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

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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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benfff85

Lyricist I

Yea the Alexa functionality in the Sonos One is really terrible. I feel taken advantage of, it shouldn’t be advertised if it’s not working. What nonsense.

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chicksAuthor

Yea the Alexa functionality in the Sonos One is really terrible. I feel taken advantage of, it shouldn’t be advertised if it’s not working. What nonsense.

It’s actually quite amazing, but some skills, which start a continuous stream, aren’t working. Sonos has said they’re working on this. The Sonos skill is still beta, so it’s to be expected that not everything works just yet.

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Chris

Lead Maestro

I was just telling my wife this morning how much I like the Sonos One. She agreed.

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CMD7

Contributor I

Spent a lot of time messaging back and forth with a Sonos rep before purchasing my Sonos One, almost all of the functions (Skills) I “confirmed” with him I would be able to access are not working ☹

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benfff85

Lyricist I

Yea, I don’t know what people are talking about here. The Alexa functionality with the Sonos One is objectively aweful, I can’t believe they let a product hit the market like this.

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jnettl2

Contributor I

Doesn't work:

Voice-controlled Sleep timer
Voice-controlled multi-room play, for the most part

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Raph06

Contributor I

I am very disappointed by the lack of Alexa functionality as well.:@

I was wondering how to pair a Sonos One with an Echo Dot, until the update is ready. I suspect it will result in a royal confusion between the apps/skills/etc, but it's still better than having a beta product.

Any idea?

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brik74

Trending Lyricist I

I want to replace an Echo Dot with a Sonos One (with plans for more) but I use the Drop In feature almost daily to communicate with other members of my household, and that feature is not available on Sonos One. Any idea when or if this feature will be made available? Until then, I just have a Sonos One acting as a Play:1 next to my Echo Dot.

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chicksAuthor

I don’t think Amazon is allowing drop in for 3rd party Alexa devices...

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brantome53

Lyricist III

Personally I don’t think this will change for a long time - as mentioned above, there are two classes of Alexa devices - true echoes and ‘Alexa enabled’ and even Amazon has devices in each class. In some respects, it protects their hardware sales, but in other respects there may be valid technical and not just marketing reasons for the split. For an idea of the range of features and devices in these classes, see this amazon link. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=202013680

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