Siri

+1 Don't think Sonos official have replied to this thread yet, can we atleast get an answer from them? What else is this forum for otherwise? Any ETA on when can we expect HomeKit support?

We're happy to reply but as other's have said, there isn't any official details to share right now.

Sonos doesn't normally comment on future plans other than Alexa support.

We don't normally speak to any future development, but we did recently announce that we're working on this right now.

I'll be sure to pass on your interest in seeing Siri support and Homekit over to our team for you. Thanks for asking!

That article definitely has a lot of praise for google home.

Inhave the feeling Google home may be better than echo in a year or so. But echo has announced Sonos support going for it and with the price of echo dots actually is affordable for all over the house. So I stuck with echo for now. Google needs to come up with a dot equivalent I believe to be effective in the whole home control side.

Regardless of the debate, I'm seconding the original request for Siri support.

I'm not sure what the debate is. I'm sure no one is against Siri support. It is going to be dependent on how much of the work on Amazon echo support can be ported to use for Google home or Siri.

And conversely, how much support Apple wants to give to make it work, I suspect.

I just responded to someone who wanted the whole Spotify system currently under beta test to be ported over to iTunes. I'm certain that once it's out of beta, Sonos will publish the API on how to get it done, but frankly, I have little to no confidence that Apple would integrate it into iTunes. I'd love to be wrong on both counts, Siri and iTunes "casting".

Hope springs eternal.

You mean Apple Music. Or iTunes on desktop? Don't see them doing any development for the desktop apps.

Yea, I think s/he meant iTunes. S/he was looking for counts increasing on his/her playlist. Hell, maybe s/he meant Apple Music. Either way, I don't see Apple bending to include Sonos, although I guess the fact that they're now carrying the speakers in their stores might mean a slightly more lenient attitude in that area.

They are doing it with Alexa, which works with Apple and Android, so no walled Apple garden, thankfully. Alexa also works a lot better than Siri, from across the room even. Just need a $50 Echo Dot.

And this requires a Sonos product with an available line-in. My Play:5 is using line-in for my turntable - so getting Alexa to control my Sonos would cost me another $550 - I'd much rather have Sonos support Siri, or even Hey Google.

Upcoming Alexa support requires no line in native to Sonos and Alexa.