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9.0 Update - Sonos One NOT discoverable via HomeKit for Siri integration

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July 11, 2018
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As the title suggests I have recently updated to v9.0 but the feature I am most looking forward too trying (playing apple music via Siri voice commands to my Sonos One) does not seem to work. I can open the apple music app on my phone, select the sonos one as a speaker to airplay2 and hit play - that now works ok. Cheers Sonos ! ?

BUT The Sonos blog guide indicated that if I were to add the airplay 2 enabled sonos product (sonos One in my case) to my homekit app as an accessory this would then allow Siri voice commands via mu phone. I have followed those steps to add my sonos one but it seemingly leads to nothing - I open the home kit app, select accessory and add without code but then the speaker does not appear. I have tried pressing pairing button on the unit.

Am I missing something here??

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vicdor

Lyricist I

Issue for me as well. Sonos One playing Airplay, BUT - not being able to add to Home.

Ken_Griffiths

Issue for me as well. Sonos One playing Airplay, BUT - not being able to add to Home.

Make sure you are running iOS 11.4, or higher, on your mobile device and then reboot the device and speaker and ensure the controller is connected back on the same LAN as your Sonos AirPlay device... I would choose to use the 2.4ghz WIFI band signal rather than the 5ghz band.

You could also try temporarily cabling your speaker to the router.

Make sure the speaker, Sonos One or Play-5 (gen2) are 'stand-alone' and not 'grouped' or 'bonded' with other devices. Then try adding the speaker (accessory) again into the HomeKit app, choose the option that mentions you ‘don’t have a code or cannot scan' and complete the onscreen instructions.

If it fails, perhaps consider uninstalling and reinstalling the HomeKit App, but only do that as a very last resort.

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Ekk

Lyricist III

Same problem here. Tried rebooting Sonos One. Ungrouping it from the play:1 and uninstalled HomeKit app and restarted it. Still nothing when I try to add Sonos One as an accessory. Can play music on the Sonos One using airplay but can’t add it to the HomeKit.

One strange thing. Everywhere I’ve read says to hit the plus sign in the top right of the home app but mine doesnt have the plus sign. Just the add accessory button at the bottom of the screen.

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Ekk

Lyricist III

I was able to get mine working finally by turning off the ‘group non airplay speakers’ option in the sonos app settings. Even though they weren’t grouped it still kept it from showing up in the HomeKit. Hope this helps.

Ken_Griffiths

I was able to get mine working finally by turning off the ‘group non airplay speakers’ option in the sonos app settings. Even though they weren’t grouped it still kept it from showing up in the HomeKit. Hope this helps.

That’s interesting, it will be useful to know too, if this suggested-fix helps anyone else to resolve their HomeKit problem. I’ve not seen anyone mention toggling off that setting before.

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Oralius

Lyricist I

At first, I was having this same issue with my beam. The speaker would not appear in the homekit app. Someone else in my household is the homekit administrator/owner. So I used that person's phone to add the speaker to homekit and that worked. After adding the speaker, the speaker showed up under "default room" on both the homekit owner's phone and my phone. After successfully adding the speaker, siri could still not play music on the speaker. I tried "default room" and I tried moving the speaker to another homekit room, all to no avail. However, I told siri "play [song name] everywhere" and I got music playing out of the beam.

Ken_Griffiths

I got my Sonos One setup in HomeKit with no issues and initially Siri worked fine, but now, for some reason, Siri isn’t working with it, but I am running my iPad with iOS public beta 12.0 v3 and it is a bit buggy in places, so that might be the reason why.

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gb359

Contributor I

Using Sonos V9.0 and iOS 11.4.1. No problems with Airplay 2. My Sonos Beam also appears in Homekit but when I try to add it, I get a message saying “Couldn’t connect accessory” I have heaps of other devices connected via Homekit with no problems. This looks like a Sonos problem and it would be good if Sonos could advise all of us if there is an issue or not instead of us wasting our time.

Ken_Griffiths

My issue with Siri voice commands to Sonos AirPlay has now been fixed with the recent iOS 12.0 update to public beta 4.

Ken_Griffiths

Using Sonos V9.0 and iOS 11.4.1. No problems with Airplay 2. My Sonos Beam also appears in Homekit but when I try to add it, I get a message saying “Couldn’t connect accessory” I have heaps of other devices connected via Homekit with no problems. This looks like a Sonos problem and it would be good if Sonos could advise all of us if there is an issue or not instead of us wasting our time.

I’ve had no issues adding my Sonos speakers as accessories to HomeKit ... make sure you are the HomeKit Administrator who set it up on the network (that’s if you have shared access with others)... I would reboot your modem, speakers and HomeKit controller device and try again.
If that still fails I have seen some uses suggest turning off the setting called 'Group non-AirPlay Speakers' in the Sonos Apps 'Settings/AirPlay'
But I suspect a reboot of devices will resolve your situation.

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