Amazon Echo controller

I registered on this community specifically so I could vote for this feature. I love the Echo and my Sonos system. Music sounds way better than the Echo, but the voice interface with Amazon Echo is unsurpassed. I find myself asking Alexa to play a song just because it is so easy, but then find myself disappointed as I know how much better it would sound if it were then playing through my Sonos speakers.

+1 Echo control of Sonos, or handoff

"Alexa, connect to kitchen speakers" - Could connect all Echo output to a sonos zone.
"Alexa, play the Beatles in the Family Room"- Randomly shuffles Beatles music as it does now, but plays it in the family room zone.

There is so much potential!


Exactly why i am on here. Same experience. Love them both.

Sonos,

Sadly, I listen to my Echo exclusively all day yesterday. It's so simple and easy.

Just stumbled onto this . . .

http://www.gizmag.com/josh-ai-amazon-echo-alexa-app-sonos/44375/

Maybe there is some hope on the way for those of us that continue to hold out hope!

Sonos definitely needs a voice controller, call it the "Sonos Vox" and charge $149.95. Design it so you can set it on a coffee table and the user can change volume, play favorites, and change tracks with their voice


There, I did the tough part, now go make the product so I can buy it!

While I like @Steve's idea, perhaps price it at $99 and make it a white hockey puck that has location context (what zone it is in...)

LOVE my 14 zones of Sonos, but you've got to engage the voice/AI world.

Sonos definitely needs a voice controller, call it the "Sonos Vox" and charge $149.95. Design it so you can set it on a coffee table and the user can change volume, play favorites, and change tracks with their voice


There, I did the tough part, now go make the product so I can buy it!

While I like @Steve's idea, perhaps price it at $99 and make it a white hockey puck that has location context (what zone it is in...)

LOVE my 14 zones of Sonos, but you've got to engage the voice/AI world.

Sonos have announced that they are already working on voice - we know no more beyond that.

I for one would be extremely unlikely to buy any additional hardware. At least whilst my fingers and legs still work!!

So I tried out Ryan's approach (https://github.com/rgraciano/echo-sonos). It took me all afternoon to set it up (it is not for the faint at heart) but I got it running. Because it the instructions included assumed many things that I didn't know, I had to figure a bunch of stuff out. I made some more detailed instructions here: https://howastute.blogspot.com/2016/07/sonos-control-with-amazon-echo-how-i.html

A HUGE thanks to Ryan for while I had to figure out a lot of the steps, I could NEVER have done it on my own.

It works pretty well. The main drawback is that it stops working whenever my computer goes to sleep or I'm logged out. So I ordered a raspberry pi to be a full time controller. I just need to find the time to set it up...

This is just too much trouble. I'm disappointed in a progressive company like Sonos not getting with the program. They should have been the first, not the last in integrating voice with their product. If they've already hired the voice engineers, it should not be that much effort to integrate with Alexa as a start for at least the basics.

This is just too much trouble. I'm disappointed in a progressive company like Sonos not getting with the program. They should have been the first, not the last in integrating voice with their product. If they've already hired the voice engineers, it should not be that much effort to integrate with Alexa as a start for at least the basics.

Care to list another multi-room streamer manufacturer which announced their intent, never mind actually accomplished "integrating voice with their product"? No wait, let me answer that for you: There are none. Not Bose, not Samsung, not LG, not Denon, not Bluesound, nobody. Sonos is not only the first one, they are the only one.

Just stumbled onto this . . . .

http://www.slashgear.com/sonos-has-big-news-august-30th-is-it-alexa-voice-control-12451637/

No one seems to know for sure what the August 30th announcement is, but its encouraging to read speculation that it could involve Amazon Echo (Alexa). Keeping my fingers crossed!

Bump.

Any news about this integration??? Eager here to see and use these appliances together