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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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gb359

Contributor I

My apologies to all including Sonos. The iOS device I was using to add the Sonos Beam was not the one used to set up the HomePod which is the HomeKit hub. Picked up the other device and the Beam was added without a problem. Thanks especially to Ken for providing the 3 possibilities causing the issue.

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Akril

Lyricist I

A possible additional solution (which I stumbled across after hours of frustration) is to reset you HomeKit Hub. This will be an Apple TV, HomePod or possibly an iPad. Mine was the Apple TV and it had frozen. Turned it off and on again and hey presto, Sonos One became discoverable.

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Evo Thun

Lyricist I

Hello I just got a One today and was able (thx to all of you 🙂 ) to get my Sonos One in the Homekit. But... how can I turn it on and off?? Or when it is on and playing music turn it off with Homekit?? Is there a workaround too??
Thx

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bob.perkins

Lyricist I

At last. Using the iPad with which I'd setup Home originally was entirely successful. Many, many thanks to whomever suggested this above. Why this is necessary is another issue, but the present problem is resolved.

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webzwom

Lyricist I

Had the same issues. For me nothing above worked. But it worked after starting music from Apple Music (on the same device I control HomeKit from) to one of the missing speakers in HomeKit. I could see both speakers im HomeKit after that and added them sucessfully.

Maybe that helps other peeps ^^

P.S.: Airplay worked well also before adding speakers to Homekit - so no isses to control them via Apple Music before.

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OneSimpleGeek

Lyricist I

Had the same issues. For me nothing above worked. But it worked after starting music from Apple Music (on the same device I control HomeKit from) to one of the missing speakers in HomeKit. I could see both speakers im HomeKit after that and added them sucessfully.

Created an account just to say this worked for me, thanks!

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Sikantti

Contributor I

Had the same issues. For me nothing above worked. But it worked after starting music from Apple Music (on the same device I control HomeKit from) to one of the missing speakers in HomeKit. I could see both speakers im HomeKit after that and added them sucessfully.

Maybe that helps other peeps ^^

P.S.: Airplay worked well also before adding speakers to Homekit - so no isses to control them via Apple Music before.

Now that worked like magic. I tried all other workarounds, but only after I streamed my apple music via airplay to the speakers that were not previously detected, started they appear on the home app... And adding them worked perfectly after that!

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