amazon.com/Sonos-Inc/dp/B072ML3N6K

And just for completion, here are the Google assistant basic instructions…

https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/7539710

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