Google home integration with Sonos through Harmony

Got sent this yesterday from Sonos.


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Google Home and Sonos

While Google Home Smart Assistant doesn’t work with your Sonos system natively, it can be connected with an audio cable allowing you to play music on Sonos by asking your Google Assistant.

How can I use Google Home with Sonos?
Certain Sonos products have a Line-In port which allows you to connect an external audio source such as a phone, computer, or Chromecast Audio to your Sonos system.

What you need to get started:

Google Home
Google Chromecast Audio (more than one if you wish to have individual speaker control)
A Sonos product with line-in: PLAY:5 (gen1 and gen2), CONNECT or CONNECT:AMP
Line-In cable. Either:
an ⅛ inch (3.5mm) audio cable for PLAY:5 (gen1 and gen2)
an ⅛ inch (3.5mm) to RCA Y-audio cable for CONNECT and CONNECT:AMP

Pretty stock reply.

Yes you can setup activities on the harmony that can stop start Sonos and play playlists. Then those activities you should be able to trigger from google home.

Got sent this yesterday from Sonos.


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Google Home and Sonos

While Google Home Smart Assistant doesn’t work with your Sonos system natively, it can be connected with an audio cable allowing you to play music on Sonos by asking your Google Assistant.

How can I use Google Home with Sonos?
Certain Sonos products have a Line-In port which allows you to connect an external audio source such as a phone, computer, or Chromecast Audio to your Sonos system.

What you need to get started:

Google Home
Google Chromecast Audio (more than one if you wish to have individual speaker control)
A Sonos product with line-in: PLAY:5 (gen1 and gen2), CONNECT or CONNECT:AMP
Line-In cable. Either:
an ⅛ inch (3.5mm) audio cable for PLAY:5 (gen1 and gen2)
an ⅛ inch (3.5mm) to RCA Y-audio cable for CONNECT and CONNECT:AMP

So much for those of us withOUT play 5 or connect.

Why? Amazon integration is coming this year, we're told. It's hard to imagine that they wouldn't want to do Google Home soon thereafter, assuming that Google has the resources to dedicate to the issue at the same time.

Google has to have the API infrastructure to support it. Just because Sonos has there part done doesn't mean Google would have their part available.

Chris what infrastructure are you referring to that is the missing piece. Didn't Google aquire api.com. I'm surprised Sonos did not get in there beta like Netflix did. But it seems their conversational actions are open now.

https://api.ai/google-assistant/

I use a work around currently with Google Home and Sonos until there is an official release. I use IFTTT and jishi/node-sonos-http-api. I setup a node.js server and use the Google Assistant and Maker services from IFTTT. It takes a bit of practice to land the commands the way you want but I can use voice commands to play, pause, stop, mute, next, previous, join speakers, unjoin, ask to play playlist that are saved in sonos. There is much more you can do but you have to build out the applets. Its very responsive from what I have seen so far.

Why? Amazon integration is coming this year, we're told. It's hard to imagine that they wouldn't want to do Google Home soon thereafter, assuming that Google has the resources to dedicate to the issue at the same time.

haha soon? alexa integration has been "coming soon" for almost a year now. By the time google home integration comes out we'll be on google home 5.... not sure why sonos isn't keeping up with their competition

So Bose, LG, Denon, Samsung, Bluesound, etc. have released voice control and Sonos hasn't kept up?

Could have fooled me. So far, only Denon has announced voice control as an "us too" announcement after Sonos. Said it would be ready 1st Q 2017. Then again, they said they'd release Google Cast and a Windows mobile app a couple years ago. Still waiting.

I use a work around currently with Google Home and Sonos until there is an official release. I use IFTTT and jishi/node-sonos-http-api. I setup a node.js server and use the Google Assistant and Maker services from IFTTT. It takes a bit of practice to land the commands the way you want but I can use voice commands to play, pause, stop, mute, next, previous, join speakers, unjoin, ask to play playlist that are saved in sonos. There is much more you can do but you have to build out the applets. Its very responsive from what I have seen so far.

could you give a bit more detail about that? Ive some experience with IFTTT, but not with "jishi/node-sonos-http-api" what is that? Any tips would be great. Just got Google Home and its driving me crazy that it's not part of the Sonos network...