Voice control and smart home

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

Hello all, I've recently converted from Google Home and Chromecasts to Alexa and Sonos. I've been searching for someone that has my issue and I can't seem to find one entirely similar. I currently have a Playbar and Play:1 in two separate rooms and a single Echo Dot, which controls other devices in my home. I don't think I've ever gotten the Sonos skill to work completely correct. Here are my current issues: - Using Alexa to control Sonos and nothing else seems to work fine. - I can say "Alexa, turn it up in the Living Room", which works and then say, "Alexa, turn off the patio lights", which works, then say, "Alexa, turn it down in the Living Room" to which I get "Living Room isn't responding." - After about 15 seconds I can try the exact command again and get it to work. This really only presents an issue with my Playbar as I can play/pause the TV, then possibly need to adjust the volume. To this point I have tried the following to resolve this issue: - Forget Sonos devic

Hello, I have a Sonos One, PLAY:5 (next to a Dot), Playbar, and Connect (for previous speakers). After setting up my news sources, I enjoyed that when I asked Alexa for the news, it played across all of my Sonos speakers. It was beneficial in the morning, while moving from room-to-room. Without notice (or any change to the system), Alexa now only plays the news flash on the One, or on the Dot. Voice commands to play it in other rooms merely results in Alexa starting the news over again. Like many issues others are experiencing, I assume this an Alexa problem, but any insight would be appreciated. Thanks-

I recently got a Sonos One at the same time as the new Echo. I have been comparing the 2 over the last few days as i am unsure which one to keep. The sonos one should win hands down, sound quality is far superior and 90% of the time i use it for music, however there are a few features i would like to see or at least know are on Sonos's roadmap for the sonos one for me to consider keeping it. 1) Mic responsiveness, i have to raise my voice to activate it. The Echo activates at low volume requests. I would be nice to have a feature in the app to control the level of mic sensitivity and let the customer decide the level to set it at. I've also found i have to raise the pitch of my voice when saying "Alexa" to trigger sometimes and its not as good as triggering when speaking normally like the echo is. I can even be in bed next to the unit and say "alexa" at talking volume and it does not activate, 2) Alexa volume control, the sonos does change the volume of the alexa voice when

Sorry if I've missed this conversation, but I'm new to this forum. I've been waiting to purchase a Sonos Play 5 until it's integrated with Alexa, which I thought was coming. I wasn't expecting this integration to be physical as with the new Play One. Rather, I was hoping to be able to tell Alexa on my Echo Dot what to play on Spotify, and the result would be a silent Echo Dot while Spotify is playing on the Play 5 over wi-fi. Is Sonos planning this sort of integration?

I have 3 Sonos speakers in my living room/kitchen/dining room area that I always group. I had them grouped from the Sonos app when I tried out the mute/unmute Alexa commands. The command worked on only one of the speakers. How can I get commands to apply to the entire group?

After receiving the big marketing email pushing Sonos + Alexia integration and taking advantage of the Echo Dot discount offer I have a some early thoughts/opinions to share: --Setup Setting up an Echo Dot was fairly simply but I already had a full sized Amazon Echo and the mobile app installed on my iPhone which made things a lot easier. (Note, the Alexia app on IOS is quite possibly the worst app I've used... confusing, slow...) --Sonos Integration This went fine. Make sure you've updated your Sonos system to the latest release via your normal Sonos app before you start. The video and steps on this page helped a lot as just going in and adding the 'Skill' on the Alexia app was useless if done alone. https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4158/~/setting-up-amazon-alexa-on-sonos --Adding Devices This is in the above steps but the screens did look different then what I actually say (not a list of rooms, but a grid of icons). Also, while there appears to be th

