Smart home integrations

Being a quadriplegic I used to use Alexa to run a routine to operate the callbell in the nursing home. Since Alexa plus became available it continually fails to run the routines correctly. I understand sonos and EWElink can be connected to run routines by that System… how?

Looks like there’s some changes coming to Hue that gives further integration with Sonos. Use all Hue remotes and switches to control Sonos speakers. info is sparse at the moment but this was leaked on the Hue website so seems legit.  Lots going on at the moment! 

Hey hey! My name is Nate, and this is my first post here! I wanted to describe what I’m working on, and see if anyone’s interested in it! It started out as a little project for me. I love having lyrics displayed for songs, and I wanted to figure out a way to have them display automatically. Turns out, it’s possible!  The current state of the project: •Seamless integration with any Sonos ecosystem•Connects to both Sonos and/or HomePods AUTOMATICALLY •Syncs with Philips Hue and Nanoleafs•Weather and photo Idle screens (Kinda like Aura Picture Frames)What you need:•Computer connected to WiFi/LAN, or Docker Container•Device that can access the internet browser (currently laggy on a fire stick, buy if you’re able to stick a mini pc behind a device it works like magic. I’ve gotten it to work on smart TVs, Xbox’s, and even just a chrome tab) (Do note that the help of AI was included in the making of this)I would love to hear feedback on the project, and if anyone would like to test, please le

1. Apple Home and Apple TV integrationI would like the Arc Ultra to fully appear in Apple’s “TV & Speakers” controls.When music is playing directly on the Arc, the song, artwork and playback controls should also appear automatically on the Apple TV’s Now Playing screen. 2. Optional Apple TV playback with Hey SonosI would like an option for Hey Sonos to launch Apple Music directly on the Apple TV instead of playing through the Sonos music service.This would turn on the Apple TV, show the music on screen and send Dolby Atmos audio to the Arc Ultra through HDMI eARC. Direct playback on the Arc should remain available because it starts much faster.

Hi everyone,I built a home-screen widget for Android that lets you control your Sonos system without opening any app.Features:- Play / pause / skip and per-room volume, right from your home screen- Up to 5 tappable favorites- Spinning laser-disc animation of the album cover while playing- Home-theatre / TV mode detection with a matching animation- Grouping badge, mute, auto-detects when you switch Wi-Fi networks- One-time $1.99, no subscription, no login, no adsGoogle Play: [LINK REDACTED - search for “sonoswidget”]Would love feedback and feature requests from the community.Thanks!Eyal Moderator Note: Modified in accordance with the Community Code of Conduct.

I'd like to know what the result is of the communities multiple requests for Home Assistant Voice integration, is it in the planning or denied?. ​@Sotiris C.  ​@Corry P I would readily jump away from google assistant if Home Assistant was supported on Sonos. Just being able to use existing hardware i already have in my home with home assistant and a local llm is a game changer. People want their privacy Sonos. The only reason i dont use Sonos Voice Control is due to it not having access to my lights/home it only controls the sonos environment, This is such a huge limitation. Sure there is a niche amount of users using home assistant.. which is only because we first had google assistant & Google Home… but that is going to change.. google is pushing its llm which i can personally say i dont want. Stick it to em enable home assistant and let the users enjoy sonos again.

I have two level house. Downstairs are two groups of wall speakers linked to Wiin Amps that I control via Google home group them in this. I am now looking to install Sonos wall speakers upstairs link to the Sonos Amp and Sonos Arc for the TV areas (plus subwoofer in time). Do you know if I will be able to group them all (upstairs and downstairs) via google home system so music plays and can be controlled simultaneously?Thanks 

I know this has been brought up before, but a while ago. Wanted to show some support for it again.I have Sonos Speakers, which I love, and I’m starting out with my more privacy-focused smart home through Home Assistant. Sonos Voice Control was been really helpful on the privacy front! Having another privacy-focused option as the voice assistant would be great! I can control an Alexa and a Google Assistant smart home, so why not Home Assistant as well?Thank you!

