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jfranche
jfranche
Enthusiast I
October 28, 2017
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Do Alexa Routines work through Sonos One?

  • October 28, 2017
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My “Start my day” routine isn’t triggering. Wondering if others got routines to work through a One.
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    Best answer by Master T
    Alexa Routines (which are distinct from SmartThings routines) are a very new feature and it's not surprising to me that they are not yet available on the Sonos One. You also cannot, as yet, add a Sonos One as an 'Alexa-Enabled Device' to an Alexa group either, but that feature was only added to the app a few days ago. Based on the comments sprinkled throughout the forum, I believe we can expect most of these features to become available over time, but being an early adopter sometimes requires as extra dose of patience.

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    tunafanatic
    Contributor II
    December 23, 2017
    facing the same thing here. Routines didnt work on my sonos one and unable to add sonos into alexa groups.
    Sassamafracken
    Lyricist III
    December 30, 2017
    My routines work through the Sonos One, for the most part. Anything that involves a response from Alexa herself, like a scripted response, news flash briefing, weather, etc., does not work through the One when on a routine (but does work if asked directly, “Alexa, what’s the news?”). Other Smart Home features work fine. Seems as if Amazon needs to recognize the Sonos as an Alexa speaker, not just Alexa enabled.
    emjayem
    Contributor I
    February 1, 2018
    Wondering if there's any updated news about success with Routines. I just combined a pair of Sonos One speakers with my Echo, and was able to use voice control on the Sonos to activate "Alexa, Good Morning." But the "Alexa, Start My Day" routine, which is supposed to play weather and a news podcast, produces no response from either Sonos speaker. ("Start My Day" still works as expected on the Echo.) Both Sonos speakers are identified in the Alex app; Is it possible it will work if I say "Alexa, Start My Day in the Living Room" or "Alexa, Start My Day in the Master Bedroom?"
    UKMedia
    UKMedia
    February 1, 2018
    Wondering if there's any updated news about success with Routines. I just combined a pair of Sonos One speakers with my Echo, and was able to use voice control on the Sonos to activate "Alexa, Good Morning." But the "Alexa, Start My Day" routine, which is supposed to play weather and a news podcast, produces no response from either Sonos speaker. ("Start My Day" still works as expected on the Echo.) Both Sonos speakers are identified in the Alex app; Is it possible it will work if I say "Alexa, Start My Day in the Living Room" or "Alexa, Start My Day in the Master Bedroom?"

    Not yet no 😞
    Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
    emjayem
    Contributor I
    February 2, 2018
    FWIW, I tried it again this morning, just asking Alexa to "play my Flash Briefing" instead of "Start My Day" -- and it worked. :?
    Barry Carson
    Contributor II
    July 20, 2018
    All this equally applies to the Beam now. Be good for Sonos to support stuff like Routines on the new devices.
    melvimbe
    melvimbe
    July 20, 2018
    Just my additional two cents, it's not just a matter of Sonos doing the development to support various Alexa features that can be done on echos. Obviously, the Sonos hardware has to be correct to support the feature. As well, Amazon can decide that it doesn't want to allow third party Alexa enabled devices to implement certain features.

    From what I've seen though, I think Sonos and Amazon have a pretty good relationship. I think Amazon may be content to let Sonos be the 'high-end' version of echo. As well, I think competition between Amazon and Google could push along features on Sonos products. We'll see.
    Danny
    dholdback
    Lyricist I
    December 28, 2018
    Any updates on this, I see from the dates above this was an issue 11 months ago. I have the same issue now, I have a Sonos Ones and routines don’t list a device
      jwgstr
      Lyricist I
      January 12, 2019
      +1 Got a couple of these for Christmas for our house but probably won't expand my usage of them until I can replace some of my echo devices (meaning routines work on the Sonos One).
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