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Trending Lyricist I
July 14, 2018

Siri says "I can't play that in the kitchen"

  • July 14, 2018
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I picked up a Sonos One today after learning of the Airplay 2 support. Everything is working great with older speakers.

I'm trying to use Siri on my phone to launch music. It is setup in the Kitchen. However, after adding the new Sonos One to Homekit, and requesting music in the "kitchen" or "everywhere", Siri responds "Sorry, I couldn't play that in the kitchen"

I am running iOS 12 beta 3.
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19 replies

Airgetlam
July 14, 2018
Not sure, but as a guess, I'd suggest it's the beta iOS that's the issue. Sonos doesn't support beta builds of other companies. I've also seen issues with beta issues of MacOS.
Bruce
Contributor I
July 16, 2018
are you trying to play from Apple music, directly from your phone or from another streaming service? You probably know this, so apologies if you do, but siri won't open streaming from any 3rd party apps. Hopefully in ios 12 maybe?
boucheAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 16, 2018
Yeah, I'm using Apple music. I can launch apple music no problem on the device through Siri.
when I say "play x in the kitchen" (where I have the speaker bound in Home), I get that message "Sorry, I couldn't play that in the kitchen".

if i say "play x in the bedroom" (where I do not have a speaker set up), the response is "Sorry, I couldn't find a speaker in the bedroom".

So that leads me to understand that the speaker is being found in the kitchen, but Siri just won't play music for me there.

It very well could be a bug in ios12 beta 3.

I'm assuming this is working for other people.
Lyricist I
July 16, 2018
Hi there! Exact same problem here with ios12 beta 3 and two sonos speakers added in the Home app. It says it can't start the music on the speaker....did you find a solution?
boucheAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 18, 2018
No solution yet. I haven't tried this again after installing beta 4 though.
Lyricist I
July 18, 2018
For me the problem persist with developer beta 4...and I installed it on all my iPhones and iPads so no way to try with iOS 11...
boucheAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
July 19, 2018
agreed, same here.
Trending Lyricist I
July 19, 2018
Having same issue. Also running iOS 12 betas.
Contributor I
July 20, 2018
Well at least I know it’s not just me...#MeToo
adam.miarka
Trending Lyricist I
July 20, 2018
This is an iOS 12 issue. I can ask Siri to play across my Sonos devices and it works fine from my wife's iPad running iOS 11.