Will Sonos work with google home?

The Sonos Music Partners API is free and open to any and all services. Sonos receives no income from the music service subscriptions, as stated by Ryan S from Sonos here:

sorry, i meant the other way around. what incentive do amazon/google really have to develop alexa/home to work with sonos. sonos is now basically a competitor to them for providing multi-room music. in many cases, using sonos takes away from amazon/google revenue because many of us sonos users use extensive music libraries rather than using amazon/google paid streaming music services which currently (ignoring some of the kludges you can do) is hand in hand with amazon/google speakers.

interesting times...

Well ... I for one just purchased 6 more Dots.

I thought about holding off and waiting to see more about Google Home. Had Google been proactive in working with Sonos and announcing their support of Sonos I would probably have waited.

However, being that Sonos has announced support coming for Alexa specifically .... I went ahead with purchase.

Open source and 3rd party integrations are what help sell their product. Not attempting to support as many protocols to control via voice as possible will mean less groups of consumers wanting to buy your product.

These products are not about keeping people within their ecosystem. If they try that they are going to fail as a whole home voice control.

You can see it in apple homekit. They have been limited in what they support in homekit and it hasn't taken off.

sorry, i meant the other way around. what incentive do amazon/google really have to develop alexa/home to work with sonos. sonos is now basically a competitor to them for providing multi-room music. in many cases, using sonos takes away from amazon/google revenue because many of us sonos users use extensive music libraries rather than using amazon/google paid streaming music services which currently (ignoring some of the kludges you can do) is hand in hand with amazon/google speakers.

interesting times...

Well first of all, Echo/Alexa is not multi-room audio. The devices have no multi-room capabilities at this time. Second, 92 percent of all music listening on Sonos is streaming radio or paid on-demand as stated in this blog entry:

http://blog.sonos.com/news/to-a-billion

I'm pretty confident in saying the streaming services would rather have the 92% of music on Sonos that is streamed vs. worrying about the 8% from the local library.

Plus, what Chris says above^^.

When Amazon, Google, Apple, spotify + whoever ,enable through sonos, it's with streaming subscription services, of which 92% of sonos customers will be interested in, that's a lot of potential £9.99 a month forever revenue for them. They are not into making money from speaker hardware like sonos is.
This is a major strength for sonos who are not tied to a single companies ecosystem(or their own anymore), like Samsung, Yamaha etc.

We are talking about Google Home integration here. This is old news.

I think it's coming. I just picked up a Google Home yesterday and was messing around with the IFTTT integration with Google Assistant. I have a Lutron Caseta light system which integrates Sonos so I set up an IFTTT trigger in Google Assistant set to "play Kitchen Sonos" and got this error. "This phrase is reserved by the Google Assistsnt. Please rephrase".

Interesting....

Maybe the word "play" is forbidden 🙂
Try with a synonym!

OK, it took a while but I got my Google home to control my sonos in a round about way. If order to do this you will have to have a harmony hub and smartthings.
With this I am able to go to any station in my sonos favorites, volume up and down, turn on and off.
I have not conquer how to totally control different zones yet, mainly because I only have two set up so far.
1. Put everything you want to access in sonos favorites.
2. Harmony hub:add devices (sonos speakers) to hub. Add activities to the hub.
3. Smartthings: add harmony to smartthings. Thus will add hub and all the activities that you have made.
*****anytime you add, change, or delete activities this step must be redone.
4. Now go to Google home app. Smart control. Add smartthings and each activity.
** to activate remember to say turn on not play
** for volume: say set to _____%
YouTube video coming soon...

Thanks for that iismewalk. Wanted to update my old sonos systems with sleeker play 5 and playbar with sub and was hoping to get a Google home to run things. I need to mesh portable speakers for music with better tv sound for movies . Sounds like you have a nice work around for now.