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chelseymarr
Contributor I
April 6, 2019
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Sonos Playback in Alexa Routine

  • April 6, 2019
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Adding music to a wake-up routine, trying to get the playback device or "Alexa will respond from" to be my Sonos speakers, but only see Amazon devices available for selection. Only other choice is to respond from "the device you speak to," but that throws an error when the routine executes and no music plays from my Sonos. Thoughts?
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      Best answer by Blue Hornet
      Ok, just remembered the answer. In the routine select "Music" then add the song or station and add "On your Sonos speaker name" so in my case, it says "Soma FM Groove Salad On Lounge" without the quotes. Then I select Tune In as my provider.
      The reason this wasn't working for me earlier is that the radio station I was trying to use was "Dark Side Lounge on Lounge" for some reason Echo does not like the word "Lounge" in my station name, probably because it is the same name as my speaker 😀

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      Matt_98
      Contributor I
      January 23, 2020

      Genius!  Thank you!

      Soxbrother
      Contributor III
      March 14, 2020

      Doesn't work.

      As soon as I put "on my speaker name" after the radio station, it says : sorry we couldn't find any results, please try another search.

       

      How do I get it working.

      None of my routines work by the way.

      UKMedia
      UKMedia
      March 14, 2020

      Doesn't work.

      As soon as I put "on my speaker name" after the radio station, it says : sorry we couldn't find any results, please try another search.

       

      How do I get it working.

      None of my routines work by the way.


      Can you try a different radio station or select a track, it’s still working for me.  

       

      Edit:

       

      Can you post the phrase you are getting the error with and I’ll test that.

      Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
      Soxbrother
      Contributor III
      March 14, 2020

      Can you try a different radio station or select a track, it’s still working for me.  

       

      Edit:

       

      Can you post the phrase you are getting the error with and I’ll test that.

      Here are some screenshots:

       

       

      I saw a video from someone on youtube and he had more options on the "Alexa will respond from" page

      Maybe the problem lies there ?

      Soxbrother
      Contributor III
      March 14, 2020

      So I now made another routine, this time I choose something from spotify instead of tunein and I've tested it from within the Alexa app and that seems to work, but I still have to test it with the Sonos speaker, 

      when I test the other routine, the one with radio 2 from tunein, she responds that she can't play tunein from this device

      Soxbrother
      Contributor III
      March 15, 2020

      I’ve signed out and deleted the Alexa app, then re-installed it.

      Still no routines working, pfffff

       

      I’ve read somewhere that Sonos will not work with Alexa routines,
      but before my switch to Google assistent, it would at least work with the featured routine called “Good Morning”, now back for the 3rd time on Alexa after re-installing the app,

      no routines work.

       

      Can’t understand it.

       

      Also the radio 2 skill only works half. Before I could say “play Radio 2”

      Now I can only use the skill with either “open Radio 2” or “Start Radio 2”

      “Play Radio 2” gives me BBC Radio 2, which is the wrong station

      “open” or “start” give me the right station, which is VRT Radio 2

       

      So that’s not a big deal, but also strange that it worked before with “play Radio 2”

       

      Any help would be great !!
      Thanks in advance.

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