Please fix that ducking feature

That feature is there now. When you create an "Alexa-Enabled" group in the Alexa app it lists "Alexa-enabled devices" to add to the group. The Sonos One should be listed there.

I've not tried it but I presume since nobody has announced it that it doesn't fix the ducking

OK thanks for that Dave, but that wasn't quite what I was asking about. I was simply asking if, when Amazon have made it possible for their Echo devices to activate a connected device in the same room where no room name is specified in a command such as "Alexa play Jazz" (as opposed to "Alexa play Jazz in {roomname}"), whether this functionality will be extended to the Sonos One and other Alexa-enabled devices. If, however as you say, it is possible to add non-Echo devices to an Alexa group this would make it more likely they will be treated the same I guess. We may just have to wait and see.

The feature is there for actual Amazon devices today. So I have my setup now for lights where I just walk into the room and say "Alexa turn lights on" and the lights in the same Alexa enabled smart group all come on. However, last I heard was that the Sonos One didn't appear as an Alexa enabled device. I don't have a Sonos One so I don't know if that function is still not available.

I still can't see anything in the Alexa app that would allow for example you to choose your default speaker device... This might not matter for a Sonos One where it would be the Alexa device, but would prevent you from using an Echo with Sonos currently in the same room. The Alexa app does recognise that Sonos speakers are wireless speakers so maybe it's something coming.

I still can't see anything in the Alexa app that would allow for example you to choose your default speaker device... This might not matter for a Sonos One where it would be the Alexa device, but would prevent you from using an Echo with Sonos currently in the same room. The Alexa app does recognise that Sonos speakers are wireless speakers so maybe it's something coming.

In "Alexa App > Settings > My Echo Dot" I have what I think is a new setting called "Pair Alexa Gadget". It looks like it is just for bluetooth devices though unfortunately.

Have you tried routines yet? I can't seem to get any to work at all!

I have my lights Alexa enabled in various rooms. Works well and good not having to say the light name all the time just 'Turn the lights on'. I keep trying to see if I can add Sonos speakers as the Alexa app 'sees' them as a speaker. Not working as of yet but I am hopeful it will come.

I believe the 'Pair Alexa gadget' setting is for Amazon products only. They are releasing echo buttons for instance that seem to allow you to play games. There are probably more 'alexa gadgets' coming.

Routines work well for me - again we use this just for lights. So we say 'Alexa, bedtime' when we are ready and she turns off the lounge lights and turns the stairs and bedroom lights on.

Cross-posting here just to add my voice to the crowd to get this fixed, but this needs to work for me based on physical location of the respective devices, not on Sonos rooms, as rooms are too flexible (and need to be that way).

https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/ducking-6792257/index2.html#post16223408

Has anything been done to fix ducking recently?

Has anything been done to fix ducking recently?

Sonos has a long standing pattern of announcing features/fixes in the threads that mention them. If the ducking functionality had changed, you would see it posted here.

Today, we've announced an integration with Sonos and Alexa Groups which makes the volume ducking with Alexa on Sonos, and more, much smarter. Check it out here.