Hi!
Recenlty I came across an issue where Spotify Connect would only work with my Amazon Alexa Sonos speaker, and no other Sonos speaker.
I figured out how to get it to work, so I am now sharing it with the rest of you:
The symptoms are: If you try to use Spotify to play to any other Speaker than an Amazon Alexa speaker via Spotify Connect it will see the speakers and the try to connect, eventually stopping with a time out error.
With the Amazon Alexa speaker it will play perfectly fine.
Potential root cause: The Spotify’s magic. i.e., the certificate which is supposed to be replicated across all Sonos speakers is incorrect. The Amazon Alexa certificate is probably being offered for Spotify, which is incorrect *except* when it comes to the Amazon Alexa enabled speaker.
Solution:
- Remove the Sonos Skill from Amazon Alexa. See: Turn Alexa skills on or off
- Open the Spotify app, play music and connect to a Sonos speaker via Spotify Connect that you couldn’t play to previously. Confirm you can also play to the previously Amazon Alexa Speaker. See: Use Spotify Connect
- Once you can play to your Sonos system, do the following: Add Sonos Skill to Amazon Alexa.
- Open the Amazon Alexa app
- Tap more for you
- In Discover Alexa, type Sonos
- Tap on Sonos
- Tap Enable to Use
- Ask Amazon Alexa to play a song, such “Alexa play music from Spotify.”
That should be it!
Edit: I just realized I set this as a question. Not my intent! Mods could you change it to a more appropriate one? Thank you!!