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Cannot group Sonos system with Google Home devices

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Sonos,

After all this waiting. And after multiple articles. And after multiple phone calls to your service reps (including today), I’m now being told that you cannot group your Sonos system devices with your Google Home devices (after being told for months and more than a year that the aid be able to group them). Even the rep I spoke with today tried to help me and didn’t find out it wasn’t possible until he spoke to a system engineer. You can do it with Amazon devices, but STILL not with Google devices

In all honesty, what is the point of adding Google assistant to Sonos if you can’t even use Sonos speakers with Google Speakers together in a group? It’s pretty useless for me to be in living room, have to get up and walk to my kitchen to say “hey google, play x in my Living Room” and then walk back.

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Ryan SAnswer

Retired Sonos Staff

Hi Roman, sorry to hear it took you so long to find your answers. You're correct, the current integration brings Google Assistant to Sonos devices with built in microphones, and it allows you to control what's playing using Google Home devices. However, Sonos devices and Google devices are unable to be grouped together to play the same thing in sync. Also, there isn't currently the ability to set a Sonos device as a preferred speaker within the Google Home app.

This is just the beginning of our integration with Google Assistant and we're looking forward to making improvements as we go, but I don't have any specifics I can share on what's next, or if either of those things are on the list. We'll be sure to tell everyone when changes are made, so you can always watch out for announcements on our board here, or elsewhere.

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106rallye

@Boppy17 Assumption is the mother of all f ups. Check before you buy. And maybe this is Google’s fault?

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Boppy17

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@Boppy17 Assumption is the mother of all f ups. Check before you buy. And maybe this is Google’s fault?

Google’s fault? @106rallye should take your own advice or brush up on your tech before making ignorant assumptions. Google integrates with 200 different vendors, including any speaker that supports bluetooth. Google could have intentionally not allowed third parties in their google home ecosystem. They decided to allow them. Sonos is the company that does not support bluetooth or proper google integration. Period. End of story. The same reason they make their own app and the same reason Sonos does not allow you to add other speakers into their ecosystem. They don’t want to.

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John B

I am not interested in saying whose ‘fault’ this is, not least because I don’t see it as a fault. Sonos does not make speakers. Its product is a fully integrated multiroom audio system. That is what you voluntarily buy into when you go down the Sonos route. It is not designed to work with other companies’ systems, and it makes no apologies for that.

Sonos has, relatively recently in its history, added voice control, including that provided by Google Assistant. That is a world away from integrating two rival multiroom systems, and it was a big and incorrect assumption that that was the case.

So, Sonos is unashamedly a solution to whole-home music in itself. I am happy to be committed to the Sonos ecosystem - a willing prisoner, if you like. But I started from scratch with Sonos. @Boppy17 - you are starting from a different place from me, as you are already invested in the Google system. I can understand you wanting your Google system and your Sonos system to sync, but that is just not on offer. You have to choose one or the other, and given where you are now it would be understandable if you chose Google.

For all I know, Sonos and Google are currently working behind the scenes on making this possible, but that seems highly unlikely to me, especially given the current litigation between the two companies.

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pufta

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2 years and still no progress on this topic?

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jgatie

2 years and still no progress on this topic?

“Progress”? Exactly when were you promised this feature that you would expect some “progress”? I’ll answer - Never, because it’s not possible. Sonos and Google have two completely different synching methodologies.

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FrankeyDokey

Lyricist I

Setups that you’re mentioning here are mostly complex (at least for someone that just started adding speakers to Google Home setup) so I’ve got a question to make sure that buying a Sonos Beam is a good/bad choice - I’ve got only one Sonos speaker so far and it’s the Ikea one (Symfonisk), added to a Sonos app and lined to google home; so I can tell the assistant to play music from spotify to said speaker.

Now I’ve wanted to add a gen 2 Sonos Beam to the mix and do I understand correctly that i’ll be able to pair with sonos app and google home by extension, I’ll be able to play music on both but not simultaneously?

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Ken_Griffiths

Setups that you’re mentioning here are mostly complex (at least for someone that just started adding speakers to Google Home setup) so I’ve got a question to make sure that buying a Sonos Beam is a good/bad choice - I’ve got only one Sonos speaker so far and it’s the Ikea one (Symfonisk), added to a Sonos app and lined to google home; so I can tell the assistant to play music from spotify to said speaker.

Now I’ve wanted to add a gen 2 Sonos Beam to the mix and do I understand correctly that i’ll be able to pair with sonos app and google home by extension, I’ll be able to play music on both but not simultaneously?

If the two Sonos devices are ‘grouped’ in the Sonos App - the Spotify music requested via the Google Assistant will play on both.

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Matthias B

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2 years and still no progress on this topic?

“Progress”? Exactly when were you promised this feature that you would expect some “progress”? I’ll answer - Never, because it’s not possible. Sonos and Google have two completely different synching methodologies.

Please stop trolling this thread. This is a feature many Sonos owners want. If Sonos can explain why they don't implement this, that would be great.

I imagine the primary reason is maintaining the extremely high audio quality of Sonos products. There are times I am willing to sacrifice that for the functionality of speaker groups. It would also be nice to have some genuine feedback and commitment (either for or against) from Sonos themselves. It might encourage Google to improve their integration, or it might encourage Sonos to improve their integration.

But simply telling people to stop asking is just stupid. We want this feature, so go back to your mushroom growing cellar and let us get on with our genuine attempts to get Sonos to address the problem.

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Matthias B

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Please please please Sonos. With a cherry on top? I can literally not play music on my patio Sonos while my daughter listens on her cheap-and-nasty Google Home mini in her room, because I can't isolate the Sonos.

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Simbadagr8

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I am also disappointed in my purchase of a Sonos product that basically advertised it could be part of a speaker group and then cannot. Probably got something to do with the patent infringement war with Google? Are they holding it back from Sonos because Sonos are suing them? The win in court just recently certainly wont help things. Hope it was worth it Sonos. I won’t buy your products again until they can integrate with Google Speaker Groups.

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