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How do I change my Sonos country to USA, so I can get Google Assistant?

  • 22 May 2019
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Where in my Sonos options do I select the country?
Or is this a case of needing to use a VPN temporarily?

I would like to change it to the USA so I can enable Google Assistant.

I imagine this means I'll start hearing dates in the wrong order, and temperature in fahrenheit, but I can put up with that for the time being until GA is launched in Australia.
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Best answer by Sjoop1985 22 May 2019, 11:33

Scroll down this community page and find the link that says "Manage Your Account". There, you can change your country to the United States. You don't need a valid address, only the country is a mandatory field, just leave the address blank.

And no worries, your GA will behave like you're used to, with the temperature units and date notation of the civilized world 😉 Those settings are with Google, not Sonos. I'm in Europe and it will speak Dutch over Sonos just as easily as it does over Google Home speakers.
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Sjoop1985
Scroll down this community page and find the link that says "Manage Your Account". There, you can change your country to the United States. You don't need a valid address, only the country is a mandatory field, just leave the address blank.
And no worries, your GA will behave like you're used to, with the temperature units and date notation of the civilized world 😉 Those settings are with Google, not Sonos. I'm in Europe and it will speak Dutch over Sonos just as easily as it does over Google Home speakers.
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This didn't seem to work for me. I changed the country to US but when I tried to connect via Google home it still says support not available for my country. 😞
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Regardless of the setting, GA can deduce your approximate location.
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Regardless of the setting, GA can deduce your approximate location.

Would that matter? The restriction to USA seems to be set by Sonos, not Google.

I changed my Sonos location to USA, but all my Google info is set up as Australia - and Google Assistant was enabled fine.

I'm disappointed that it's taking so long for Sonos to enable it in other markets outside the USA.
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I had my settings changed to USA before GA became available in my country (using it in my native language, Dutch). After GA became available on Sonos in the Netherlands I changed it back. I perceived no difference in the (stil far from perfect) workings of GA.

I'm not sure what the reasoning is for Sonos behind the slow roll out of GA.
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i am trying to get this working on my new MOVE (i am in Belgium) - changed the sonos app location into NL/BE/USA but google assistant fails to add SONOS as a new device...after log on request through the app it says "service unavailable in your country." annoying. what is a key setting here - GA or sonos app?
can someone from sonos confirm which countries/languages is GA available in?
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You say you changed the Sonos app location? Did you change your location in your Sonos account on https://www.sonos.com/myaccount/user/profile/ ?
You can change it to the US or the Netherlands.

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Het Nederlandse forum vind je hier: https://nl.community.sonos.com/
Ik lees dat je de gegevens in de Sonos app aangepast hebt. Heb je je woonplaats in je accountgegevens op de website veranderd, zie https://www.sonos.com/myaccount/user/profile/
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Yes using your link my address is set to United States but I still cannot activate GA neither via sonos app (no voice menu) nor via GA/home app (links to Sonos. App but eventually I get voice services unavailable in your country)
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ok i tried next day and googles Home did add Move speaker so something worked out (address in https://www.sonos.com/myaccount/user/profile/ ? was set to USA). GA works now

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