Google Home volume command to control Sonos Playbar connected to Samsung TV

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February 17, 2021
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Does anyone know what is the google home voice command to change the volume on my Samsung tv that is utilizing sonos’ playbar via optics setup?

for example if I was listening to Spotify on my tv or watching Hulu/Netflix? When I ask google to increase volume on living room tv not thing happens...I tried different combination like increase volume on Sonos...living room ...etc...but no success.

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Best answer by Corry P

Hi @Kaster

Welcome to the Sonos Community!

You can see commands that work with Google Assistant and Sonos on our Control Sonos with the Google Assistant page.

Note that you will need to address the Playbar’s room name and not the TV’s. If they are similar, you may want to rename one. If both are called Living Room, for example, I recommend you change the room name of the Playbar to “Playbar”.

Then, the command “Hey Google, turn it up in Playbar” should address the speaker rather than the TV, which is what you want. You can probably get away with saying “on” instead on “in”.

You could also call the TV “TV” instead of “Living Room TV”, and leave the Playbar named “Living Room”.

To rename a room in the Sonos app, select Settings » System » [room name] » [room name] and type the new name.

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So I think sorted something out. The google assist wasn’t connected on Sonos. Now that that is done. I can control the volume BUT only the volume on chromecast controls. Which means if the Sonos volume is at lvl. 5 and I say, “hey, google increase volume to 10” the volume on the chromecast would increase to the Max and display on the screen, “ Chromecast is at volume. Still too quite increase your TV volume”.

Note: at his point the volume would increase slightly. The sound is coming from the playbar which means chromecast is using the playbar as expected being that it’s on optics but seems to be a secondary volume control vs the main control volume which at the moment the in my example the Sonos volume is still set at lvl. 5 and hasn’t changed.

the chromecast is plugged into the TV’s HDMI

106rallye

What if you would choose the Playbar as preferred player for the mini?

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