Skip to main content
HeinrichNell
Contributor I
January 4, 2020
Answered

Google Assistant with Sonos in South Africa

  • January 4, 2020
  • 21 replies
  • 2549 views

Hi there,

I am trying to find out whether I can control my Sonos One speaker via GoogleHome in South Africa.

Can anybody assist?

Reagrds,

Heinrich

This topic has been closed for further comments. You can use the search bar to find a similar topic, or create a new one by clicking Create Topic at the top of the page.
Best answer by Reno Botes

Hello Heinrich,

I have the Sonos One setup and working fine with google assistant.

The company selling the product misleads buyers and then charges R350 to setup the product.

 

Here's what you can do:

Go online(website) and edit your Sonos profile. Set your country to UK or adjacent country where google assistant support works for sonos(for some reason you cannot add sonos device on google home if your account is registered in south africa). 

After your country was changed, navigate on the Sonos app to settings/services and select android assistant under the voice option. Once selected the app will open google home settings. It will now be able to discover the device(if country on sonos is set to south africa it will not pick up the device). Follow the steps and voila it works. Let me know if this was helpful.

 

 

 

21 replies

Show previous replies
Renaldo
Lyricist I
October 16, 2020

Seriously guys, what is the hold up here!? Annoying!! 

I am genuinely disappointed with my Sonos One Gen2 after all the research and time put in towards buying a good quality and up to date speaker that is supposed to make life a bit simpler. Why are suppliers pushing the Voice-enabled capabilities if it is not available? Not impressed and a waist of money and time.

 

After much effort, and reading this article I managed to get my Google Home Mini to connect to Sonos via the IFTTT App (https://youtu.be/20lFWrBi6Qc) but this is still not the full functionality that was promised. @Sonos, we are buying your products and we are not supposed to ask Google or you to activate this function in our country. Its not your buyers responsibility and unacceptable. 

 

Simply switch the capability from Google Assistant to Google Home. That will work until the Google Assistant is downloadable in South Africa

 

Looking forward to your reply and an estimated date to action this feature,

Renaldo

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement