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Sonos will launch Google Assistant on its smart speakers next week

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https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18563413/sonos-google-assistant-smart-speakers-coming-next-week

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upstatemike

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Incidentally, I think Google Nest is going to become a massive force in the smart home space. I think Alexa is going to lose this battle

Here is a good article that outlines some of the smart home impacts folks will see as a result of this change. I don't think Amazon is too worried.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/google-ends-works-with-nest,news-30036.html

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Kirk33

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Here is a good article that outlines some of the smart home impacts folks will see as a result of this change. I don't think Amazon is too worried.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/google-ends-works-with-nest,news-30036.html

The article says that Google-Nest and Alexa-Ring are both refusing to play nicely with each other's tech. Users will be forced to chose one side or the other. Fine. The lines are drawn.

Google Assistant took just 2 years to go from zero to surpassing Alexa. And Nest is already miles ahead of Ring also. Plus, just about half of the Google I/O keynote last week was devoted to Assistant or Nest. Google is clearly investing enormously!!

If users are forced to chose one or the other, I predict Alexa Ring will be nothing more than an also-ran within 2 years. Google Nest is going to crush them

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upstatemike

The article also names IFTTT and a lot of other things that will Stop working with Nest but continue to work with each other and with Alexa. Easier to just ditch your Nest thermostat and get on with your life than have to commit to some new walled garden Google is trying to create.

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Kirk33

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The article also names IFTTT and a lot of other things that will Stop working with Nest but continue to work with each other and with Alexa. Easier to just ditch your Nest thermostat and get on with your life than have to commit to some new walled garden Google is trying to create.As you wish. Nest is, by all accounts, the best thermostat on the market. There isn't even a close 2nd. If you want to cut your nose to spite your face, then go ahead, ditch the nest thermostat and get something inferior. But Nest thermostat will remain, by far, the dominant player. I have no doubt

Airgetlam

Not to drag this further off topic, but having owned both Nest and Ecobee, I don't find them to be that different, but I guess to each their own.

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mebby

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I've owned both Nest and Ecobee and the Ecobee is hands-down a better system. Or at least that's been my experience. I haven't used a Nest in a few years. Maybe now that they finally caught up and started using room sensors it's a little better these days.

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upstatemike

They are both nice looking thermostats that work well with Alexa . Ecobee is a private company that is expanding and announcing new products and Ecobee will continue to work with major automation hubs past August 31st. Nest is owned by Google. Google also owned Revolv and we know how that turned out...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/05/revolv-devices-bricked-google-nest-smart-home

I'm not saying the analogy applies to the multi-room audio market. It's not like Google would ever do something like that to say Chromecast audio users...

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-discontinues-its-chromecast-audio-device/

With this track record I don't see where anyone would be worried that they will be crushed by the new Google Nest organization.

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Wolfman2011

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I have a first gen play 5, and a playbase and nether works with Google home. The devices are in Google home, but google home just doesn't recognize them in any commands. They both work with Alexa. Looks like I am back to waiting again. Not the only reason but this certainly plays into why I have not bought anything new from Sonos.

Smilja

I have a first gen play 5, and a playbase and nether works with Google home. The devices are in Google home, but google home just doesn't recognize them in any commands. They both work with Alexa. Looks like I am back to waiting again. Not the only reason but this certainly plays into why I have not bought anything new from Sonos.

See reply in your thread.

https://en.community.sonos.com/google-assistant-and-sonos-229109/sonos-with-google-home-perhaps-not-as-good-as-alexa-6825613#post16335762

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Wolfman2011

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My question here is,
Can I take one Sonos One and run Google assistant on it ( I think yes)
Then take another Sonos one and run Alexa on it. ( I think Yes)
Now the question I don't know
Can I run the two together in a pair so I get stereo sound with right and left channel.
Has anyone done this?

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