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Echo Dot - Sonos as Default speakers

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March 9, 2018
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I have the Play One with Alexa which works amazing. I also have an Echo Dot in another room that works beautifully with my Sonos system. The only slightly annoying thing is that I have to tell my Echo Dot "Play Rock in the Living room". If I don't specifically say "in the living room" the dot plays the music (which is technically correct). Does anyone know if there is a way to change the default player/speaker so that I no longer have to specifically say the location of the speakers I want to use? In other words I would just say "Play Rock" and my Sonos speakers would kick on.

I can't seem to find anything specific to this question while searching the Alexa forums.

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Best answer by UKMedia

Hi

Nope, this is the difference between a Sonos One vs a Play:1 + Echo Dot combination. If you think about it, this is the logical way for Alexa to work; you are asking Alexa>Smart Home>Device 1(Echo Dot) to output music on Alexa>Smart Home>Device 2(Sonos Player)

This all may change when/if Sonos supports Alexa Groups but there is no time frame for this at present.

UKMediaAnswer

Hi

Nope, this is the difference between a Sonos One vs a Play:1 + Echo Dot combination. If you think about it, this is the logical way for Alexa to work; you are asking Alexa>Smart Home>Device 1(Echo Dot) to output music on Alexa>Smart Home>Device 2(Sonos Player)

This all may change when/if Sonos supports Alexa Groups but there is no time frame for this at present.

Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)

Chris

Lead Maestro

Sonos has said they want to be able to do this....its up to Amazon to allow it. Seems to be something being worked on.

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Jehan007

Lyricist II

This feature of assigning a a default sonos room or location for my Alexa devices would me amazing. Right now I am the only one that uses our sonos speakers because my wife never says "in the kitchen" afterwards.

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luma

Lyricist III

I'm not certain when this was added, but Alexa now allows you to set a "preferred speaker" for music playback in for a given group/room, and that includes Sonos devices. When setup, voice responses to normal Alexa interactions still come from the dot, but music is now automatically sent to the selected Sonos device. The result is exactly the behavior I was looking for and it works seamlessly.

Chris

Lead Maestro

That is new. Amazon must have snuck it in recently

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Chris

Lead Maestro

I love when people complain about Sonos beinf slow when it is very obvious now they were waiting on amazon.

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jgatie

I love when people complain about Sonos beinf slow when it is very obvious now they were waiting on amazon.

Yup. As has been said all along, Amazon releasing their multi-room media API was the holdup.

melvimbe

This should get highlighted a little more as it's definitely a feature people have been holding out for.

It also looks like you can select multiple Sonos rooms when selecting preferred speaker. I wonder if this could be a way of creating a named group? I'm not at home to be able test this out.

Danny

UKMedia

I've been testing the limitations of this new Alexa functionality. I've created a group of an Echo Dot and assigned a Sonos speaker as the default and it will output audio to the assigned Sonos speaker without including the name within the command.

I did get a bit excited when I saw that you could assign multiple Sonos devices as the default player(s). Thinking that this could be a way to output Audio to Everywhere without having players grouped within the Sonos App. Alas, I ungrouped all Sonos Rooms in the Sonos App but when selecting multiple Sonos devices only the last device selected in the Alexa App receives the Audio output. 😞

Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)

Chris

Lead Maestro

-- update --

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