Voice control and smart home

Just started having this trouble today. I ask Alexa to play a song from Spotify. I receive confirmation from Alexa about the song but then nothing plays. I can play music from the Sonos Controller app on my computer and from the Sonos app itself, but the Spotify app will not connect to my Sonos One. Any help to offer?

Anybody know if the Echo Wall Clock from Amazon will be able to work with the Sonos One? So far the compatibility on the product page just says: Requires a compatible Echo device, including Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, Echo Plus, Echo Spot, or Echo Input. If it did work with my Sonos One, it'd be a great addition to my kitchen.

Sonos One had been working properly until Saturday 12/15 where now it only plays one song at a time. We are using Alexa and Amazon Music. System diagnostic number is 951288978. Thanks!

So, the Sonos One is a great idea and it sounds great. Just like you'd expect from Sonos. I bought Sonos almost on day one and I am a great fan. BUT I put off buying the Sonos One because of its limitations as reported in the press. It's Amazon Echo skills are seriously lacking and I am hopeful that Sonos are trying to fix them. The shortcomings are very poor for a company that I used to respect. Here are some of the problems I have found. Please let me know if they have been fixed as I haven't found them to work yet. 1) the inability to put the Sonos One into groups. 2) inability to set up routines based on a key phrase, such as "Alexa, good night" 3) When streaming a music station the music will continue to play despite saying "Alexa stop" in as many ways as possible. This doesn't always happen but when it does it is REALLY annoying. And guess what...instead of stopping...it turns the volume up! 4) When trying to play a particular station on the radio, most of them will play if y

When i use tv remote or phone to in/decrease the volume it goes up/down 2 steps with just one press. Eg from 0 silent to 2 then 4 and 6 etc. (I normally keep it at 6 during day time and 2 which is the lowest level at night. Alexa is loud too when at night if i ask for something. If the sound is mute and i want to increase just a bit it is better to use a remote or sonos app. If i ask Alexa she would turn it up from 0 to 10 which is too loud. Is there possible way to reduce her voulme when she replies? My set up in tv room is just a beam and 2x play 1 rear surrounds 5.1 dolby digital.

Google Assistant is finally coming to the Sonos One and Sonos Beam It's a CES miracle. A lot of announcements have already come out of CES 2019, but without a doubt, this is one of the most exciting yet. At a press briefing on Tuesday, January 8, Google confirmed that it's finally bringing the Google Assistant over to the Sonos One and Sonos Beam. An exact date has yet to be revealed as to when the rollout will begin, but it looks like we've finally reached the finish line. If you don't have a One or Beam, Google says that "earlier speaker models" will also be updated with Assistant support, but right now it's unclear if all previous Sonos speakers will eventually get the Assistant or just a select few. https://m.androidcentral.com/google-assistant-finally-coming-sonos-one-and-sonos-beam

I reset my Sonos ONE, now is all set up but when adding the Amazon Music I get this message: Connection Error There was a problem adding the Amazon Music account. A Connection to Amazon Music could not be made. All this happens after it makes me sign in to validate the account, I close the browser after I sign in and ask me to close it and go back to the app. Please help Thanks

I see at IFTTT.com that there is a Recipe to play a Favorite on certain days, certain time in a certain room at a certain volume. It works but I cannot change the Title of it so I’ve got several ALL with the same Title (for different Favorites). I tried to create my own recipe (so I can customize the Title) but I do not find the Volume ingredient. Any insight on getting advanced options? Thanks

Replaced an Echo with a Sonos One and have a few basic routines. One of the routines is just to turn on 3 iDevice plugs and that is it. If I trigger that routine 'Alexa, Christmas time' everything works, but I get 'Audio actions in routines are not currently supported on this device' There is no audio in there, just 3 plugs. They are not in a group. In fact, I don't have any groups defined apart from 'Everywhere' which isn't called here. I'm glad it works, the message is just annoying us. Any thoughts on how to get rid of it? I have recreated the routine a few times.

I went to rename a Sonos One yesterday as it was moving physical rooms. Alexa could not discover it, much to my dismay after having a perfectly working system for the last several months. At this point, I can easily set up any Sonos speaker, enable Alexa on it and use Alexa through my beams or ones just fine. HOWEVER, while all Alexa-enabled speakers show up as ALEXA DEVICES in the Alexa app (and on alexa.amazon.com) NONE of them will show up as SMART HOME DEVICES. This means that while I can use Alexa through Sonos to control things, I can no longer, for example, turn off my TV using Alexa through the Beam to control the TV connected on the HDMI ARC port. I've tried enough combinations of remedies from other posts without success that I resorted to my best attempt at a clean slate: a factory reset of the only Sonos device I plugged in after logging out and uninstalling both iOS apps, leading me t to set up new system from scratch. This was after removing *all* Alexa

Hi: I have setup my beam and two sonos one as a home theater system. I am able to turn off white led light of both sonos one. However, there is no way of turning off the light of the beam. Can any of you help me please?

