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HackersmovieAvid Contributor II
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Sonos not playing broadcasts

I've tried on my Beam, a Sonos One Gen 2 in my kitchen and my Sonos One Gen 2's as surrounds in my living room. None of them will play a broadcast message no matter where it originates from. I've checked for updates, everything is up to date. All of them will send a message but non of them will play any. Otherwise, the GA seems to be working fine. This is quite inconvenient though. Hope there is an update to fix this soon.

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5 years ago
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roastenContributor I
asked in Google Assistant and Sonos
Let Google Home send out music to all speakers

Hi all,   Im pretty new to the Sonos family. When I use Google Home and say “Play music Metallica on Sonos” my living room sonos speaker turns on and playing that. But I have more speakers in the house. How do I get Google Home to play on all speakers or a set of group as default, such as all speakers in the ground floor. I tried things like “Play music Metallica on Sonos all speakers” etc but no luck. Is this even possible?

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Sebastien D.
4 years ago
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Mr.MoContributor I
asked in Google Assistant and Sonos
Not available right now.

Hi.I have two sonos one (gen 2) speakers - they have worked just fine toghether with Google Assistant for a while.But recently they often answer “I’m sorry but the speaker is not available right now”. This happens after the GA first tells me it will play something at Spotify or Tune in.I have tried to restart the router and also reset both speakers and again added them to the sonos app and GA. But the problem is still there.Any ideas what could be the problem? 

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Paul A
3 years ago
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Ravica3Chromatic Producer I
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Can you add a Sonos One to Google Home without installing Google Assistant on it?

Just purchased a Sonos One (Gen 1) for the bedroom mostly for my wife’s use. She likes use voice commands but being Sono’s doesn’t recognize voice, it ‘doesn’t access her personal Spotify account.For the time being I was going to keep the Google Home in the room to recogize wife’s voice and play music on the Sonos. Idealy I would like to make the Sonos one the default speaker for the the Google Home but I do not even see it listed in the Google Home app.Mostly importantly I do not want both of them answering at “Ok Google”.

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AjTrek1
4 years ago
cd6445
cd6445Enthusiast II
asked in Google Assistant and Sonos
Remove Google voice but stay linked for hardware control..

Is it possible to disable the Google Assistant Voice control and keep the linked status in google home? I want to continue to control the Sonos Beams but use my Google Nest Hubs for voice commands. My wife misses having her own personal assistant settings and assistant voice. Right now I have the mics turned off as a work around. I am also using airplay more and more 2 group my Sonos system for music since that feature is not available yet from google. On a side note just having the flexibility to use both Google and Apple are why I use and enjoy my Sonos system every day. Thanks

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5 years ago
LamMartland
LamMartlandContributor II
posted in Google Assistant and Sonos
Samsung Q95T, SONOS Beam and Google Assistant

I have a Samsung Q95T set up with SONOS Beam (via HDMI3 (ARC)) on the ONECOnnect Box and Google Assistant fully set up on the Beam and the TV. I’ve also set the TV and SONOS system up via the SmartThings app on my ‘phone.Everything works as it should, with Google Voice Assistant on the Beam functioning correctly.  However, if I instruct ‘Google’ to play music, taking the Beams source away from the TV to my YouTube subscription, I can’t find a way of then telling Google to revert the audio source for the Beam back to the ‘TV’ input.If I tell it to ‘play TV’, it tries and then tells me there’s a problem as it cannot control my TV.Has anyone else encountered this same challenge with this kind of set up? Is there anyway to ‘tell’ Google to change the audio source of the SONOS Beam to ‘TV’ or is the only way to do this by accessing the SONOS app on your phone and selecting the ‘TV’ input yourself?

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Rowena B.
3 years ago
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gdaveyyvononerarnaudContributor I
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Default radio provider on Google Assistant

I used to use TuneIn radio for my radio, but they have recently stopped doing BBC radio, so I needed a new provider. I found the Radioplayer did BBC radio, but whenever I ask google to play radio it still plays TuneIn. I have removed my TuneIn account from the Sonos app, but it still tries to use TuneIn. How do I stop it, and is there a voice command to get Sonos to use Radioplayer for radio? Whenever I say “Play 6 music on Radioplayer” google assistant opens Deezer.

