Connecting Sonos to Alexa Dot

Thanks for your replies. I'll wait for the Sonos/Echo integration solution to be released as I don't want to buy anymore hardware. The Sonos stuff is expensive enough! I'm hoping that the Sonos solution will allow the Echo to play the same music as the Sonos speakers otherwise you then have a Sonos speaker and an Echo speaker in the same room which is a bit of a waste! I know the Sonos speakers are superior in sound quality but the Echo is fine for the kitchen.

Do we have a release date yet on the firmware update between Amazon Echo and the Sonos?

Do we have a release date yet on the firmware update between Amazon Echo and the Sonos?

No

and you won't get one before it is released.

Spotify connect let's you use them together but that's all 😞

Like Lutron Caseta, Insteon also integrates with Sonos, and Alexa with Insteon. So I've been able to use Alexa to turn on/off my Sonos through an Insteon hub. I set up scenes on Insteon to activate up to 10 different channels on the Sonos (one scene for each channel); a channel can be a radio station, or a Pandora station, or a Sonos or Spotify playlist, etc. Then I can say "Turn on [name of scene on Insteon]" to turn on that channel.

Note that Alexa sometimes confuses the scene name with playing her own music -- e.g., I tried to name a scene "NPR" in order to get the Sonos to play NPR, but Alexa went ahead and played NPR on her own speaker. So I've named my scenes "Sonos NPR" and "Sonos Classical" instead.

I've also created a scene just called "Sonos", so that I can shut off the music by saying "Turn off Sonos". The command "Turn on Sonos" will also work, with Sonos just playing whatever it was last playing when it was shut off.

I haven't tried volume control yet, but if Sonos behaves like lights do on Insteon, then just like I can say "Reduce Dining Room Lights to 50%", I should be able to say "Reduce Sonus to 50%" to control volume.

Correction -- the volume control doesn't work; I haven't figured out a way to control the Sonos volume through Alexa despite the otherwise successful operation through an Insteon hub.

Is there a date yet? I want to use Alexa with sonos 🆒

Sonos doesn't do exact dates. The official statement is later this year.

Oh OK - I guess 'later this year' is more information than I had.

Sonos... Any update when Sonos and Alexa will be integrated??? I have Sonos and Alexa set up in every room and am ready for them to work together. I can't wait to have voice control for my music. I already have it for my lights and that was a game changer. I do not listen to music on alexa because I have really nice Sonos speakers with way better quality sound and am ready to use alexa to control these speakers. Any update would be helpful. Thank you.