Smart home integrations

I really want to get rid of my remaining Apple HomePods. However, a chief reason for keeping them is the ease of handing off anything in playing on my phone to the speaker. I can’t see anyway to do the same with Sonos. Am I missing something?

I have a Harmony remote.  It controls all 'smart' gear and Sonos, but it's not fun to use. I think Sonos should enter and take over this market.  There are no competitors that are significant. Please consider it!

I’ve recently bought Sonos Beam and I’m very impressed by the Sonos app and its built-in services – super easy for me and my family to start playing some fav radio station or music streaming. Anyway, I have a Homekit-based smart home (incl. Homebridge) with scenes and automations working smoothly together. I was sure I can easily integrate the speaker to this eco-system (since it’s added to Homekit using Airplay 2). But the thing is… it works nicely when playing something with Airplay – at that time I can pause the music easily from HK. But though I cannot integrate the speaker to be paused/stopped using the “Shut off” scene (which turns off all unnecessary devices when I’m leaving home or going to sleep). Basically, if I play something using Sonos app, the Sonos speaker is Home stays as turned off and says “not playing”.Is there any way to easily integrate the Sonos speakers with Homekit in a way that music played through the Sonos app can be paused/stopped? I saw a few Homebridge plu

How can you connect sonos play one to HomeKit?

I'm trying to setup Siri for my Sonos system.I found the instructions on the Sonos site, so went into the Home app on my iPhone and went to add an accessory.  However, I can't find an option to add without scanning the product code.Well, I did somehow find the option once.  It displayed a list containing my Sonos speakers.  I selected one of them and it told me I needed a HomePod, which I don't have.I wasn't totally certain I'd picked the right thing, but now I can't find the option anywhere.I'm using iOS 16.2, and to make things more exciting I have VoiceOver enabled.Any ideas? 

Will voice control work when playing music from a downloaded playlist on a iPD?

I used to have all my Sonos devices assigned to each room they lived in on the iOS Home App. I noticed after iOS updated devices showed up as “not supported” suddenly. I thought removing a re-adding them might correct the issue but any devices I removed will not re-add and error out with an AirPlay error pop-up “unable to connect to ‘speaker name’”  anyone experience this and figure out how to resolve it?  I tried resetting one of the Sonos devices back to factory defaults then attempting to add to the Home app but no success… thanks.  

Recently upgraded homekit with the new architecture (iOS 16.2). I can no longer Airplay to several speakers, all of which are hardwired or on Sonosnet. The only two speakers I can Airplay to are a Move and a Roam.  I tried removing and re-adding a speaker in homekit but I can’t re-add it.  Also tried power cycling Sonos units, all the homekit hubs, and the router. Same thing. “Airplay - unable to connect”.  Any ideas? I’ll try factory resetting a speaker tomorrow…

Do I need to Uninstall the app then re install? 

Awaiting a Port to arrive and I am wondering if anyone has experience with the port and Meridian gear? I would like to know the following.A will the port accept and fully control its output directly from the music app using airplay 2 without opening the Sonos app. If the answer to A is yes. Does it locally control the actual volume in meridian versus digital attenuation? Mod Edit: Corrected typo

I have Sonos speakers in various rooms of the house.  Some are used often and others are not.  It seems wasteful to keep them plugged in for days/weeks at a time when they are not heavily used. I am looking at plugging some into smart plugs so I can turn them on remotely when I want them and turn them off when not in use.I plan on leaving the speaker connected to the network on all the time, since that is required.Has anyone tried this? Are there any issues I should be concerned about? Thanks,John

I’ve used my Sonos devices with Harmony for many years without any issues until recently.. it appears since the recent update to my Sonos One devices the harmony commands no longer respond. I’ve also noticed that when I open the Sonos app it takes a couple of attempts for it to recognise my speakers - any ideas ? 

Any news on Sonos adopting the Matter standard?

So I’ve been trying to google/searched forums and there does not seem to be any clear answers on this topic.Today I have an older surround setup containing one Playbar and 2 Play 1s. I’m looking into making my home smart and have been leaning towards Apple HomeKit.  I would like to know before I buy two new Sonos One to make my surround setup compatible, if it will work with apple HomeKit or not? If not, are there any way to make it work correctly? For example keeping my play 1s in the surround and buying 1 Sonos One to get AirPlay to work? I’m very confused and cannot figure out the correct way to make this work.  Or am I just better of going for Google’s smart home platform even though I only have apple products at home.  Also will Siri work with the Sonos One which I will place in my livingroom for communication and HomePods placed in different locations in the house.

HiHow can I connect my Sonos Beam and the Philips Hue Sync Box so that the sound of the TV comes from Sonos while the Hue light bulps controlled by the Hue Sync Box synchronizes with the picture of the TV? I don’t care about music coming from streaming services like Spotify to sync with the Hue Sync Box. Just want to have the TV picture to be in sync with the Hue lamps. Thanks

See above… Interested in buying a Ray and two Symfonisk speaker and would like to to plug them in some Homekit plugs. Will the setup remember the pairing (I think I‘ve read somewhere, that the answer is yes) and the EQ settings? I know that it‘s not meant to be turned of, but… well, yeah…

With SmartThings Legacy Platform being discontinued at the end of Sept 2022.  Will Sonos devices continue to work within the SmartThings setup ?

I noticed that when connecting a Sonos PORT to an outboard amplifier that the volume limit on Fixed output will work while the player is playing audio, but will reset itself to OFF or 100% after the player is stopped and started once again. This is not the correct way to set the volume limit setting when using third party amplification and volume controls. ONLY Using the Pass-through setting, keeps your Volume Limit setting in place thus allowing you to maintain the desired gain output of the Sonos PORT to your outboard amplifier system and not overload the inputs to the outboard gear.  I thought this would be very useful info to the right people, as I had chased this issue for a while not knowing if my third party control system (Savant) was causing this to happen or if it was a software issue of some other sort.

Has anyone else who uses the audioClip API noticed that since 14.12 it doesn’t work properly - I’m seeing the requests get posted, but they fail to play over the targeted speaker?

I would like to use a button press in IFTTT to play a sound or certain length of music. I would want it to interrupt anything that is currently playing and then resume after the triggered sound. Here’s the scenario: music is playing in the house, someone presses the smart button. Music pauses and a doorbell chime plays for 8 seconds. Music resumes when the sound finishes.And no, I don’t want to buy a video camera doorbell like ring.

I have two One SL’s and a Roam in my Apple Home, Siri works accordingly but in the home app it shows as not playing, except it is! Please see attached screenshot. Is this expected behaviour? When looking at the studs bar, it shows as none of my Sonos are playing until a long press reveals what actually is playing   I have checked this via AirPlay and via the Sonos app. Any insight is greatly welcomed  my OCD is going crazy! 

At WWDC’21 Apple announced opening up Siri to third party hardware, are there plans to integrate this and make it an option for voice assistant just like Alexa and Google Assistant?

I would love if Sonos allowed me to use them in my home security. I have speakers everywhere it would be an awesome feature if the microphone could detect glass breaking and sound an alarm through the speaker.

Hii have a dual Sonos one gen 2 set up in the kitchen and a Sonos beam with Sonos one gen2’s but cannot workout how to get my Ring doorbell to announce on them.. it works on my standalone Alexa? any instruction would be appreciated  charlie

I wish to have an easy to use NAS for playing music onto Sonos, I’ve read lots of articles and it’s confusing me. can anyone recommend a simple NAS that can be used without too much altering of protocols or security settings or other apps