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juang
Contributor I
May 15, 2019 8:30 PM UTC

Sleep Timer doesn't work with Google Assistant

I just set up Google Assistant, and I'm largely happy with it, except that sleep timers don't work.

When I have spotify playing, if I say "Sleep Timer for 10 minutes", Google Assistant responds "Sleep timers can only be set when media is playing".

Is there any way to get this to work?
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    geordanreid
    Lyricist II
    Jul 8, 2019 7:46 PM UTC
    My kids utilize the voice control when going to bed to put on music and a sleep timer, not ideal to have them utilize the Sonos app, but appreciate the suggested work around.
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      CKCK
      Lyricist I
      Dec 7, 2019 8:45 PM UTC

      Still not working, 7 months after the issue was initially raised. This is a pretty major feature deficiency to go ignored by Sonos for so long.

       

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        geordanreid
        Lyricist II
        Dec 7, 2019 9:45 PM UTC

        Agreed, well, technically the sleep timer now works in that it creates a generic 'timer' called sleep that beeps when it expires... :) While music continues to play.  This is not the functionality that we are after.

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          tomythomson
          tomythomson
          Lyricist II
          Dec 8, 2019 1:54 AM UTC

          Yeah I just noticed this as well the other day. I just got my first Sonos speaker (One) and setup GA but quickly saw that sleep timers don’t work.

          Also, you can set alarms via GA, but if you ask GA what alarms you have set, it gives a bizzare reply like “You have an alarm for 9am, snoozed until 4am.” Umm...

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            ddub
            Lyricist I
            Feb 23, 2020 4:58 AM UTC

            Any update on this?  
            Feb 2020 and it still doesn’t work. 
            the crazy thing is that even if you initiated Spotify using GA, and then asked it to set a sleep timer it denies there is any music playing! 

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              mikek401
              Contributor I
              Jul 25, 2020 6:50 PM UTC

              This critical feature still doesn’t work, more than a year after the GA was released.   My next speaker will not be from Sonos.

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                Sara_G
                Lyricist III
                Jul 26, 2020 7:20 AM UTC

                Not working, it confirms that “bedroom will stop playing in twenty minutes” then when the twenty minutes are over it screams at me SORRY I DID NOT UNDERSTAND and then just keeps on playing whatever was on. This sucks, it is a rather basic function afaic. Really, really underwhelmed with the whole experience atm.

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                  jmr_accounts
                  Lyricist III
                  Aug 14, 2020 3:15 PM UTC

                  I’m having the same issue as described as of yesterday with a new Sonos Move. So, I guess this is still not resolved. Disappointed to discover these limitations with Sonos and Google Assistant. A sleep timer is a critical feature for me. 

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                    Chip138
                    Lyricist I
                    Oct 28, 2020 11:31 PM UTC

                    Come on, this is stupid, these posts are now over a year old!!! It’s not like this is a ‘new feature’ it’s simply a broken element / bug! Please can you actually put some effort into fixing this and let us know when this will be done!!!

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                      Steve_Thornley
                      Lyricist I
                      Jan 1, 2021 11:18 PM UTC

                      Another Google Assistant user very dissatisfied that I cannot set a sleep timer using my voice. An issue over a year old and not evident in Alexa? Seriously?

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