Play music on SonosOne and Amazon Echo at the same time

I don't think Sonos are competing in the same speaker market as Amazons Alexa. I have an Alexa Show and previously the Echo, neither of which are even close to single Play 1 from Sonos. There is a reason why it is cheaper(and it's more like a half the price rather than a tenth). If you like quality Music playback then you tend to invest in Sonos throughout your house, even in the rooms where an Alexa speaker is present. Multi room playback on my show and a couple of dots is not a pleasing listening experience. No stereo for a start!

I got an Echo for Christmas then bought a Sonos One before discovering that they can't play music simultaneously. I contacted Amazon to complain, they refunded the Echo (in gift vouchers) without quibble and I've put the refund towards a second Sonos One. I can now ask Alexa to play on one speaker then use the Sonos app to play on all of them, including my Playbase.

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. :?

I have a couple of grands worth of surround sound speakers connected to my av unit in the lounge and an Echo Spot in there, I can connect that Spot to those speakers via Bluetooth and then happily command Alexa to play my choice (or hers) of music, I'm not about to get rid of those speakers in favour of Sonos, so it is in Sonos interests to play nice with my kit if they want me to buy more of their kit and I do want some more Sonos speakers for multi-room sound and I want it fairly well synced.

It would be a nice addition if this could be achieved though.

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.

This has actually helped me tremendously to decide not to buy a Sonos system for my home.

This has actually helped me tremendously to decide not to buy a Sonos system for my home.
What tremendously interesting news.

This has actually helped me tremendously to decide not to buy a Sonos system for my home.
What tremendously interesting news.

It actually is very valuable news. There will be many like me who want to sync Sonos with Echo Show or other Echo device, to maximise all available sound outputs. I quite like the quality of sound from my Echo Show and would not wish to replace it given its location. However, I'd quite like a Sonos in another room, and I'd like everything to sync up so I can walk from room to room. But it's not possible so I won't be buying Sonos (and neither will anyone else in my situation). So therefore Sonos marketing (And Echo marketing) might take note.

[...] So therefore Sonos marketing (And Echo marketing) might take note.
Did you take note of this?

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.

[...] So therefore Sonos marketing (And Echo marketing) might take note.
Did you take note of this?

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.

Erm ...this gives nothing to the debate. There are people who want the sync between Sonos and Echo. Sonos is marketed heavily with Alexa/Echo. No sync, no sale. Simple. They need to do it or lose sales.

Erm ...this gives nothing to the debate. There are people who want the sync between Sonos and Echo. Sonos is marketed heavily with Alexa/Echo. No sync, no sale. Simple. They need to do it or lose sales.
Do you think? Not all of those people may be determined to put up with the... underwhelming sound quality of the Echos.

I didn't think it would be surprising that different brands of speaker would not sync properly with each other. Surely it would be more surprising if different brands did sync?