What is Sonos' plan for transitioning from Google Assistant to Gemini?

I appreciate the complexity but at the end of the day this is an issue for sonos to sort out and they need to move with changes in technology too.

I purchased a "smart" speaker (actually 5 in total) for a reason and they're not really "smart" anymore. If it's not resolved I'll probably look to move my ecosystem to another brand when it's time to upgrade.

I had the exact same issue where I had to reconfigure google assistant on all my Sonos speakers.

After having reset factory all of them and tried everything I could think of. I finally switch on my old android phone. (Samsung S20) and I was able to configure google assistant as it was. (thanks it was not updated with Gemini)

Nevertheless, for the one who doesn’t have this possibility it’s now a pure nightmare to configure google assistant on their Sonos speaker and I don’t understand why Sonos is not doing anything.

No-one can be sure Sonos isn’t doing anything. Given Sonos never announces anything until it is ready, I don’t imagine we’d hear about top level discussions between Sonos and Google until resolution has been reached and Google Assistant (or Gemini) implemented.

One might hope that the new CEO will want to clear things up between Sonos and Google, given both parties have at different times been found to have breached the other’s rights or patents etc - upheld or not. It’s in neither’s interests to not collaborate, and whilst the ‘battle’ happened under Spence, hopefully the bad blood will be deemed impractical in commercial terms for the parties as both sides has means of being restrictive to the other. 

Time will tell but I’d be surprised if resolution wasn’t reached in the end.

I'm so f***ing pissed about them not fixing this or even admitting there is an issue. I spent over an hour with their support chat resetting my whole damn system and to find out it's a known issue through a forum instead of truly maddening. If I hadn't spent almost 5k on my setup I'd throw them against the wall. I bought smart speakers, to control my smart house that's fully rigged. 

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The irony is, if you ask Google whether Sonos supports Google Assistant, Gemini delivers this!

Hi ​@Roq_and_roll 

Sorry to hear about the issue you had with adding Google Assistant. The agent you spoke with will receive some feedback, as they should have provided you with the following information:

I hope this helps.

Google plans to replace assistant with gemini end 2025 — and then what?

It’s a workaround that gets the assistant back onto the speakers, but if you switch back to Gemini on your phone, you just get errors. It’s not a workaround. It’s just a time waster. 

Hi ​@Roq_and_roll 

Sorry to hear that you get errors when you switch back to Gemini on your phone.

What errors do you see, and where do you see them, please?

I tried to get the Google Assistant running on my Move and Arc (not Arc Ultra). 

Went through the support chat and the support via phone.
I went a complete day through all of my system settings just to find out in the forum, that this is a well known problem.

But no one told me about this when going through the process.  

It is an absolute nightmare to get the Assistant running on the Sonos System. 
And if i summarize what i read here it is mainly based on luck if you still can connect it or not. 

So far nothing worked on my side. 
Not the work around described here, not the “old handy” without Gemini of my partner. 

 

So now i would like to have an answer on how i can connect the Google Assistant to my Move and Arc again?