Enthusiast II

SonosRadio?

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April 21, 2020
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So where is this Sonos Radio that I have been reading about this morning from all the major outlets? Let me have it!!

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melvimbe

So where is this Sonos Radio that I have been reading about this morning from all the major outlets? Let me have it!!

Checked out a few articles, and I don’t see a release date. I do see that it will be at 128 kbps, which I interpret to mean it will be available on S1 and S2 systems...and thus surely in a release before June.

Danny

R

RedSonos

Lyricist III

Waiting for the software update which according to WhatHiFi will bring it

melvimbe

Waiting for the software update which according to WhatHiFi will bring it

Ah, so the update should be today/tomorrow. Cool.

Danny

Guyincognito76

Prominent Collaborator I

Okay, I’ve received the update.

I was hoping that it would fix something, but it doesn’t. I have a pair of Play:1’s in my kitchen, linked as the preferred speakers to an Amazon Dot.

Now, since the BBC fell out with TuneIn it’s been a pain getting their stations to play. Simply asking Alexa to play BBC Radio 6 plays it on the Dot, but I have set the triggers in IFTTT as the workaround. Obviously sometime I forget to say ‘trigger’ and I hear tinny crap, and other time’s I instinctively say ‘trigger 6 Music’ to my One’s in my living room and it comes on in the kitchen. I know, not a giant problem in the great scheme of things.

As all the BBC channels are included in Sonos Radio I was hoping I would be able to ditch the ‘trigger’ command but it’s the same problem. BBC Sounds launches on the Dot, disabling the skill doesn’t work either. Never mind.

*Updating the channel favourites in the Sonos app from TuneIn to Sonos Radio, has resulted in a quite significantly longer lag between the trigger and the station playing though.

Ken_Griffiths

Okay, I’ve received the update.

I was hoping that it would fix something, but it doesn’t. I have a pair of Play:1’s in my kitchen, linked as the preferred speakers to an Amazon Dot.

Now, since the BBC fell out with TuneIn it’s been a pain getting their stations to play. Simply asking Alexa to play BBC Radio 6 plays it on the Dot, but I have set the triggers in IFTTT as the workaround. Obviously sometime I forget to say ‘trigger’ and I hear tinny crap, and other time’s I instinctively say ‘trigger 6 Music’ to my One’s in my living room and it comes on in the kitchen. I know, not a giant problem in the great scheme of things.

As all the BBC channels are included in Sonos Radio I was hoping I would be able to ditch the ‘trigger’ command but it’s the same problem. BBC Sounds launches on the Dot, disabling the skill doesn’t work either. Never mind.

*Updating the channel favourites in the Sonos app from TuneIn to Sonos Radio, has resulted in a quite significantly longer lag between the trigger and the station playing though.

Doesn’t the BBC Skill now work in the Alexa App? Instead of just setting your Play:1’s as the Alexa groups ‘preferred’ speaker, try setting them as the echo dot’s ‘default’ speaker and your BBC radio stations should work via Alexa on Sonos.

melvimbe

Doesn’t the BBC Skill now work in the Alexa App? Instead of just setting your Play:1’s as the Alexa groups ‘preferred’ speaker, try setting them as the echo dot’s ‘default’ speaker and your BBC radio stations should work via Alexa on Sonos.

Ken, I don’t think a Play:1 can be set as an echo dot’s default speaker. It has to be another Alexa voice enabled speaker. So the speaker needs to be a Sonos One, Beam, or Move (or other Amazon speaker). Atleast that’s what the setup told me when I tried to set a Sonos amp. I assume the same for play:1.

Danny

Ken_Griffiths

Doesn’t the BBC Skill now work in the Alexa App? Instead of just setting your Play:1’s as the Alexa groups ‘preferred’ speaker, try setting them as the echo dot’s ‘default’ speaker and your BBC radio stations should work via Alexa on Sonos.

Ken, I don’t think a Play:1 can be set as an echo dot’s default speaker. It has to be another Alexa voice enabled speaker. So the speaker needs to be a Sonos One, Beam, or Move (or other Amazon speaker). Atleast that’s what the setup told me when I tried to set a Sonos amp. I assume the same for play:1.

Ah yes, that’s correct Danny and my mistake. I forgot that an echo device’s default speaker needed to be a Sonos product with built in voice services. Thank-you for correcting this point and sorry if my post may have misled or raised the hopes of guyincognito76 or any other folk here. (Note to self.. must try harder next time).👍

Guyincognito76

Prominent Collaborator I

Doesn’t the BBC Skill now work in the Alexa App? Instead of just setting your Play:1’s as the Alexa groups ‘preferred’ speaker, try setting them as the echo dot’s ‘default’ speaker and your BBC radio stations should work via Alexa on Sonos.

Ken, I don’t think a Play:1 can be set as an echo dot’s default speaker. It has to be another Alexa voice enabled speaker. So the speaker needs to be a Sonos One, Beam, or Move (or other Amazon speaker). Atleast that’s what the setup told me when I tried to set a Sonos amp. I assume the same for play:1.

Ah yes, that’s correct Danny and my mistake. I forgot that an echo device’s default speaker needed to be a Sonos product with built in voice services. Thank-you for correcting this point and sorry if my post may have misled or raised the hopes of guyincognito76 or any other folk here. (Note to self.. must try harder next time).

No problem, Ken: it was half an hour of lockdown killed squinting at my phone and shouting at Alexa, whilst holding a can of beer… or Tuesday as I think it’s now called.

C

castalla

Local Superstar

Updated. End result: no ‘rooms’ available via controller. Jeez.

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Ken_Griffiths

Ah yes, that’s correct Danny and my mistake. I forgot that an echo device’s default speaker needed to be a Sonos product with built in voice services. Thank-you for correcting this point and sorry if my post may have misled or raised the hopes of guyincognito76 or any other folk here. (Note to self.. must try harder next time).

No problem, Ken: it was half an hour of lockdown killed squinting at my phone and shouting at Alexa, whilst holding a can of beer… or Tuesday as I think it’s now called.

Ah sorry Guyincognito76, I guess I owe you half an hour. I have plenty of isolation time here and need to gives some away anyway😁 ... 4 weeks of lock-in and I still can’t get things right.

I’m just glad that Danny stepped in here quickly.

Oh well I won’t forget that ‘schoolboy error‘ in the future and I’m sorry for driving you to drink ha ha ha… that’s completely understandable and feel free to blame me!!!😂

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