Sonos Voice Assistant and White Noise (Google Assistant)

Are you not able to just create a playlist of white noise and put it on repeat? - there is one ‘white noise’ track on Amazon Music that is 6 hours long?

I don’t see any reason why the track(s) would stop playing, my own general playlists keep playing for many (many) hours? The only reason I can think that your track(s) might stop playing is a connectivity issue, intermittent interference, or possibly IP address ‘lease’ renewal, all of which should be solvable.

I could make a playlist. But I would like Sonos to have the same functionality of it’s voice assistant. I don’t want to have to keep my phone on me.

Also, it was an issue my guests who were visiting were having.

I’m not quite sure what you mean? The phone Sonos App is just a ‘remote’ - it doesn’t play/stream anything... The services, like Amazon Music, stream directly to the speaker - you simply use the App to tell the speaker what to play direct from the service. You will not need the mobile to be present after that.

I would expect visitors, or any guests to your home to have the same issues, if they are using your Network, which I suspect maybe the source of your problem.

I would ensure your speakers (portable/non-portable) use the main routers 2.4Ghz Wifi band only and that it is set to use a non-overlapping WiFi channel 1, 6 or 11 and set the channel-width to 20MHz only.

Ensure there are no other wireless extenders or power-line adapters involved in the network connections. If using a mesh network then try to ensure all hubs to operate on the same channel (if the mesh devices cater for that). 

Ensure the 5Ghz SSID (if named separately) is not showing in the Sonos App network settings ‘network list’ and that you have any guest networks disabled on the router too.

In addition to the above, you may perhaps also find these two links helpful…  

Wireless Interference Document:

WiFi Interference

Wireless Interference Video:

Wireless Interference and Sonos

You told me to make a playlist and put it on repeat. Users can’t do that with voice controls.

I have 1 router and 2 access points with separated 2.4 ghz. I use non-overlapping 1, 6, and 11 channels. I have seen this problem reported by other users.

My google home products do not cut out after random periods of time.

Save the playlist to the music service and then ask the voice assistant to play it, or you can load any tracks manually to the queue and then ask the assistant to play the queue.

Each access point is best to use the same SSID/credentials as the main router and set their beacons to use the same channels/channel-widths too, that’s as long as they work okay with SSDP multicast/broadcasts for device discovery of the players across your LAN.

Neither do the Sonos products on most user Networks - that’s why I’m offering these suggesting for you to maybe consider.

Our playlists will play for many hours and I’m sure there are other community users here who may attest to being able to do that too with their own Sonos speakers (portable and non-portable).

Anyhow those are my personal suggestions as a long-term user of Sonos products, it’s your decision of course if you wish to try them, or not.

I am a long term Sonos user too. Do you use google assistant? There’s no place to save your google playlist and have it be recalled with voice control.

Same issue posted here:

Alexa here:

Here:

Have you tried to ask your Sonos voice assistant to play white noise or ocean sounds and see how long it’ll play for? Do you use a voice assistant? You’re giving suggestions that don’t actually work.

Just to perhaps also assist you further, there is also a ‘White Noise’ station and other sleep routines in the free Sonos Radio service too.

The white noise track(s) I’ve loaded there in the earlier example shown will play for 6 hours+, before it repeats. I haven’t tested that particular track playlist of course, but my own regular playlists created in the same way, play for many hours everyday non-stop, so that why I suggest you should perhaps use your own playlists and start them with your chosen voice assistant.