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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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jgatie

The big disappointment for me is that I just wanted to be able to say to google “play 96FM on home group” and have it play on all my sonos speakers throughout the house like I use to do with all my google speakers but sonos cant even be bothered to support this on their own speakers. Can’t have sonos voice and google assistant running at the same time so cant even use the sonos voice command to bring the music into a room because i have to choose between the voice systems if I choose sonos then the rest of my home automation doesn’t work. Sonos know exactly what they are doing here this is a gigantic marketing scam, for the price I have paid for sonos equipment I feel completely ripped off how can I recommend Sonos to anyone when the basics are not there?

Are you sure about the bolded? Because I have both Alexa and Sonos Voice running on my system and it works just fine. So if Google and Sonos Voice cannot coexist, it would logically follow that it is a limitation imposed by Google, not Sonos.

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Airgetlam

It is indeed a restriction imposed by Google.

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Gregito

Contributor I

I don’t mind manually grouping my devices to play, but this would be a really nice feature - and seeing as this thread is 3 years old I sure won’t hold my breath. Google’s assistant seems to get worse by the day.

What I would like is for the assistant to recognize when two devices are paired OR if there’s not music playing. Egs: “Garage 1 (stereo pair) and Garage 2 (another stereo pair) are paired and playing music, and I say ‘pause music in garage’ - it comes back with “Would you like to pause music on Garage Sonos 1 or Garage Sonos 2” DUHDUHHHH. The other hilarious one is I have a routine that dims my lights and pauses my bedroom music - If I run the routine without any music playing it prompt with “There’s a problem in the bedroom”. Funny but tiresome several years into using the same devices.

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ChrisCost27

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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.

If you have an Android, you set your dual/separate audio to a sonos speaker and connect to it via Bluetooth and then connect to a google home speaker via Bluetooth. Then you can go into your google home and play on all google speakers. The downside is that you can only get the one sonos to play with google Groups.

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Koldtoft

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Can someone confirm that this has still not been fixed, 4 years later? 🤔

I was 1 click away from buying a Sonos One (Gen2) and a Sonos Move, as I am not happy with the sound quality from some of my google assistant devices.

But cancel that!

You can not group Sonos speaker with other speakers for multiroom playback, using google assistant?

That makes this speaker useless for me

Can someone confirm that this is still not possible? I have google assistant devices in all my rooms and I just want Sonos speakers in my living room and kitchen for better sound there.

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melvimbe

Can someone confirm that this has still not been fixed, 4 years later? 🤔

I was 1 click away from buying a Sonos One (Gen2) and a Sonos Move, as I am not happy with the sound quality from some of my google assistant devices.

But cancel that!

You can not group Sonos speaker with other speakers for multiroom playback, using google assistant?

That makes this speaker useless for me

Can someone confirm that this is still not possible? I have google assistant devices in all my rooms and I just want Sonos speakers in my living room and kitchen for better sound there.

You’ve never been able to group Sonos speakers with any other brand speakers. It’s not broken because it’s never been a promised feature. You also cannot group Amazon and GA speakers. Or Apple Homepods with GA speakers.

Other than Apple’s airplay, which has it’s issues and isn’t usable without an iOS device or AppleTV, there is no universal multiroom audio standard that all companies use. Nothing indicates that we are close to one developing anytime soon.

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RandyHollien

Lyricist I

Well this sucks. The salesperson said it would hook up to Alexa and play in groups so I can play the same music in all areas of the house. One of the deciding factors versus Bose. I have a Bose soundbar and it doesn’t show up in groups also. What a mess, wouldn’t have bought it if I had the right information.

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106rallye

This thread is about Google groups, not Alexa. You could check elsewhere at the forum for Alexa groups on Sonos.

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