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FinallyInSeattle
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October 5, 2017
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Groups and Alexa

  • October 5, 2017
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I have 3 Sonos speakers in my living room/kitchen/dining room area that I always group. I had them grouped from the Sonos app when I tried out the mute/unmute Alexa commands. The command worked on only one of the speakers. How can I get commands to apply to the entire group?
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    Best answer by jgatie
    Alexa groups are not supported at this time, and combining Sonos speakers into Alexa groups can give unpredictable results. The proper way to play to groups is to group via the Sonos app and tell Alexa to play to any one of the individual grouped speakers.

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    DarkClown
    Lyricist III
    October 6, 2017
    C-wag, that is correct. I have pretty much always had my Living Room and Dining Rooms grouped in the Sonos app.

    I believe the grouping feature in the Alexa app that people are trying to use for Sonos Rooms is only intended for gouping Echo devices, which in my testing didn't work very well.
    AM_A
    Trending Lyricist I
    October 7, 2017
    Open the Alexa app and select Smart Home on the menu. Clicking on Groups allows you to name the group and select the Sonos speakers you want.

    I tried this but Alexa refuses to understand what I’m talking about. (Eg I’ve set up my ‘living room’ & ‘kitchen’ speakers as ‘living room kitchen’).
    I have one speaker each in 3 separate rooms. They are not in any permanent groups within sonos. I group & ungroup as I need to in sonos. I had assumed I would be able to do this in Alexa but I cannot get it to work.
    Can anyone confirm whether I’m doing something wrong or if this functionality doesn’t actually exist?
    jgatie
    jgatieAnswer
    October 7, 2017
    Alexa groups are not supported at this time, and combining Sonos speakers into Alexa groups can give unpredictable results. The proper way to play to groups is to group via the Sonos app and tell Alexa to play to any one of the individual grouped speakers.
      Anja Hansen
      Lyricist II
      December 14, 2017
      I have 2 rooms in the Sonos app that are pretty much always grouped (Living Room and Dining Room). Because of this I had considered putting them all in the same Sonos room. However having them in separate rooms is working very well. I can say "Alexa play X in Living Room" or "Alexa play X in Dining Room". Either way all the speakers in the group start playing. Same if I want to stop/pause playing. They all stop together. However by having them in separate Sonos rooms I can say "Alexa raise volume in Dining Room" and only the speakers in that room change. I can also say "Alexa set volume in Living Room to zero" and those speakers are muted so that I only hear the Dining Room speakers.

      This is really good for a one person house, without any playbar/base that will remove itself from group everytime tv i turned on at nights.
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