Voice control and smart home

I say, "Alexa, play DeepTracks [name of station] on SiriusXM in Library [name of speakers]." Alexa makes a deep tone, and nothing plays.

For people who are wiring an Echo Dot into their Sonos Play5 or Connect Amp you might want to check out the new Echo Spot. I just replaced my Dot in the Dining Room, which feeds a pair of Play5 Gen1s, with an Echo Spot and immediately noticed a few cool things about this setup. First, like the Dot, you are dealing with full Alexa so you get all Alexa features including Drop-In, only now they are video calls. You also get a nice display for artwork and lyrics in a form factor that doesn't take up any more space than the Dot did and is nicer looking than the Echo Show. The display can also do useful things when you are not listening to music like alert you to upcoming events on your Google Calendar or display video of your front door camera. The screen also lets you set up and manage the Spot without needing to fish out a phone and fire up the Alexa app. And with this wired configuration you can still use the Sonos app with your Play5s or Connect Amp if you want to use your

Hello i see a lot of posts regarding the alexa integration and it limitations. Do you guys have a roadmap you can post? Just a little information on what to expect in the coming months and what NOT to expect would keep most users here very happy. it doesnt bode well for your customer service/reputation when so many people are asking the same questions and all we here are crickets Arun

Will the Echo Connect phone accessory be usable with the new Sonos One? Can I then have Sonos become my home phone?

I'm in the US, and as far as I know there's no VPN funny business going on with our router. I just submitted diagnostics 8239702 Help!

In the past week or so, Amazon have updated the smart home section of the iOS Amazon Alexa App (see screenshots) and there is currently no way to 'forget' existing devices or scenes. That feature has been replaced with an option to enable/disable a device or scene. It’s not as tidy as the previous version of the app in my humble opinion, but I assume that things are not yet complete with the software update at this moment in time. I have now discovered that it is still possible to 'forget' smart home devices and scenes however by going to the online web portal version of the app which is located here for UK users: https://alexa.amazon.co.uk/spa/index.html (note it is perhaps best to access this via a PC, as you may find a mobile browser will try to launch the mobile app instead, albeit there are ways to resolve this which I won’t go into at this time). ...Anyhow, the web portal still has the 'forget' option and so any devices etc. can still be removed or forgotten here. Ho

I have tried to ask Alexa to call eg. My husband, it says it can not. I thought it could do this? or this only alexa to alexa at present?

Sonos/Amazon Alexa - Please let those of us that have Mulitiple Sonos Speakers in house when your APP and Alexa intergration is ready for prime time. My Setup - Play 5, PlayBase, Sonos One, 3 Sonos Play-1's, 2 setup as a stero pair. I'm Tired of trying to get my Sonos One to understand commands for other speakers in my house, Setting up Smart Home, adding devices, configuring and configuring things, All to hear Alexa say basically "I can't do that" I am a DIE HARD Sonos fan, as you can tell by my setup, but the Alexa Intergration with other SONOS speakers in a home is no where it needs to be. While your at it, you can Work with DEEZER, so goof ball Alexa can understand my commands to play Deezer through my speakers. Though I'd like this Alexa Sonos-One, Right now, it might just get re-wrapped and give to someone on my Christmas list.

Has anyone else had the problem of being able to control the music (pause, stop, skip tracks, etc) by voice?

I often ask Alexa to play a genre of music to my grouped Play 5 and two Play 1s and whilst it initiates playing an Amazon station, i often find that it will get the end of a song (or having played several songs) and then the music just stops. I'm fairly sure this only started happening since version 8 and also i think it's only happened via a voice command start. I recently bought a bridge so that my speaker furthest from the router is more stable via Sonosnet although the issue was happening before that. I've submitted diagnostic 7991733 Any thoughts anyone?

With my Sonos playing I say to Alexa, "Alexa, stop playing in Kitchen" I almost always get the response "Sorry, cameras do not work on this device" I then have to say "Alexa, stop kitchen" Anyone else experiencing anything similar?

Bought a Sonos One today, for a second home. Have many Sonos products at home, but this is on its own in a holiday home. Disappointed to find out that the Alexa will not play my music collection on my iPad or iPhone unless I copy files up into amazon, or play manually. Appears to really be designed for services rather than local music. Not that I have it here but if my Sonos system had access to my iTunes library would Alexa also not be able to find these? 😞

While playing music on my Sonos one I tried commands to stop playing music but Alexa didn’t respond. Any suggestions?

