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Ranjy
Contributor I
August 21, 2015

Has anyone got an official answer from SONOS about AMAZON ECHO Integration?

I see there are 92 articles on Amazon Echo here in the SONOS community. Has anyone from SONOS responded? Does SONOS have any intent to support Amazon Echo integration?

I can't imagine anyone not wanting that. It feels like that is just how SONOS should work. We love our SONOS system but we keep finding ourselves using the lesser quality Echo just because it's easier. I wish I could use my SONOS system as my speaker and my ECHO as the controller (unless of course my SONOS could just do the same thing). I can't imagine how anyone will beat ECHO for speed and quality of response. Not even SIRI can compete with our Amazon Echo experience.

If I have to I will replace my SONOS system with a bunch of ECHO's but I would never want to do that. Not even because of the investment I have already made with SONOS. I would buy a whole new SONOS system if I could have the AMAZON ECHO controller.

Are there any representatives of the SONOS company in this community? Can I even wish for true Integration between the two companies?
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      jgatie
      jgatie
      March 10, 2016
      Sonos hasn't "focused on music services" in a long while, at least engineering-wise. In 2011 they announced Sonos Labs and the Music Partners program which allowed most of the development of music services to be done by the services themselves through the Music Partners API. Not coincidently, the number of services available exploded after the program came on line.
      Jayne Mansfield
      Enthusiast I
      March 10, 2016
      New York Times article today underscores how Sonos is not keeping up with the times. Laying off staff. Not a good sign. Smart people. Hopefully, they're working on voice activation and will roll it out soon.
      captainkaboom
      Trending Lyricist I
      March 10, 2016
      This really reminds me of Blackberry a few years back. All the blah blah about how secure they were, no one was going to touch them - and I personally believe Blackberry drank that koolaid way to much ..

      iPhone comes on the scene - and Blackberry's days were numbered

      I think we have seen this movie ends ..
      BoredofBalham
      Prodigy II
      March 10, 2016
      The home automation systems and voice control is a fragmented and leaderless herd with no common standards nor integration to a central "processor" - the automation version of your router.
      There are at the very least a dozen different ways to do anything. Which is the right one. Which one will work in five years time? What standards have been agreed. Have any standards been agreed.

      Alexa does very simple things (especially once you throw away the ooh that's neat or that you will use once or realise that is more trouble than it is worth.
      Is controlling Sonos just as simple?
      Alarms.
      Groups
      Get music from what source.
      Overall group volume
      Each group volume
      Play different music in each group

      I have no idea what the answer to that is.
      I do think that the future for voice must lay in a central hub that devices communicate through, a homenet. I talk to my phone, my tablet, my TV, my media streamer, my other media streamer and... It gets tiresome trying to work out what to talk to and say what.
      Chris
      Chris
      Lead Maestro
      March 10, 2016
      right now that central hub for me is Smartthings. Even my echo if I say "Alexa turn on Sonos" it routes through my Smartthings hub.
      Respect the Queue (2)Move (3)Beam (1) Era100 (2)ARC (1)SonosOne (1)Playbar (4)Play5 (4)Play1 (3)Play3 (1)Port (2)Connect (1) Roam (2) Ace (1)Connect:Amp (4)Sonos Amp (1)Sub + (9) Echo + Smartthings; (2)Play)
      Steve_199
      Steve_199
      Enthusiast II
      March 15, 2016
      Why would Amazon want to integrate their wireless streaming speaker with a competing wireless streaming speaker?

      Because Echo is more of an interface than a wireless music system and integrating them makes both products more useful. People will buy Echo to use with Sonos and they'll buy Sonos because it works with Echo.
        jgatie
        jgatie
        March 15, 2016

        Because Echo is more of an interface than a wireless music system and integrating them makes both products more useful. People will buy Echo to use with Sonos and they'll buy Sonos because it works with Echo.

        That was 6 months ago. My feelings have changed since then. As a matter of fact, I put forth basically the same view as yours in another thread just yesterday.
          peter25
          Lyricist III
          March 15, 2016
          I ordered an echo dot for the sole purpose of plugging it into my play5 for Amazon content. Internet of things or the soundtrack of my life, for me it's Sonos. The echo and iPhone/iPad are just the remote control.

          Can't wait for echo integration. If and when it comes.
            The LHC
            March 15, 2016
            Why would Amazon want to integrate their wireless streaming speaker with a competing wireless streaming speaker?

            Because Echo is more of an interface than a wireless music system and integrating them makes both products more useful. People will buy Echo to use with Sonos and they'll buy Sonos because it works with Echo.

            I can well imagine Sonos may use Amazon's voice control technology but I'd be astonished if Sonos allowed an echo to become a Sonos player.
              danielrall
              Lyricist I
              March 17, 2016
              There's also now an Amazon Dot available, which is like a tiny Echo, and is geared more towards being a voice command interface (though it does also have a small speaker for use as an alarm, for replies to voice prompts, etc.):
              http://smile.amazon.com/b/?node=14047587011

              I really wish Sonos supported control-via-Echo (or Dot) out of the box.
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