Voice control and smart home

Love my new Sonos Play’s, and Alexa seems to working properly, except for one feature we love and miss in our household...All previous Sonos units support a whole-home intercom feature Amazon calls ‘Make Announcements with Alexa’ that we can trigger by saying“Alexa, broadcast: _____”https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GKACGU9SSBEYA2TX But Play alone seems to not support this very useful feature -- any plan to support it?

Sonos please deactivate voice reply. It is so annoying and completely unnecessary. Awesome, great choice etc. Nobody wants it!!

I have a named group “Upstairs”. Hey Sonos, play August by Taylor Switch, just UpstairsIgnores the location, uses last device. What is the syntax to play to a named group?

I have sonos one with Alexa installed  when I ask Alexa to play a radio station it ill say now playing but i hear nothing

I know this has been probably been done to death, but how the do I just get my Beam to play a BBC Radio station via Alexa? I think I’ve done everything, set up Alexa in the Sonos app, enables BBC Sounds skill in the Alexa app and linked accounts. What I am getting;Me “Alexa, play BBC 6Music”Alexa “Playing BBC 6Music”Followed by silence or Me “Alexa open BBC Sounds”Alexa “(BBC Sounds open noise)..What would you like to hear?”Me “6Music”Alexa “Playing BBC 6Music”Followed by silence So close but so far! Any tips?

We have the Lutron Smart Bridge Pro 2 with several picos, dimmers, etc. We’ve integrated the Sonos account inside the Lutron app and it has a green check. Inside of the Sonos app, we have turned on Sonos Voice Control for the Era 100 speaker. However, when I say … “Hey, Sonos turned main bedroom lights on” I am getting this error message from the speaker: to enable voice control for your smart home devices, activate the Home control feature on your smart devices app Things I’ve tried: both Lutron and Sonos are fully up to date, restarted the Lutron bridge, deleted and read added the Sonos integration to the Lutron app, deleted and re added voice control to the speaker inside the Sonos app.  Note: The Sonos speaker currently accepts Sonos’s voice commands for music. It is just not controlling any of the Lutron lights via voice command.

I have changed between Alexa and Google Assistant on my Ones about 4 times. All of the “fixes” from all the forums aren't working. I have tried EVERYTHING. Alexa just stops when it’s time to play the news and Google Assistant says “I don't understand”. Is there and update coming from Sonos to fix this anytime soon? 

1. Apple Home and Apple TV integrationI would like the Arc Ultra to fully appear in Apple’s “TV & Speakers” controls.When music is playing directly on the Arc, the song, artwork and playback controls should also appear automatically on the Apple TV’s Now Playing screen. 2. Optional Apple TV playback with Hey SonosI would like an option for Hey Sonos to launch Apple Music directly on the Apple TV instead of playing through the Sonos music service.This would turn on the Apple TV, show the music on screen and send Dolby Atmos audio to the Arc Ultra through HDMI eARC. Direct playback on the Arc should remain available because it starts much faster.

Hey hey! My name is Nate, and this is my first post here! I wanted to describe what I’m working on, and see if anyone’s interested in it! It started out as a little project for me. I love having lyrics displayed for songs, and I wanted to figure out a way to have them display automatically. Turns out, it’s possible!  The current state of the project: •Seamless integration with any Sonos ecosystem•Connects to both Sonos and/or HomePods AUTOMATICALLY •Syncs with Philips Hue and Nanoleafs•Weather and photo Idle screens (Kinda like Aura Picture Frames)What you need:•Computer connected to WiFi/LAN, or Docker Container•Device that can access the internet browser (currently laggy on a fire stick, buy if you’re able to stick a mini pc behind a device it works like magic. I’ve gotten it to work on smart TVs, Xbox’s, and even just a chrome tab) (Do note that the help of AI was included in the making of this)I would love to hear feedback on the project, and if anyone would like to test, please le

I can only get 2 devices out of 6 speakers to connect the voice assistant.  I tried all the instructions multiple times.  App says they are connected but they won’t activate when asked.  

I have had Google Assistant installed on my Sonos One speaks for years now. But for no reason whatso ever it stopped working (just another Sonos feature).  Every time I said “Hey Google”, the speaker would take many seconds to reply then told me “there has been a glitch, try again in a few seconds” but it just wouldn’t work. I followed the instructions to uninstall the feature from the speaker and then reinstall - but it just will not work. I don’t know if it is because the Google Assist app has evolved leaving Sonos behind or what but it get blocked every time when, in the Sonos app I add assistant → Add Google Assistant → Open Google Assistant app…. and then it just hangs. I’ve checked my Google Assistant app but I’m pretty sure it has been updated since the last time I installed the speakers.  So I just can not get past this point.  I use the assistant a lot as I have smart devices all over the house.  If I can’t get this to work, I will have to get rid of the Sonos speakers and buy

Hi everyone,I built a home-screen widget for Android that lets you control your Sonos system without opening any app.Features:- Play / pause / skip and per-room volume, right from your home screen- Up to 5 tappable favorites- Spinning laser-disc animation of the album cover while playing- Home-theatre / TV mode detection with a matching animation- Grouping badge, mute, auto-detects when you switch Wi-Fi networks- One-time $1.99, no subscription, no login, no adsGoogle Play: [LINK REDACTED - search for “sonoswidget”]Would love feedback and feature requests from the community.Thanks!Eyal Moderator Note: Modified in accordance with the Community Code of Conduct.

Hello,I installed Google assistant on my Beam Gen 2. When Spotify is playing music, I can ask google assistant to move to another song. But if Spotify is not playing and I ask to start it or just ‘play music”, google assistant answers he is not able to do this. Can someone help?ThanksCoco

He notado que cuando le pido algo a Alexa, me responde con un volumen que empieza a subir cada vez más automáticamente. Solo es la voz de Alexa, no en la reproducción de música por ejemplo. 

I have a new (~3 weeks) Sonos Era 100 that has developed a digital ‘scratch’ sound when waking up the voice assistant. Whenever I say “Alexa…” I’ll get the chime and what sounds like a short scratch/static sound. The rest of audio playback is fine, music is unaffected, and I’ve not heard this same sound aside from using the wake word.Restarting the speaker didn’t do anything and I’m not sure if this is something I should initiate a return for, or if its a known issue with a fix.Ideas are welcome. 

Google Assistant went through a rocky period over the last year while Google was attempting a rather confusing re-organization of how their automation routines work. They managed to break most existing automation routines, and at times it seemed like nothing was working properly. This not only affected Sonos speakers supporting Google Assistant, but Sonos saw more impact than native Google speakers. I pretty much gave up on them and moved most of my automations to Alexa.But Google finally seems to have gotten their act together, and automation routines are working again, including those which failed on Sonos previously. The earlier flaw that automation routines can’t speak any custom text on Sonos remains, but it’s worth trying Google automation routines again if it was the more recent failures that led to abandoning Google Assistant.

I’m posting this because the latest Sonos update has once again broken Alexa integration on my system, and the “fix” Sonos expects users to perform is completely unreasonable.After the update, Alexa triggers cause glitching, audio corruption, or failure to respond. Rebooting speakers and router does nothing. The only fix Sonos support suggests is:• Disable Sonos skill• Deregister all Alexa-enabled Sonos devices• Factory reset each speaker• Re-add them to the system• Re-enable the skill• Rebuild all settings manuallyThis means losing EQ, Trueplay, room profiles, and custom settings on devices like the Beam 2. Why should users have to rebuild their entire setup because an update corrupted cloud tokens?This is not the first time an update has caused major issues, and Sonos’ mandatory, non‑skippable update model makes it even more frustrating. There is no way to stay on a stable version, no rollback option, and no ability to defer updates until they’re proven safe.If Sonos can push updates

If you haven't used Alexa+ and if you are a little anti AI, that probably doesn't seem important to you.  However, it is a ridiculous improvement in functionality once you have it.    Sonos speakers with Alexa integration feel antiquated now.   

As it stands Sonos hasn't been programmed to accept Gemini. Here's why. The Sonos app is design to communicate with the Google assistant app. Gemini is a separate app. The sonos app attempts to open the Google assistant app only. If you've switched to Gemini, your Sonos devices won't accept your new AI assistant. 

I've been chatting and speaking with Sonos technical support for the past four hours and am about to have my issue escalated for the sixth time. The one thing that not one of the technicians has tried is to recreate the issue on their own Sonos speaker.Voice Control will NOT connect to KUSC - Classical California: The station is in my “Favorites” and the app will connect to it - but Voice Control either fails to respond or connects to a channel named “Blue Mood” - which plays orchestral light jazz with commercials. Could someone, please, try to get Sonos to play KUSC using Voice Control and let me know the result? Thanks!

Hi,since the last update Sonos Voice Assistant’s volume is fixed to a constant unintelligible low, one is unable to hear it nor is it possible to set it via the master volume. Would it be possible to give the users a separate Assistant volume control? Thank you.