Sonos Play 1 + Amazon Echo Dot?!?!

The good - such new amazing personal assistants (Google, Amazon, soon Microsoft) are not on sale in Italy, hence I have less super fancy stuff to care about 🙂 . Which is also the bad. 😞 Saw some hints on Sonos working on this space, but not saw anything official yet, if I checked properly.

Well thanks for the quick answers i think i will have to show some patience... 😕

Yea dot is of no use to you currently with a play:1. That will change first half of this year with Alexa support coming. Right now a dot can be hooked into a Sonos with input to give you support (I have done with my play:5 in past).

Very Helpful article I found - http://www.sam-mallery.com/2016/12/5-tips-for-using-amazon-echo-dot-with-sonos/

No

But Sonos are working on it. Keep an eye on this forum for news

WORK. FASTER.
This is now six months old and still no sign of the integration. Honestly people, how hard can it be for Sonos to integrate with Alexa when even lightbulb companies managed ages ago?! This is just embarrassing and intensely frustrating!

Hire more software engineers! Do overtime! Ship the bloody update! Jeesh!

Yeah, cause turning a lightbulb on or off is the same thing as searching multiple music sources for a single song, album, or artist among multiple millions of entries, then having them play to multiple rooms at various volume levels, while being able to group and ungroup those rooms at will. Not to mention turn on shuffle, repeat, crossfade, shift between queue and radio sources, mute single rooms as well as groups, set alarms, set timers, etc., etc., etc. All using an infrastructure that, unlike other internet devices, never had to interact with other IOT devices before.

Yeah, it's all the same. Congrats on the funniest post all month. :8

There seems to be a surprising number of Sonos-friendly trolls on this and similar threads. I wonder why...

But quite apart from questioning your motives, jgatie, (and I do), your comment reflects _exactly_ the kind of misguided thinking that appears to be leading Sonos astray. So let me spell it out:

1/ I emphatically *don't want* Sonos software to be searching multiple music sources, shuffling, doing queueing, or anything of the kind. Those problems have been solved (very well, I might add) by Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, Pandora etc. etc. In fact, I'd really rather Sonos stopped designing user-facing music management software at all, because the results are ample proof that they suck at it.

2/ What I would really welcome (like a majority of people on the thread, I suspect) would be the ability to use the Sonos system as a *sound output device* for whatever system I'm using. If you can do a device-independent service integration like with Spotify then great (although usability is fairly poor tbh). However, I for one would be perfectly happy if you just __finally__ let me stream sound from whatever device I'm using to the Sonos system. And yes I know that will have implications for device battery life, but I'd appreciate if that were my choice. Note that solves the Alexa integration, AppleTV integration, browser streaming question and all the rest of it in one go.

3/ Crossfade, volume controls per room etc. are already built into Sonos control software, so I don't see how they're relevant to the development effort for new features.

4/ "An infrastructure that has never had to interact with other IOT devices" - unlike home appliance manufacturers? That's just silly.

TL;DR: Sonos should stop trying to develop music management software and instead focus a thin layer of communication protocols that can register the speakers / rooms on my network and stream sound from whatever device I happen to be using.

Edits: Minor edits for clarity, typo.

There seems to be a surprising number of Sonos-friendly trolls on this and similar threads. I wonder why...

Hmmm...let me guess. Could it perhaps be because this is a Sonos run forum for Sonos users/would be users to troubleshoot, get guidance on which part of the range suits their needs best, discuss which third party products work well with Sonos kit, and to be updated on Sonos plans for the future to the extent that Sonos is able to share these with the public?

Question of semantics too: is someone that promotes or clarifies a Sonos point of view on a site maintained by Sonos, be called a troll? As defined here:
"a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal, on-topic discussion,[3] often for the troll's amusement."

I think not.

Sigh.