Voice control and smart home

I've gotten Alexa up to the point where she says she's about to play some artist, and then nothing evert happens. When I manually play stuff via Sonos app, Alexa heard "Pause", but then doesn't even pause or stop. She will, however, tell me jokes. I have been through the factory reset procedure 5 times.

Can Alexa play from different sources asssembed in the Sonos Favorites list? I have various favorite stations from Pandora and Amazon Prime in my Sonos Favorites. Can I get Alexa to play from there? If I say "Alexa play chill in living room"... I'm guessing it would pull from Amazon??, but I want my saved Pandora chill station to play. Also, while I know station names in my Sonos Favorites, I may not recall the source they come from (ie Amazon Prime or Pandora). I would hope for something like "play chill from favorites" type of ability.

Hi, i have 3 sonos one in my living room which have always worked perfectly but suddenly Alexa can't find any music artists, only playlists. So when I say Alexa play Metallica, she just reply i could not find any songs by Metallica. I have an English amazon account, and all my devices have an english adress in the alexa app. I think everything is installed correct. Skills as well are correct installed. Please help me get alexa back to normal.

I have an existing sonos play 1 in the living and got a new sonos one for the kitchen. I set everything up and cant get alexa to control either of the speakers all that well. When i ask it to play in the Kitchen, it says it cant find a device called "kitchen". When i ask it to turn down the volume, it flashes and nothing happens. Or i ask it to play michael jackson on pandora and it says "getting michael jackson playlist, playing on kitchen sonos, sorry kitchen sonos is offline". HELP, Im going crazy.

Alexa has huge volume level granularity issues when controlling Sonos Playbar. So, I've searched everywhere for an answer to my volume issue. I have a Sonos Playbar, two Sonos Play 1 surrounds, and a Sonos Sub. When watching TV I set the volume to a good level and life is good. The Playbar is connected to the TV via optical. When I turn the TV off and use the Alexa voice skill to play music on the same Sonos system, it starts out LOUD. If I set the volume level via "Alexa, volume 2 on the bedroom sonos", it is still pretty darned LOUD. If I set the Volume level to 1 using the Alexa command, it's way too soft. Volume level 5 and above are rock concert sound levels that endanger the sheetrock. If I use the Sonos app, I have plenty of volume granularity and I can set to the perfect level. Is there any way to adjust the HUGE range between what Alexa thinks is Sonos volume level one and Sonos Volume level 2??

Hey guys, i am looking to buy an Amazon Echo Spot, was wanting to make sure that i can control my Play 1 through the Amazon?

Does voice controls with Sonos work in china ?

I have 2 Sonos Ones (as well as a few play:5s). However, Alexa keeps forgetting how to work them. I can use Alexa for the general non-Sonos stuff, but I'll regularly say "Alexa, play" to resumse playback and I'll be told I have to enable the Sonos skill. This skill is enabled. Yesterday I had this problem and disabled the skill, re-enabled it and it worked again for a bit. But today it's lost it again. I've had this before as well. It seems pretty unreliable. I had one Sonos One to start with and ended up just not really using the alexa skill because it seemed easier to just go into my pocket, get my phone out and play or pause it there. But now I have a 2nd one I'd quite like it to actually work as advertised. (I bought the 2nd with the understanding that this is still in its infancy so is likely to improve in time, but I also wanted to expand my Sonos a little anyway so the voice support wasn't a deal breaker.) Is it possible to get this to work consistently?

Can anyone help me in getting Alexa on the sonos one to connect with spotify, I keep getting a message back saying it is off line???? All other aspects of Alexa seem to be working well.

I just set up my Sonos system, the Alexa integration was what made it accessible enough for my family. I noticed today while testing on my in-wall speakers that the radio station we usually listen to via FM sounded pretty bad. Asked Alexa to play the station, started playing via TuneIn on Alexa, but it was missing depth. I tweaked the EQ and loudness, which didn't help much. Then I tried listening to the same radio station via TuneIn in the Sonos app and it sounds great. My guess is that the playback via Alexa is highly compressed or a low bit rate, but frankly I'm not sure. Is there any way to get TuneIn via Alexa to sound as good as TuneIn via Sonos?

So you have an Alexa device and Sonos players, where do you go next?1. Make sure your Sonos and Alexa devices are all powered up and connected to the network.If you're new to Sonos, this means Installing the Sonos app, and going through the steps for Setting up Sonos here.If you're new to Alexa, install the Alexa app (currently only available in the US, UK, and Germany) and make sure your Alexa device(s) show up. They will be listed under Settings > Devices. Amazon has a setup guide for the Echo Dot here.2. In the Alexa app, search for and add the Alexa Skill for Sonos.3. Follow the on-screen prompts to authenticate your Amazon account, then your Sonos account.4. Finally, inside your Alexa app, select discover devices under Smart Home or on the Sonos skill page.You are now ready to try out some commands! There’s a great, comprehensive list here.Wondering how it all works? Check out the How it works thread.If you run into any trouble, please feel free to take a look here to start, or

Is it just me or is the Sonos One hearing me better? I'm noticing I am barely having to say Alexa more than once now which is such a relief. Is anyone else noticing this with their Ones? I apologize if this has been discussed already.

I have 4 smart TP Link devices which have always worked via sonos Alexa but now when I ask to turn on, change colour etc Sonos Alexa says "sorry, I didn't find front room light". I've checked all apps and the names are correct. I've even reset the sonos one but still no joy. Edit: should add the Echo I have in the bedroom understands and completes any commands I ask of it.