OK, I exaggerated, this is not a solution to all problems, but for me it did solve several problems, and it resolves several problems discussed on this board. It's not my solution - I read the suggestion in a thread - but I cannot find that thread to give the author proper credit. The solution is ... make sure you have absolutely no devices with the same name. For example, I had an Echo in the bathroom called "Bathroom". I unplugged it and replaced it with a Sonos One called "Bathroom". The fact that I had two devices named "Bathroom", even though one was offline (in fact unplugged) really confused the Sonos/Alexa environment. The earlier thread I mentioned recommended that I go to the Sonos app (I used the one on my Windows PC, but I assume any of the Sonos apps would work), and rename all your Sonos devices to end in the word "Sonos". So, for my example, "Bathroom" became "Bathroom Sonos". Once I did this, many of my problems went away. In particular, it seems to have so

Over the past two weeks I have been incorporating a Sonos One into my multiple Sonos and Amazon Echo home environment. I have found the experience to be subpar at best, showing the difficulty of combining the technologies of Amazon into the Sonos ecosystem. What should be a plug and play experience is instead a complicated setup experience. The set-up steps are unforgiving. One misstep moving between the Sonos and Alexa apps and you can find yourself in a loop where the speaker will not work. While I worked through the initial setup with minimum pain, my trouble came when I wanted to move the Sonos One from one room to another. With any other Sonos speaker, this is easy. Unplug in one room, plug in another, and change the room name. Quick and easy. Not so with the One. Notwithstanding following every step that Sonos suggests when moving the speaker, I could not get the Alexa app to recognize ("discover") the Sonos One with its new name. A call to Sonos proved equally frustrati

Hi guys. New to smart home tech...so please bear with me...!! I currently have the Sonos Playbar in my bedroom and a Sonos One in my lounge; and often Alexa doesnt hear me clearly if i'm in the adjacent room (open plan). Is there anyway to boost her microphone, perhaps? OR...If I was to purchase another Sonos One; would Alexa be unified for both the devices? i.e. If I want to play something/ask her to control the lights, will both Alexas answer? And if not, will the device that does answer be the one that plays the song/controls the lighting? And will that be on both the Sonos One speakers...? I've been looking into Amazon's own Alexa systems to see if i could just have an Alexa device in the adjoining room so that she can hear me...and subsequently play/action my requests for the Sonos One and Smart Lights..? This would save me 180 quid; but from what I've read, is this indeed restrictive? Any ideas guys? Cheers.

Just setup my Sonos 1, in its own room separate from my Play 5 and sub. Plays music fine. No Problem. Sonos skill in Alexa already setup, Alexa sees Sonos One. I can control S One through Echo Dot. As well as my other speakers. When I attempt to setup Voice Services on Sonos One all I get is a loop. I touch Voice Services in the Sonos app on my iPad, the "Control Sonos with your voice" box pops up, hit the "Learn More" bar, goes to "Help and Tips" page, "Control Sonos with Amazon Alexa", touch link "Go to "Set up voice control on your Sonos One" to learn more.", tap that link, goes to a page in "Help and Tips", tells me to set up sonos 1 and to go to More (arrow) Voice Services and follow the prompts. Tap the Set it up now bar and....it just starts the same process over again. I guess I'll try and uninstall/reinstall the Alexa skill, see what happens.

I have had my Sonos system for some time and love it. I have been looking forward to the Alexa integration and Sonos Ones although I was hopeful that a full integration with Apple Music would be there from the start. I have a couple of Sonos Ones which I added to my system as surround sounds and they sound great. However, I would really like the following: 1. Ability to disable the Alexa chime as it is unnecessary. 2. Ability to change the wake up word as it keeps thinking it hears Alexa on every programme we are watching. 3. Ability to control Alexa voice volume separately as it’s just too loud. Looking forward to future developments.

I've got a Sonos One and have Spotify set up as my default service. I'd like to be able to say "Alexa, add this song to my library" or "Alexa, add this song to playlist My Jams". I'd also like to use Alexa to play Spotify's artist, album, or song radio, so, "Alexa, play Adele artist radio." Right now it can play an artist's songs, but not their radio station.