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Mike Doyle
Contributor I
Feb 6, 2018 8:29 AM UTC
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Ducking all speakers - any progress?

When I added two Sonos Ones to my existing Sonos-filled house last year, I was excited about Alexa integration.
However, I disabled the Sonos skill within days because of the "Ducking all speakers" issue.
My six Sonos speakers and Connect are unusable when linked to Alexa because of this real irritation to the entire household.
I make no apology for again asking:
"When will the 'all speakers ducking' issue be fixed?"
Thanks.
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      jgatie
      jgatieAnswer
      Jul 15, 2019 4:32 PM UTC
      Any update on this issue? Seems crazy that it's been going on for so long!

      It's been fixed for over 6 months:

      https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/sonos-now-playing-with-alexa-groups-6817588

      Volume lowering done smarter using Alexa Groups
      
      We've been listening, and are happy to say that with Alexa Groups, saying "Alexa" to any device with a microphone will only lower the volume of speakers in the same Alexa Group. Every Echo device you have will need to be in an Alexa Group to take advantage of this fully. Echo devices not part of any Alexa Group will still make all Sonos players drop in volume
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      Decdad
      Trending Lyricist I
      Feb 24, 2018 3:00 PM UTC
      Same question here. Being “tech support guy” for the household, I have 4 girls asking me to fix this daily. Dots don’t integrate. The one Sonos One is useless. What’s the status? Come on sonos. You released this and said integration, this is a bug!
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        Croakerbg
        Lyricist I
        Feb 25, 2018 4:32 PM UTC
        Same issue. This is really crushing the experience.
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          jt7777
          Lyricist I
          Apr 16, 2018 11:12 PM UTC
          Very frustrating - I have to run through the house telling the kids to not use their Alexa's
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            Ken_Griffiths
            Ken_Griffiths
            Apr 16, 2018 11:57 PM UTC
            Don’t know if this really helps, or not, but see the recent post from Ryan S. here:

            https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/sonos-8-5-now-available-6805630?postid=16224813

            The comments were made just as v8.5 of the Sonos App went live.
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            mhwalczak
            Lyricist I
            Jul 15, 2019 4:26 PM UTC
            Any update on this issue? Seems crazy that it's been going on for so long!
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            jgatie
            jgatieAnswer
            Jul 15, 2019 4:32 PM UTC
            Any update on this issue? Seems crazy that it's been going on for so long!

            It's been fixed for over 6 months:

            https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/sonos-now-playing-with-alexa-groups-6817588

            Volume lowering done smarter using Alexa Groups
            
            We've been listening, and are happy to say that with Alexa Groups, saying "Alexa" to any device with a microphone will only lower the volume of speakers in the same Alexa Group. Every Echo device you have will need to be in an Alexa Group to take advantage of this fully. Echo devices not part of any Alexa Group will still make all Sonos players drop in volume
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            mhwalczak
            Lyricist I
            Jul 15, 2019 5:39 PM UTC
            Great. Thank you.
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