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Roman_3
Contributor I
May 14, 2019 10:16 PM UTC
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Cannot group Sonos system with Google Home devices

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 S
    Ryan SAnswer
    Retired Sonos Staff
    May 14, 2019 10:50 PM UTC
    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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    bockersjv
    bockersjv
    Local Superstar
    Nov 6, 2019 2:12 PM UTC

    I can’t see this ever happening, at least if you want the music on grouped speakers to be in sync.

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    melvimbe
    melvimbe
    Nov 6, 2019 2:26 PM UTC

    Couldn’t have put it better myself - seems like they have omitted a basic feature and it is very frustrating for people with Sonos speakers and very much into the Google ecosystem. Question is do you slowly switch to the Apple ecosystem or slowly switch the Sonos speakers for alternative high-end speakers (which are more Google Cast friendly)?

     

    Apple ecosystem?  In this context, do you mean airplay?

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    Danny
    mbgm8as3
    Lyricist II
    Nov 6, 2019 9:56 PM UTC

    Couldn’t have put it better myself - seems like they have omitted a basic feature and it is very frustrating for people with Sonos speakers and very much into the Google ecosystem. Question is do you slowly switch to the Apple ecosystem or slowly switch the Sonos speakers for alternative high-end speakers (which are more Google Cast friendly)?

     

    Apple ecosystem?  In this context, do you mean airplay?

    Yes. Airplay 2 is fully supported.

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    JuanCalderon
    Contributor I
    Nov 8, 2019 1:43 AM UTC

    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.

    This needs to happen. This is barely a smart speaker without this feature.

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      samimoto
      Lyricist I
      Nov 8, 2019 5:26 AM UTC

      only feature keeping me from splurging on a full home sonos sytem. The moment this feature goes live, I go shopping.

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        Schwartz
        Lyricist I
        Nov 14, 2019 6:55 PM UTC

        only feature keeping me from splurging on a full home sonos sytem. The moment this feature goes live, I go shopping.

        Partially the same for me, but instead I may be buying other competitors due to their inability to add this feature. I have 2 Sonos Beam 5.0 systems (Sonos Ones and Play 1s as surrounds) and use a Chromecast attached to TV as a workaround for speaker grouping. Unfortunately I have several other places with no TVs, so can't do the workaround.  Therefore I'm probably getting the Google Home Max's during black black friday instead for those rooms. 

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        davidtea
        Lyricist I
        Nov 25, 2019 4:47 AM UTC

        Like others I am extremely disappointed that Sonos and/or Google hasn’t resolved this issue with grouping speakers (Sonos One’s and Beam’s with Google/Nest speakers). This clearly is a feature that everyone has expected and want with the Google assistant integration.

        It has been some months now, since the original post was created and we as the customers still have no insight to whether this feature is being worked on or not, it would be great if Sonos could at least comment on whether it was in development and/or something that is never going to happen. From there it will give us the ability to decide if we should invest in a fully integrated OR part integration with Sonos and Google Assistant environment.

        It can be done with Alexa so I don’t see why this can’t be done with Google Assistant.

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          John B
          Nov 25, 2019 7:12 AM UTC

          @davidtea you are mistaken. It cannot be done with Alexa either.  You cannot group Sonos speakers and Echo devices to play in sync.

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          davidtea
          Lyricist I
          Nov 25, 2019 7:27 AM UTC

          @davidtea you are mistaken. It cannot be done with Alexa either.  You cannot group Sonos speakers and Echo devices to play in sync.

          I might have read incorrectly but I thought the below thread stated that it could be added to groups. 
           

          https://en.community.sonos.com/announcements-228985/sonos-now-playing-with-alexa-groups-6817588

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          John B
          Nov 25, 2019 7:46 AM UTC

          You have misunderstood. Alexa Groups can be used to control which speakers duck the volume, and which Sonos speakers play by default when a command is given. It has nothing to do with playing Echo and Sonos speakers together in sync.

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