Voice control and smart home

Hi all, Got the new Sonos 1 with Alexa yesterday and experiencing some annoying issues. I must state that i have had it working and playing sounds. But now i say "Alexa play...." and she says she is playing it but no sound. On my Alexa app it has the device name of Sonos 1 and the 'Family Room' name. Sonos 1 says online but Alexa says she is playing in the 'Family Room'. Its like there are 2 devices and she plays to the wrong one. I should state that askkng her a question gets an audible answer. Oncw i have it working, if i unplug ita back to not working again... At the moment i am somewhat disappointed with the product as i expected more. Any help much appreciated. CL

I would like to play same music on my Sonos speakers and Echo speakers. Will this feature be added?

I should have done my homework better - I assumed I could just replace one of my Play:1 surround speakers with a Play One. I was wrong on several counts 1) You can't pair a Play:1 and a Play One - Setup up won't allow you to do it. 2) There's no screw fixing point on the Play One - there is a button on the rear instead. Had to use double-sided foam tape to mount the speaker on my floor stand (obv. before I discovered point 1 above) 3) They don't match - the :1 is grey, and the One is black. They looked weird either side of the sofa. 4) I can't use the 'Echo' wake word - both of my other Echos use 'Echo' and the family is very used to this now. Also the Play One isn't that far from the kitchen Echo, so I would like to just have one word to shout out, and let the Echos sort out which one responds. 5) They sound different - I think the One sounded a bit richer, and this maybe something that could be resolved by clever tuning, but given pint (1), it doesn't seem likely this is somethi

When I ask Alexa for the weather, she tells me the weather in California. How can I update her and get her to realise that I live in the UK? Thanks guys

Got a Dot today using the discount code - thanks. Been playing about and noticed something. After asking Alexa to play Radio 2 in the kitchen (play 3) (started fine), I then asked her to play Radio 2 in the Living Room (stereo pair of Play 1's) The Stream started OK but was significantly out of sync with the Kitchen. Obviously the rooms were not grouped but I would have expected the audio to be synced - I believe had I started 2 independent streams via the app (not grouping) the audio would still be in sync - maybe I am wrong on that? I was experimenting really and would normally just group the rooms (I expect I can do this via voice at a later date) so not a big deal but I was surprised with this. Anyone else noticed this

I am almost giving up with this Sonos & Alexa integration. I have a Play:1 device which I am trying to link up with Alexa. The Alexa app on Android is the most recent, the Sonos app on Android and the Windows desktop are the most recent. Also the software on the Play:1 is up-to-date (checked on the Android app and Desktop app). I can add the Skill on either the App or through a web browser (Chrome) on the desktop - I have signed into my Sonos account, authorised, then signed into the Amazon account (goes to Amazon.com not .co.uk??). This seems to work without a hitch every single time I have tried it (I have lost count now...). The problem comes when I try to discover devices the message "There was an error discovering your devices" flashes up and has done so every single time I have re-added the Skill which is now driving me insane!! I have even reset the Play:1 and re-installed all the apps numerous times but still cannot get Alexa to discover the Play:1. Stuck!

I am having difficulty getting Alexa to respond to audio requests for her to play music over Sonos in several rooms at the same time. She only seems to be able to cope with one room. Anyone else experienced this?

The first few reviews of the Sonos One are emerging. https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/18/sonos-one-review/ Unfortunately, there were a few times I ran into some strange and frustrating bugs -- the speaker wasn't recognizing that it was playing music, so "pause" or "next track" requests didn't work. Amazon Music also occasionally got confused and told me it was playing on another device so it couldn't play on the speaker I asked for. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/18/16490866/sonos-one-speaker-review-alexa The process of enabling Alexa was a different matter and left me, a tech reviewer, feeling pretty stupid. Alexa could answer general questions and control my smart lights just fine within minutes, but would give me a “Something went wrong” error when I asked for music (or podcasts) with voice commands. https://www.wired.com/story/review-sonos-one/ Once you get things humming, the limitations of the voice controls become clear pretty quickly. The S

Will Sonos One play my Deezer songs / playlists? Assume this would then work with my groups...

