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angelr91
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October 6, 2017

Grouping Alexa Echo Speakers with Sonos speakers

  • October 6, 2017
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First of all this is not a request to support grouping sonos with sonos speakers for particular rooms, rather this is a request or an inquiry to find out if there are any plans (or rather that there should be plans) to support "grouping" of Alexa Echo Speakers with Sonos Speakers.

In my opinion, if the desire is to be truely agnostic of AI (Alexa, Google Home, Siri, etc.) then supporting other speakers (third parties or by Amazon, Google, or Apple) in unison is a must.

If i am sonos owner it is obvious i want to use more sonos products together because they are truly sound (no pun intended) and quality speakers, however if I want an AI in my house (alexa for instance) i want it to be supported everywhere even if i invested in an Alexa Echo Plus (for instance).

If you only allow to have Alexa control sonos and all Echo Speakers or other third party speakers are blocked away then you are seriously limiting the user as they will not be able to benefit from let's say buying an Echo Plus (to have a smart home at home) or buying an Echo speaker for a bathroom for instance.

Apart from supporting grouping among all sonos (which is definitely the first thing that needs to be addressed) you should also address grouping of Alexa speakers.
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      J T
      Lyricist I
      November 20, 2017
      Just got my first Sonos... a ONE. I have several Echos (big and small). The ONE can set a timer and play music, but is otherwise pretty neutered compared to full Alexa functionality. I think this inability for an "Alexa poduct" to play music with other Alexa devices is going to doom my first Sonos to a return. 😞
      Bournesonos
      Lyricist I
      December 30, 2017
      Agree. Sonos/ Amazon have to try and sort this inter - grouping issue. Christmas day left us additional Amazon echos and I immediately grouped them into an ‘everywhere’ group linked to Amazon Music unlimited.
      It is easy to use and works perfectly, all voice activated, no dual apps or skills etc. Also love the ‘drop in’ feature to allow us to speak to teenager 2 flights of stairs up – all is good.

      But what about 2 boxes under the Christmas tree of a Play 1 and a Play 3? I have left them untouched, not opened due to concerns of frustrating me by not grouping into the Amazon eco-system (EchoSystem.. :D

      Reading various posts here, I understand the only way of doing this is to plug an Echo dot via 3.5mm jack into a Sonos.(inferior quality option? – shouldn’t it be optical /digital/wifi)?

      I thought the Echo Dot could connect via Wifi to a nominated Sonos and then be grouped into the Amazon groups but doesn’t seem this is possible and questionable if it will be. If I am wrong about how to link these up – please tell me. I may have misunderstood the ‘Plug an echo dot into a Play5’ comment elsewhere on this community.

      Ideally, I would want speakers ‘Amazon certified’ and group-able into the Amazon ‘EchoSystem’. You would think the new Sonos 1 (Alexa enabled natively) would be this product, but it does not group with Echos either. There is talk of a new API to allow Sonos to resolve this but can someone state confidently it will happen?

      Sorry to say that the Sonos speakers will be returned unopened 😞 Meanwhile I suppose the £380 can be used to purchase a few more Echos, enjoy the voice activation everywhere and quality is OK for general living in your house activities. Wait until the technology stabilises and try again later.
      As someone else stated, if Amazon upgrades the quality of it audio speakers to Sonos levels then I doubt I would look further.
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