Voice control and smart home

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I just got a Sonos Beam added to my system. Though it works fine (so far), Alexa on the beam isn't very loud like my play one is. And if I'm watching TV, she lowers the volume on the TV so she can speak, but I have to listen so closely and often have to ask again so I can try to hear her again. My play one is much louder. Is there a way to turn her up on the beam? Thx in advance.

Hi all, I have a pair of One's and I am unable to add Alexa. If I try I get an error message that it failed to add Alexa, it then brings back the black Sonos Splash screen and then for a second I can see an error message that it looks like as one of my speakers is unplugged. Then the room settings show my speaker pair as "Lounge (L+?)" as well for like a second and then it shows up again as "Lounge (L+R)". Any ideas anyone?

Glad to see we finally have proper Alexa integration with Sonos. Have been using Sonos speakers since the company first launched. I currently have a bedroom setup consisting of a Playbar and a Sub. Separate to this, I have an Echo (that I use primarily for news, not music). With the release of the new Sonos One with built in Alexa, I'm thinking of ditching the Echo and adding two Ones to have a proper surround setup My questions: If I ask Alexa a question (weather, news), will the response be played back across all the speakers in the same room or just one speaker? If I ask Alexa to play music (from Spotify), will it be played in just one speaker or all speakers in the room it is paired with? Thank you

I sometimes play music on a group of speakers and sometimes on a single speaker. Is there a way to be able to use both options without having to switch back and forth in the sonos app? Maybe a setup via Alexa with labels that differentiate the two?

I have been using a Sonos one and Sonos Beam since each were released. In just this last week, when requesting music using Alexa on both of these devices, Alexa has started adding “now playing on Sonos” to the end of her confirmation. So now she’ll say something like this “getting your KCRW radio station from Tune-In, playing on Sonos.” Prior to this week, she never added the “playing on Sonos”. For the life of me I can’t think of any change I made to my Sonos set up in the last week, so no idea what caused this change. This is pretty annoying, because I don’t even have any non-Sonos Alexa devices, so of course it’s playing on Sonos with every request I make, lol! Does anyone know of any way to disable her adding “playing on Sonos” to her confirmations? Thanks! 🙂

I've come across a strange situation this weekend where my parents at their home asking Alexa to play on 'living room' is starting the music on the sonos speakers called 'living room' in my house, 10 miles away on a different network! We are using different sonos accounts and different spotify accounts, and it only seems to work one way, I cant control theirs. We were able to do this repeatably even after using and controlling my sonos speakers from other apps. Seems to be a serious bug / privacy breach going on here. Anyone else come across this and found a fix?

Hey there; I have a house full of echos, dots and sonos speakers. In general, my Alexa Sonos skill is not working well. For example, I have two Play Ones paired in my kitchen as "Kitchen". When I say, "Alexa, play Billy Joel in the Kitchen" she says "Shuffling songs by Billy Joel on Kitchen" -- but no music plays in the Kitchen. She thinks she is streaming.... I have deleted all my smart devices, and reinstalled, etc. Not sure where to go from here. I was hoping you guys might have some troubleshooting suggestions. Thanks, Mark

HI i have spent a while trying to get alexia to play music via voice control. It will play music via the Sonos app. I can get the radio to play via voice control.. but really want to be able to play music that way.. can you help?

I have an Echo Show in the kitchen, Beam in the living room, and a Sonos One in my bedroom. If I stand 1ft from the Show and issue a command, the Show, Beam (15ft from the Show), and sometimes the One (25ft from the Show through a door) will perk up as they hear the wake word, but instead of the Show responding one of the Sonos devices will. Usually this is the Beam. Echo Spatial Perception SHOULD be able to tell I am closest to the Show and therefore expecting a response from the Show. Instead, if either of the Sonos devices hears the wake word they will respond although the command was not meant for them. I’ve tried factory resets, enable/disable the skill etc to no avail. Has this happened to anyone else?

I have a CD player on the line-in of a connect amp, grouped in Sonos app. I want to play CDs to my Play 5's and use Alexa as voice control. The Play 5's work great with Amazon Music as a source, but Alexa discovered the Connect Amp as a speaker, not a music source. Have not yet found the key to getting my CDs to play. At this point, im not even certain i have my amp confogured properly in the Sonos app, since it seems to want a music source identified, even though i want to use the line-in. Maybe i should just delete all and start over.

Hi team, I bought the Sonos beam yesterday and had no problem with the system and alexa. Today, it stops after playing one song. I have done all the steps outlined in previous articles, and I have factory reset the device and readded it, with still no luck. Also, when I ask my Echo in the bedroom to play music, it plays it on the sonos beam. I have them using different code names so they would work separately? Diagnostic number is 1475261485 Any help would be greatly appreciated

Loved the functionality of Alexa on my three Sonos One speakers when I bought them in September (voice control at last!!), though I did notice little glitches here and there. However, one by one, the speakers stopped responding to voice commands, and after procrastinating for awhile, finally went through the steps of re-setting everything. To be clear, I can control the Sonos speakers flawlessly through the Sonos app. The devices all show on the Alexa app. When I call Alexa, it either doesn't respond at all, or says it cannot understand me right now. Ran diagnostics on Sonos app: 1895040296 And yes, the mics are on (double white lights are showing on all speakers)

This question may have already been answered, but I still going to ask. I do not have any Sonos devices, but I’m planning on getting 3 Sonos Ones. I currently have an Amazon Echo gen. 2. If I connect the Sonos One to the Alexa app, will it appear as if it’s an Amazon Echo speaker (not a 3rd party speaker)? If so, because the Amazon Echo has Bluetooth, will I be able to connect a Bluetooth audio device to it and have the sound play through one of the Sonos One speakers? It probably won’t be able to happen, but I’m just wondering. Thanks!

