Voice control and smart home

I’m trying to add Alexa as a voice assistant to my ERA 100 but when it tries to sign me into Amazon it just buffers.  I’ve tried various suggestions like disabling the SONOs skill in the Alexa app, uninstalling the Amazon shopping app but nothing is working.   

I have an Echo Show 8 in my kitchen, set to play music through two Sonos speakers in the same Alexa room/group ("Kitchen"). In the Sonos app, I have a Playbar and Move 2 grouped together as "Kitchen." When I ask Alexa to play music, it starts playing and shows both speakers grouped in the Sonos app and playing music, but audio only comes from the Playbar, not the Move?Note: Alexa is not enabled on the Move 2, as I rely on the Echo Show for features like displaying video from my Ring cameras, useful when the doorbell rings etc. The Playbar obviously doesn’t inherently support Alexa due to its age.Moderator Note: Modified in accordance with the Community Code of Conduct.

Hello,My rear one sl are in the living room and I would like to know if there is a Sonos voice command that could set on / off surround? So that we could have a nice diner while kids look at the tv :)thanks

I am having great difficulty getting Sonos Voice Control to recognize the name of a couple of radio stations. (using SVC on ARC, Roam, and Roam2).When I ask it to ‘Play Radio RNZ Concert’ (which is available on Sonos Radio, and I have it as a favourite) it either says ‘I can’t find that content’ or ‘you need to subscribe to service that has that’ or plays some random R&B…(This happens even when I pronounce the ‘z’ as ‘zee’ as opposed to its proper pronunciation ‘zed’)!I have tried renaming the station in my favourites to simply ‘Concert’ but still no joy.So two questions -Any idea why SVC won’t recognise the name RNZ Concert (or RNZ National for that matter), and how to overcome this? If I rename a station in favourites, do I use the station’s ‘real’ name, or my given nickname when requesting it through SVC? PS if I manually select the station, and ask what station is playing it says ‘AR EN ZEE Concert’ - so it appears to know the name)…With thnaks,Uptix

How to stop sonos using Tunein via Google Assistant? Moderator Edit: Adjusted thread context and title.

Wie kann ich die Ansagelautstärke meiner Sonos one regeln?  Moderator edit:Google Translate-How can I adjust the announcement volume of my Sonos one?

Sonos One can play music from my phone, can command Alexa to provide weather etc, but when I ask ask Alexa to play radio station (eg. Radio 4), it replies “playing radio 4 (or Times radio or whatever) but then there is just silence. I have just changed my router but presumambly that is ot the problem as Alexa reponds, but it just doesn’t play the radio stations.Any help would be appreciated.

Sometimes when I say “Alexa, volume up” or “Alexa, volume down”, the volume on all 10 Sonos devices goes VERY low for 10 seconds before it going to the raised or lowered volume. This is irritating because if playing a podcast, I miss 10 seconds of the podcast. This doesn’t always occur, but probably half the time. This behavior recently started occurring. I can understand if a Sonos device that has a microphone might lower the volume when someone is speaking to it, but this happens to all Sonos device even those without a microphone.

Voice control and smart home > Google Assistant and Sonos > Enable both Alexa and Google Assistant I found another thread, locked 4 years ago, asking the exact same thing, no answer them either. Back then someone mentioned that Google and Alexa with others had a partnership now to allow smooth seamless integration across multiple devices and should be with Sonos soon.. That was 4 years ago. I have many smart home devices, all of which are linked to both my Alexa and Google voice assistants at the same time, and yet, my Sonos speakers are still incapable. I had to reinstall my Sonos app today in a troubleshooting effort with Sonos support because the most recent update ( it's November 2024 as I write) has failed to include the lock screen controls as well as failing to include the notification ( drop down) controls so you can only control the devices through the app if you have the app fully open and taking up your whole screen. As I was checking the settings in the re-installed a

My husband ran off and left me with a Sonos system . Unfortunately he appears to have bought lots and installed them all over the place so I’ve got a system that refers to his other partners houses. I’m struggling to get even Alexa to work as I also got the Sonos voice thing to work. I think I’ve worked out which bits are for here and other places but how do I get voice control to work do I just use one ?Also nothing is coming up about connecting to media so whilst I can get things to play  from the app I can no longer get Alexa to work . Do I need to get an Alexa premium account as well as Apple to play music?Thankyou for any advice . 

