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The place to discuss and get tips on voice control and smart home devices on Sonos. Which voice commands can I use? How does it work? Get your integration and Sonos related answers here.

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John160Avid Contributor I
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How to play music from my Apple Music Library by voice control

Hi, I have Apple Music and my own curated library of albums in my Apple Music Library (ie with tracks I don’t like removed). I can get the Sonos app to play albums on Apple Music via voice control, but I can’t find a way to get voice control to play albums from my Apple Music Library. Can anyone help?

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9 months ago
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TeamZissouContributor I
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Play current music on new device

What’s the Alexa command to play music that is already playing in another room to play on an Alexa enabled speaker in the room I’m currently in?

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jgatie
9 months ago
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benopipariContributor I
asked in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
Sonos and Alexa in two houses

With apologies in advance since this topic has been addressed before…It is my understanding that Alexa can only be linked to Sonos in one location at time. So if we have a primary and secondary residence, when I travel to the secondary residence and try to use Alexa on Sonos there, I will have to unlink it from my primary residence. A workaround suggested was to set up a new Amazon account, but I don’t think this is possible since Amazon now requires a phone number for a new account. And you cannot use the same phone number for two different accounts. When I chatted with Sonos support today about this, this is what I was told: “There is no need to disable the Sonos skill when you want to use the second system.”Am I missing something? Can I now use Alexa on Sonos in both locations without having to disable one?Thanks.

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9 months ago
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bahna002Contributor I
asked in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
Turntable and Echo Dot on Same Sonos 5

Hi, I have a second gen Play 5, 3rd gen amazon echo dot, and Project Carbon turntable. I currently have my turntable connected to the play 5 through the line in connection through the phono preamp associated with my turntable.  I would really like to have the echo dot connected to the play 5 as well as the turntable to make it a smart speaker.  I was wondering if this is possible with the turntable connected at the same time? If so, what would my options be?  I also have an era 100 and gen 1 move if that matters for options.  Thanks in advance for the help!  

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Ken_Griffiths
9 months ago
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Rudy A-TraxxTrending Lyricist I
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Alexa m'annonce mon FLASH QUOTIDIEN en anglais

Bonjour, Depuis des mois, Alexa dont la langue dans l’App SONOS est pourtant bien réglée en Français sur toutes mes SONOS, m'annonce mon FLASH QUOTIDIEN en anglais.Ce même flash quotidien lu par une Echo Amazon est bien annoncé en FrançaisQue faire ? J’ai réinitialisé mes SONOS plusieurs fois dans l’année mais rien n’y change.Sont-ce les serveurs de SONOS qui me bloquent ?

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9 months ago
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jl62Contributor I
posted in Sonos Voice Control
Steuerung

Ist es möglich eine Sonos move Box per Sprachbefehl aus- und wieder einzuschalten, also neu zu starten?

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9 months ago
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jsquanceAvid Contributor I
posted in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
Alexa not controling sonos speakers

Suddenly my Alexa devices are not controlling any of my sonos speakers.  I’ve done the standard resetting of my system, disabling and re-enabling the skill etc.  no luck.  

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9 months ago
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mikeymousegodContributor I
asked in Google Assistant and Sonos
Google Assistant - Register your speakers

Hello,I have an issue with Google Assistant, it worked really well in the past but now, when I try to link my account, I have the error message “You need to link speakers to your Sonos account”. I already have my speakers linked to my account. I tried to reset all my system (Beam 2 + Sub Mini) and deleted all apps (Sonos, Google Home, Google Assistant) and reinstall these but nothing work. Could you help me with that ? Thank you,

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7 months ago
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EmichonContributor I
asked in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
Alexa skills not working

Does anyone have issues with using Alexa skills through Sonos speakers? I have a few linked to my account (Neato for my vacuum & Delta for my kitchen tap as examples). If I ask an Alexa enabled Sonos to vacuum, it will tell me it's unable to find a device or group named Neato. But if I ask the same from an Amazon Echo it works as it should. Same thing for the Delta skill. It's been like this for as long as I can remember. Alexa does work on the Sonos speaker as I can ask it to pause, play music etc. 

