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Ryan S
Ryan S
Retired Sonos Staff
May 14, 2019

Sonos Welcomes the Google Assistant

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Sonos Welcomes the Google Assistant
Sonos 10.2 brings the Google Assistant to Sonos. Your Sonos One and Sonos Beam, once updated, will have the Google Assistant built-in, bringing a new voice to your home. With this update, you can now link your Google Assistant enabled devices to control Sonos hands free with the Google Assistant.

Control your music, get answers to questions, manage everyday tasks, and more— simply by using your voice. Find out more about the Google Assistant with Sonos on our website here and on our blog, “12 Ways the Google Assistant Will Enhance Your Sonos Listening Experience”..

The Google Assistant is available on Sonos starting with the US only, with expanded availability this year. As of July 2nd, 2019, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom now have support for Google Assistant on Sonos.

To get started, check out our setup pages for controlling Sonos with Google Home devices or adding the Google Assistant to a Beam or One. The directions are below as well.

Once you’ve got it set up, try out some basic commands with “Hey Google…” or “Ok Google…”

“Hey Google, play my morning news.”

“Hey Google, play some music in the Living Room.”

“Hey Google, turn it up.”

The Google Assistant can control basic playback, such as skipping or pausing music on Sonos, and can start music from Deezer, Google Play Music, Pandora, Spotify, and YouTube Music.

With the Google Assistant on Sonos you can play music, find answers courtesy of Google Search, plan your day, set timers, and easily control smart devices around your home. You’ll also be able to use features specific to Google Assistant, like continued conversation, meaning you can ask the Google Assistant a series of questions without having to say “Hey Google” every time.

We’ll continue to bring more actions and functionality to the experience over time through software updates.

We have a pretty comprehensive list here of basic commands, but there are always more to discover.

Setting Up Google Assistant

Enhance your Sonos experience with the Google Assistant by adding it to the Sonos One and Beam or by linking your Google Home devices to Sonos.

Adding the Google Assistant to Sonos One and Beam

To add the Google Assistant to the Sonos One or Beam, go into your Sonos App (on iOS or Android) and tap on More > Room Settings > Voice Services and you can select the Google Assistant to be added. Please note that you can only have one voice service added to a Sonos player at one time, however multiple voice services can be used on the same household if you have more than one compatible device.

Set up Google Home to control Sonos

If you don’t have any voice-enabled Sonos speakers in your system, you can still set up Google Assistant to control Sonos through a Google Home or other Google Assistant-enabled device.

In the Sonos app for iOS or Android, tap the More tab at the bottom, then tap Voice Services. Choose Google Assistant from the list. This will take you to the Google Assistant app, where you’ll sign in to your Sonos account.

Once you’ve connected your Sonos account, check to make sure you’ve added your music service accounts in the Google Assistant app by tapping your profile icon at the top right, then choosing Services > Music. You can also set your default service from this menu.

To learn more about how you can control Sonos with Google Assistant, see our article, Sonos with Google Assistant.

If you run into any trouble, there are some helpful tips and tricks here and on our community here to start with.
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    colinbowern
    colinbowern
    Contributor I
    May 15, 2019
    Can we control Play:1 and Play:5 Gen 1 devices through Google Home?
    malinka
    Enthusiast I
    May 15, 2019
    No Chromecast for audio built-in yet 😞
      Jmcb
      Lyricist II
      May 15, 2019
      No grouping with other Google speakers is disappointing. Seems like this should be core Google Assistant device functionality. How is this not part of the rollout after 18 months? Sonos should show up in the Google Assistant app just like my home minis and budget low end Insignia do and be added to speaker groups.
        Sjoop1985
        Sjoop1985
        May 15, 2019
        I would like to see Sonos speakers show up as other speakers do in the Google Assistant, but I think that is just a matter of time.

        As for grouping Sonos speakers to non-Sonos speakers, I doubt it could be done, as the Google Home speakers don't have the same capabilities in terms of hardware and software to make the on-the-fly, seamless, while streaming anything, grouping and ungrouping possible that Sonos has perfected over the last decade. If I'm not mistaken, you can currently only group other non-Sonos Assistant powered speakers in a semi-permanent way. I wouldn't want to see my Sonos system locked down like that.

        What I would like to see, is the ability to group Sonos speakers together by voice.
        Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans (John Lennon) --- Living room: Arc, Sub, 2x One - Kitchen: One - Bedroom: Play 3 - Office: Beam - Bathroom: Play 1
          Airgetlam
          Airgetlam
          May 16, 2019
          Grouping by voice has been on the list for Amazon voice control as well. I suspect it's harder than not, possibly due to the fact that Sonos allows you to rename your speakers, but that's just a guess.
          Bruce
          jguentne
          Lyricist I
          May 16, 2019
          SW just doesn't work.
          tsandy
          Contributor I
          May 16, 2019
          I live in South Africa, and changed the voice service to Amazon to Google, now they work as they should. 😎
          terjene
          Lyricist I
          May 16, 2019
          This suxx.
          "...with expanded availability this year."
          With Sonos previous ability to reach deadlines, I'll have this next year, at best.
            jschriesheim
            Lyricist I
            May 16, 2019
            Is there a way to specify a group of Sonos speakers when starting to play using Google Assistant? I'd like to be able to say "Play Mark Knopfler in the kitchen and living room". If there were a way of creating multiple named groups (either with Google Assistant or within Sonos), that would be ideal. Then you could use the group name as a target for operations. Not asking (yet) to mix Sonos and Google Home speakers into groups, but it would be nice to specify more than one Sonos room as a target without having to open the Sonos app and group/ungroup.
              melvimbe
              melvimbe
              May 16, 2019
              This suxx.
              "...with expanded availability this year."
              With Sonos previous ability to reach deadlines, I'll have this next year, at best.

              Google integration was absolutely late, and I'm not sure you can place all the blame on Sonos for that since it obviously involved Google as well (which surely was less concerned about a deadline). However, I'm not sure Sonos has ever missed a deadline nearly that badly before, and they typically hit deadlines when the give a specific month of release. Of course, it's easier to keep deadlines when you rarely announce your deadlines to the public.

              Is there a way to specify a group of Sonos speakers when starting to play using Google Assistant? I'd like to be able to say "Play Mark Knopfler in the kitchen and living room".

              Not currently, but I don't think there is any doubt that customers want this and similar features.
              Danny
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