Ducking all speakers - any progress?

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February 6, 2018
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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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Best answer by jgatie

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

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

Same issue. This is really crushing the experience.

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jt7777

Lyricist I

Very frustrating - I have to run through the house telling the kids to not use their Alexa's

Ken_Griffiths

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

Any update on this issue? Seems crazy that it's been going on for so long!

jgatieAnswer

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

Great. Thank you.

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