SONOS + ECHO DOT

I'm really disappointed about how long this is taking. A firm which was an innovator now feels like a dinosaur. I'm wondering if i might not be better off investing in an amazon echo rather than wait for my play 1's to integrate with my dot.

You could just go and buy a Duplex Phase Transponder that connects to the Dot. This item generates its own 100Gbit wifi subnet segment. It's protocol is compatible with the Sonos Mesh and allows for seamless transport of the Dot's streaming data across the network to the Play 1.

Alternatively, you could ignore my sarcastic drivel and wait patiently like the rest of us for this innovative and class leading functionality

There's no way to know if the "delay" is due to technical or aesthetic difficulties in getting the integration or the sheer awesomeness of the things that can be accomplished means there is a lot to do.

I bought a Dot last year when on deal for Prime members and she only ever wakes up when Arsenal commentaries are on my radio and Alexis Sanchez is playing - poor thing doesn't know if she's coming or going when that happens!!

There's no way to know if the "delay" is due to technical or aesthetic difficulties in getting the integration or the sheer awesomeness of the things that can be accomplished means there is a lot to do.

I bought a Dot last year when on deal for Prime members and she only ever wakes up when Arsenal commentaries are on my radio and Alexis Sanchez is playing - poor thing doesn't know if she's coming or going when that happens!!Haha. It can surely only be a matter of time before someone on the telly shouts "Alexa, play Motorhead at full volume", and a million homes go into meltdown.

That would less serious than a pizza order for Alexa on the telly.

The adverts on telly do wake my DOT up but, I don't know why, she's never answered any of the subsequent queries. I suspect it is because the DOT is in another room and the sensitivity for her trigger word is higher than that for the subsequent request. I am, however, rather impressed at how well the IT can decipher my requests even being very close to my Play 3 stereo pair which ALWAYS have some audio through them.

https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-alexa-coming-to-sonos-music-systems/

Sonos never said 2017???

https://youtu.be/NFJ7O7N5Yok

They said 2017,.not 1st quarter 2017.

Everyone be patient. Sonos is getting ready, to ready the 2nd beta, once the 1st beta is completed at some point in the future.

Play-Fi (DTS) originally said they would have Alexa integration Q1 of 2017 and have now pushed it back to "sometime in the second half of 2017". Maybe the delay is on the Amazon side and that is holding everybody up.

How do we find out more on this, or join the beta?