Voice control and smart home

When will the voice control come to Finland?

I’ve looked through every post imaginable on this but not found a solution unfortunately but my apologies if it is out there somewhere (if so, PLEASE point me in the right direction) I just purchased a ring Video Doorbell 2. All is working great with it but I am trying to automate it so that when it is pressed a chime (preferably an mp3) plays on my Sonos speakers (Sonos 1 x 3, Sonos 3 & beam) and then resumes whatever is playing (or just plays the chime if nothing was playing at the time). I’ve got it half working through IFTTT but when it is pressed it loops the mp3 continuously (which my kids love as it was saying, “HO HO HO, Merry Christmas” over and over and over… 😃 )

Inside the Alexa app under devices I can see my Sonos beam and 2 Sonos ones. When I click on any of them it opens up a new screen with a volume slider. When I use the slider to turn up The sound I get a pop up saying we are sorry we weren’t able to update your volume. This happens on all of the Alexa enabled Sonos’s

I have a sonos one and an echo dot, can they work together on the same system. plan was 1 in office and 1 in family room. I have Sonos set up in 7 zones already with amps and connects

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this and if so whether I can do anything to stop it happening? i have 2 Echo Dots in the house, one of which is located in the basement. In the mornings, while I'm listening to the radio (via Tune in) on my sonos equipment in my bedroom, the volume suddenly drops right down for a few seconds and then pops back up. I've realised this is because my children are chatting to Alexa in the basement and the volume drops on any and all zones until the interaction has finished. Note: the basement and bedroom zones are not joined together at the time, they are playing different music sources. In fact, I'm not even sure that anything is being played in the basement at the time.

I have a Sonos one in my garage and recently Alexa stopped working. It will chime when I say, "Alexa", but after I give a command, "Play music", "turn off garage lights", "what's the weather", I get nothing. Has anyone else had a similar issue? What did you do to fix it?

I tried to search this topic both here and on Google. My apologies if it has been answered but I cannot find an answer. We have several Sonos Play 1 speakers and an Alexa Echo. I enabled the Alexa skill and updated the software on all of the Sonos speakers. I have the app for both. I created a group in the Alexa app called "Family Room". Under the "Alexa" heading, both the sonos speaker that I want to play and the Echo speaker are selected. In the preferred speaker section it will only allow me to have 1 of the 2 from the above section checked. I have tried it both ways. I am trying to get both the sonos speaker and the Echo to play the music together. I am able to say "Alexa, play music on Family Room" and the music will play on the Sonos speaker, but it will not also play on the Echo. Several websites seem to say that indicate that both will play (though I understand you cannot have two Echos play at the same time). Regardless, I cannot seem to play the music through both sim

I sincerely hope there will continue to be Sonos products WITHOUT Alexa in the future. There is plenty of backlash over Alexa listening in on home environments, and concerns over privacy. Personally, I have experienced interacting with it, and do not care for it at all. My in-laws have Alexa, and it invariably results in multiple people yelling "ALEXA!! Do this! Do that!" It's super annoying, and I don't like the privacy invasion for my own home. When I saw that Sonos now has an Alexa product, I got worried.:(

I have set up my Sonos One with my Amazon Account. I pay for Amazon Prime so I have access to Prime Music and can play this through the speaker. So far no issues. My wife shares my Prime benefits but she also has Amazon Music Unlimited on her own account. I have therefore added her Amazon account to the Sonos app to make use of her subscription. In the Sonos app I can see both accounts and the account that is in use is my wife's as it has a tick next to it. The problem: Alexa is not recognising my wife's Amazon Music Unlimited. When we ask her to play certain songs she says sorry you need an Amazon Music Unlimted subscription. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Dave

I recently got may first Sonos One and I had it configured and working in almost no time. Everything went up smoothly. Apple Music added, Amazon Alexa added, and both working together as it's been advertised. Now, as part of some modifications I've been doing in my home I had to change the wifi configuration and change the Sonos to a new network; it turns out after configuring the device with the new network everything works but the integration between Apple Music and Alexa. It's so frustrating not being able to command Alexa on skipping a song as the assistant will only listen, flash a bit, then do absolutely NOTHING. Has anyone else experiences something similar? How did you resolve it? I'm seriously considering the possibility of returning my ONE as I really don't feel like going thru‘ all this hassle. Any help will be much appreciated.

Wondering if anyone can help me troubleshooting why Google Assistant doesn't control my Sonos speaker. I have linked my IFTTT account with my Sonos account. There appears to be no way of linking to Google Home or Assistant. Google reveals nothing on troubleshooting this and can find nothing in the Sonos form

Is this ever going to happen? From my research it seems this is a major failing of the Sonos/Alexa tie up. I do not want to use a streaming music service when I already own, and add to, an extensive music library that fulfills my needs. I am happy to use tune-in for radio and podcasts. What is the point of having to use the Sonos app to initiate playing music from my NAS located music library to then be able to use Alexa to control the volume etc. Surely I am not the only loyal (nearly 15 years) Sonos user that wants to control aALL my music using voice? Come on Sonos, be honest, if you are not going to do this soon, then just tell us.

