Voice control and smart home

I have added Apple Music as my default music service in my Sonos controller and in the Alexa app. I can play Apple Music fine but Alexa voice control on my Sonos devices (e.g. Play One) does not work. Is that supported? If so, what do I need to do?

So I thought I would dip my toe in to this Alexa mularky. I only wanted the voice control over my Sonos system though as I really don't care for IA telling me what the weather is!!. I already had Sonos in every room of the house before the One was released so rather than buy any new units I thought I'd test it out with a £50 Echo Dot. I'm 'Old School', my music is mainly stored on a WD Cloud with many playlists setup in itunes and happily read by Sonos. I discovered very quickly that Alexa can't recognize any of these play lists. What is the point of that!! Alexa is really only there to support streaming. So my big beef (and I would be f***in' livid if I'd bought some Sonos One's) is that it should be made more obvious that Alexa can not access your personal music library - for me only £50 down the drain. However - Why Alexa cannot see your music library through Sonos is a mystery - it only needs to be able to access your NAS in devices and can use the Sonos software to find

Having issues my default “Alexa play some music” starts my Deezer flow on Sonos in the room I’m in, at random times the songs will just skip on to the next track. If I use the iOS app on my phone to start the “flow” it doesn’t skip. Any one have the same issue?

will the current play 1 be compatible to use Google Mini for control

Line-in Voice-Control Command

I have a Sonos Beam with the room name TV. From any of my Sonos speakers (2*One and Beam) I can say Alexa, turn on TV, which works fine. I can say to the Sonos Beam "Alexa play music" and it switches from TV to playing Music. However, if I say to any of the One's "Alexa play music on TV" the response is "I didn't find anything named TV that can play music". If I say to the Beam "Alexa play music on Kitchen" that works fine also. FYI, TV appears as a device in the Alexa App (iOS). If I create a group in the Alexa App then I can add TV as a preferred speak. Here is the strange part: TV is listed as an Alexa Enabled Device when I edit the group but it won't let me select TV as an Alexa Enabled Device. It just highlights TV but doesn't put a tick next to it. The two One's can be selected, no problem. So: I renamed the room name for the Beam from TV to Lounge in the Sonos App and rediscovered devices. In the Alexa App there is now Lounge which shows as Alexa and Lounge TV which sh

If I ask Alexa to play music from a specific artist, the typical response is “shuffling songs by [artist name] from [my name’s] Spotify on Sonos.” Then no music plays. How do I troubleshoot this?

So I've seen quite a lot of posts about this topic, but haven't seen this one specific question: I realize that google home isnt officially supported by sonos yet. But is it possible to simply use the sonos one as a speaker for google home? Let's say I want to listen to spotify, tell my google home that I want to listen to spotify and the sound just comes over the sonos speakers? I don't mind if there is no group support or microphone support of the sonos one yet

Ok guys I want to be able to put speakers in all my room. And be able to say play music in my room, kitchen etc and the music plays in that room. Or do on my hue app to play in that room. Does anyone know how to set up that system. Regards Ian

Hey guys, I live in Portugal and Alexa isn't available yet. Is there any way get Sonos+Alexa working? I've seen a lot of tutorials but they are all about the Amazon Eco. Thanks for the help! Luis

Anyone running Sonos one Gen2 and having issues that every so often after making an Alexa command that the unit will stutter and drop off the wifi? I have 3 units and all three are doing it intermittently. Exact same issues with my Friends unit he also just got. We both were running the original Sonos ones with no issues. I tried replacing back with Gen 1 and ran it for a couple days and no issues. Went back to Gen 2 and will have the issue couple times a day. Wifi network is Ubiquiti Unifi with 3 AC HD APs. Thanks.

When will "Alexa" be available in Denmark

Hi everyone, I know this has been covered extensively but I'm mighty confused, so please bear with me (and help if you can!). I have a Sonos One in our kitchen, a Sonos Connect in our bedroom, and our kids have recently got Echo Dots in each of their bedrooms. The upstairs devices are currently ducking whenever the kids use their Echo Dots. I've had a look at how to stop this happening and thought the answer was that I'm supposed to set up a group on the Alexa app to include all of those devices where I don't want ducking to occur. So I've set up a group "Upstairs" and included the kids' echo dots, and our bedroom Sonos. But it's still ducking..... I haven't set a preferred speaker because we all want to be able to play different radio stations in our own bedrooms (leaving aside the frustration of the fact we can't all use Spotify despite having a family premium account but that's a whole different issue), not have them all playing the same thing (which is what I think settin

TL:DR - You can now request a personal music collection by voice from a Plex media server. well, I'm starting to get somewhere on having non-streaming services work on my Sonos One (and other Alexa devices too of course) Obviously, up till now, the only way to play music on our Sonos devices has been using many of the paid for streaming services OR playing music from our own music libraries. This is great and allows the best of both worlds BUT we aren't able to play more than a couple of those services with voice alone (Spotify, Deezer and Amazon Music). For ALL other services, we are limited to using the Sonos app/software in order to access this music. However, I have today (and I may well be a bit behind on this front) discovered that I CAN access music stored on my Plex server (which is streamed from my NAS at home) by enabling and linking the PLEX skill on Alexa and then asking "Alexa, ask Plex to play......" This can be in many different ways, Alexa, ask Plex t