I see where newer Sonos speakers with voice control can activate Hue lights. For those of us with older models currently the Hue Sync Desktop app involves direct connection to your PC which is not where most of speakers are located. It would be great  if it could be more integrated like the Spotify connection for Sonos where Sonos and Hue are directly connected through the Sync option on the Hue app. Being able to choose which speakers and what playlist just like you can currently with Spotify and Hue would be a great feature to have.Thank you,Dan Spinella

Please allow a future integration with home assistant by allowing the sonos speakers to work as satalites for Home Assistant.  Or integrate sonos voice to communicate with home assistant. It just makes sense that this is on the pipeline for updates. I like many others are well invested in the sonos ecosystem, with speakers in every room. , its just annoying having to run sonos, alexa and have a separate satellite for HA.  With sonos voice being the most non-cloud friendly,I thought you would pair well with HA. I hope this gives food for thought and I hope to see some sort of improved integration with HA in the future. Help male smart homes smarter 😄 Thanks Dave

I have a HomeKit scene that plays music to multiple Sonos speakers. I just noticed that for some reason it’s creating multiple groups, each playing the same thing, except one group. As an annoying consequence of this, as they’re playing an Internet radio station, the different groups sometimes get out of sync slightly, resulting in an annoying echo effect as some speakers are very slightly behind the others. If I go into the Sonos app and move all the speakers into a single group this fixed is, but that kinda defeats the purpose of having an automation to play the music. Is there anyway to control this to get it to just create a single group? My assumption is that this would need to be on the Sonos side of things, as HomeKit just sees the individual AirPlay speakers.

After lots of investigation and comparison, in January I decided to select Sonos for my whole-home music system speakers, to be controlled via my extensive Home Assistant smart home system via the Music Assistant subsystem (HA/MA). The purchase timing was influenced by IKEA discontinuing their Symfonisk line, with the remaining speaker inventory available for half-price, plus a Sonos 25%-off sale.I first bought a pair of Symfonisk Picture Frame speakers, and after onboarding them with the Android Sonos app, they were instantly discovered by HA/MA after adding the MA Sonos Provider. Aside from lacking the TruePlay feature, these speakers were everything I hoped they would be. Great sound for just $150 each.So I immediately bought a pair of Sonos Era 100 speakers (for BT and aux-in support) and a pair of Roam 2 speakers (for initial outdoor support), which also were onboarded via the Sonos app and were discovered by HA/MA.The system performance was even better! I especially liked how I c

Adding my voice to the mix (excuse the puns) because it’s incredibly important to me and a large portion of Sonos’ customer base.Supporting the integration of Home Assistant Voice - just wake-word integration like the existing Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, would make this the ultimate multi-room audio setup for smart home users. Sonos would become the number one pick for all smart home users, providing options for cloud or local voice control of smart home integrations, plus high quality consumer sound systems. It’s your market to corner!Please, Sonos, consider working with the team at Nabu Casa to provide support for local voice control of Home Assistant using your smart speakers! 

Hey Sonos, hear me out... (this will never work but, let's try it anyway). To regain trust from your customers after the App redesign, you could decide to open up your systems to OpenHome and allow users to add their custom voice assistant with home assistant.This would be huge, there is a big community of makers and your devices are great and will easily be adopted as main voice assistant devices.If you compare the quality of a Sonos Era or One SL to the voice assistant preview from home assistant... it's like night and day.Let us add a custom voice assistant via API to our devices, people don't care much anymore about Google Home or Alexa. Let us have privacy and customization.Sincerely, one happy customer that would love this feature.Cross Post also on reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/sonos/comments/1k16vzs/home_assistant_voice/

When I cast from an music app via wifi I can't find sonos arq in the list. Arc is connected to my TV and therefore the TV starts every time I cast music. So I am getting sound through sonos Arc but because of the TV which is connected to arc. I would like to directly stream from android app to arc.  Are there any settings in the sonos app? 

Question regarding Spotify using Alexa. I have multiple Echoes and dots throughout the house. On both the Spotify desktop and mobile apps it shows all devices so I could select which one to play music or all as the everywhere group.   Other day I bought a Sonos era 100 and downloaded Sonos app. I can still use Spotify desktop app to select any/all devices (living room option is actually the Sonos). But now on my phone it's only shows desktop (pc app and speakers) Living Room/Sonos and my phone for playback. I want to be able to control each device on my phone but now can't. The Alexa app can't find the Sonos.   