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Jean C.
4 years ago
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Emma81Contributor I
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not available right now

When I ask my sonos to play something it tells me that ‘family room is unavailable right now’ Any one able to tell me how I can fix this?  thanks I’m advance

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Airgetlam
4 years ago
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JTonIndyContributor I
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Can Google Assistant play music from Sonos Music Library or Sonos Playlist or Sonos Queue?

I would like to be able to turn on music on my sonos speakers using Google Assistant. However, it can only play from Pandora. I can’t figure out how to play from the Sonos Music Library, or a Sonos Playlist.    Is there a way to do this?

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4 years ago
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BigScruffContributor I
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Youtube TV commands not working on Sonos Move

I just purchased a number of Sonos products (Move, Playbar, Boost, Symfonisk) and replaced one of my Google Home Mini's in my kitchen with the Sonos Move. When I try to give the Google Assistant Command "Play ABC 12 on Youtube TV" or "Play ESPN on Youtube TV" the Google Assistant replies with, "I'm Sorry, I can't find ABC 12 on youtube tv, or that channel is currently not available". If I give the same command to my google home mini, or my google nest hub, it works fine. There are other google voice commands (such as turn off a light, or play pandora radio) that seem to work fine on the Sonos Move. I contacted Google and they said that it is a Sonos issue as the commands work fine with other products (home mini, google app, nest hub), just not the Sonos Move.

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Ken_Griffiths
4 years ago
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Stuart_29Contributor I
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Google Assistant Spotify Album

Is it possible to specify a Spotify album be played via the Google Assistant, rather than a song of the same name? If I say “Hey Google, play the <album name> album” it will play a song matching the album name, rather than the album.

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Simon B
3 years ago
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CharlesHRContributor I
asked in Google Assistant and Sonos
Sonos One Voice Recognition

Hello,I have just purchased a Sonos One Gen2, I am very satisfied with the sound quality.I am however disappointed with the voice recognition capability with google assistant. The speaker picks up the "OK Google" relatively well, but then it hardly ever understands what happens next other than if I'm close to the speaker or if the sound is very low.Can you tell me why the speaker is picking up OK Google but not more? Is there a way to check if there is a configuration problem?

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JamesDan
3 years ago
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Boiler279Contributor I
posted in Google Assistant and Sonos
Unable to add Google Assistant

I get this error when I try and connect Google Home to Sonos (via Home app) even though I’m using the same email address for both accounts. [img]https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/sonos-en/attachment/6d505cd0-0649-4586-8172-30d7410c0840.jpg[/img]

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5 years ago
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vincegerContributor I
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Google Nest Hub > Sonos default speaker

Hi, I’m a newbie and have a Google Nest hub, but need better sound quality. I would prefer to change the default speaker in the hub to a Sonos but with which Sonos is this possible, only with the portable with bluetooth? A friend of mine had an old Sonos speaker but I didn't see it in the menu of the hub to automatically stream all music to it.   Thanks Vince

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4 years ago
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James BContributor I
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Control android TV with Google Assistant via Sonos Beam

Hi I have a Beam hooked up to a Sony android TV and am using Google Assistant throughout the house (2 Ones in other rooms). I can turn the TV on and off, as well as changing the volume, but cannot get anything more advanced controls to work, such as playing Netflix via voice control through Google Assistant. Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so how do you need to set it up? I have another (non-smart) TV with a Chromecast, which you can control via Google Assistant so had hoped Android TV would be the same as Chromecast. Thanks in advance

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4 years ago
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baseggioAvid Contributor III
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Google Assistant and Amazon Music Unlimited

Will we be able to play music from Amazon Music Unlimited to our Sonos speakers using Google Assistant in the future? I realize an Echo device would be the obvious choice here, but I'm hoping to be able to do this with my Android phone.

