Voice control and smart home

How do I change the metric units from Fahrenheit to Celsius on Sonos One? Also how do I set my correct location in the UK?

I bought a Sonos One today and got Alexa working in The Netherlands just flawlessly ... although they say its not available overhere ... I activated the Sonos Skill, Hue Skill and can control lights and play music on my One ... I can add my other speakers / rooms to the Smart Home Skills in the Alexa-app, have used unique names and when I ask Alexa to play some music by any artist she responds with: " I didn't find anything that can play music in the living room (or master bedroom or kids room) ... I have restarted my speakers twice, reset the whole system, began form scratch twice ... but still ... It worked once this afternoon ... so it it possible to say to Alexa to play music on another speaker in my network ... but she thinks it's not possible ... although they are visible in the Alexa-app ... what can be the issue? Anyone had similar experiences?

So, it's great that when I'm in the living room with music playing and I speak to the Echo in the same room that the volume automatically mutes on the Sonos gear in the same room. However, I find it kind of silly that it mutes Sonos equipment in other rooms. For example, it's 8am, I'm downstairs in my home office, listening to the news or some music on my Play:5. My wife's getting ready to head out to work, and in the bedroom, which is on a different floor and at the opposite end of the house. Both doors are closed too. She takes a moment to ask the Echo Dot in our bedroom about today's weather. And my Play:5 gets muted, despite being nowhere near where she is. Why not group into zones to prevent this? Like "Upstairs Echo & Living Room" get grouped, and "Office Dot & Office" get grouped for muting purposes. I can't see any options in either the Sonos app, Alexa app, or the Sonos Alexa Skill to do something like this, so if the capability exists, it's pretty well hidden.

I have an Amazon Dot connected to my play5 using the line in option. Until today Alexa speech volume and the music volume were fine. I have now updated my speakers, but now I can hardly hear Alexa speaking. (Weather reports etc) If I ask her to play music the volume is fine. I have set the line in volume to 10 for the speaker in the options, but this makes no difference. Anyone else having this issue.? Thanks Marc

I have rebooted my wifi, unplugged for a reboot of my alex/sonos 1 combo unit. It had been working fine and now is not. As far as I can tell, both apps seem to be in order - any help would be appreciated

I live in France but am a native English speaker. I have a SONOS system with a several speakers and it works fine. I would like to add a SONOS ONE with Alexa to my system. SONOS ONE with Alexa is not yet available in France as it is currently undergoing translation into French. I would like an English-language Alexa, NOT French. If I purchase a SONOS ONE with Alexa in the UK (or USA) is there any reason why it would not work in France?

Hi, I hve multiple Sonos products (Play1, Play3, Connect Amp)....I can setup "whole house"group in the Sonos app. But, I can' see how to set up "whole house" that Alexa will recognize? I also posted elsewhere that the living room volume through Alexa (even at 10) isnot as loud as direct play through the Sonos app?

Alexa worked fine... now it doesn't and the Sonos app says: Voice service: Not available in your country?? BUT I AM IN THE USA

I own 1 Sonos One in my kitchen and in a separate room two play ones (in stereo) and one play three. Can ask Alexa in the kitchen to start playing music on my grouped two play one and play 3 in the other room?

As of the last couple of weeks Alexa seems to not respond as well as it used to on our Sonos Ones. Anyone else having problems.

New to the forum and new to Sonos. My first question...I just bought and received my Sonos One and set it up then tried to connect it to Alexa and guess what I find out now it doesnt work in the Netherlands, I am based here for work for a long while....and then find out voice control is also not supported here! Have I just bought an expensive "basic" speaker that any bluetooth speaker has the capability to do? Question 2 when will the features that I paid for be active here?

For some reason I am having trouble getting the alexa on my sonos one to enable skills ,it keeps saying unable to do this skill or something close..any solutions?

I've just installed my new Sonos One and everything works great... except I cannot connect my Amazon account to my Sonos One when activating Voice Services. It will tell me "There was a problem adding Alexa". I have uninstalled and re installed my Sonos and Alexa apps. I have factory reset my Sonos One and added it back. It does not have the same name as any other device. I've reset my router. I have disabled and re enabled the Sonos skill in the Alexa app. The microphone button is not active and cannot be turned on I assume because the voice services haven't been activated? I sent a diagnostic to Sonos and worked with them via Twitter last night, but no success. They said to call and gave me a case number, but Sonos tech is closed today. HELP!!!

How do I enable Free Time on Alexa on my Sonos One?