I want to talk to my Echo Dot and have Alexa respond to me through a Play:1. In order to make this happen, I had to hook up the Dot to a Connect:Amp, use the controller to have the Play:1 play from the Line In of the Connect:Amp, and the connection seems to work. However, if I ask Alexa a question, "Alexa, what time is it?" "Alexa, tell me a joke." her voice comes through the Play:1 at a very low volume, so low that I can barely hear it. Volume on Echo is at 10, and the Play:1 volume is on full. Music plays loud as expected, but Alexa's voice is way too quiet. Am I doing something wrong, or should I just give up on trying to make Alexa and Play:1 work in this way? Very disappointing if that's the case.

Is there a way to create Alexa presets on Sonos One ? i.e.: Play 1 --> would play defined TuneIn station, Play 2 --> would play defined Spotify playlist...etc

Hi, I have set up my Beam to link to my PLEX server. If I use the Sonos app I can play music to the Beam OK. If I say "Alexa, Ask plex to play music by Adele" she responds in the affirmative and my media server shows that alexa is direct playing the correct music. So that all looks fine. BUT! no sound comes out of the beam! If I do the same on my echo in anther room it works perfectly. Is this (yet another) deficiency in the implementation of alexa and the beam?

I cannot believe that i am the only one who got it wrong and thought the Play One had Alexa. Could they have named it Play Two? I bought two of the Play one on sale to go with my Playbar then with support from Crutchfield purchased a Sonos One then found it would not pair with the the Sonos Play One so now am getting a second Sonos One to get rear speakers that work with my Playbar. All of this could have been solved by calling the new unit Sonos Play 2. This has taken a month and although it is all my fault except the support that suggested just to exchange one Play One which could be explained that he did not know I was using it as a surround, This seems crazy and I am very concerned that I will get it wrong with ordering a subwoofer. Is there some other thing I should know? Makes me tired of all the problems I have gone through. Then it was a problem trying to pair the missmatched speakers, then having to cancel and reinstall. Common tech support you have a great problem m

I get that Sonos didn't launch with the ability for Alexa to use your music library. But why hasn't it caught up? If I look at the Alexa app, it knows everything that is in my (largish) library. Especially with the latest Alexa extensions, I'm really frustrated with not being able to play my library (and my Sonos playlists). What's so hard here???

In my Kitchen I have a Sonos Beam and two Play1’s (not Ones) grouped in a surround set and connected to my Samsung TV via ARC. Works great! In my Kitchen I also have an Echo Show and because it drove me crazy that both Alexa devices (the Show and the Beam) would switch on when I said Alexa I have turned the Voice control off on the Beam. I can control my Beam through Voice control on the Show. BUT when I ask for Alexa the Beam and the 2 surrounds do not lower their volumes (ducking) so that Alexa can hear my request. All the Sonos’ in the rest of the house do duck (zone feature please!) Please advise how I can solve this or is this a design issue that Sonos speakers with built-in speakers do not support ducking?

On Spotify I understand, you can make a radio station based on an artist, genre or song. Can use a voice command with Alexa on Sonos One to ask it to play a Radio station based on an artist, genre or song? I don’t own a Sonos One yet so can’t try this.

When I want to hear a RADIO station that I created on Ppandora, all I say is , "Alexa, play Andrew Belle Radio from Pandora on Office". Bam, it plays that radio station. When I use this same statement for Spotify, replacing the word Pandora with Spotify of course, it plays music BY Andrew Belle and not the RADIO station. I want to hear the station or channel with music LIKE Andrew Bell, not just a bunch of music BY Andrew Belle. Is there some word with Spotify other than RADIO or CHANNEL that I am not using or is this just not possible with Spotify? Many thanks, Houston

hi I am having problems to get my Sonos speakers to play music using Alexa voice commands if I say Alexa play Elvis Presley Spotify it responds shuffling songs from Elvis Presley on Spotify but I cannot hear any sound coming out of the speakers can somebody help me fix this thanks

I have 3 sonos ones and a playbar and had alexa + spotify setup and working. I recently changed spotify account and nothing seems to work anymore. Alexa won't play songs from spotify. It says that it does but there is just no sound. Even spotify to sonos is unreliable and wont work on some speakers. it seems the only way to get any sound out of your speakers is to use the sonos app directly I have tried unlinking and relinking alexa and spotify both in alexa app and sonos app but no luck diagnostic number is 1148420497

I know it is not ready yet but if I buy a Beam now will this work with Google or will new Beams be shipped. In other words will Google Assistent be a hardware or software upgrade?