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4 years ago
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ElliebellieContributor I
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Need to say command two times

Since we moved to a new apartment we had to reinstall our sonos products, and now we always have to say our commands twice before sonos starts music. What is the problem? Google assistant hears our first call and answers that it should turn on music, but then nothing starts. If we ask the same thing again it works. But since it is the same every time, there must be something wrong with settings or something like that? Anyone who knows?

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Rowena B.
3 years ago
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MonkeyDadContributor I
posted in Google Assistant and Sonos
Google Home lackmof. support

I have a Sonos beam and use Google home, since we got the beam about 13 months ago I have used Broadcast on the beam to send and receive broadcasts. Until this week I swapped my router and broadcasts stop sending, I get the ‘No other speakers connected on your network’ message.I can receive broadcasts still and play music on every other speaker even when requested via the beam. Contacted Sonos who eventually said the feature is not available on the beam, despite a yard of it working! Tried my broadband provider and Google who both said it’s a Sonos issue...obviously!!! Still Sonos deny it’s their issue.…Time to look for another speaker system I think

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106rallye
3 years ago
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CarvingSurferContributor I
posted in Google Assistant and Sonos
Sonos radio HQ.

How can i add Sonos radio to Google app?

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Simon B
3 years ago
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Doug AmesHeadliner I
asked in Google Assistant and Sonos
Total screwup with room assignment

I've been using Sonos with Google Assistant since it first became available, but over the last several days there's a new problem: Google Assistant frequently forgets what room my Sonos One stereo pair is in, so when I say "Hey Google, turn on the light" I get the surprising and annoying response "Ok, turning on 8 lights" (that's a stupid bug on Google's part - there's no way that "the light" should ever be interpreted as "all lights" if it doesn't know what room it's in, but leaving that aside as a Google bug...) When I check the Google Home app, I see my Sonos speaker pair in the correct room. A couple of times the problem fixed itself spontaneously after a while. A couple of times I was able to fix it manually by removing the Sonos speaker pair from the room and re-adding it. And a couple of times, like today, that didn't work because Google Home stubbornly says "There was a problem communicating with Google" whenever I try to touch the Sonos speaker room assignment (and it only af

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Ken_Griffiths
5 years ago
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MRKrigelContributor I
asked in Google Assistant and Sonos
cannot specify which music service to Google use on Sonos

If I ask Google home to play a specific genre of music on Sonos, it always says that Google Play Music isn't connected to Sonos,  which is true, though Pandora, Amazon music,iHeart radio, etc are. If I tell Google to turn on Sonos, it plays whatever genre of music on whatever service was last listened to. I don't seem to be able to specify which service to use. Is there a way of specifying a default music service for Google to use on Sonos? Is there a way if specifying which service to use?

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4 years ago
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Mi9htymik3Contributor I
posted in Google Assistant and Sonos
Sonos One Stereo Paired with Google Assistant

I was celebrating when finally Google assistant update landed here in UK.quickly changed over voice assistance from Alexa to this.But then.. It knocks off the Right speakers mic as i set my sonos on stereo pair. Has this issue been patched up yet from an update? Left is the dominant speaker when creating a stereo pair and its the only speaker with enabled mic when changing voice service to google assistant.

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4 years ago
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empathContributor I
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Google assistant says ‘this mode isn’t available’ for anything I try to do.

I can’t play music on any music service or do broadcast or anything like that. It says ‘sorry this mode isn’t available in the family room’ i have two sonos ones paired with a playbase

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4 years ago
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gonzojlContributor I
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Controlling Sonos groups with assistant

Is there a way to control Sonos room groupings via assistant? Understood you can’t group google groups with Sonos groups. In my case I am strictly interested in controlling Sonos groups. I have common groupings id like to configure. Instead of setting them up manually I’d love a way of setting these groups up on command

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5 years ago
dave77
dave77Headliner I
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GA wake words

I'm in the UK so it's not enabled yet. Just wondering if you can decide wake words eg 'hey Google' or 'ok Google' or do you get both by default.

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5 years ago
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