Sonos One - Adjust Volume for a group via Alexa

We'll pass on the suggestion for you. Right now, volume is controlled per room, so you need to target each room you want to adjust the volume of individually.

tagging along. Have the same question. Have a one and play 1 grouped.

This is a big thing about this product. My house is more open concept and I was hoping to use Sonos 1 in the kitchen. I have a play 5 in the living room and it is frustrating to have to use the phone app or try and understand Alexa with music playing even though the point of this product was to use your voice to control it. Now I am trying my voice first and correcting what Alexa doesn't do in the Iphone app. I agree with the other users that asked for a "Alexa, turn down the group volume" feature. It is annoying otherwise. :?

My house is more open concept and I was hoping to use Sonos 1 in the kitchen. I have a play 5 in the living room and it is frustrating to have to use the phone app or try and understand Alexa with music playing even though the point of this product was to use your voice to control it.

Ours is a similar setup, we have a Sonos in the Kitchen which is open to the Dining Room and Living Room and we have another Sonos in the Living Room. It'd be nice to be able to turn the volume down for the group as well as for a room.

Please note that the Alexa interface is not that fully baked for multi-room type speakers. Amazon released their API for connected speakers only last August 29. Their Multi-Room Music SDK that addresses multi-room more directly is not out until the new year.

I have two "Rooms" with Sonos One in only one of the rooms. I also have multiple Echoes. When I want to turn down the volume using Alexa on the Sonos One, I must specify the Room, which in my case is senseless since I have only one Sonos One. The other Room will never have a Sonos One, it has a Sonos Connect. Is there a way to skip the need to specify the Room when adjusting volume with Alexa? It is superfluous in this use case, and is a downgrade in the user experience when compared with the Echo. Thanks

To my knowledge, there is no "guaranteed" way to do any adjustments without using the room name. I believe that if you haven't given the Amazon any intervening commands, it might work, but I'm not sure about that.

Alexa... turn the dining room volume down... Alexa... turn the kitchen volume down... Alexa... turn the living room volume down... Alexa... turn the living room 2 volume down. This oversight is not acceptable for $1,200 worth of technology.

I am sure Alexa cost more than $1200 for total development. Or cost a lot less unless you have 40 Echo Dots. Or are you blaming Sonos for poor implementation of the not yet released Multi-Room Music SDK?
Presumably under your development you would have fully implemented these unsupported features.:D

Good point 'F00tS0re' 🙂 Mannran we are still in the early stage of adoption of voice interface. We need to be happy that we may create it with Amazon and Sonos and be active beta testers. On the other hand Multi-room support would be really helpful. I am also struggling with setting up volume in two rooms consistently.