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Guyincognito76
Prominent Collaborator I
September 22, 2018

New Amazon Echo Input

  • September 22, 2018
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Not an ideal place to ask, but I’m not signing up to another forum to just ask this... 🆒

Currently I have a couple of Play 1’s setup in the kitchen with an Echo Dot. Obviously, at the moment I have to say, ‘Alexa, play BBC 6 Music in the kitchen’ to kick things off. But I also have Sonos Ones and a Beam as well, so when I’m in the kitchen I often forget to say ‘kitchen’ so the bloody thing plays horrible sounds from the Echo Dot, or music as Amazon calls it -it’s almost rage inducing.

I have tried to find out but does anybody know if the new Echo Input will pair with just one set of speakers, and therefore will a target room not be necessary? If I can just say, ‘Alexa, play BBC 6 Music’ and it comes out of the Play 1’s then my sanity is worth £40.
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UKMedia
December 26, 2018
Please see this link for recent functionality improvements: https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/an-overview-and-explanation-of-the-new-support-for-alexa-grouping-6817788
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jgatie
December 26, 2018

You can set it up to do that for lights; however, I have not tried it with speakers.


As UKMedia said, Alexa Groups for Sonos is rolling out as we speak. See his link for details.
arcadelt
Enthusiast I
December 26, 2018
As UKMedia said, Alexa Groups for Sonos is rolling out as we speak. See his link for details.

That was not @Dwayne-D's point. He was interested in a default speaker linked to a room, and used lights as an example. I indicated that was already available.
Lyricist I
January 13, 2019
Groups work just fine with Sonos - I have two different rooms both with their own sonos and dot - grouped them into rooms ( Bedroom and Kitchen respectivly) thenmake the default speaker for the" group" (i.e room) the sonos device(s) in that room - hey presto just say "play ..." and it comes out from the sonos in the room. my kitchen has 2 sonso 1's paired and it all works as youd want. To the point in Q though - if the "input" works like the "dot" then you are good to go.
UKMedia
January 13, 2019
According to the Amazon UK web site, it states that the Echo Input is NOT compatible with Sonos devices but I haven't checked personally.
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