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7 months ago
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Brian EquatorContributor I
asked in Google Assistant and Sonos
Google Assistant talks over music

When I ask Google Assistant to play a song on my Sonos One, she will start the song while telling me “OK, playing song x on Youtube Music” causing me to miss the first few seconds of the song. Is there any way to fix this? Either wait to start the song until the talking is done, or just not talking. In the grand scheme of things, I can live with this, but it is annoying.

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Sotiris C.
9 months ago
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Fliss SContributor I
asked in Google Assistant and Sonos
Roam with voice assistant won't skip songs

We've just bought a Sonos Roam for the new bathroom to listen to music, radio etc while showering. Bonus the hey Google broadcast to shout out for assistance. However while listening yesterday I requested it to skip the song it was on. The reply was that this feature is not available for Sonos? I was listening to my Spotify playlist, the paid for service rather than the free in case that makes a difference. Is there a certain way I need to ask? I asked it to skip that song, play next song, they didn't work. Thanks x

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9 months ago
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Col28Contributor I
asked in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
Sonos and Alexa

Alexa is enabled in my Sonos app but when I ask to turn TV on for example it says OK but nothing happens but if I ask when Alexa app is open it turns TV on.  Also when Alexa app is open I can turn light on but not from Sonos, it says can’t find device

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9 months ago
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scottrucciContributor I
asked in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
Voice control

I have a number of sonos speakers and voice control works perfectly. However, I have a pair of non-sonos speakers in my living room (fed by a port in another part of the house) and I want to voice control the system from the living room. Is there a way to do this. I have an Amazon echo dot in the living room but I can’t get it to transmit voice commands to the Sonos system. If I could get that to work it would solve the problem. I don’t want to buy a sonos speaker just for the microphone/voice control. Is there any type of device that could “talk” to sonos? As it is I have to walk into another part of the house to get Sonos to respond.

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9 months ago
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David16DAAvid Contributor I
posted in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
Alexa Voice Assistant not quiet working.

I have added the Alexa Voice assistant to my Sonos speakers. when I ask it to play music, it will repeat back what I have asked in the confirmation reply but the music does not play. Has anyone else experienced the same or is able to suggest a remedy? 

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9 months ago
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ListeningOnAStormContributor I
asked in Google Assistant and Sonos
Google Script

In Google Home I currently play different music each day via amp as part of my morning Google home routine.  Daily routines have a custom command "play chillout music on bar", which plays on Monday for exanple   It works but messy to maintain multiple routines. I'm currently attmpting to shift my music routines to Google script.  I can play music to a nest speaker via script but when attempting to play on amp there are limited functions available, stop/start etc.  There doesn't appear to be away to tell sonos which music to play like you can with a nest speaker. Has anyone successful been able to tell sonos which music to play via script?  Current Script:metadata:name: Play music on bardescription: Play music on barautomations:- starters:- type: assistant.event.OkGoogleeventData: queryis: Play Christmas music on the baractions:- type: assistant.command.OkGoogledevices:#sonos amp name. Works with nest speaker, but okGoogle actuon not supported with amp- Bar - FoodyokGoogle: Play music o

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Sotiris C.
9 months ago
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James62Contributor I
posted in Google Assistant and Sonos
samsung tv control via sonos beam using google assistant

Sonos Beam Arc connected to Samsung TVGoogle Home shows Beam as two entities, TV control and SpeakerGoogle Assistant only enables on Beam speaker, TV control indicates ‘offline’Google Assistant says to activate Samsung TV on Google PlayAttempt to use Google code provided by Samsung TV, Google site accepts the code but fails to connect the TV to my Google account.Should Google assistant be able to control the TV via the Beam Arc port, why is the Beam TV control indicating offline in Google Home? 

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9 months ago
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amosbernierContributor I
asked in Sonos Voice Control
Liste de commandes en français

quelqu’un a t’il vu ou produit une liste de commande en français pour le Sonos Voice Control ??? mes commandes fonctionnent à 25% du temps… et je perd patience… merci

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9 months ago
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Max.belgiumContributor I
asked in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
Sonos skill not available due to geo restriction

Hi,I have sound system Symfonisk from Ikea and i cant link ot to Alexa. In the Alexa app Sonos does not appear at all in the list of available skills. I have spent hour with customer service from both Amazon and Sonos but nothing seems to be working.They even sent me a link directly to the skill but when I open it, it says that “skill not available due to geographical restrictions” (I am based in Belgium)Can someone please help me!? There must be a way to fix it and frankly I don’t know why it would not be possible in Belgium.I’ll add that already tried changing location to US on the device, Alexa and Amazong account.

