Only one Mic works on a stereo pair of ones with Google assistant?

Yes, that is daft and I can't believe it got to general release in this state. Like the other poster said I have to shout across the room to get assistant to work. Why did developers think this was good implementation??
The long long wait has been pointless and I may as well go back to Alexa.


Since the Alexa implementation was on both speakers in a stereo pair, I'd be inclined to believe that decision to only do one side of a stereo pair was do to technical reasons rather than a design choice.

I'd imagine your right Danny just seems weird those technical hurdles were overcome so early with Alexa but not so with Assistant which had a couple of extra years to get it right.

Ill try Hoang's technique to force it.

I don't think GA integration was started till after Amazon was done. I'm not sure which one actually had a longer run way. But yes, you would think GA would go smoother after learning some lessons from Amazon project. However, it seems like GA works significantly different then GA, enough to cause this undesirable limitation. I usually can 'reverse engineer' these sort of things to an extent, but I have no idea where this limitation comes from.

Fair point

Thanks Hoang, your workaround sorted it. Not ideal but better than before.

I always use my stereo pare and this is very annoying specially when you listen to heavy metal on high volumes, the left speaker only gets me when i'm near enough.

I am having issues enabling Google assistant for BOTH pairs of SONOS ONE speakers in my living room. They are indeed linked (per app) and I only have 1 WIFI network they are connected to however only 1 of my 2 SONOS ONEs work when I trigger the "hey google". Even when im speaking directly to it. It simply doesn't do anything voice related aka acts like a play 1. The speakers when watching/listing TV or music works together though. Also Alexa worked previously on both.

Is this a bug? or are my speakers somehow not linked?

I am having issues enabling Google assistant for BOTH pairs of SONOS ONE speakers in my living room. They are indeed linked (per app) and I only have 1 WIFI network they are connected to however only 1 of my 2 SONOS ONEs work when I trigger the "hey google". Even when im speaking directly to it. It simply doesn't do anything voice related aka acts like a play 1. The speakers when watching/listing TV or music works together though. Also Alexa worked previously on both.

Is this a bug? or are my speakers somehow not linked?

Looks like i got my answer in this forum. Will be switching back to Alexa until Google Assistant is fixed to work properly as a stereo pair.

For me issue is less about active microphone and more (much) about have sound from both speakers when I'm listening to news, etc.

I have Sonos surround system and was disappointed when Voice Services set up added Google Assistant only to the Rear-Left Sonos one! Have switched back to Alexa with the hope that Sonos will fix it at the earliest.