My SonosOne microphone only works once each time I turn it on. I have reset a couple of times, including deregistering every device in the house from Alexa and Sonos and starting again. Same problem continues. Please help.

I have had a Sonos One for over half a year, Alexa voice service used to work on it like a charm until I upgraded my old router to Orbi. Ever since Alexa fails with the message:" Sorry I have trouble understanding right now please try a little later", I have tried many different fixes but its only a matter of minutes to hours (depending on the fix) for Alexa to fall back into the same error: - Replug the Sonos One results in Alexa working for 10-15 minutes before the error - Re-registering Sonos results in Alexa working for 3-4 hours before the error - I have tried many more: Resetting my modem/Orbi/Sonons, Setting up Orbi's Satellite after I setup Sonons, changing the 2.4Hz channel of Orbi to 6 instead of the auto(3). I have sent my diagnostics to Sonos and they found that my Sonos speakers are not communicating with Amazon. Does anyone have a similar problem? Can you think of something else I can do? My system: - Pace 5268AC FXN (AT&T Uverse modem in bridge mode) - Orb

Trying to play music on my sonos one using Alexa and my Deezer account. Alexa is saying "Playing song from(my choice) using Deezer" but nothing is playing. Any ideas folks ?

I have a Sonos one in my bedroom and kitchen. I used to be able to ask Alexa to play music while in one room (say the kitchen) and it would only play in that room. Now it’s playing in both rooms automatically and I never changed any settings. It’s very frustrating. How can I stop this from happening?

Hello From a few days I knowing Sonos controll API form https://developer.sonos.com/reference/control-api/ Actualy I did it auth process as well, and now I just to try play mp3 file form HD using Sonos API. Unfortunately i can't find simply way to play any mp3 file using API. Could someone show me simply way to do it ? Only what I'm found this is play from url https://developer.sonos.com/reference/control-api/playbacksession/loadstreamurl/ But this means, each file first should be must upload to service and next play. I'm wondering how it is working on my Sonos application in Android. There I can just choice file from my phone and play. I would like this same results. It is possible using this API ?

This is weird, and it had never happened before (or I didn't realize it): I have Sonos One's, in the living room and in the bedroom. It's happening that, if I say "Alexa play" and I say it in the living room (a pair of Sonos One's), it responds to me, but it starts playing music in the bedroom (a single Sonos One). The same happens the other way around: I say play or stop in the bedroom, the device acknowledges the command, but execute it in the other room. It does work properly if I name the room, but I didn't need to specify the room before. All of this started to occur right after I was experimenting with Alexa groups (where I tried to create an "everywhere" group). Have any of you had the same difficulty?

I have a Sonos Connect attached to my stereo receiver using the analog out connectors. Can I connect an Amazon Echo Input to the Sonos Connect using the analog in connectors and if so, what other settings do I need to make to have it play through the Sonos?

So I have a Sonos Beam with Alexa, as well as two Play Ones in my room for surround sound. Whenever I say Alexa, then a command, I only hear the voice out of the Beam. Is there anyway I can hear the voice out of all of the speakers?

Slightly odd problem which started last week. When asking a Sonos One/Beam to play something, it is automatically grouping together all other Alexa-enabled Sonos speakers to play it. This is despite them not being grouped or other speakers even playing something else at the time. Earlier today, with the Sonos app open, I asked the One in the kitchen to play Radio One and watched in the app as it lumped all the Alexa-enabled speakers together to play Radio One - even though they were already in use playing other things. It doesn't seem to include the Play:1 in my set-up, though. I have a Beam, two Sonos Ones (not paired together) and the Play:1. If it helps, my diagnostic number is 1910432264. Thanks in advance (and hope!).

I just bought a Sonos Beam and connected it to my Philips smart TV via the HDMI ARC input. The input for my digital television signal comes from a external device which is connected via another HDMI input to the tv. When I ask Alexa to turn on the TV, it works. However, it automatically switches the TV input to the HDMI 1 (ARC input), while it should stay on HDMI 2 (TV signal input). If my tv is not on HDMI 2, I can't watch TV. So now I have to switch my tv back to HDMI 2 via the remote control in order to watch TV with the sound via the Beam. Is there any way I can control the Beam via voice and watch TV without having to use the remote to switch the TV to the right input?

Hi there! I set up a Sonos Beam today and connected it to my Samsung TV (Q6F) via the ARC HDMI port, also installed Alexa and it's running smoothly for things like playing music on Spotify or checking the weather. But what remains unclear to me: to what extent am I able to control my TV via Alexa voice control? There's no list of possible commands out there, at least I couldn't find it? I picked up somewhere that it's possible to turn the TV on and off via Alexa, so I tried that: turning on actually works, while for turning off Alexa says "OK" without actually turning it off. Why is that? And are there any more things I can do, such as... ...switch the HDMI source via Alexa (i.e. "switch to Playstation")? ...switch the TV channel via Alexa (i.e. "switch to CNN")? etc.