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October 18, 2017

Sonos and Alexa Integration - more commands!

  • October 18, 2017
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Hi,

Great to finally get Alexa integration, but so far all the commands it supports seem to be rather clunky, and occasionally don't work. I have realised since having it the only command I really want is "Alexa Transfer to Sonos everywhere". This would enable me to take the thing that is playing locally and push it to every one of the rooms in my house. Naming rooms is fine when you are looking at them, but is it "Basement", "Office" or "downstairs"?

Added bonus would be to name groups of speakers. Actually the core app could do with this. Otherwise, just need to get the reliability up in the hand over.

The functions should also accept what is playing on my phone's music collection. So "Alexa, play on " should allow you to hear what you have selected on the phone's collection. Not sure if a phone's music collection can be queried in reverse, but it would be nice.

Otherwise keep up the good work! Perhaps you can come up with a command I never knew I needed 😉!

Best,

Alex
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14 replies

UKMedia
December 7, 2017

Im going nuts trying to figure this out... Am I nuts or it doesn't work? She can play individual Sonos speakers but not all of them together??? Please help.


Group them in the Sonos app


you mean group them in the Sonos app- after Alexa starts playing one of them? There is no way to create custom (saved) groups in Sonos. I see you can group speakers adhoc, but still no way to get Alexa to play all the Sonos speakers at once.


If you group the speakers in the Sonos app, you can then ask Alexa to play to any speaker in that group and the music will be sent to all speakers within that group. e.g. Create a group Kitchen Sonos, Lounge Sonos and Bed Room Sonos. Then ask 'Alexa, Play soft jazz on Kitchen Sonos' and audio will be output to all three.
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dave77
Headliner I
December 7, 2017

Im going nuts trying to figure this out... Am I nuts or it doesn't work? She can play individual Sonos speakers but not all of them together??? Please help.


Group them in the Sonos app


you mean group them in the Sonos app- after Alexa starts playing one of them? There is no way to create custom (saved) groups in Sonos. I see you can group speakers adhoc, but still no way to get Alexa to play all the Sonos speakers at once.


Either before or after, grouping works the same with Alexa as it did pre-Alexa. Group the speakers together with the Sonos app then start music playing one 1 and it will play on all grouped speakers

Ah, you mean you want something like multiple saved group eg

eg

Group A = Kitchen + Living Room
Group B = Living Room + Bedroom

Then you want to say "Play xxxx in Group A"

Nice idea, but no, Sonos doesn't do that
Lyricist I
January 7, 2018
I just tried the same setup at a friends house and i failed as well and that is really frustrating me because sonos is not cheap. I am not blaming sonos but alexa.

My personal multiroom setup at my home consists of 1xGoogle Home, 3xGoogle Home Mini, Onkyo Receiver with Google Cast, 3rd Party Box with Google Cast (Teufel).

Google Cast just works. I can tell google where to play music (everywhere or in specific room. I never tried to play music in two rooms. I can stop rooms separately, I LOVE IT. I can even tell it when to stop music. I can tell google to start youtube on my tv and so on

my personal conclusion: alexa simply cannot manage MULTI room music please. PLEASE correct me if i am wrong. i wish i am



I have also 2 alexa dots to control my TV with harmony (grate feature).
But these alexa dots are not part of my MULTI Room setup, because they are not compatible with google cast 😉
UKMedia
January 7, 2018
Alexa can do multi room but at present not with 3rd party speakers
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