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MikeBurtie
Contributor II
February 13, 2022
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Group/Degroup Sonos speakers using Alexa/Echo dot voice control

  • February 13, 2022
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Hi there Sonos experts !

I have a simple, but annoying, difficulty that I’m hoping someone has already overcome or reached a dead end with.

I regularly group a number of our Sonos speakers together so we don’t get the phasing issues with them when moving from one room to another (kitchen, dining room, study). I have always used the Sonos app to group/degroup  them (& have enabled the Sonos skill in the Alexa app so I can speak to ‘her’ to play music, raise/lower volume and short circuit the syntax to do so), but I’m curious as to whether I can also use specific syntax to also group/degroup the speakers from one another if I want to play different music/content in different rooms, rather than having to use the Sonos app on my phone/iPad to do so ?

If the answer is ‘you can’t (yet)’ that’s fair enough, but I didn’t want to not use the feature through ignorance.

 

Cheers,

Mike

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Best answer by jgatie

You can initiate play to a group using Alexa Groups, but you cannot dynamically group/ungrounded on the fly.

Alexa Smart Home Device Groups and Sonos

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jgatie
jgatieAnswer
February 13, 2022

You can initiate play to a group using Alexa Groups, but you cannot dynamically group/ungrounded on the fly.

Alexa Smart Home Device Groups and Sonos

    MikeBurtieAuthor
    Contributor II
    February 13, 2022

    That’s really helpful, thank you. I did think that maybe it wasn’t possible to use Alexa to group/degroup the various speakers as I couldn’t find any info on it, and no matter what words I used, nothing seemed to work, so it’s good to receive confirmation that it’s not just me being a bit thick ! Cheers again, Mike 👍🏻

    controlav
    controlav
    Lead Maestro
    February 14, 2022

    My now-retired Alexa skill could do this. I chose “tell my speaker to add the Kitchen” as the syntax (similar for removal). I thought it was obvious but my wife (#1 user) was less convinced and usually broke out the app.

    Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
    melvimbe
    melvimbe
    February 14, 2022

    That’s really helpful, thank you. I did think that maybe it wasn’t possible to use Alexa to group/degroup the various speakers as I couldn’t find any info on it, and no matter what words I used, nothing seemed to work, so it’s good to receive confirmation that it’s not just me being a bit thick ! Cheers again, Mike 👍🏻

     

    As a general rule, if Echos don’t have the feature themselves (like dynamic grouping), then Amazon won’t let you do it by voice on Sonos either.

    Danny
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