For example whenever I try to ask Alexa to play the radio on my Sonos One, it will always say “Hmm to do that enable your Sonos Skill in the Alexa app, After enabling the skill just say, Alexa discover devices.” After going through and determining that the Alexa app has the Sonos Skill enabled , I’m able to go through the website to play music through Alexa but actually telling it voice commands won’t work pertaining to that , or for any skill of that nature. So far I’ve tried the solutions of resetting the sonos speaker as detailed in these guides: https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/issue-enabling-the-sonos-skill-within-alexa-app-6791449 https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/sonos-one-not-playing-alexa-output-6792472/index1.html#post16157504 https://en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/sonos-one-doesn-t-work-with-hue-6792675 If anyone has any other suggestions I would appreciate it 😃

I have seen a few of these postings but they seem to be older. I was wondering if this is going to get fixed? I don't understand why it would all of the sudden just stop playing music after a few songs or sometimes just after one song. Then if I tell it "Echo, next track" it replies "What do you want to hear". So I tell it again to play a station from Pandora and it works just fine. It may play for the rest of the day, it may stop. Very frustrating. Other times when I tell it the second time to play the same station, it tells me that it is already playing. The Sonos app even reflects the same info but yet there is no music coming from the speakers. All of my speakers are on one group and they all have unique names, even separate from the lights that are in the same rooms so there should be no conflict there.

Hello folks, newb to the community here. I just got a one and everything is set up fine except multiple voices recognition. When I try to add my voice using my iPhone, I never can click the "Begin" phase, the button is always greyed out. It always says I need a recognized device ... is the One, not a recognized echo yet? Thanks so much

Can you run a play 5 1st gen directly thru the alexa sonos skill? I have set up the skill it see the speaker but alexa does not recognize it. Just want to play tunein or send bluetooth music from my phone to alexa then to the play 5

I may be duplicating another question here. If so, I apologize. just point me in the right direction Anyway, just got a sonos one. I’m new to the smart home world. Got caseta leutron light switches and they’re working in sonos and in the leutron app. That’s just a little background info. Friend came over a couple days ago and played a song on pandora. Now, when I tell Alexa to play pandora she defaults to the song my friend played. I can get sonos to play my pandora by going in through the app, but obviously, i don’t want to have to use my phone every time I want to play my pandora. And also of course, i’m hoping for much greater voice activated functionality. Tried calling support today but the phone numbers I tried that I got off the net all wanted to sell me something.

So FireTV Cube arrived today and I've been playing with it for awhile. Overall it's a rather amazing product. I'm going to enjoy using it. It changes things quite a bit. I'm trying to look at it from three different perspectives. The first being on how it operates alone, how it operates when your tv is hooked up to a playbar or playbase, and how it may compare to a beam. The setup was pretty set forward. After connecting, it walks you through setting up control of your tv and soundbar. After that, it says you're done. You have to look around a little fit to see how to set up cable control, blue ray, and others. Turning on/off the tv is pretty straightforward. However, it always turns on to your firetv input no matter what input you were on previously. The on/off command is going to work from any Alexa in your home for some reason. I'm not sure why, or what happens if you have more than one cube in the house. FireTV commands work as they did before with Alexa. What's

I have Sonos with Alexa voice skill working fine for services such as Amazon Music. However, I can't get Alexa to access any of my imported playlists from iTunes (which works fine via the controller without Alexa). I can't get Alexa to play any song from my iTunes library unless that song is also in Amazon Music. Seems like this would be a natural thing to want -- anything I can already play with Sonos I would want to access via the Alexa voice control. Is this a near future feature or a pipe dream? Or is there some Alexa trick I've missed?

Hi all! I have a Playbar installed in the Family Room. I wanted to add an Echo Dot for volume control and to play music through the playbar. My question is, can I give Alexa commands for this without having to say "In the Family Room" every time? It would be great if we could default all commands to be the playbar for this one Echo Dot. "Alexa, set volume 3 in the family room" "Alexa, Play Van Morrison in the living room" It's just a bit long winded. This dot will only ever be to control this one setup. I looked for a way to default things but was unable to find them. Other Info: We currently have just the one Sonos device. We do have other Echo Dots in the house. Any suggestions or tips appreciated.

Since updating my Sonos One to 8.6, I haven’t been able to play certain radio stations in particular the main BBC radio stations Radio 1, 2 3 and 4 , when started from Amazon Alexa, although it will play local BBC radio stations from Alexa. When I request:- Alexa “Play BBC radio 4”, Alexa says “Here’s radio 4 FM” then you here in another voice “The BBC” then it’s just silence. But if I go to my iPad and call up BBC Radio 4 it then plays ok. Can I go back to how it use to work?

Just set up my Sonos One and it will play Amazon Music playlists but it will not recognize my own personal Amazon playlists. Alexa also responds and will play whatever song I ask for from Amazon. I just cannot find my personal playlists anywhere on the sonos app. The playlists are there and work fine on the amazon music app on my iphone. Any ideas on this problem? Thanks.

It seems like the Fire TV Cube was built to perform many similar functions as the Beam in terms of smart voice control (e.g. remote control capabilities). Are the two going to be able to work together?

Why cant we choose a default room in the app to play music on? Its very annoying to have to tell Alaexa what room you want to play in or turn the volume up/down in. Seems like you could have a default room that alexa commands and other rooms are controlled only if the room is called out.