How can I turn it off?

Alexa/Sonos noob here. Just posting this in case it can help anyone else. I was experiencing really slow response time from Alexa for simple questions, over 15 seconds. My internet connection was reasonably fast at 6 Mbps so I was confused. But it turned out it only supported 256 Kbps for upload! Alexa needs to send outbound messages so that is a potential bottleneck, although even that low bandwidth will usually give acceptable response time. But at this particular time I was also uploading a number of files from my PC so the traffic completely bogged down. Once I paused the uploads Alexa response time returned to normal. So remember that upload speeds matter and so does other network traffic.

I've enabled the skill, but don't have an active subscription to test it. It does provide a "don't have permission" message on Sonos One when I ask Alexa to play anything "...on Tidal", so I assume it will work on Sonos with a subscription.

Alexa starts music on spotify when asked to do so, but doesn't respond to "Alexa Pause" or "Alexa Stop" or "Alexa Quit" to stop playing the song.

I have just got a Beam in my family room to go along with my (non-Alexa) Play 1 in the bedroom. Getting them all to play simultaneously or independently through the Sonos app works fine. Problem comes with Alexa voice control. Saying 'play spotify through family room' or 'through bedroom' works most of the time (although will sometimes claim that a device is offline when it isnt) but it seems impossible to get them to play the same Spotify song simultaneously in both rooms via Alexa command. I have the iPhone Alexa app and set up a new 'All Sonos' group (i couldnt select the 'add multi-room speakers' as its greyed out). However when i say 'Play spotify on All Sonos' it will either say i have to add it as a skill and then ask Alexa to discover new devices (its already added as a skill and asking Alexa to discover new devices just leads to 'no new devices could be found'). Occasionally it will start to play and will say 'playing Spotify on All Sonos' but it actually only comes on

When I tell Alexa to play music on my bedroom sonos speaker she can pull up a random station with no problem. When I try and tell her to play a specific Pandora radio station on my bedroom sonos speaker she starts paying from the echo dot also in the bedroom. I don't know why she can recognize the sonos speaker only when I ask her to play something random.

Hi all. I've just set up a mesh wifi (BT Whole Home). I've factory reset my 2 One's and moved them to new positions and at the same time added a new Beam. Everything is fine from the Sonos controller app - I can stream from my NAS, stream radio etc. The problem is now Alexa. Alexa recognises the voice command e.g. "alexa,play radio 2" as it's repeated back e.g. "playing bbc radio 2 on tunein" but then nothing happens. I can ask questions via Alexa and get the answer back ok. Any ideas appreciated. I've submitted a diagnostic dump reference 2096180011. Thanks!

I know the newer Alexa enabled speakers create two entries in the Alexa app - one for the speaker and one for the Alexa part. But why do my older devices (Play:1, Play:3 and Connect) do the same? Can I deregister the alexa device in the Amazon site safely?

No support for vocie control in my country. I use the Sonos app on my iPhone. When I go to voice control it tells me that there is no support in my country (Denmark). When will it be supported?

Hey! I have a Sonos play 1 + playbar + sub + Sonos new Alexa enables Play One.. how can I ask Alexa to play on my playbar and Alexa at the same time? My playbar is connected through Sonos one so it’s on the network.... what’s the best way for this?

I have my own email and password for my amazon account to set up a SONOS ONE account linked to my alexus app on my phone. I want to add a SEPARATE SONOS ONE account for my girlfriend, who lives with me. She has her own email and password for her amazon account. Can this be done? A household profile seems to use the same account for two separate people, which is not what I am interested in doing. Any ideas?

Sorry if this has been asked, but I couldn't find it! I have several Amazon Alexa Dots in the house, controlling lights, etc. Last week I added a SonosOne. Here are the questions: 1. Alexa plays music on the SonosOne fine, but seemingly can not see the SonosOne as an additional device so I can engage multi-room music. I have tried Scenes and Routines, but no luck. Am I out of luck for now? Or have I missed a trick? 2. I am very impressed with the SonosOne, so I am now seriously thinking of grabbing another Sonos... most likely a Sonos Play 1. If I buy that.. will it sync withe the SonosOne and then give me multi-room music? Thanks in advance for any help.

I have my own email and password for my amazon account to set up a SONOS ONE account linked to my alexus app on my phone. I want to add a SEPARATE SONOS ONE account for my girlfriend, who lives with me. She has her own email and password for her amazon account. Can this be done? A household profile seems to use the same account for two separate people, which is not what I am interested in doing. Any ideas?