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Mythicbeast
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November 20, 2017
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Sonos voice services on Sonos One...trouble setting up

  • November 20, 2017
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Just setup my Sonos 1, in its own room separate from my Play 5 and sub. Plays music fine. No Problem.

Sonos skill in Alexa already setup, Alexa sees Sonos One. I can control S One through Echo Dot. As well as my other speakers.

When I attempt to setup Voice Services on Sonos One all I get is a loop. I touch Voice Services in the Sonos app on my iPad, the "Control Sonos with your voice" box pops up, hit the "Learn More" bar, goes to "Help and Tips" page, "Control Sonos with Amazon Alexa", touch link "Go to "Set up voice control on your Sonos One" to learn more.", tap that link, goes to a page in "Help and Tips", tells me to set up sonos 1 and to go to More (arrow) Voice Services and follow the prompts. Tap the Set it up now bar and....it just starts the same process over again.

I guess I'll try and uninstall/reinstall the Alexa skill, see what happens.
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UKMedia
UKMedia
November 21, 2017
Have you selected 'Discover' in the Alex App>Smart Home>Devices?
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
MythicbeastAuthor
Avid Contributor II
November 21, 2017
"Sonos skill in Alexa already setup, Alexa sees Sonos One. I can control S One through Echo Dot. As well as my other speakers."
UKMedia
UKMedia
November 22, 2017
I suggest that you follow the steps I've listed in the answer in this post:

https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/sonos-one-not-responding-to-alexa-comands-6793239
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
MythicbeastAuthor
Avid Contributor II
November 22, 2017
Thanks. Didn’t work.

As per the post you referred to above:
Can you please try these actions:

- In the Alexa app, select 'Skills' and disable the Sonos Skill; DONE
- In the Alexa app (PC version), select 'Smart Home' then 'Devices';
- Select 'Forget All' at the bottom of the screen;

- In the Sonos app, select 'Settings' and for each of the Sonos 1's remove 'Voice Recognition'; CANNOT DO SINCE I WAS NEVER ABLE TO ENABLE VOICE RECOGNITION IN THE FIRST PLACE

- If you have a Connect, please power down and then switch on and wait for it to boot; NO CONNECT

- Power down the two Sonos 1's and then switch them back on and wait for them to boot; DONE

- In the Sonos app, Select 'Manage' and then select 'Add a player or sub' and add the two Sonos 1's again. This will complete the set-up process again; DONE

- In the Alexa app, select 'Skills' and ensure the Sonos skill is enabled, if not please 'Enable'; ENABLED

- In the Alexa app (PC version), select 'Smart Home' then 'Devices'
- Select 'Discover' at the bottom of the screen. Ensure that your Sonos 1's are displayed correctly and not shown as 'Off Line'. Also ensure that there are no devices with the same name (To ensure my Sonos devices are not duplicated, I've added Sonos to the end of each of my players within the Sonos App. Remember, if you want to do this, rename before selecting 'Discover'; ALEXA NEVER DISCOVERS THE SONOS1. IT DOES SHOW UP AS A DEVICE. ALEXA DOES NOT SEE IT AS AN ALEXA ENABLED DEVICE

I see more and more people having the same sorts of problems but no comments from Sonos. Sigh, it is Beta ware after all

Just have to be patient I suppose.
UKMedia
UKMedia
November 22, 2017
Can you submit a diagnostic.
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
MythicbeastAuthor
Avid Contributor II
November 22, 2017
Sure,

oscarv
Lyricist I
December 3, 2017
Totally agree with MythicBeast. Exact same issues.

UKMedia: Can you post instructions for resolving using iOS app instead of PC version? Does anyone use "PC"s anymore? I don't have those option on my iPhone Alexa app:

"In the Alexa app (PC version), select 'Smart Home' then 'Devices' select 'Forget All'"
UKMedia
UKMedia
December 3, 2017
Totally agree with MythicBeast. Exact same issues.

UKMedia: Can you post instructions for resolving using iOS app instead of PC version? Does anyone use "PC"s anymore? I don't have those option on my iPhone Alexa app:

"In the Alexa app (PC version), select 'Smart Home' then 'Devices' select 'Forget All'"

There are differences between the PC and Android/iOS apps and a lot of problems experienced on these platforms can be resolved on a PC. Try accessing the app via https://alexa.amazon.co.uk or https://alexa.amazon.com via a browser.
Remember: Sometimes Red Wine helps :)
MythicbeastAuthor
Avid Contributor II
December 3, 2017
Oscarv, gave up on mine for now. Waiting for Sonos to sort things out eventually. I just don’t have time to try this, that and the other to make something work that should work straight out of the box.
oscarv
Lyricist I
December 3, 2017
UK: Thanks, but when I hit that link it just routes me to the app. Back to where we started.



Mystic:. Agreed, but sometimes it's the principle of the thing.... One of the reasons I paid big $ to Sonos was to ditch my Amazon echos, but can't do that until I can get this to work as advertised. Good luck
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