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Steve Garon
Contributor I
July 2, 2019
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Google home mini default speaker

  • July 2, 2019
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I have a Google mini and a Sonos play:3 in the same room. Since the play:3 does not have voice, I have to ask the Google mini to play the music.

If I just say: "hey google, play some music" the music plays on the mini which is definitely not what anyone wants... I have to say the room where the speaker is but not only that, if I setup both speaker in the same room the mini still gets the job. You can set default media playback device for the Google mini but no Sonos speakers can be selected.

Is that it? Is that what we waiting so long for? Cause if that's so, I'm getting rid of all of this and just getting Chromecast enabled speakers.

Please let me know I did something stupid and this can be fixed.
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    Best answer by melvimbe
    That's a highly desired feature that has not been implemented yet. There's no doubt that Sonos and Google are aware, so I can't imagine this is very low on the priority list. Sonos has stated officially that it will happen, or when that might be though. Then again, they rarely give out that kind of information.

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    molis83
    molis83
    Lyricist III
    January 8, 2020

    It looks like we don't have to expect a better integration in de nearby future:

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/sonos-sues-google.html

    kevinjohnwimberly
    Lyricist II
    January 17, 2020

    While I agree this functionality would be nice, you can still connect your Google to your Xbox and Sonos, and you can also use the Sonos app to connect your music services and it is pretty similar to “casting”. I use it for my music playing. Just go to Sonos app and connect those services and it works good.

    Tavadras
    Lyricist I
    February 16, 2020

    It works since right now: https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5google.com/2020/02/15/assistant-sonos-default-speaker/amp/

     

    I tried it with my Google home mini and my playbase. It works!

    rwrgeo
    Renowned Enthusiast II
    February 16, 2020

    It works since right now: https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5google.com/2020/02/15/assistant-sonos-default-speaker/amp/

     

    I tried it with my Google home mini and my playbase. It works!

    I tried it with my mini and connect and the setting reverts back to default speaker home mini immediately. Hopefully will resolve itself. 

    106rallye
    106rallye
    February 16, 2020

    I solved the reverting issue by not returning to the previous page but closing the Google Home app on my iPad after changing the default speaker to a Symfonisk. By doing this the change held.

    xtaski
    Lyricist II
    September 16, 2020

    So I’ve now spent hours trying to get my Sonos Move to show up in Google Home, which it does, but not as a device I can do anything with. Which is INSANELY stupid. Based on this thread it looks like that won’t ever achieve my desired result of being able to integrate a Sonos into my whole house system that I cast from my music player for. Has anyone been able to add their Sonos into a speaker group in Google Home? Is that the current state still? I see this thread started a year ago - is there really no cast support yet?

      106rallye
      106rallye
      September 16, 2020

      Sonos sells it’s speakers, at least the Beam, the Arc and the One and I believe te Move too, as smart speakers - meaning they connect to smart assistants, commanded by voice, either Google or Alexa. These speakers are also Airplay enabled. The ability to cast isn’t mentioned because and is not there. Why did you come to expect this?

       

      The set up of these assistants should take minutes, so I‘m curious where it went wrong for you.

      sonosg
      Enthusiast I
      September 16, 2020

      Why did you come to expect this?

      Because it is the default expectation.  It is kind of odd that it doesn’t.  Of course it doesn’t and if you know the technical details and names of various services, it never says it does.  But the expectation is still the expectation.

      106rallye
      106rallye
      September 16, 2020

      I’m sorry you are disappointed with your speaker.

      But you don’t think you might be generalising your expectation? Do we agree expectations should be checked before buying?

      xtaski
      Lyricist II
      September 17, 2020

      Every other speaker I have that supports “Google Assistant” enables the ability to cast. I can’t name another device that doesn’t, and I have a lot of devices, from a lot of manufacturers. This is my first Sonos device and I’m learning quickly the entire platform is based around having to use the Sonos app, which is not the case for any other wifi connected systems I already have. So yeah, you’re going to have confused consumers who are buying a “Move” portable speaker for being a really good portable speaker and not realizing it’s not like other devices they have.

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