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Northman1234
Contributor I
March 20, 2025

Unable to use google nest with Sonos play 1

  • March 20, 2025
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I’m not able to get Google nest to play anything on my pair of Sonos play 1 speakers.

when I try and add Google assistant in the Sonos app it doesn’t work it just pops up help info instructions on how to set it up which I’ve already done. I’m using the Sonos app on my iPad. I have installed google home and Google assistant and the Sonos app. I try setting the default speakers to the Sonos speakers in Google home for the nest device. When I ask the nest to play music it says okay and that it’s playing on the selected speakers but the speakers never play anything. 
I can control the speakers fine using the Sonos app by itself.

Any ideas on why this doesn’t work at all? I’ve seen other people posting that it works and I’ve watched YouTube videos on how to set it up and it working for them. 

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Northman1234Author
Contributor I
March 21, 2025

Well, after trying to get Sonos speakers to work with google nest for a few days I’ve given up. It seems they are just not compatible. I can only get it to play Tune in Radio. Why? I have no clue.
The fact that the Nest will play a song from YouTube fine but then setting the Sonos speakers as the nest’s default speaker causes it not to play the exact same song is well, just stupid. It also won’t play anything on Spotify even though it did play one song one time. It also can’t play anything on Sirius. Maybe the more recent speakers are more compatible. 

I’ve seen lots of other posts on here complaining about the same kind of issues. I don’t know if these issues are caused by the Google product or the Sonos product or both.

Too bad, It would have been nice to be able to play songs on my older Sonos speakers using voice commands.

 

106rallye
106rallye
March 21, 2025

Strange. This worked well with my son’s IKEA Symfonisk.

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