Multiple Echo and Sonos - play everywhere not an option

I received my Sonos one today and can confirm you cannot add it to the Everywhere group in Alexa app. Very disappointed and will likely return the One.

I received my Sonos one today and can confirm you cannot add it to the Everywhere group in Alexa app. Very disappointed and will likely return the One.

It's not possible with any 3rd party speakers until Amazon releases the SDK with this functionality early next year. Nothing Sonos can do about it till then.

Grouping all your speakers and controlling them with Alexa can actually be done but requires a Harmony hub and remote (at least it’s the only way I know of). I have a Harmony activity set up with my 5 Play1’s and Soundbar and when I tell Alexa to “play Sonos” my last playlist plays on all my speakers. If you have different playlists set up in harmony you can control them with Alexa well. I also have the Sonos skill set up so once the music is playing I can control my speakers using the Sonos voice commands. This is not perfect and commands are limitedso I am really looking forward to Sonos’s ultimate solution but it’s better than nothing.

Sonos connection is not a trade secret. It connects to each speaker through its own wifi network

Huh?

I'm curious if anybody has tried the obvious "brute force" method of combining Echo and Sonos groups?

Plug a Dot into a Play5 or ZP120

Group the Play5 or ZP 120 with some other Sonos players

Create an Echo group including the Dot and some other Echos

Play something on the Echo group.

The music should play on all of the grouped Echos and all of the grouped Sonos players. There would be a little delay between the Sonos and Echo groups but that might not be an issue depending on the length of delay and how much the two areas overlap.

I'll probably try this out for myself but was wondering if somebody already has and has some feedback on how well it worked?

Alexa and Sonos have made a great first step and i'm waiting to be able to say:
Alexa group sonos kitchen and bathroom and lounge
Alexa play xxto the group
Alexa pause kitchen
Alexa resume kitchen

Ie ceate and modify groupings of sonos devices and sync the sounds comming out. Hen pause and resume one room in the group.

Get a Play 5, use line in with an Echo Dot, use Amazon Music Unlimited, voice command your music, group Sonos speakers in the Sonos app and you are set to go.

I will say there is a SLIGHT audio delay doing it this way but it works in my situation really well. A bit cumbersome but it is a work around.

I'm not following how the inability to mix and match echo and sonos speakers means that people would be better served with a google max. You can't mix and match sonos with google speakers, nor do I think google does mutliroom audio (do they? I don't know).

I had Google Home installed before the Sonos 1 was delivered and experimented with controlling Sonos via Chromecast Audio connected to a Connect. It worked but the sound quality in comparison to the Sonos app was very poor and I stopped using it. Google however do support multi room as each Google Home is a Chrome Cast device and so can be grouped but again the Audio quality is not in the same league.