Hello,I’m planning to build my new home cinema (bar + sub + satellites), but I’m using siri to control my home, so one prerequisite for me is to have siri integration. I see you are creating you own vocal assistant but to be honest I am far from understanding this, what we want is one powerful assistant for everything, not yet another limited assistant from each vendor.. Hopefully this doesn’t conflicts with any potential Siri integration ?Especially since Apple plant to use generative AI now for Siri and make more intelligent, I would like so much to be able to use Siri from my home cinema.  I saw denon added it to their denon home system, do you plan doing it aswell ? Else I think I’ll need to go with denon, but I wanted to compare first and maybe wait a bit of something was planned from other brands. Thanks

Hello, I’m running various Sonos zones throughout my home via Sonos Amps (9 of them) which power speakers in different rooms.  Since installation, I’ve always played music just fine via Airplay connection to the speakers throughout the home.  The issue I’m experiencing is that I’d like to add the Sonos Amps to Apple HomeKit so that I can run automations to play music at certain times, and also direct Siri to play from a Homepod or Phone to one of the Amps.  As I go through the process in Apple Home to add an accessory, all of the amps show as options to integrate, but the process continuously fails.  I’ve rebooted all amps.  I’ve rebooted my router and other smart home hubs. All amps show as an accessory ready to be integrated into Apple Home.Airplay error shows even though the Amps DO work via regular airplay playback from any device in the home.After clicking “Ok” on the Airplay failure, this message from HomeKit shows. 

Please integrate Sonos with Samsung SmartThings locally. 

I live in Iceland and I purchased ARC ultra and wanted to connect it to my Google home account, like any other devices I have are connected to. When I try to connect the Arc to Google home I am told that Sonos is not supported in my country, even when the product is being sold in Iceland.  When may I expect the service available in Iceland? The product is not cheep, I would like to be able to use it. 

Afternoon all. Appealing to experienced hands as always as I’ve had no success to date with this onePreviously I purchased a 1st gen Hue Sync to add to a Panasonic GZ2000 running with a Sonos Arc, Pair of Sonos One’s and a Sonos Sub. The TV also had a Roku stick, A Nivida Sheild and an Apple TV box. But I could never get it to work and returned it. This was maybe three or four years back.Now I’m in the fortunate position of being able to set up a new room, again with a new flagship Panasonic, a Sonos ARC Ultra, a pair of Era 300’s and a new sub and would again like to try at adding add a Hue Sync. Most likely we will add the same Roku, Nividia, Freesat and Freeview boxes. Not sure how many HDMI’s are on the Panasonic …. I think 4 … its the Z95B.Possible to get any set up guidance from those having success here please? Or any limitations? Or is it even possible? I know there was a 2nd gen Sync launched a while ago but can’t see any real data on what sets that one apart.I also read that

Hi. I have a Netatmo Smart Video Doorbell and had it connected to my Sonos speaker. I got a message via the speaker every time someone rang the door. But it stopped working. I have tried resetting/rebootingthe doorbell and taken it off Apple Home and reinstalling. I can now see it in Home (and it alters me on my phone when someone arrives, but I can’t find the doorbell when I try to automate a connect with Sonos via Home’s “New Automation” and “An Accessory is Controlled” option. Which other help instructions said would connect up the Netatmo with Sonos. Does anyone have advice on how to make this connect?

Hi everyone, mods please move if this belongs in another section.I recently solved an issue that I think may help others who are using Harmony remotes with Sonos.The problem is that when Sonos devices are included in a Harmony activity, the remote often hangs on “Connecting…” for 10–15 minutes, and sometimes doesn’t connect at all. This happens both on initial startup and when switching between activities. Harmony has to handshake with all devices each time, and since Sonos speakers don’t have power states and no longer respond properly, Harmony just keeps waiting for a reply that never comes.As many of you know, Logitech no longer supports or updates Harmony, while Sonos software continues to evolve. Over time this has made the integration unreliable, to the point where it can prevent Harmony from starting up or switching activities smoothly.Workaround: Remove Sonos devices from your Harmony activities. Create activities with just your other AV gear (TV, receiver, inputs, etc.). U

J ai un système Sonos et un système HUE pour les lumièresDans l application HUE et "maison connectee" je ne vousvoas lvapplication SONOS et dans l application SONOS voici contrôle  je ne vois rien concernant HUE EST CE NORMAL ? COMMENT FAIRE ?