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SGreenway
Contributor I
Nov 27, 2017 11:08 AM UTC
Question

Play music on SonosOne and Amazon Echo at the same time

Apologises if this topic has been covered elsewhere, but have looked and nothing similar has come up.

I have an Amazon Echo Plus (plus bit is irrelevant I think), and a Sonos One.

I can play music on the Echo or the One, but not both at the same time.
I have a group for both the Echo and the One, however Alexa on the Echo, does not recognise this group.

Can anyone assist me in getting my One and Echo to play the same music at the same time?
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    UKMedia
    UKMedia
    Nov 27, 2017 12:21 PM UTC
    Hi

    At present Sonos do not support Alexa groups and Amazon don't yet support grouping of third party speakers. So sorry this isn't possible with a Sonos One and Echo device at the moment.
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    SGreenwayAuthor
    Contributor I
    Nov 27, 2017 12:27 PM UTC
    Hi

    At present Sonos do not support Alexa groups and Amazon don't yet support grouping of third party speakers. So sorry this isn't possible with a Sonos One and Echo device at the moment.

    Thank you for the update, spent hours trying to find the answer, now I know 🆒
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    Lee Mac
    Lyricist I
    Dec 10, 2017 1:57 PM UTC
    hi do we know if this is in the pipeline to support both ways?
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    tjfortuna
    Contributor I
    Dec 10, 2017 3:33 PM UTC
    Same issue here.
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    justinhavens999
    Contributor III
    Jan 6, 2018 4:41 PM UTC
    I am also waiting for this integration. It is promised in 2018, the question is, how long to wait? I have not seen anything new on the internet. Hope it will be well advertised/talked about etc
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    UKMedia
    UKMedia
    Jan 6, 2018 4:45 PM UTC
    Even if the Sonos One will support Alexa Groups in the future, I struggle to see why you would want to output audio on Sonos and sub quality Echo speakers at the same time. And also as Sonos buffers Audio to ensure smooth multi room output, how will the two Audio streams be synced?
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    justinhavens999
    Contributor III
    Jan 6, 2018 4:51 PM UTC
    Its not an echo speaker, but a £500 vita unit that I use on Aux with the Echo...maybe it wont happen with the syncing issues then....
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    UKMedia
    UKMedia
    Jan 6, 2018 5:06 PM UTC
    It may but I just don't see why Sonos would want to invest development effort so that you can use someone else's equipment instead of theirs. :?
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    jgatie
    jgatie
    Jan 6, 2018 5:19 PM UTC
    I am also waiting for this integration. It is promised in 2018, the question is, how long to wait? I have not seen anything new on the internet. Hope it will be well advertised/talked about etc

    Though an SDK to allow grouping with 3rd party speakers was announced by Amazon as coming in 2018, I would not take that as a "promise " of anything with regards to Sonos. There are a few more things at work here, the first of which is that Echos and Sonos utilize very different syncing techniques. Also, would Sonos really allow you to sync with another brand of speakers, thus cutting into sales? Fact is, nobody yet knows what Sonos' has planned.
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    bvfzkdjg
    Lyricist I
    Jan 18, 2018 2:21 PM UTC
    It may but I just don't see why Sonos would want to invest development effort so that you can use someone else's equipment instead of theirs. :?mostly because customers want it and sonos will be left behind if they don't support it. they've just had their one competitive advantage removed now alexa can play multiroom and at a tenth of the price. they need to get with the program or be left behind
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