Question on Echo Dot

I see, thank you for the quick response. Does anyone know if this is something that Sonos is working to change in the future? Or if the new One Speakers are any different in this regard?

Considering how the integration is designed, it's highly unlikely this will change. For the Sonos One, Alexa will speak through the Sonos One speaker. However, it will not speak through any Sonos speaker that said Sonos One speaker is currently paired, bonded, or grouped to. So for example, if you get 2 Sonos One's setup as a speaker pair, and give a command to the left speaker, only the left speaker will respond to you.

I see, thank you for the quick response. Does anyone know if this is something that Sonos is working to change in the future? Or if the new One Speakers are any different in this regard?

The Sonos One will play all Alexa responses as well as music services. Whether that means all responses will play over paired/bonded/grouped speakers remains to be seen.

jgatie, Ryan (Sonos staffer) actually did answer that question already. To further expand on that, with 2 Sonos One in a pair, they act as one Sonos room, but are two separate Alexa devices as far as Amazon is concerned.

It makes sense from a technical standpoint I think. It's almost as if the hardware/firmware for Alexa and for Sonos are separate, and they both 'share' the speaker...perhaps. I would guess that the Sonos app is practically unaware of what may be going on the Alexa side of things...other then 'ducking'.

jgatie, Ryan (Sonos staffer) actually did answer that question already. To further expand on that, with 2 Sonos One in a pair, they act as one Sonos room, but are two separate Alexa devices as far as Amazon is concerned.

It makes sense from a technical standpoint I think. It's almost as if the hardware/firmware for Alexa and for Sonos are separate, and they both 'share' the speaker...perhaps. I would guess that the Sonos app is practically unaware of what may be going on the Alexa side of things...other then 'ducking'.

Thanks for the clarification. The info is coming fast, easy to miss a post.

This is such a disappointment. You should be able to configure the output for all Alexa echo/dot responses to a room or Sonos speaker, not just music. If Sonos doesn't jump on this, surely another integrator will.

It may be an issue with Amazon allowing it to be done. I've not seen the legal agreement between the two companies, so that's pure speculation on my part.

I guess I could get a bluetooth receiver, pair the dot via bluetooth, but then I lose my AirPlay input (via Airport Express)...unless I go purchase a mixer and output that to the input of my SONOS. Again, should be so much smoother than this funky bluetooth option, with the additional hardware. As you stated, a Legal agreement, unfortunately, seems to be the only reason a software/firmware solution/upgrade wouldn't work. Is that legal agreement public?

I wouldn't think so. Any time I've done a legal agreement regarding software between two companies, it was never made public.