Sonos One: Alexa in Belgium

oops found the API 🙂 working on a alexa skill as we speak without the geo limitation

Hi Guys,

Here we are, January 2019,5 months further since the last feedback from Sonos Staff regarding these developments.
Can someone from Sonos Staff give us some feedback about the Alexa skill for Belgium?

I am getting the feeling of being left in the dark 😞

Here we are, January 2019,5 months further since the last feedback from Sonos Staff regarding these developments.
Can someone from Sonos Staff give us some feedback about the Alexa skill for Belgium?

My apologies for the delay, somehow we missed this question when it was posted. We're working with the team at Amazon to bring Alexa to new countries on Sonos, but I don't have any specifics at this time for a roadmap regarding Belgium. We'll be sure to let you know as soon as there's any news to share.

Here we are, January 2019,5 months further since the last feedback from Sonos Staff regarding these developments.
Can someone from Sonos Staff give us some feedback about the Alexa skill for Belgium?

My apologies for the delay, somehow we missed this question when it was posted. We're working with the team at Amazon to bring Alexa to new countries on Sonos, but I don't have any specifics at this time for a roadmap regarding Belgium. We'll be sure to let you know as soon as there's any news to share.

Hello Ryan,

We’ve been hearing this for almost a year now. I can understand it takes time to develop but removing the country check should be fairly straightforeward and would help a lot of users in Belgium. It would be a great intermediate step.

Also, just sharing a timeline would help. Not being to provide this suggests this issue is not being looked at or has a really low priority.

As raised by many people, the article is still being sold with the feature enabled.
Legally this is not allowed ...

and Google Assistant? does this work in SONOS for Belgium? Google Assistant talks Dutch ...

As far as I know, Sonos can only bring support for a voice assistant to countries where the assistant is natively supported by the parent company, meaning it speaks the official language of that country

Amazon Alexa is not supported by language in the Benelux, so I would not expect it to work on Sonos either, this is an Amazon decision, not a Sonos decision.

For GA, I would expect that function to be rolled out after the initial US-only period. Be aware that the Dutch language market wasn't a priority for Google either, so it would be naive to expect GA on Sonos to work in Dutch from day one. Here's to hoping we can use some workaround to have the English GA available here.

I've finally managed to paire my sonos speakers with the alexa app, creating a US amazon account.
The sonos skill discovered all my speakers.
Next problem:
I can only control my 'livingroom' speakers (2x play 1) and my 'terras' speakers via my amp.
Voice activation in the kitchen (play 1) or diningroom (play 5 gen 2) doesn't work.
When I give the command 'Alexa, play some jazz in the diningroom', alexa responds that she will do it, but i t stays silent.
What's going wrong?

Make sure all your devices have unique names in the Alexa app. If you have duplicate names, Alexa can get confused.

Hi Jgatie,

Thx for thinking with me 🙂 but all my speaker names are unique and discovered in the Alexa app. So I still don't understand why some can be voice controlled and some not.