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Contributor I
December 6, 2017
Question

Play One and Alexa getting crazy

  • December 6, 2017
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Hi everyone,

I've bought a sonos one 2 months ago and set it up with Alexa. Everything was working fine till a week ago.
I bought 2 play 5 and adding them to the sonos skill. For that I had to reinstall my wifi. So I basically deleted everything out of Sonos and did a hard reset on the one as well and then added each speaker to the new wifi. Set it back up with Alexa.

Long story short: the one is located in the bedroom. Play 5's in family room. Asking Alexa to play in family room works like a charm. However asking Alexa on the Sonos to do something seems impossible. If I look into the Alexa app I see Bedroom in skills, in settings I see bedroom (and below it says online) and then bedroom sonos.
Before I only had 1 (which was bedroom with online below) and that worked. If I say play in bedroom, mmm to do that enable skill. When I say play music in bedroom sonos it does it. Changing the name to bedroom or anything else will cause Alexa on Sonos to say I'm having trouble connecting right now please try again later.

I've tried everything, resetting the sonos speaker again, deleting the apps and reinstalling the apps, forgetting all skills and enabling them again, deleting all smart home devices and adding them again,...
No matter what I do I keep getting 2 devices in settings in the Alexa app. 1 bedroom which says online but can only answer questions and not play music and bedroom sonos which can only play music and not answer any Alexa questions.

In the sonos app I only see bedroom and family room...

Can anyone help me or does anyone else have the same problem?
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18 replies

phill_pAuthor
Contributor I
December 7, 2017
No nothing is named the same. Checked it a couple of times 🙂
UKMedia
December 7, 2017
No nothing is named the same. Checked it a couple of times :)

This is weird 🙂 Can you try one more thing:

Use the PC app https://alexa.amazon.co.uk or .com and select Smart Home>Devices>Forget all and then Discover. (Command only available on PC, not Android or iOS)
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
phill_pAuthor
Contributor I
December 7, 2017
Have done all that as well 2 days ago.
Forget all. Same names came back again afterwards. Even deleted the Sonos player from Sonos app hard reset and tried it again. Same issue
UKMedia
December 7, 2017
Just to check what syntax are you using with the Sonos One that is causing the problem?
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
phill_pAuthor
Contributor I
December 7, 2017
It’s the word bedroom that gives the error. Bedroom Sonos starts playing music.
Changing the word to anything also causes Alexa to stop completely.
No issues with the same syntax on play 5
UKMedia
December 7, 2017
Can you submit a diagnostic and post the number here?
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
phill_pAuthor
Contributor I
December 7, 2017
Will do so tomorrow evening. Out of town at the moment 🙂
UKMedia
December 8, 2017
Just a thought - Can you select Alexa App>Settings>Bedroom and check that the device location is set-up correctly? Please also check Bedroom Sonos as well and then run discover again.
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)