My room is very long, now I have to shout all the way across when I'm at the other end of the room.
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Only one Mic works on a stereo pair of ones with Google assistant?
Is this normal? If so this is awful. It's exactly why I've never been able to use them for surround sound with the beam and alexa.
My room is very long, now I have to shout all the way across when I'm at the other end of the room.
My room is very long, now I have to shout all the way across when I'm at the other end of the room.
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I have the exact same issue. Wasn't a problem with Alexa so I wouldn't of thought it would be a problem with assistant, especially as they took 1000 years to 'get it right'.
I have the exact same issue. Wasn't a problem with Alexa so I wouldn't of thought it would be a problem with assistant, especially as they took 1000 years to 'get it right'.
This was in part due to performance during the beta test, but I'll make sure the team knows you're looking for stereo mics, or the ability to select which of the two has Google Assistant installed.
Thanks Ryan
I can't stress enough how much I need it on both. We should have the option. I havent been able to use my ones as surround with the beam for a similiar issue where you disable the mics on both. The ones are wall mounted high up, in a longish room. It drives me mad having to shout across.
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Thanks for the feedback everyone. Yes, it is defaulted to the left side (as the left side is the "main" in a stereo pair, and for surrounds it also has a higher profile).
This was in part due to performance during the beta test, but I'll make sure the team knows you're looking for stereo mics, or the ability to select which of the two has Google Assistant installed.
This was in part due to performance during the beta test, but I'll make sure the team knows you're looking for stereo mics, or the ability to select which of the two has Google Assistant installed.
I agree, an option would be best. Also, does anyone know how to choose which speaker, from your stereo pair, assistant works on?
I couldn't find a way to specify either. It just added it to the 'left' rear for my 5.1 setup.
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I got the same problem and that seems to be awkward. The point is wherever you are closet to the Sonos speaker, you should be able to use it with Google Assistant so we don't walk to the one that works in the stereo pair. Hopefully, they will get it fix soon.
Yes, that is daft and I can't believe it got to general release in this state. Like the other poster said I have to shout across the room to get assistant to work. Why did developers think this was good implementation??
The long long wait has been pointless and I may as well go back to Alexa.
The long long wait has been pointless and I may as well go back to Alexa.
For me issue is less about active microphone and more (much) about have sound from both speakers when I'm listening to news, etc.
Personally I like this better than the way it automatically added alexa to both speakers so hopefully they don't do a full 180 on that, but rather allow those that want to the option to load it on the second speaker. Even more ideal would be the ability to choose assistant, alexa or nothing for the second speaker as was advertised.
That'st the point, surely after so long in development they shouldn't have to fix seemingly obvious issues from day one.
By the way mines on the left as well and I want it on the right. Maybe left is a fixed default.
By the way mines on the left as well and I want it on the right. Maybe left is a fixed default.
Yes, the Beam’s mic would be active in the 5.1 configuration.
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You can force Google Assistant to the speaker that you want to have voice enable. For me, I took out the stereo and leave just one speaker that I want to keep the Google Assistance, then reset that speaker and make it work with Google Assistance first.
Once it works, you can do the same to the second one and pair the stereo again. This time, it works to the Sonos speaker I like to have Google Assistance on .
Again, it requires some extra time to make it happen but at least I know that Google Voice won't work on both stereo speakers together by design.
Sonos should know and have a bug fix for it, and that would be a big help.
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Once it works, you can do the same to the second one and pair the stereo again. This time, it works to the Sonos speaker I like to have Google Assistance on .
Again, it requires some extra time to make it happen but at least I know that Google Voice won't work on both stereo speakers together by design.
Sonos should know and have a bug fix for it, and that would be a big help.
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Is this a bug? or are my speakers somehow not linked?
Looks like i got my answer in this forum. Will be switching back to Alexa until Google Assistant is fixed to work properly as a stereo pair.
I agree, i have the same issue.
There are two parts of the problem actualy:
- Only one mic is enabled for Google Assistant
- Only one speaker of a stereo pair is playing back e.g. News when started via Google Assistant.
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE THAT GOOGLE ASST ONLY WORKS ON MY LEFT SPEAKER 20 FEET AWAY FROM MY KITCHEN!!!!!! $2,000 SPEAKER IS UPSETTING US
Sonos shouldn’t sell speaker sets that include multiple smart speakers if only one of the speakers in the set can be used as a smart speaker. I bought two Ones but effective have. One and a Play:1 due to this bug.
Same problem as everyone else. Bought the beam and 4 ones. First find out you cant pair 4 ones with the beam, only 2. So so set 2 up the ones as surround and found out the mic's are disabled when used as surrounds. So had to disable surround and use them as stereo pair and then find out the right mic is disabled in stereo pair.
Why did I pay so much for smart speakers that cant be used as smart speakers. And what kind of speaker system is this if they can only be setup individually to take advantage of smart features. Lastly 5.1 configuration have been around for decades and even that has issues?
I have Sonos surround system and was disappointed when Voice Services set up added Google Assistant only to the Rear-Left Sonos one! Have switched back to Alexa with the hope that Sonos will fix it at the earliest.
Same problem as everyone else. Bought the beam and 4 ones. First find out you cant pair 4 ones with the beam, only 2. So so set 2 up the ones as surround and found out the mic's are disabled when used as surrounds. So had to disable surround and use them as stereo pair and then find out the right mic is disabled in stereo pair.
Why did I pay so much for smart speakers that cant be used as smart speakers. And what kind of speaker system is this if they can only be setup individually to take advantage of smart features. Lastly 5.1 configuration have been around for decades and even that has issues?
If you set yours up in a 5.1 config using a Beam, Sub and two Ones as surrounds, is it the Beam that has the mic active?
Just asking because I have a Playbar, which doesn’t have a mic, so my left One surround ends up being ‘it’ in a 5.1 set up.
I would actually be pretty happy if the central sound bar could be the one with the active mic - it’s in the middle, after all… To be honest, having too many speakers with active mics in a small area gets a little annoying for me with Google Assistant since you can’t control which one is going to answer. I end up trying to talk to my One in the bedroom and the One in my ensuite bathroom answers and plays the news!
You can switch it to the right speaker, either in software, or just swap the speakers physically if you don't care which is left/right for music. You just can't have both at once.
Though I've not tried it, I understand that you can get GA onto the right speaker by:
- un-pairing
- installing GA on the right hand unit
- re-pairing
This didn’t work for me, unfortunately. Tried it five times now.
I have a 5.1 set up with two Ones as surrounds.
I removed the surrounds, added GA just on the right one and then re-added both as surrounds. Once they were re-added, neither had GA working on them; I had to add the service again. When I did that, it only added to the left one.
I also tried removing the surrounds, adding GA to both and then re-adding them as surrounds but, again, had the same issue.
I know it’s not a big global issue or anything, but the right One is closer to my groove in the couch!
The long long wait has been pointless and I may as well go back to Alexa.
Since the Alexa implementation was on both speakers in a stereo pair, I'd be inclined to believe that decision to only do one side of a stereo pair was do to technical reasons rather than a design choice.
I'd imagine your right Danny just seems weird those technical hurdles were overcome so early with Alexa but not so with Assistant which had a couple of extra years to get it right.
Ill try Hoang's technique to force it.
Ill try Hoang's technique to force it.
I don't think GA integration was started till after Amazon was done. I'm not sure which one actually had a longer run way. But yes, you would think GA would go smoother after learning some lessons from Amazon project. However, it seems like GA works significantly different then GA, enough to cause this undesirable limitation. I usually can 'reverse engineer' these sort of things to an extent, but I have no idea where this limitation comes from.
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