Voice control and smart home

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.

Hi, Is it just me or Alexa is an uterly useless assistant? I have been using my phone's Google Assistant for the past few years and assumed it was amongst the least performing ones since it came after Siri and Alexa. Oh boy was I wrong it seems! I have 9 Sonos systems, 4 of which are Sonos One. I was very excited at the idea of controlling my speakers with my voice. It took many more months for this feature to arrive in Canada, but it finally did. Setting it up has been a puzzling challenge. Critique: - For a start, I can't specify the location of my speakers (address). Every time I try to configure the address and press "save", I get an error message that stated: "We're sorry. We weren't able to update the address associated with this device. Please check your network connectivity and try again later". My network connectivity is fine, Alexa, thank you. This has been going on for months. Whenever I ask for the weather, it gives me the weather in Westlake, Wa. Worst, I ca

Problems encountered so far: 1) Would not recognise my Living Room and play music then randomly did. 2) Says it cannot work in my kitchen even though works fine in Sonos App, and also listed in Alexa App. 3) When I say 'Play (artists) in Living room" it just plays the last song listed on the Songs App. No way at all to select artists via voice command. 4) When asking it to stop etc, have to shout at it. I know its beta but this is unusable and not like a usual Sonos Beta- very poor quality needs pulling and sorting out first. Fault may be with Alexa which I have generally found next to useless, for example very poor at controlling my Nest Thermostat etc. Fortunately the Sonos app itself still works fine and never lets me down. Could it be because we are operating on a Sonos bridge?

Is there any scheduled date for alexa to be working on sonos one in ireland

I have a Sonos One which was working perfectly with Amazon music (Prime) and Tune In Radio via Alexa until the 8.6 update. Now it will not play Amazon Music. For example, if I say 'Play rock' its says 'No rock music found', but I can use the Android app and chose Amazon music and it works fine - the same command works fine on my Echo Dot. If Is say 'Play Radio 2' it now longer says it is playing it from Tune In, it says 'playing Radio 2' but there is no sound. When I ask for my daily briefing it starts playing the briefing at a lower voulme before it finishes saying the words 'Playing your daily briefing' How can I fix this? thanks

Hello, I have a question to the community... I have an Alexa dot connected to a stereo system via aux cable, and also a Sonos system with 3 speakers. My question is - can I tell Alexa to play music on a stereo system AND on Sonos as well? I have no problem when asking Alexa to play music on stereo system OR on Sonos, but can't get her to play music on both systems at the same time. Is this possible? Thank you

Alexa is connected but can't find any music

I've enabled the Plex Skill in Alexa and am able to issue voice commands to play music from my Plex server on my Echo device. However, on the Sonos One, it goes through the motions and actually says it's playing music, but nothing comes out. Does anyone know if this is a feature not or not yet available on the Sonos One or if I have an issue with my device? Thanks.

Hello I m having an issue with my Sonos one / Alexa whenever I say Alexa it says I m having issue understaning right now it used to work but had to make some changes on my amazon account ( changes made by amazon support ) since then I can no longer control my sonos one using ALexa I deregistered my sonos and tried to register again skills is enabled device is discovered on my Alexa app I can see a sonos one that I cannot unregister

My Sonos one cannot connected to Amazon Music as it is defaulting to Amazon.com instead of amazon.co.uk when adding service. Anything I can do about this? Thanks.

Alexa command to play music in one room with Sonos One, causes other room, which is already playing music on a different Sonos One to stop.

Sonos One is not playing certain skills such as Sleep Sounds (and other similar ambient noise skills). You ask it to open this skill and it does nothing. If you give it a further command in the skill it responds saying "you're currently enjoying Sleep Sounds, etc..." so it thinks it's playing it but it's clearly not.

Has any one come across an issue with their Sonos one where Alexa on Sonos one take about 5-10 seconds before acknowledging the command and then returning the response. A simple command of whats the time take about 10-15 sec to return the answer. The Google Home mini as a comparison responds instantly. I hope I don't have a dodgy speaker, any help would be appreciated. Thanks

How have Alexa play music on ALL my Sonos speakers (not just one)?