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Sonos Microphones - can I choose to have them active on surrounds instead of Arc?

Is there a way to change which speakers microphones are used for Google Assistant? When I had a Soundboard the surround Ones used to work perfectly. Since buying an Arc it seems to only use its own microphone which doesn't hear very well.

Playbase & Google Assistant.

I have a Playbase & a Google Home. The playbase is called “sonos” in the Google home setup. I can give commands to my phone or to the Google Home to control the volume on the Playbase so I know they are talking to each other. But, what else can I do with Google Assisant? Every guide I find t...

Google Assistant - Samsung TV 2020 - SONOS BEAM - TV will not turn "OFF", all the other voice commands work

Hello Guys, I have the sonos beam and google assistant installed. I have a Samsung 2020 TU8005 TV, the google assistant will not “TURN OFF TV”.The system works great - “TURN ON” “VOLUME up down”, etc… all of them work.But “TURN OFF TV” does not work.Any idea? Thanks

Google Assistant completely useless now

So over the last year Google Assistance on sonos (regarding spotify in particular) has been pretty buggy.. now it's completely useless. The response to any/every question I ask now, mainly regarding spotify, is "I'm sorry, I dont know how to help with that" I have 3 other google devices, if I ask th...

Google reply is too loud

On google branded and other google speakers, there is a volume control for googles response, separate from the volume of the device. Is that possible with Sonos 1, or is it just controlled by overall volume?

Has anyone found a way to actually get Google Assitant to play music on Sonos?

Hey google play the highway on sirius XM.. Answer: sure, playing the highway on Sirius XM.. sorry it looks like Sirius XM isn't currently supported on the livingroom (Sirius XM is linked in both google assistant and Sonos S2) Hey google play Christmas musicAnswer: alright, Christmas hits on YouTube...

Sonos + Tidal + GA doesn't work

Hi! About year I cann't start playing Tidal by Google Assistant. I have One gen 1. S2. From Sonos App and Tidal App I can start playing without problems. TuneIn and YouTube music starts through GA correctly.Dialogue:- Hey, Google, play music on Tidal".- Ok. Playing music on Tidal. Sonos is not avail...

Sonos One (Gen 2) : Multiple issues with Google Assistant

Hi, i have replaced my SONOS play:1 with a SONOS One to get acces to Google Assistant commands. After a succesful setup and adding my Google Assistant in the SONOS app and adding my Google Play Music premium account I though I was set. But apparantly there are major issues: The ‘OK Google’ Com...

Google Assistant Response Interrupts Beginning of Songs

Hi all,I have an Arc, a Sub, and two Play:3's as surrounds. I noticed that when asking Google Assistant on the Arc to play a song (from YouTube Music, in this case), its response cuts off the first few seconds of the song. However, when asking the assistant to play a song on a Google device, such as...

Google Assistant Commands/Problem w/ Spotify

Hey guys, I’ve noticed kind of a weird problem that happens with my Sonos speakers and using google voice commands to play music via Spotify. I was curious whether anyone else noticed the same problems. Normally, when asking Google assistant to play music (again through Spotify,) everything works as...

Manually control Play:5 in GA

Having jumped into the infuriating and exhilarating world of smart living/iot etc (yes, I have no life) slightly late, I have set up GA on my iPad (and I have the clumps of hair in my hand to prove it). I think I have it now: my Play:5s (Gen2) will never have voice assistant like my Beam but with an...

Chose the speaker for Google Assistant in surround system

I have a surround system with an Amp, two cabled front speakers and two Sonos One surround speakers. As default Sonos chooses the left Sonos One (surround) as the speaker used for interaction with Google Assistant. It would be more convenient for me to use the RIGHT Sonos One surround speaker for th...

Sonos Move doesn't react to Google Assistant commands when playing music or podcasts

I can start playing music or a podcast with Google assistant but one it starts playing no more reaction (funnily yesterday everything worked just fine). I tried all steps suggested - unlinking on both sides (i.e. sonos and google assistant), but can't resolve the issues. Can you please help? Thanks...

Google Assistant support for multiple homes with single Sonos account?

I switched all of my Sonos devices at my upstate home this weekend from Alexa to Google Assistant (2x Beam and 2x Sonos One) and everything worked great and controlled all of those as well as my 3x Connect:Amp devices. The Beam CEC control to turn on and off TVs with Google works great! I attempted...

Google Home volume command to control Sonos Playbar connected to Samsung TV

Does anyone know what is the google home voice command to change the volume on my Samsung tv that is utilizing sonos’ playbar via optics setup? for example if I was listening to Spotify on my tv or watching Hulu/Netflix? When I ask google to increase volume on living room tv not thing happens...I...

Google Assistant problem content isn't available

If I ask google home mini located in the kitchen to play a specific song in another room, ie living room, it says that the content isnt available and it cant perform that action. Cant remember the actual words used. But if I go into the sonos app and search the song, it is available and can be playe...

Google Assistant not listening while playing music

I have a Sonos Move, everything was working fine until I changed my wifi network and I setup again Sonos Move and linked to Google Assistant again. After that when some music is playing, Google Assistant stops listening. When music is paused, it listens perfectly, even if i place the volume as low a...

Problems with Google Assistant on Sonos One

Hello, I've owned a pair of Sonos One for about 2-3 months now and they are amazing. Especially since Google Assistant launched for Sonos speaker in the Netherlands last month. The first few weeks were very good and I had little complaints. But since 1-2 weeks Google Assistant stop responding to ev...

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