My shiny Sonos One arrived today and it all setup fine but for my Echo devices I use the trigger word “Echo”. However, I can’t see anywhere in the Alexa setup to change the trigger word to “Echo”. Am I doing something silly?

If your Echo devices are named the same as your Sonos devices then you won't be able to use the Sonos devices. For example I had a Doc called "Bedroom", and the app would not discover my Sonos speaker called "Bedroom". I think the Alexa App should provide some indication of this, or maybe a warning during discovery

Alexa update has made my sonos worse

I have three zones in my house. Kitchen, den, and living room. When we listen to music which is 80% of our use, the 3 zones are always in a group. The only time they are not grouped is when we watch TV in the living room. When grouped I have the volume of each zone balanced for constant sound throughout the house. Reading through the Alexa commands it appears that when a I want raise or lower the volume of my whole house music group I will have to command each zone individually.? I believe that you cannot group or ungroup zones via Alexa, but not having a master volume control for a group seems like a major oversight.

I added my new sonos one and alexa - i've enabled skills - when i ask it to play music, it says it is going to ... then nothing happens... help 🙂

Hi, I have a number of play 1 speakers in 5 rooms and in each one I also have an echo dot. I have linked the account successfully and can discover the Sonos speakers in Alexa app. The speakers are named with the room and the dots named [room name] echo dot. However when I say "Alexa play radio 1 in [room name]" it always plays via the echo dot, not sonos. How can I make it always play via Sonos?

I have successfully logged in and linked both my Amazon account and Sonos account, added the Sonos skill to Alexa. Aleax wont discover any of my Sonos speakers .. just says there has been an error discovering your devices

After a bit of playing around, I managed to setup my new Sonos One to be part of both my current Sonos system as well as Alexa (I already have several Amazon Alexa devices). Much of the setup needs to be done in the Amazon Alexa App for things like TimeZone, Location, Metric Units etc. There are still a couple of things that it'd be good to see if it's possible to fix... 1) All the other Alexa-enabled devices have the same British accented voice. The Sonos One has a North American accent. Can this be changed ? 2) Asking Alexa to play things (and other requests) is noticeably slower on the Sonos One than my other Echo and Echo Dots. Is there a difference in how or where the speech is processed ?

Will the new Sonos One stream music directly from a NAS device on the same network?

Could anyone answer this, if you have the Sonos one can you ask it to play music on a play 5 for example, I have set up the Sonos skill in Alexa , I suppose my question does Alexa on Sonos one control only that Sonos one or can you ask it to play music on a different not Sonos one device Thanks Bruce

so now I have both echo dots playing through both my sonos - one in bedroom and one in kitchen - however when I ask Alexa - play rock music on bedroom - one song gets played then the music stops - when I say Alexa pause music - Alexa skip to next song - the volume goes down (ducking) then after a few seconds goes up again - it only plays one song :? and then stops? any idea what I am doing wrong on setup? thanks :?:?:?:?

I've followed the set up connected both accounts as described, alexa responds to questions but when i ask to play music/radio etc she says its playing but no sound. i've also found she thinks shes in USA even though i've set all the devices to europe/london summer time.

If I buy a new Sonos 1 with Alexa capability/mic, will it be able to pair with my Sonos 1 without Alexa for stereo?

I updated my connect amp and activated alexa integration (echo dot in my case). Now, according to https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4158/~/amazon-alexa-and-sonos it is only able to play music (and of course spotify is not included) through the sonos device? So they spend more than a year to develop a skill that just allows it to play music but not let sonos work as a remote speaker?

According to this story, Sonos will be sending all its customers a unique code for $25 off an Amazon Echo Dot. UK, US and Germany only. https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/17/16489516/sonos-25-dollar-coupon-amazon-echo-dot-sale

I understand that Alexa will play music from several music services including Amazon Music and named streaming stations but will it play all existing music from my Sonos Music Library which has not necessarily been gathered from these named services?