Voice control and smart home

The title pretty much says it all: where are the microphones located? Are the at the top of the speaker? The bottom? Where?

does anyone know how to group a couple of ONEs with other dot / speak combo? So frustrating having multiple groups when I just want one group of all speakers

I have set everything up and Alexa /sonos one will repeat the command , but then it will not follow through to change the channel . is it not available ?

Could anyone be of help, I would be grateful. Have two Sonos one’s in stereo and the in past few days when I ask Alexa to stop playing one speaker fails to stop. Everything was working O.K until this last update of Alexa. Have tried turning off the mic for awhile but it does not work. Tried also resetting the stereo, no solution and the problem is there when I group the speakers, but seems Ok when the speakers are used independently.

Will Alexa work with Apple Music? For example if I ask Alexa to play a certain song will that work with my Apple Music account or does it only work with Amazon music?

Can I pair my Play 1 with a new One ? I was told this would not be possible ? If not, is there a software crack available to allow this or is there a community which could make one ? If not, will Sonos release it as a nearby future feature and is a release data available ? I don't want to buy another play 1 to have stereo pairing available. Having to purchase a new pair of One's while already having a Play 1 makes my Play 1 obsolete. Sonos not providing a backwards compatibility to stereo pair between Play 1 and One which are in fact identical speakers would be very disappointing and I may rather prefer to chose for a system from a different supplier if customers loyalty will not be rewarded by being able to leverage the previous investment in the Play 1.

How can I use Alexa to play podcasts on my Sonos One

I just added 2 Sonos One's to my Playbar with Sub as surround sound speakers (5.1 theater config). Music sound level is good but Alexa voice volumn level is too LOW! I can hardly hear her response even when I am very close to the Sonos ONE. If I touch the Sonus ONE to increase the volumn it causes all the speakers to increase in volumn (and Alexa voice volumn is still too low). Anyone having this problem and/or know a solution for it? Is there possible an issue using Sonus ONE in a surround configuration?

This may be nothing at all and just a coincidence related to another undetermined issue. That said after upgrading the Sonos App to 8.1.1 my Sonos One (Stereo Pair) would only play music located on my iOS devices. Command to Alexa via Sonos One to play music (which defaults to my Amazon Prime Music) would play on Sonos speakers in other rooms not on the Sonos One. The same thing held true for Sirius XM. Ironically the Hue Skill was not affected. After basic trouble shooting: -Unplug Sonos One's -Disable and re-enable voice skills in Sonos App and Alexa App -Remove and re-discover Sonos One's in Sonos App and Alexa App -Disable and re-enable Music service skills (i.e. Amazon Music and Sirius XM) -None of the above resolved the issue. The cure was to delete the Alexa App and download it again to my iOS device. Just FYI in case someone has a similar experience. Cheers!

I'm having a hard time reconnecting my sonos to echo. Every time i enable the sonos app it gives me this message - Add your Sonos speakers to your account You need to link speakers to XXXXXX@yahoo.com before you can add this skill. Go to More > Settings > Sonos Account in the Sonos app to link your speakers. (If you don't see Sonos Account, your Sonos system needs an update.) My sonos is already linked/added to this account. The app is up to date. Tried uninstalling both apps logged back on. Profile updated since I saw the address is missing it's still giving me that message every time I enable to the app. HELP!

When I ask Alexa to play music from either prime music or pandora she says "Shuffling songs from" or "Getting your last Pandora Station" but then never plays any music. It was working fine before, but I've been experiencing this problem for the last couple of months.

Hi All So HDL has the 'works with Sonos' certification; but I for the life of me can't see how it works with Sonos at all. I found a product (Iridium) that talks to Sonos, and HDL - which kind of makes the two talk - but its not HDL working with Sonos at all, more of a control platform that talks to both of them... so I assume this isnt it. Any ideas?

Why will Echo sometimes play only a sample of a track on my Sonos system? Example, 'Alexa, play one in ten by UB40 on family room'. Reply 'playing sample of one in ten by UB40 on family room' Family room is the name I selected for my Sonos I should add that if I ask Alexa to play the same track on the Echo it will play the full track. Is there a fix for this? Getting rather frustrated by it 😞

I have a pair of play 1's in my kitchen. I would like to also have an echo show in my kitchen with the sound played on the Sonos speakers. Is this possible? Not just for music, I want the sound for videos to come through the Sonos Speakers as well, and everything else the Echo Show outputs to audio.

I have a TCL 43S515 TV that comes w/ Roku. Is it possible to use Alexa voice control on the Beam to turn it on? What settings do I need to change?

We install security cameras and door stations and have been very happy to see Sonos integrate with IFTTT. One thing we've been able to do is have Sonos play a doorbell sound when someone presses the doorbell button on a video door station. However, it would be nice if Sonos would resume playing whatever it was playing prior to the doorbell sound being played. The current behavior is to play the doorbell sound and then music play stops.

