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Enthusiast I
November 23, 2024
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Google Assistant - Vanished and cannot be added back on Beam (Gen 1)

  • November 23, 2024
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As of November 20, after a long power outage of 12 hours, I noticed the following:

  • Google Assistant (GA) vanished - first noted with inability to turn on microphone, verified on Sonos App, on the Sonos Beam Gen 1.
  • Any attempt to re-add GA via either android or ios fails with different symptoms depending on the OS.    Android will not be able to locate any google assistant capable device in the ‘google assistant’ phase post linkage (SSO/OUTH) between google ↔ sonos;  IOS will get there error message ‘There may be a problem’.  
  • Verified no former linkage exists in Google Home.
  • I added / removed the SONOS voice control successfully so the Beam is not mechanically challenged.

I’ve reviewed threads, cleared the beam to factory defaults and rebuilt, rebooted the router / sonos devices, all to no effect.   All Sonos devices and controller are up to date.   Still, no ability to add Google Assistant to the beam.

I’ve seen an email thread from three months ago that the GA feature / addition is currently not functioning, but I see no formal announcement of this.   With the value of time, it’s just cheaper to buy a google nest mini and get used to saying ‘hey google’ for home control and ‘hey sonos’ for music … which is honestly rubbish.

Before I waste hours on the phone, can I get an official word if Google Assistant is formally supported.

 

Frank

 

 

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Best answer by FrankOwen

Will test this Saturday... way back from UK ...

189 replies

floresep
Enthusiast I
November 26, 2024

Can confirm that Google Home will error upon trying to add Sonos back. Been happening about a week now. I've tried just about everything and from both iOS and Android.

Corry P
Sonos Staff
November 26, 2024

Hi ​@FrankOwen et al

Sorry to hear of this issue you are having with adding Google Assistant to your speakers.

There was an issue, as was reported on the status page, but it is now resolved - I was just now able to add Google Assistant to my own speaker without issue.

What error(s) do you see please?

Have you tried rebooting the device running the app, the speaker you are trying to add Google Assistant to, or your router? If not, please reboot all of these devices and try again afterwards. Please reboot your router by switching it off for at least 30 seconds, and reboot the phone and speaker while waiting for the router to boot back up.

I hope this helps.

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
Lyricist I
November 26, 2024

I too am unable to add Google Assistant to my Sonos Beam. Same issues as above in that I cannot connect it through the Sonos app nor the Google Home app.

 

I get the message "Could not reach Sonos. Please try again" when attempting to add via Google Home process.

 

If I try through the Sonos app, it hangs at the "This may take a minute. If it's taking too long, try again". Clicking try again continues the loop.

 

I have reset, router, beam and phone to no avail.

FrankOwenAuthor
Enthusiast I
November 26, 2024

Cory, have rebooted device, router (plume) and both Android and iOS devices.  Also have factory reset beam and readded.  Will repeat reboot of all three this AM PDT.  Thank you.

Corry P
Sonos Staff
November 26, 2024

Hi ​@FrankOwen 

Also have factory reset beam and readded.

I consider this overkill, but at least we now know that it did not help - I do not recommend that anyone else reading this try a factory reset. It just creates more work.

 

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
Lyricist I
November 26, 2024

I've got the same issue as well on my beam as on the One. 

 

It worked before, but I did a factory reset to change network settings. Now I'm not able to set up GA. 

I've already tried to remove the services from the google home app and Sonos. 

 

During the set up proces i've got the message in the GA app (After logging in my sonos account: “There may be a problem”. 

Gionos
Enthusiast II
November 26, 2024

Same here with Roam... Vanished... Switzerland 

Lyricist III
November 26, 2024

This is ridiculous. 

FrankOwenAuthor
Enthusiast I
November 26, 2024

Cory … 

“Have you tried rebooting the device running the app, the speaker you are trying to add Google Assistant to, or your router? If not, please reboot all of these devices and try again afterwards. Please reboot your router by switching it off for at least 30 seconds, and reboot the phone and speaker while waiting for the router to boot back up.”

Ok, have rebooted the router (plume superpod),  rebooted the beam gen1, and the android and ios device.

  • On Android - error after the sonos->google assistant->sonos SSO/OAuth → google assistant of ‘No devices found, make sure your wifi is on and that your Assistant and Sonos devices are on the same network’ … they are, I can manage the devices on sonos.   Have screenshots.
  • On IoS - error after the final google assistant in which the error says only ‘There may be a problem’ in the ios google assistant app (this matches Esme’s error).

Some data:

 

  • Google Home does not show a link to Sonos.
  • If I try to link in Google Home with ‘Works with Google’ in IoS it errors with ‘there may be a problem’.
  • If I try the same in Google home in Android it errors with ‘Could not reach Sonos’ as an error.

Nothing else to try, seems like a litany of similar issues from reading above with repeatable symptoms without an accurate diagnosis / fix.    I have submitted the following diagnostics *********.

 

Moderator edit: Diagnostic number recorded and removed

FrankOwenAuthor
Enthusiast I
November 26, 2024

Cory,  you’ll see my detailed note note after moderation.  Followed process, submitted diagnostics **********.  No resolution on both ios and android SONOS client.

 

Moderator edit: Diagnostic number recorded and removed