Contributor I

Sonos & Alexa Multi-Room

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December 9, 2018
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Hello, I have recently set up 2 Sonos ones as a stereo pair, they are very impressive! I have set up the Alexa app & Sonos app etc. This all seems to be working. I have some echos too. I was a little dissapointed to discover that you can’t set up Alexa Multi-Room with Sonos devices even though this has been opened up to third party devices: https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/c4bbbbaf-3559-4b5e-b920-83a9d594e732/alexa-play-rolling-in-the-deep-everywhere-announcing-multi-room-music-for-products-with-alexa-built-in?tag=androidpolice-20
Am I missing something? Also I don’t seem to be experiencing the irritating ‘ducking’ behaviour others have... maybe this has been fixed?

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UKMedia

Sonos don't currently support syncing of audio across Sonos and none Sonos devices and to be honest I personally doubt if they ever will as their multi room syncing tech is proprietary.

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melvimbe

What that blog post doesn't really mention is that their MRM protocol is only compatiable with stand alone third party speakers, not multi-room speaker systems like Sonos. It can't be used to really link two multiroom systems together so they play in sync.

Danny

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RobzillaAuthor

Contributor I

Well that explains it, thanks. Its a real shame, as I can't afford a complete Sonos system, and the primary users are elderly and struggle with technology, so just being able to say to Alexa 'play ______ everywhere' would be a great. I would happily lose the Sonos MRM protocol in favour of Alexa Multi-room.

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