Voice control and smart home

I was about to rush out and buy an Amazon echo dot, to upgrade my existing PLAY 1 setup but (as far as I could establish) these three things don't play together yet. Lots of discussion about it though. Is there an ETA for this integration?

I've read all the Alexa sample commands (they're all for playing music genres) but see nothing specific for playing a playlist I created on Amazon, is this possible? How about a specific artist or song?

hello Just after some advice of the following idea of getting the echo dot audio to play through a sonos connect amp. I have a connect amp with some ceiling speakers. The amp is hidden away and the echo dot can't be connected with a cable to the aux in on the amp. As AirPlay audio works with the aux in can you use 2 apple airport express to send and receive the audio from the echo dot to the connect amp? Just to be clear, I'm talking about the echo dot voice and not streaming music as I can see you can tell the echo dot to play audio on your different sonos players. I would use the older wall plug apple express devices as they had a audio jack, plus small and now cheap on eBay. 2nd question.... if you have a deezer account on your sonos app, will the echo dot play from that?

Why does Alexa switch to US accent when interacting?? Very strange?

Will Alexa work on the Sonos One without the Sonos skill? ie, can I still use other Alexa functions such as turn on Hue lights?

Having bought Alexa as soon as announced to control Sonos, massively disappointed that it cannot operate the Sonos library. Why did we wait so long for such an inferior piece of “technology”?

Hi there, please can anyone help, it’s probably very basic for some but would really help me out. I have three Sonos speakers around the house, one being the Sonos play 5 (gen 2) in the living room, I have connnected my new Dot (gen 2) via the line in function. With the new beta release from sonos can I now use my dot to play through my sonos speakers using Wi-fi and not the line in? Secondly I have been subscribed to deezer ever since I bought my sonos speakers, can I control deezer (or access this) through my dot? Any replies or help,is appreciated. Thank you.

There is a severe bug in the new Sonos beta relating to volume control via Alexa. Attempting to use Alexa to increase or decrease volume on a Sonos player/room by a specific increment (e.g. "Alexa, reduce volume in the Office by 10%") creates two problems. First, Alexa returns an error response, saying something like "Office does not support that command" - annoying, but not a big deal in a v1 beta. The much larger problem is that the Sonos player/room in question subsequently drops off the Sonos controller app, making it impossible to use. I've tried soft reboots and hard resets, but neither solves the problem. The players that have been impacted are just gone. That is obviously extremely frustrating. Sonos moderators - any idea how to fix?

Hi whenI try to enable the Sonos skill I get a message saying "Oops there was a problem, please close the app and try again" which I have done numerous times. I have updated my Sonos players and I ave completed the Sonos account set up ok. Can anyone help me with the skill set up? Thanks John

Will I be able to pre-order Sonos One in Amazon?

I've had my Harmony hub linked to Alexa as a skill for quite sometime now. All works well for voice commands turning on TV, Receiver, etc. After adding the SONOS skill and discovering my SONOS devices, Alexa is unable to control the volume of the Receiver via the Harmony Hub. The reply is Alexa doesn't recognize that device. The SONOS Connect that is connected to the receiver is set for fixed volume via the Line out. So, the volume has to be controlled via the Harmony Hub and Receiver. Any one else have this type of setup or problem?

hi there,how do i connect a dot to my playbar? theres no 3.5 socket.

Are there plans to add the speakers to a scene in Alexa? It would be nice to add them to scenarios. Currently "I'm home" turn my lights on, it would be nice if it started music playback on my sonos speakers too. Same to stop. Currently they do not show under the Scenes tab in the Alexa app. Maybe Sonos needs to sort grouping through alexa first though?

I know that you can press the mute button on top to prevent the mic listening in for privacy reasons but for using Play:One in kids' rooms where I simply don't want my kids to use the Alexa feature to ask for an endless string of knock knock jokes is there a way to disable it that's more permanent? Out of the box is Alexa enabled? Or is it only active (listening, responding, etc) if one logs into an Amazon account and links the Play:One to it, enables Alexa skills, etc. Those are things a kid can't do and so it would effectively disable the Alexa feature for my purposes. But if out of the box Alexa has some functionality then I suspect it's likely more of a distraction than we want in the rooms where they're theoretically doing homework. 🙂

Hi, Will the amazon echo 2nd gen play music with the sonos speakers in harmony, I have a few sonos speakers already and am keen to get the echo for voice control on songs, I believe the echo will play music as it is but will it play along with the sonos, I'm asking this because I would like to get another small speaker for the kitchen, so rather than buying a sonos speaker and a echo dot seperatly, I could just get the new echo to do both the jobs?

I want to ask Alexa to play music through BOTH its own speaker and my Sonos speaker. It seems to only play through EITHER. Is there a way to play through both? The Sonos app doesn't seem to allow the Echo to be part of the group that the Sonos speaker is in.

Does anyone know if/when Alexa will be supported by SONOS? I've seen a lot of conversations about a public trial in 2017 but nothing specific about dates and official release. Can anyone confirm if this integration is actually going to happen?

I use an Echo Dot in the same room as a Sonos Play:5. Obviously I don't want the Dot to also play the radio sound coming through Sonos when the Sonos is on, but if I turn down the Dot's volume then that volume is too low when the Dot speaks. Is there a way to separately turn up the Dot's volume when she speaks, but turn the it's volume off when she isn't?

I’m currently using the sonos “line-in” auto play so that all audio from an Alexa dot is heard through the sonos. I was hoping to use the Alexa / Sonos integration and remove the audio cable. Is there a way to make sure all Alexa audio is sent to a particular sonos by default? For example, when I ask echo to play jeopardy I want it to be heard through sonos. Thanks!

How can I get Alexa to play a specific "station" from one of my services? Example would be asking Alexa to play "Easy Listening" on Stingray Music?

how do I get alexa to play sonos using spotify as I have no music in my library and that is where alexa is searching

Downloaded the Alexa android app, linked to Sonos account but won't find devices. The app wants to link to my Amazon.com account. I have an Amazon.co.uk account. Any suggestions?

When it was first mentioned last year that Sonos was going to team up with Amazon to allow Alexa your music, it was stated that it would be backwards compatible with existing Sonos speakers. This was also re-iterated when there was a sale of Sonos speakers earlier in the year. So could someone advise me on how I upgrade my existing speakers to understand Alexa's commands. Thanks

After the latest update, the volume on my play 5 has changed with my echo dot. It use to be too loud when the dot was turned up all the way, my line in was boosted to 10, and I was half way up on the sonos volume. Now the audio from the dot is noticeably quieter, and changes randomly, quieter, then back to set volume. Has anyone else had a similar issue here? Diagnostic 7926558 submitted.

I took the plunge to move Alexa out of the kitchen and into the living room - so purchased an additional Dot. I have playbar, 2x Play 3 and Sub setup in a 5.1 surround group. And a Connect that I was using with Record Deck. I've tried Echo Dot setup two ways. They both seem to have the same fatal flaw - namely that the TV sound does not restart when you stop music or in the case of using Sonos speakers to hear Alexa, every time you ask Alexa something. I've documented what I see the Pro/Cons are, both are quite unideal TBH - I wonder if anyone has some smart workarounds. Also bit disappointed Spotify isnt working "yet" although apparently promised. 1. Firstly standalone. Sound only comes from Echo Dot. Sonos connected via Alexa skills only. Pros - doesnt mess with Sonos as much. -you can ask Alexa to play "artist" in "room name on Sonos". Mute, pause etc all work well. Radio stations work well too. Cons - you may not hear the little Dot speaking above your music/tv