Sonos One Alexa skills: What works, what doesn’t

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October 28, 2017
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Working
Box of Cats
Bird Song
Most skills that don’t open a continuous audio stream

Not Working
Radio Paradise - commands working, including setting stream quality to FLAC, but won’t play anything (yes, I know it works via TuneIn, but stream quality is unknown and can’t be selected via voice control. FLAC works on Echo, but not Dot)

Simple Radio - won’t play anything

Seems like Sonos One is unable to open a stream that’s not on TuneIn, Amazon Music, or any of the other built-in services. Hope that changes soon...

Please list skills that you believe really ought to be working on One, but aren’t.

Alexa Skills

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Patzkill

Lyricist I

Thanks for this summary!
I have had the same frustrating experience. One expects the Sonos One to be like an Echo just with better looks and sound but this is not the case at all. As amazed I was at Alexa when I first tried it on the Echo, as frustrated I am now with this half measure integration. I feel put back in time when every car manufacturer was praising their voice control but none actually worked. Alexa on Sonos One is in BETA mode!
On a positive note: Philips Hue works...

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daginski

Lyricist I

Daily Dose doesnt work :(( my favorite skill

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hupp2it

Contributor I

Twitch app doesn't work (consistent with your apps that open a persistent stream don't work)

Honestly, It is my opinion that the Sonos One is not a good addition to my Alexa ecosystem. I mean, if I didn't have echo devices it would be ok I guess. But it just sucks trying to figure out what limited set of capabilities work with the One. Yes, it sounds better than an echo. but it is also not as capable as an echo.

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ewellinger

Lyricist I

The Sonos One is a really great speaker but to say that this has Alexa built in is false advertising in my opinion. Particularly the following bullet point:

>>> Play songs, check news and traffic, manage smart devices and enjoy all those other helpful Amazon Alexa skills using a single Sonos speaker.

Enjoy ALL those other helpful Amazon Alexa skills?? I would say basic voice commands work but beyond that it is extremely hit or miss. Hopefully Google assistant will be better but I kind of doubt it.

UKMedia

Hi

Amazon have two types of device Alexa (Echo range) and Alexa Enabled (Sonos One), these two device types have different functionality that are within the exclusive control of Amazon.

Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)

Chris

Lead Maestro

I haven't had any issue with any 3rd party skills not working - there are just a few Echo built in skills that Amazon restricts to just their Echo range (as UKMedia mentions).

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chicksAuthor

I haven't had any issue with any 3rd party skills not working - there are just a few Echo built in skills that Amazon restricts to just their Echo range (as UKMedia mentions).

The Radio Paradise skill works for you?

Chris

Lead Maestro

Never tried

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tdarren

Lyricist I

Find my phone by lifebot doesnt work - cant verify number

Chris

Lead Maestro

Probabaly good idea to list all these for Sonos so they can prioritize whatever amazon hasn’t opened up to them.

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