I’ve used Google Assistant to control Pandora (default service) playback on Sonos amps for years with no real issues.   So when I asked google assistant to “Play Led Zeppelin Radio”, Sonos played a Pandora classic rock radio station based on the music of Led Zeppelin.   All was good in the world 😀However, in the last few weeks this capability is broken.    Now when I tell google “Play Led Zeppelin Radio” what I get is a queue filled with some songs by Led Zeppelin and other random unrelated songs with the words “Led Zeppelin” in the song title from every genre possible.  See the attached image.  The command works properly when the google device is not connected to a sonos speaker.EDIT - More Info:    I have the same issue on Sonos Arc (built-in google assistant).  The problem goes away if I change the default music speaker of the google mini to itself (i.e. disconnect the mini from Sonos).  But the problem returns when I make a sonos speaker the default player for the google mini. Wha

From one week, I ask Alexa for radio (TuneIn) and music (Apple Music), Alexa answers OK, but these servicies don’t work  

Hi Guys ..Received my Arc Ultra...Was struggling to connect my Amazon Assit to it ..Solution was remove Amazon Shopping App from phone...Then follow instructions ...Connected straight away ...Hope it helps 

It's been weeks and I cannot successfully connect my Era100 to Sonos Voice Control.  Note that when I tried setting up the Sonos Voice control , Sonos app is always updated.  Please advice.Thank you

Recently, Beam will not play live radio stations unless I use the controls on the device or press play on app with phone. This is new- for years I’ve been asking Alexa to play a live npr station (usually defaults to Tunein or Iheart). Now, Alexa confirms my prompt and says “playing…” but then nothing happens. Also- this is *not* happening on my older Sonos One- still works as usual. I tried removing Alexa, re-installing it, all apps are up to date, re-booting. Help! Any suggestions would be appreciated! 

I use a number of Alexa speakers around the house and have speaker groups set up. Alexa doesn’t have a portable device so I bought the Sonos Roam but It can’t be added to a speaker group like the everywhere group. Does anybody have a way to get this going perhaps a work around? 

Hi there!I am getting really frustrated with trying to install Alexa on my new Era 300. I have tried several times, factory reseting speaker but still - at first there is only one option to add vooce assistent - Sonos voice assistent. When I succesfully add it, then click on add voice assistent it just gives me the option to use third part smart device to control Sonos speaker (which I do not want - I want to install and use Alexa on Era 300), and leads me to quick help manual. No other options at all. Also in the Amazon Alexa app - there is no Sonos skill, for that matter anyways?!i have tried to reinstall both apps (Sonos and Amazon Alexa app) with no luck. please help!

Hi all, I added a new ROAM 2 to my system last week and cant use Alexa voice control. I can use the sonos voice control, however  when I try and add Amazon Alexa I get the signing into Amazon then repeatedly get try again at he bottom of the app! My Beam, and the 4 other SONOS speaker work fine with alexa. Any ideas ?

Hi folks,I would like to say if with Sonos Voice Control I can directly ask to play music on a created group.I’m trying but it is not working.Something like: “Hey Sonos, play Manilla Road on Casa (name of group, I’m Italian :-) )Casa is the only group I have.Thank you in advance

Has anyone found a fix to sign in to Amazon to add Alexa? I know this was asked 6 months ago but wondered if there has been any update? As everyone else was saying, get all the way to sign into Amazon then it fails.....

How can be it that you still can’t add Alexa if you happen to use the Amazon shopping app (literally one of the most installed apps in the world)? I understand Sonos software is awful, and I try to set expectations very low, but it’s been over 6 months. Have they just completely given up on even trying to make anything work?

Will there be alexa support in india for sonos speakers ? In future ?

I'm trying to disable Sonos Voice Control on my Era 100 using the iOS app. When I click “Remove Sonos Voice Control” I get this error:Something went wrongPlease try again I have repeatedly please tried again to no avail 🙃Tried rebooting the Era 100 but still got the same error A different Era 100 in my system was able to successfully remove voice control Tried force quiting the iOS app but no luckMy system is running the most recent version 16.4.2 (Build 81.1-58074) and iOS app is the most recent version 80.09.09

Been trying for days now done all what people say to do reboot the beam reboot the router uninstall Sonos app and reinstall it same as Alexa app and I still can't get Alexa to work on my Sonos beam 

Hi.Just got an Era 300. Sounds great. Enabled Sonos Voice and Alexa from the iOS app.  Have enabled Apple Music as I have a subscription. Alexa confirms it is linked to my Amazon account. There’s only 1 in this household. It respons with correct info re time, date etc. However, I can’t play anything on the Era 300 with Alexa.It gives a message asking me to enable the Sonos skill in the Alexa app and then run device discovery.Have tried both. Including disabling then renabling. I have a Sonos Roam and this works fine on there. Including playing from other sources, Global Player, BBC etc. Anything else I can try? Did search forums but not seen a clear resolution. TY.