Google Assistant Support

I would not be surprised if this is indeed the case -- that the limitation is imposed by Google. In fact, I seem to recall a few years ago, that the same issue on Google Play Music access came up with Google Home as well. But then, after numerous user complaints, it was "fixed".

If this is indeed the case, it would still seem that Sonos is still in the best position to potentially address the issue with the service provider, given their already established relationship with the firm (contacts already established in previous licensing and sharing discussions, etc.). Also, Sonos would have access to their user usage statistics and Google Play Music access issue statistics (gathered from Sonos usage data, this forum, and other sources), which would put them in the best position to best represent the user community in discussions with the provider.

Anyways, crossing fingers that our voices are heard...

Still love my Sonos ecosystem and while I'm still rather disappointed that it was a solid year and a half (more than that if from the time of my pre-order) until my SonosONE could do what I purchased it to do at the onset. Though, to be fair (and I must be) I initially was simply in the market for an additional Play:1 speaker at the time and the Sonos:ONE was the same price so I bought it instead.

At the end of the day I'm simply overjoyed to finally have Alexa out of my kitchen. Native Googe devices have their strengths, and Sonos devices have theirs. I'm just happy they can finally communicate at all. I'll continue using the app for most tasks anyhow. Thanks, Sonos, for finally following through on your promise. The wait was long.

Would Google Assistant work with Sonos Amp/Connect/Connect:Amp via a Google Home Mini?

Would Google Assistant work with Sonos Amp/Connect/Connect:Amp via a Google Home Mini?
Any Google Assistant enabled device can control any Sonos device using the new Google Assistant integration. You just need to set up the connection in the Sonos/Google Assistant apps.

Also, the Sonos Amp/Connect/Connect:Amp all have a line-in, so if you're looking to use all of the audio out of a device, you could use that if the Google Assistant device you're looking at has a line-out.

Ryan, my use case is to have 10+ rooms with in-ceiling speakers with 10+ Sonos Amps in a closet and a Google device in each room to listen for commands. I would like to say "OK Google, play "Song X" in "Room Y". Thanks!

Great, that should work just fine. One note to mention, the Google devices wouldn't be linked with Sonos in order to play the same thing at the same time. But that command will work great.

Ryan, could you please explain?
I thought you could make groups and play the same thing in multiple rooms at the same time.
For example, during a party, couldn't I say "OK Google, play "Playlist A" "Downstairs", where Downstairs is a collection of Sonos Amps that are linked?
Is this just an issue with using Google Assistant to do it, or is Sonos not able to do this at all?
Thanks!

Sonos players have grouping built into them. Using the Sonos app, you can make any sort of combinations you'd like, on the fly. But the Google Speaker Group is not currently in the Sonos and Google integration. There isn't a way to group Sonos players together using Google Assistant, but if you have a group of Sonos speakers that set up with the Sonos app, they'll stay grouped together, and you can use the Google Assistant to have all of them play music together. The command for that would be to target any speaker in the group with a play command.

For example, let's say you make a Sonos group using the Sonos app with the Kitchen, Living Room, and Guest Bathroom units. Then, using the command "Hey Google, play some music in the Kitchen" would start playing something in all three rooms, in sync. If you only wanted to play in the kitchen, you need to disconnect the Kitchen from the group using the Sonos app, and then issue the command (or issue the command and in the Sonos app drop the other units from the group).

@palpatine242 At the risk of over complicating the answer @Ryan S provided, the rules he's providing only apply to the Google/Sonos integration. With Alexa/Sonos integration you can utilize Alexa groups to better control where the music plays when you make a request to Alexa.

You can group a Sonos room with an echo in that room so that commands automatically play to that Sonos room. For example, you can say "Alexa, play X" to the echo in your kitchen and your kitchen Sonos speakers will play the music.

You can also create an Alexa group (call in 'downstairs') that has your kitchen, living room, and guest room in it without a specific issue. In that case, you can say "alexa, play X on downstairs" to any alexa device in your home and the music will play in the kitchen, living room, and guest room.

I'm mentioning this for two reason. One, if you haven't bought your equipment yet, you might want to consider going with Alexa over Google if this is an important feature to you. Second, if you are committed to using Google, I think you can be fairly optimistic that the features Alexa currently has will eventually come to Google.

@palpatine242 At the risk of over complicating the answer @Ryan S provided, the rules he's providing only apply to the Google/Sonos integration. With Alexa/Sonos integration you can utilize Alexa groups to better control where the music plays when you make a request to Alexa.

You can group a Sonos room with an echo in that room so that commands automatically play to that Sonos room. For example, you can say "Alexa, play X" to the echo in your kitchen and your kitchen Sonos speakers will play the music.



Coming from Alexa, I would agree with @melvimbe on this if you have not started down the google assistant path yet and that is important for you. The 2 main things I am missing are the "play x" command and it plays in the room local to the voice device and sonos device and playing my own music through google play to a sonos speaker.

Like anything else in this evolving world though, you start to get used to it and naturally work around until the feature gets released. Hopefully one or more of the 2 above is going to be released soon. Default room speaker with sonos and grouping in google home should probably come together if Google home recognizes sonos as a smart speaker within the app like other google home devices.

Now that the integration itself is out, does anyone know what the next features of this integration being looked at are? Or, confirmation that it has not stopped at this.