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golfer154
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June 23, 2018
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Play 5 1st gen and alexa

  • June 23, 2018
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Can you run a play 5 1st gen directly thru the alexa sonos skill? I have set up the skill it see the speaker but alexa does not recognize it. Just want to play tunein or send bluetooth music from my phone to alexa then to the play 5
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    Best answer by melvimbe
    Yes, you can. Not recognizing it? You should be able to say something like ' Alexa play on Tunein on . Is it saying it doesn't recognize your Sonos zone? You may want to disable and setup the skill again. Sometimes that works.

    As far as bluetooth music, that won't work. If you're using an echo as a bluetooth speaker, you can't transfer that over to the Play:5 speaker. Maybe I don't understand what you mean.

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    melvimbe
    melvimbeAnswer
    June 23, 2018
    Yes, you can. Not recognizing it? You should be able to say something like ' Alexa play on Tunein on . Is it saying it doesn't recognize your Sonos zone? You may want to disable and setup the skill again. Sometimes that works.

    As far as bluetooth music, that won't work. If you're using an echo as a bluetooth speaker, you can't transfer that over to the Play:5 speaker. Maybe I don't understand what you mean.
    Danny
    Airgetlam
    Airgetlam
    June 23, 2018
    If you connected the Echo device to the PLAY:5 with a headphone cable to the line in on the PLAY:5, and set up auto play on the line in, you could use Bluetooth to the Echo, and have it play on the Sonos. As an option 😉
    Bruce
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