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Sonos One - Alexa ESP Support?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
October 9, 2017
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So I'm pretty ready to get the new One, but I have an important question - does it support "ESP" - or "Echo Spatial Perception"? The feature is what makes two echo devices hear you decide which one should respond, rather than both responding.

I have an ecobee thermostat with Alexa built in, but no ESP...so I had to turn it off as it is in the hallway, and the Echo Dot in the dining room down the hall hears all my requests in the hallway, making them both respond which is really annoying (especially when it is not just a question and you are preforming some home automation action, which will make it trigger twice.) So in the end I just disabled the feature on my thermostat.

Also, how does it work when you have a stereo pair? should I buy extra Play:1's to be the second speaker in the array rather than having to Sonos One's in the room?

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Ryan S

Retired Sonos Staff

This does work with the Sonos One, and should work between Echo devices and the Sonos One too. If both your Echo device and your Sonos One are on the same Amazon account, the cloud should sort the two out and have the one that hears the best reply.

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omar shahine

Contributor I

This does work with the Sonos One, and should work between Echo devices and the Sonos One too. If both your Echo device and your Sonos One are on the same Amazon account, the cloud should sort the two out and have the one that hears the best reply.

They are def on the same amazon account. It doesn't happen 100% of the time, but it does happen to me.

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themollyadams

Lyricist I

If I ask a question / give a command on my Sonos One in my kitchen, it receives the question. But then the Echo Spot in my bedroom responds; the Sonos stays silent. Any thoughts?

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omar shahine

Contributor I

Same for me too

Master T

Prodigy I

Echo Spatial Perception on Amazon's own devices works acceptably, if somewhat inconsistently, for me. On the Sonos One (and I have several) the implementation is really quite poor, at least in my experience. Right now I am sitting less than four feet away from the speaker in my office, yet if I ask Alexa to do something, the speakers in my Dining Room or Family Room (much further away and around a corner or two in the house) almost invariably answer. This despite the office speaker having announced that it was listening with that annoyingly clunky wake sound. The Sonos One rarely seems to identify the nearest speaker correctly, and sometimes seems determined to choose the furthest one away.

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