Hello, I've been searching for a definitive answer to this for a long time, and I cannot find the information anywhere. I would like to connect my Fire TV audio to a Sonos system via wireless. Currently, I'm able to connect my audio from my Fire TV via Bluetooth to either a Bluetooth speaker or my Amazon Echo. What I would like to know is if the new Alexa integration will allow [u]wireless[/u] audio to route from my Amazon Fire TV to a Sonos system. If so, does this require the new Sonos One? This is also relevant for any users who want to connect a Fire Stick directly to the back of a ceiling mounted (or otherwise remotely located) projector and can't route audio cables. Moderator note: We updated this article in October 2023 with new information below.This topic is fairly old and in the meantime Sonos introduced a range of new speakers that do support Bluetooth.A complete list of products can be found here: Use Bluetooth on SonosHere you can find information on how to Set up Amazon F

Connecting sonos music service to amazon music (iPad) and the app takes me to Amazon.com. I don’t have a amazon.com account but do have a amazon.co.uk account (prime). My sonos account is set to uk location. My Alexa app is uk location. Have disabled Alexa sonos skill and re added plus discovered devices. Have uninstalled sonos app re installed and added all devices ( plus set location back to uk). Still keeps directing me to amazon.com. Have added sonos app to Samsung phone and tried to connect it to amazon music same thing happens.

Is Google Home ever coming to Sonos One? I know the whole "Sonos does not release their timeline's on when they are going to release products/services". But the Sonos One is quite the inferior product with the way they are trying to sell it. Essentially, it's an overpriced Sonos Play 1 with voice commands that I literally have to yell in order to be heard; I mean, I really have to yell at the speaker vs. The Google Mini, or the Apple Homepod. Also, there are so many skills and abilities lacking with the Sonos One Alexa interface. I sincerely feel like this product was rushed out way too soon. I have (4) of them at the moment, along with other Sonos products, but am really peeved by lacking the Sonos One is...

So I'm STILL trying to find a way to use my Amazon Echo and Echo Dots to voice control my music out to my Sonos Play 1 and Play 5 (Gen 1) speakers. I could use Apple Music back when you could voice control "Favorites". But that functionality was taken away, and I've had no voice control since. I used Amazon Music for a while, but they don't have all the soundtracks and other music I want to listen to, and now you can't add additional music to Amazon anymore. So I cancelled my subscription and went back to Apple Music. Apple Music has the biggest library, great quality, and while I'm not a fan of fees, I was prepared to make do. But going without voice control has gotten really annoying. My annual subscription goes till almost year end, but I've set it not to renew. Since then, I've tried using Synology's skill to control my NAS's music. But besides requiring separate domain names, registration, and port forwarding to allow "Alexa" to navigate from the Cloud to my NAS,

Seems like the flurry of updates to alexas so called skills has ceased. Its been a good few months since the release date. Still no news on napster which a number of people requested, still no news on the local stored media playing. Guess they wont be coming due to the silence.

With Sonos 1 with Alexa built in I cannot get Alexa to respond while music is playing on the sonos. i have to wait until the song ends. Same with listening to news radio station . There is no response until a break in the announcers voice

Tivo just released an Alexa Skill. Will this work with Sonos One?

I haven't noticed this before but im having problems controlling my smart bulbs in my bathroom when my sonos connect is streaming music for my amplifier... When i unplug the z80 my lights start working again. Any ideas ? thanks...... Play 1. Connect amp. zp80. 2 bridges Philips hue bridge. 7 smart bulbs. Two room sensors .3 smart plugs and amazon alexa....

Is there anything I will have to do to be able to use Alexa with my Sonos systems in two separate homes? I have Echos in both.

I have set up an Amazon Echo Dot with a Sonos a connect Amp, everything working fine, however after a full power cut, the Autoplay now no longer works. If using the Connect Amp through, for example, the Spotify App from the Sonos controller, and then asking Alexa for the weather, it does not cut in. We have to select the line-in from the Sonos controller to pick it up!!! I have checked all the settings and they were as before the power cut. I.e.from Sonos controller Use Autoplay Volume is on, Autoplay Room is selected and all is ok as stated above it will play if manually selected from the Sonos controller, from the Alexa App the Start of Request and End of Request are turned on. Very frustrating as was working beautifully before power cut.

I have just come back to New Zealand from the UK and brought back a Sonos one with Alexa which is working fine, The only problem is they are not released here in New Zealand yet. Is there a release date set for the Sonos one in New Zealand as I would like to purchase at least one more and will there be a cheaper price if 2 are purchased, as on the Australian website they are offering 2 Sonos ones at JB hi-fi for AU$499 . Any information on this matter would be great. Thanks Justin