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9 months ago
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ChefRayBContributor I
posted in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
Sonos Enabling Voice Alexa Troubleshooting Once and for all ( including tools )

Greetings Sonos Tech Support,I feel I lost a few hours of my life troubleshooting sonos and this is making me want to sell all my sonos gear.  It shouldn’t be rocket science and Sonos should provide the tools or better GUI to understand where the problem relies because at the end we are using sonos to activate Alexa. I have over 15+ sonos devices, they are all connected to my router, they get allocated via DHCP ( I don’t want to reserve an ip address for each sonos devices), they have been working fine for over 7 years and all of a sudden nothing works. My problem is Alexa voice stopped working, i removed it and tried to re-add it and I get the “There was a problem adding Alexa”  I am at a point to consider install alexa puck in each room, not ideal but getting tired to troubleshooting for something that shouldn’t be too hard.  I don’t want to call sonos support, can you please share the tools to be self-serve, put a big disclosure for extremely advanced users.   Can you share the way

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9 months ago
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YoadMContributor I
posted in Google Assistant and Sonos
sonos beam Google assistant - no devices found

I had Sonos beam gen 2 for about a year, and I connected it to the Google Assistant with no problem.My brother bought the same speaker but got stuck when connecting the Google Assistant with “no devices found,” and I tried to disconnect and reconnect with my system as well to see and help him and got stuck on the same error.any ideas on how to solve it? saw some posts talked about unplugging and re plugging , changing networks etc etc but they didn’t worked for me

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7 months ago
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HonkenholmqvistContributor I
asked in Google Assistant and Sonos
Google assistant commands

i have an issue with some commands google assistant used on a sonos one, the problem started a one of weeks ago, I cannot anymore use simple commands as “stop playing, turn up the volume etc. Other commands like to start playing works fine, also shift to the next track and more. When I try to use some of the not working commands google responds following, “unable to precess commands for code” Please advice,  ThanksC

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Sotiris C.
9 months ago
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mushroomhunterAvid Contributor I
asked in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
Can I use Amazon Alexa to play music on my Sonos speakers from YouTube Premium?

Works fine for Amazon music but I’d prefer YouTube so I can also get their videos. Is there any way around Amazon’s lack of support for using YouTube as a music source when asking Alexa to play certain music on Sonos? Thanks

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9 months ago
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SanderLeContributor I
posted in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
Alexa Volume split

I just started with sonos ones (5x) coming from Alexa speakers.Immediately I hit this problem that the volume of alexa is the volume of sonos.That way alexa is unusable when the volume of the sonos is low. It is just impossible to hear the reply from Alexa.When music is playing round 2-6% alexa ls response is not hearable.Please can this be separately splitted?

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8 months ago
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wkrinskyContributor I
posted in Smart home integrations
Sonos control Philips Hue Smart Plug

Currently, I have all my office equipment (monitor, lights, computer, etc) connected to a single Philips Hue Smart Plug. I have a Google Home speaker that is linked with the Philips Hue plug via bluetooth. I can give my Google speaker commands like “Turn on the office” or “Turn off the office” and it will turn the plug on or off. It works great.The Google Home speaker is not great in terms of audio quality and I would like to replace it with a SONOS speaker to match all the other SONOS speakers I have around the house.Will any SONOS speaker be able to control my Philips Smart Plug using a voice assistant? Keep in mind that I do not have a Philips Hue Bridge, so the speaker needs to have the ability to connect via bluetooth.

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10 months ago
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tdellaringaContributor I
asked in Amazon Alexa and Sonos
How to have Alexa only play on 1 speaker

I just factory reset my two Sonos 1 speakers. I installed Alexa on one of them, and Sonos voice control on the other. For the one with Sonos voice control, I don’t want it to play Alexa music when the other speaker is doing so - but they always both seem to play the music when Alexa is triggered, even though she is not on the second speaker.When I go into the app and look at that speaker, Alexa is not installed as a voice control, only Sonos is. Yet it still plays. How can I fix this?

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Airgetlam
10 months ago
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