I am using Yonomi with Alexa to perform Sonos commands and I find it to be very inconsistent. For example, I have a Yonomi routine called “Jazz” that plays jazz radio on Pandora on Sonos. Half the time I say “Alexa, turn on jazz” and it works great. Then a second later I try it again and it doesn’t work. Doesn’t show a notification, doesn’t do anything. I even have an old iPhone running Yonomi in Guided Access and it’s still inconsistent. Any advice?

Voice command to pause or stop song does not work. Anyone know how to fix this. Just got sonos one yesterday and will return soon if I cannot resolve this.

Does anyone know how to change the alarm sound on the Sonos one? Also can we please push Alexa / Sonos to support music as the wake up alarm? I hate the darn tones haha. I mean come on this is basic. I have already sent through the alexa app feedback to Amazon and they said, of course, they would send it to their dev team. I hope it get's fixed soon. However even if Alexa / Amazon fixes this we also have to wait for Sonos (or Amazon) to allow access to third parties to use that feature via their various SDK's. Seems Amazon will capitalize on any new feature themselves and wait a while before letting third parties use it

I have two Play:1s (named Bedroom and Kitchen) and am now, thankfully, able to use Echo Dot (2nd Gen)/Alexa to play music and playlists with Spotify on the speakers. I do have an issue and have read some posts about this but couldn't find a definitive answer so here goes... I'd like to be able to play music on Bedroom or Kitchen or both of these at the same time via an Alexa voice command. I know that you can group Sonos devices in the Sonos app but I cannot give it a name of my choosing and saying "play..... on kitchen and bedroom" won't work. In the Alexa App I can create a group of devices so have created one called "Both" comprising both the Bedroom and Kitchen devices, but when I command Alexa to play on "Both" the device or group cannot be found - I should stress that this this is definitely configured in the Alexa app. I've even tried changing the group names. Maybe this is a bug with Alexa. Have I tried done this correctly? Is there a way of adding two devices to a

I am based in the UK and looking to buy some smart plugs. I would like to use them in conjunction with Alexa. Having experienced some voice commands that do not work with Sonos Alexa (but do with my Echo Dot) I want to ensure the smart plugs will work with the Sonos Alexa. Any knowledge/experience would be great.

Is it somehow possible to stream audio files from the Blinkist App to my Sonos One system? I understand the Alexa App "Blinkist Minutes" is not the same, it only offers a minute of input every day. Any ideas? Thank you!!!

Reluctantly, I disabled the Alexa skill for Sonos today. The whole house ducking was causing too many complaints form everyone in the house. Ducking a Sonos speaker in a room so far away from the person using Alexa just doesn't make sense. I really would like to use voice commands with Sonos; but I guess I will have to wait even longer for Sonos to correct this problem. I have three Echo dots connected to Sonos either through line-in jacks or Connects. This was originally done to work around the Audible issue. The bonus of doing this was that all output from the Dots sounded great going through the Sonos speakers. Even, simple things like: "Alexa, what is the weather?" sound very good. Well, they don't with ducking, because you can't hear them at all now. Perhaps the long-term fix is to assign Alexa devices to specific Sonos products. A short-term fix would be to add the option of turning ducking off. I would be willing to accept that Alexa might not be able to hear me with this

I can play radio.com station 670 the score on my Echo Dot. I can stream it from the Sonos app to any of my Sonos speakers. When I ask Alexa on Sonos One to play "670 the score" it replies "playing 670 the score on Radio.com". Nothing happens. No sound plays. This is utterly baffling to me and I'm to the point where I have to sit at my desk and listen to my favorite station on my computer or through my phone. First world problems indeed, but an annoying problem none the less. Can anyone relate? Suggestions? It clearly has the skill turned on in Alexa, but it won't produce sound.

[I posted this to Lutron community forums as well] Hi there: I have a Lutron Homeworks QS system and a Lutron Connect Bridge (CONNECT-BDG2-1). I am using the Lutron Connect app to program controlling my Sonos system. I have run into two fatal problems… 1) When a keypad button in programmed to play a Sonos favorite, it seems to add the songs to the current queue (and in some random/shuffle order I don’t understand) instead of replacing the songs in the queue with the songs from the favorite. The same behavior happens when you “cycle” the favorites via Lutron. This is not how Sonos app behaves when I ask it to play a new playlist – it replaces the existing songs in the queue (like it should). Is this not possible with Lutron integration? 2) When I assign raise/lower volume, it only changes the volume of a specific device/zone and not all devices that are part of the group. I know Sonos integration allows for adjusting the group volume – so this has to be an issue on the Lutron s