Link an Echo Dot to an existing Sonos speaker

Sonos say this will be coming in the near future:

Call Out the Room Name
Currently the name of the speaker will need be called out specifically to play and control your music. “Alexa, play Lorde in the living room.” ‘Alexa pause in the kitchen.” This is temporary. We are working to make Alexa + Sonos smart enough to know where to start sound without you having to tell her all the time.

Im confused by people objecting... if you didnt want the functionality... just dont enable it??

Fir my part, i would love this. I dont care for the sustem messages to come out if the paired sonos speaker but i definitely want the music from sonos. Yes, you can get it to do this but, after 6 months with alexa/sonos, the single biggest irritation is that alexa misses “... in the kitchen”. If nothing is playing, it now plays music through the dot speaker. If music was already streaming, it then tells me that anazon is already streaming from another... argh!!

For occasional use, maybe this isnt a big deal but we use alexa/sonos all day, every day. For this use, the inability to get alexa to default to outputting to a chosen sonos speaker is darned annoying!

I'm rather more synical I'm afraid. Do you honestly think Amazon are going to allow full integration with Sonos? That would simply mean potential loss of revenue for Amazon. They want to sell their own speakers, not Sonos ones.

Whilst i appreciate that, they allow you to pair with bluetooth speaker. They have a line out for external speakers. So why not sonos?

In any case, the functionality discussed basically exists with the newest sonos offering, where alexa is built in. The amazon offerings cannot compete on sound. At this time, id happily put a dot in every room that has sonos, we would have a family unlimited music sub and we’d have spent a bunch more on amazon products and would be locked in. At the moment this would result in a tangled mess so i wont do it and leave myself free to swap to another voice assistant.

I'm rather more synical I'm afraid. Do you honestly think Amazon are going to allow full integration with Sonos? That would simply mean potential loss of revenue for Amazon. They want to sell their own speakers, not Sonos ones.

No, Amazon wants to sell you stuff. Any stuff. All stuff. The way they do that is to get you to buy into their entire ecosphere, via Alexa in any form she takes.

I'm rather more synical I'm afraid. Do you honestly think Amazon are going to allow full integration with Sonos? That would simply mean potential loss of revenue for Amazon. They want to sell their own speakers, not Sonos ones.

No, Amazon wants to sell you stuff. Any stuff. All stuff. The way they do that is to get you to buy into their entire ecosphere, via Alexa in any form she takes.

Don't agree I'm afraid. The calling and messaging function is disabled in the Sonos One. Can't see Amazon allowing it unless a financial deal is brokered.