Setting Sonos speaker as the default speaker
There might be some IFTTT fudge up.
I can’t see sonos or google pushing for this last step, as it takes away sonos ecosystem if other makes of speaker can group whole house, and google are probably pissed about the court case sonos is bringing.
I can set my Sonos 1 SL’s to be the default speakers of any of the GH minis I have without a problem. I can select the Sonos 1 SL to play on its own. What I want to do is add the Sonos 1 SL to the Whole House Group so that all the speakers in the house will play the same music at the same time. Currently only the minis are in that group and I can’t add the Sonos. I have been told there is a way.
You can just group the Sonos speakers in the Sonos App beforehand and then ask Google to play music. The Sonos One SL will stay grouped and all will play, but note it’s not (currently) possible to play the same audio stream to both your Google & Sonos devices at the same time, if that’s what you were looking to achieve.
Thx. Yes that's what I am trying to do, The work around I have found for when we entertain guests is to use the Apple Music player on my desk top, which with air play 2 permits me to play music on the TV sound system (not Sonos) as well as on my Sonos speakers similtaniously, so I have pretty much achieved what I wanted to do in a round about way. The only issue I have to resolve is the Spotify Ap on my desk top does not use airplay 2 so it will only let me use 1 speaker group at a time. Until I fix that, we will need to play music from our music data base if we want to play in multiple room. The Spotify music, even for the same song is better than our old data base but sound quality is not really that important in a party atmosphere.
Thx. Yes that's what I am trying to do, The work around I have found for when we entertain guests is to use the Apple Music player on my desk top, which with air play 2 permits me to play music on the TV sound system (not Sonos) as well as on my Sonos speakers similtaniously, so I have pretty much achieved what I wanted to do in a round about way. The only issue I have to resolve is the Spotify Ap on my desk top does not use airplay 2 so it will only let me use 1 speaker group at a time. Until I fix that, we will need to play music from our music data base if we want to play in multiple room. The Spotify music, even for the same song is better than our old data base but sound quality is not really that important in a party atmosphere.
In Spotify going via their “device connect” feature in the now playing screen area, you can group Sonos speakers from the ellipsis menu option… see attached screenshot.
It’s not brilliant, as it really just opens and links-back to the Sonos App, but it does work for playing the Spotify App audio to more than one Sonos room.
I was patiently waiting for this feature for a long time. I have multiple sonos speakers, but I also have a couple google chromecast audios that I was using as a work-around. You could connect the google chromecast audio to the line in of say a Play 5, and then the chromecast audio could be set as default speaker for any google home device.
The problem I have found is that when a sonos speaker is set as default speaker, it does not work the same as when a chromecast audio is set as default speaker. Here are the differences:
- Chromecast audio will play music, podcasts, news automatically when asking that from the google home. Sonos connected as default speaker only played music. For instance, in the morning I use the “play up first” command to get NPRs UP First podcast up. Chromecast audio as default, no problem it automatically plays via that. With sonos speaker as default, it plays through the google home instead. Frustrating.
- With sonos speaker set as default, my daughter cannot request music to be played with our default music service spotify. We have a spotify family plan, and each family member has their own account and has voice recognition set up through google home. When my daughter tries to play music on any google home with a sonos speaker set as default, it gives an error that it does not match the sonos spotify account and does not play. I suspect the google home is matching my daughter’s voice and sending spotify account specifics to sonos trying to get sonos to play from her account, but sonos only accepts one spotify profile, so…
For both these reasons I have stopped using this integration. Quite frankly I think I was way too excited and expected too much. Maybe they will fix the above, but I don’t know, after waiting this long I can’t bring myself to keep checking back.
I had tried adding a second account using my device without success - it errors out when clicking the button and says service already added. Maybe I'll try it from a different mobile device and see if I get a different result.
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