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Hi everybody 💡🔊💡🔊

 

I'm excited to announce that you will soon be able to use Sonos Voice Control with Hue smart lights and plugs! Simply speak to your Sonos voice-capable speakers to turn your lights on or off, change colors, and more. 

 

What You’ll Need

 

When available, you’ll need:

Sonos products with built-in Sonos Voice Control include: Arc Ultra, Arc, Beam (gen 1 and 2), Era 100, Era 300, One, Move, Move 2, Roam, Roam 2, and Era 100 Pro.

Note: Hue bluetooth-only systems are not supported; a Philips Hue Bridge or Bridge Pro is required to keep everything in sync.

 

Available Voice Commands

 

With a simple voice command, you’ll be able to:

  • Switch the lights on/off
  • Dim or brighten lights
  • Change light colors (Hue color lights required)
  • Start scenes
  • Turn smart plugs on/off

Sonos Voice Control is available in US-English and French.

 

Additional Details

 

These new features are part of an update to the Sonos and Hue apps and firmware, rolling out in the coming weeks. Sonos Voice Control commands are processed locally on your speaker, and never stored or sent to the cloud, only to your Hue Bridge over the local network. You can take a look on our website for more about Sonos Voice Control. I’ll make sure to update the sub when this goes live as well.

Thoughts, questions, feedback? Share ‘em below.

This is awesome! I’d love to be able to support voice control for Home Assistant as well. That would unlock so much more functionality than just Hue support and would almost certainly encourage smart home users to adopt Sonos throughout their entire home.

it is available now...on my system nothing happens when I ask a voice controlled Sonos speaker to turn a Philips Hue light on or off.

Alexa already runs my house.. 

it is available now...on my system nothing happens when I ask a voice controlled Sonos speaker to turn a Philips Hue light on or off.

You need to go back and thoroughly read the announcement. SVC has been live for over a year. However, the integration with Philips hue hasn’t gone live yet.

Alexa already runs my house.. 

And your point is 🤔

Man... I really miss the good old days when the family got together around the tele to watch wholesome entertainment such as Octopoda doing whatever it is they do. Look at them...they are really enjoying themselves. Yeah, I know...I’m a baaaaad boy.  🤣

 

Not sure if I was looking at wrong bulbs?

But goodness those Hue bulbs are insanely expensive and over priced.

Not sure if I was looking at wrong bulbs?

But goodness those Hue bulbs are insanely expensive and over priced.

No they aren’t cheap. $41-$49_USD. However, they last a long time. Mine have lasted 3 plus years based upon my use. I don’t leave light’s turned on unnecessarily. Which is something I’ve tried to teach my wife. 😂😂😂

Use automations or motion sensors. Some of my hue lights are over a decade old

Very happy for this. I did wonder why Sonos didn’t do this when they partnered with Ikea - would have been a no-brainer with their Dirigera hub. But glad they are doing it with Philips now the Ikea deal has expired. I have switched continuously between HomePods and Sonos. I prefer the Sonos Voice Control for music but wanted voice control and automations for my smart home but not having to remember which one (SVC or Alexa) to talk to. Also found Alexa and GH very flaky. HomePod was always rock solid so I am hoping the link between SVC and Hue is reliable. I don't expect Sonos to be updating their players to be full Matter controllers if this is going to be a Philips only integration - which is a shame.

​@Atom P 

Just a request… if SVC could have an announce / broadcast function I could free myself from Amazon Alexa.

Hi ​@Belly M 

I recommend that you start a new thread with your feature request, as we can’t tag this announcement article as one.

I hope this helps.

I don't expect Sonos to be updating their players to be full Matter controllers if this is going to be a Philips only integration - which is a shame.

 

It’s getting off topic a bit, but there is no need for SVC to be a full Matter controller, it just needs to be able to pass commands on to a Matter hub.  This is essentially what SVC is doing with Hue.  SVC isn’t controller your lights, it’s connected to your Hue hub and pass the command along so that your hub can control your lights.

So I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility for SVC to be able to send commands to a Matter controller.  I don’t think there is a standard protocol for that, so I don’t know that it makes sense for Sonos partner with a specific Matter controller just yet (It’s not going to any brand that has their own voice assistant).  It’s yet to be seen how much AI voice is going to come into play as well.

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