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May 9, 2019

Sonos will launch Google Assistant on its smart speakers next week

Many other news stories available. Also raises many more questions...but progress!

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18563413/sonos-google-assistant-smart-speakers-coming-next-week
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    melvimbe
    May 17, 2019
    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?


    I am pretty sure this is not a supported configuration, however, yes I have. I am not 100% sure I can reproduce the steps, and am not going to undue my setup to find out. Here's something to try though.

    1 - Remove GA from both speakers you want in your stereo pair. (You may want to remove GA from your whole Sonos setup, not sure)

    2 - Setup your Ones as a stereo pair with Alexa configured on both speakers. You should be able to talk to both speakers at this point.

    3 - Go to the room settings in the Sonos app for your pair and add Google Assistant as a voice service. GA will get setup on the left speaker in the pair, while Alexa remains on the right speaker.

    I have this setup in 3 separate rooms without seeing any issue. For all three rooms, the app says that my Alexa setup is not complete, but it is functioning. I imagine completing the setup will remove GA.

    Again, no guarantees that this will work for you, as I may be getting the steps wrong from memory or some other reason. I also wouldn't be surprised to see my setups start having issues with an update, either on my system or in the cloud.
    Danny
    Avid Contributor I
    May 20, 2019
    Nothing will work for me, Google assistant is not in my Country yet.