I purchased my Sonos Beam today, came home to set it up I have spent the past few hours trying to get Alexa to play nice with the Sonos Beam. When I look at my devices on the Amazon Alexa app and website under settings > devices, it will show the Beam is connected however, on the regular devices tab it shows nothing and will not discover the Beam. I have logged out, uninstalled, unplugged, reinstalled, enabled and disabled skills, changed names, stood on my head, did a little dance and I am still not able to get this darn thing to connect to Alexa. The beam is connected to my TV with the optic cable attachment as I don't have an ARC port. I understand that I won't be able to control the TV with Alexa. I would like to at least tell her to play music and work properly..... all ideas, comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

All working well for months. Today, Alexa was not able to switch off the TV anymore (connected to the beam with HDMI ARC). I tried to remove the TV from the device list and perform a device discovery on alexa app, but now it doesn't find the TV anymore. What can I do? I've already tried to disable and re-enable sonos skill

When I originally setup my Sonos with Alexa (Play1 and Playbar+sub) it all worked however I then discovered that because my smart bulbs were called the same name as my Playbar it caused a conflict on instructions. I then removed the Playbar from Alexa with the intention of readding it and giving it a different name. I have renamed the Playbar (+sub) but they are now are not docoverable by Alexa. I have tried the following: Disabling and enabling the skills Resetting the router Uninstalling and reinstalling both the Alexa and sonos apps Performing a factory reset on the Playbar (it should be noted when I reconnect the Playbar I had to do this wired for some reason) I only have the one sonos account and amazon account (both using the same email address) The Play1 connects fine so I know it’s not my router, accounts or the skill. I am now completely stumped any help would be appreciated

I have a new Playbase, along with an Echo Dot. The Echo Dot has been working fine controlling everything in the house. However when I try to add the Sonos speaker through Alexa it does not discover it...keeps saying "No new devices found." I go through Devices > Add a Device > Speaker > Sonos. The Sonos is connected and runs through TV as well as through the Sonos app. Just can't seem to get Alexa to "discover" it. What am I doing wrong?!

Long time user, Sonos One was on Wi-Fi working fine for months. Added Boost, and that was it, no go. Tried everything I know, and what I read online, but no luck. When I can get the One to show up in the controller, and run controller on my android phone it causes many different problems with the setup. Then it disappears off all controllers I use, on Windows and an android tablet. Diagnostics submitted, here is the confirm # 1750265065 Please help, Bill

I updated the spotify app and when i try to connect to the sonos it does not play at all. I see the clock ticking for the track but no go. If i use the sonos app I am able to play but I did not have this problem before. Weird cause its been working for months. Thinking its the spotify app update. Anyone else update and have the same issue? Also, I did updates on ipad and same result as iphone, even with diff user accounts. Did all the restarting of speaker, router and no luck.

I have two Sonos Ones a sonos play one and play 5. They all work perfectly through the sonos app. Both Sonos Ones have been working with Alexa for last year - no issues. Then in the last few weeks the issues have begun! Asking Alexa to play an album or playlist - the first song plays and then nothing. Asking Alexa to stop - it “bings” to let you know it’s heard you and then does nothing, continues to play. And this week - I say Alexa, it bings. I ask it to do anyone and there is just silence. My microphone is on, it hears me saying Alexa but does not perform command. I’ve disabled the skill and re added it. Same thing happens. The app recognises all of the devices. All of devices appear in my sonos app twice - which is another weird thing! I’m at a loss - I’ve never needed to ask for help before and I’m not sure how to go about getting the diagnostics check - can anyone advise?

Just got an email with this announcement. https://www.yonomi.co/blog/2019/1/17/control-your-sonos-system-from-anywhere-with-our-latest-update I haven't used Yonomi in a while, but this warrants another look I think. I don't think Yonomi is unique in controlling Sonos through the cloud (meaning you don't have to connect to your wifi) but the interface may be preferable to other options. Just from a glance, it may be a good way from setting up predefined group you can control by voice, as an alternative to Alexa groups.

Hi, I searched everywhere and I already tried both Gideon and Yonomi app but without success. I have a Sonos Play:1 in my bathroom and I use Philips Hue as light. I’m looking for a way to automatically start music on Sonos when I turn on the Hue light (and then automatically stop music when the Hue light is switched off). I tried on IFTTT but I didn’t find anything. Anyone could please help me? Thanks.

I can't get Alexa to play "KNX 1070 NewsRadio on Radio.com in the Kitchen" on my Sonos player in the kitchen. I CAN get it to play on my Echo Dot. I've updated to the latest Sonos version 9.1. I uninstalled and reinstalled radio.com on my Sonos. I uninstalled and reinstalled the Sonos Skill and radio.com skill on my Alexa. I even tried asking Alexa to "open Radio dot com" then play KNX 1070 NewsRadio in the kitchen," still won't work. Alexa won't recognized the command when I try to play it on the Sonos. Any advice on how to get Alexa to play this station on my Sonos?

Sonos has shared a video on how to enable smart ducking. Cannot get it to work because the Alexa app does not have the settings they show in the video. Can you provide written instructions?

So I have this beautiful Sonos One (Christmas present from my better half) playing music in my office and during the Christmas break I asked Alexa for a reminder to which she replied that reminders weren't supported on this device. OK so no big deal but it's something that I use on our Echo's and Dot's. The surprise today was that, for fun, I thought I would ask Alexa on the Sonos One for a reminder and 'SURPRISE-SURPRISE' Alexa accepted the request and duly reminded me an hour later. So reminders now work......the Sonos One just gets better and better! I love it and am now saving for another.

I can see some old posts re connecting a Google Home Mini to Sonos speakers but nothing recent. I would simply like to be able to walk into home and say "OK Google play music from Spotify on Sonos". Is this possible? If so, how do I do it?

Got a Beam yesterday and connected fine, worked beautifully playing music via the Sonos app or via asking Alexa (kids also discovered “Alexa - maximum volume” very quickly!). This morning however asking Alexa to play music, I get an “ok playing xxxxx” but no music. Playing from the app still works, and asking Alexa the time etc still work fine, it’s just the music - is there anything I could try please?