So I was finally excited to hear that you can enable the Sonos skill on my Echo Dot. Took me a while to figure out why the Echo would not play any music on my Sonos until I read that you have to command it by naming the speaker. For example Alexa play blank blank on Bedroom. Are all Sonos speakers like this? Why can't Alexa just play music on the speaker? I believe if I connect a bluetooth speaker to the Dot it just plays it on the bluetooth speaker. Another complaint that I have is that I can't hear Alexas responses through the speaker. If music is playing I can't hear her respond to me. Like when i ask "alexa who is this?". For one she can barely hear me and two when she does I can't hear her because of the music. When is Sonos going to integrate with the Play 1 seemlessly. I am already disappointed with the Play 1 from day 1. When Amazon was running a promo last xmas for the play 1 and echo dot. You would think it will work together. Nope. I had to wai

IF I buy a voice activated sonos will it operate non voice activated sonos speakers?

So here's the deal. My 10 year old has an echo dot and really loves it. She is really getting into music these days and I wanted to get her a Sonos One to replace the echo dot, because the sound will be much better. I read all over the place about how Alexa's capabilities are limited on the sonos one, but it never really tells you how limited it is. I want the new device to play music from her pandora or Amazon music account (which I understand works fine with sonos one). However, she also uses her dot as a wakeup alarm, story teller, weather forecaster, etc. If I get the sonos one to replace the echo dot, can I still say "alexa, wake me up at 7am tomorrow", or "alexa, sing for me", or "alexa, read me a bedtime story", or "alexa, what's the new for today", etc, etc?

Apologies if I've missed something and it can be done, but I've not seen it in any instructions. i.e. can you pre-setup one or more songs while a song is already playing? Would be really useful, otherwise if you're browsing random songs (not a playlist), then it means you have to be around and ready when a song finishes to set up the next one - and there will always be a gap between songs. Thanks

I do understand that the Alexa API supports only ten volume steps (1..10). Unfortunately this is not useable with my Sonos One which is too loud on 2 and too low on 1. I therefore suggest to add a „max Alexa volume“ setting to the Sonos app. So that we can map „Alexa volume 10“ to „Sonos volume 50%“ or something similar. Cheers Holger

Hello, I have recently decided to look into Sonos after months of shying away from even looking into how it works etc, so am brand new to the whole thing as well as to this forum. I am going to dive into my question right here and will then post a follow up message with a bit more as to what/why I am asking this (to keep this first post shorter and sweeter. Is there ANY solution out there to take an analogue "line out / aux" signal and broadcast it in such a way that Sonos treats it as a networkable source? Thanks Steve

Today I updated my iOS app and then it updated my One speaker. Now nothing works regarding music services. "Alexa, play 101.1 FM on Tunein radio" - Alexa responds saying playing but nothing happens. Same happens with iHeart, Pandora and other music services. If this is Beta I hate to see Alpha..... Come on Sonos and get these things fixed.

I just purchased 4 Sonos One smart speakers. I wrote up my experiences here with Alexa and my expectations for forthcoming Google Home capabilities. https://wp.me/p7KI0N-1t6 If you have any feedback or suggestions to incorporate into updates to the article, please let me know!

I just learned that this coming month we should see support for Pandora Premium integration (fingers crossed this is true and finally comes to pass - I've been holding my breath for months). My question is if there is any info regarding whether Sonos ONE/Alexa will be supported in this new functionality as well, e.g. Pandora is already supported but will it be possible to ask Alexa to, for instance, play a specific artist or song on a particular speaker group as opposed to just the artist radio that is currently possible?

I have 2 SONOS ONE, Living Room and Bedroom. Bedroom works fine on Alexa commands for lights. Living room keeps replying Dining room not responding, living room not responding. Bedroom ONE works fine on Living and dining room. I have disabled and enable through skills, still no help. I can ask turn off dining room light1, light2 in dining fixture and alexa will reply OK, nothing happens.

Hi I'm hoping the big man will bring me a couple of Echo Dots' for Christmas so that I can start to control my system via voice, until then though I've got an Amazon Fire TV box and an Amazon Fire Stick both with Alexa enabled remotes, can I control my Spotify on Sonos via theses remotes? If so any help on setting up would be appreciated. Thanks

Do we think Sonos are planning a skill for the Echo Show? I don't know what how much it can do but some on-screen control of music would be cool https://developer.amazon.com/docs/custom-skills/build-skills-for-echo-show.html