Voice control and smart home

As far as I can tell, the sonos app can no longer connect to Google Assistant on a modern Android phone. I've un installed, re installed all apps and connections and all that has managed to do is remove my existing Assistant connections on other existing devices.Then I realised that due to changes in Google Assistant and Gemini it is no longer possible. I'm absolutely over this crap, luckily I can process a return for the new Sonos Move (not the 2..) Sonos is a waste of time and energy, what a joke!

Hi, Google assistant worked fine till now. I tried to re connect it, it will not connect. Tried restart, unlink and link again Sonos via "works with Google". Here's a screenshot.  

So this morning all my Google Home automation routines that have a command to activate a Scene started interjecting “Ok, activating (name of scene)” when run on my Sonos speaker, but not on Google Home speakers. On the Google Home speakers the command continues to execute silently like before. This screws up the way some of the routines play out unfortunately.Compounding the problem, there seems to be a new bug with automation routines running on Sonos. When a routine with several steps is created or an existing such routine is edited, it will stop after the first 3 commands or so and exit - but only on Sonos, not when run on a Google Home speaker. Editing the routine further to drag the command order around and re-save it can cause it to start working again on Sonos.

Sinds kort reageerde mijn Sonos one niet meer op mijn vragen. Voorheen kon ik altijd vragen om radio NPO5 te spelen maar dan krijg te horen dat er een fout is opgetreden. Ook spreekt de sonos one als ik wat vraag dan weer in het Engels en dan weer in het Nederlands.  Ik heb alles gereset. Ik gebruik de Google assistent zowel in mijn telefoon ( S24 FE ) als op mijn sonos en toch blijft ze de opdrachten in het Engels uitvoeren. Ook heb ik de talen in het Nederlands gezet in Home. Voorheen ging het altijd goed maar de laatste tijd veel problemen. Ik hoop dat jullie misschien een oplossing hebben.Mvg Ad Trompert  

On my Sonos app (of course I use the last version), I don’t see “Google Assistant” for my Roam 2 in the menu “add assistant”. Alexa is listed, but not Google. Is it no more possible to use it ?(I also have a Sonos Beam, and Google is still listed on the assistant menu…)So with a Roam 2, no more Google ? Thank you. 

J ai un système Sonos et un système HUE pour les lumièresDans l application HUE et "maison connectee" je ne vousvoas lvapplication SONOS et dans l application SONOS voici contrôle  je ne vois rien concernant HUE EST CE NORMAL ? COMMENT FAIRE ?

I really want to buy a Sonos but.... I'll want to use Alexa in English but I live in the NetherlandsI'm hearing conflicting information about it. Any advice? Which Sonos? Thanks  

Alexa not working on beam 2 in India. Sonos ignoring Indian customers.

I posted this on Reddit today, no responses yet.I was watching the Today Show this morning when they mentioned that Dolly Parton was postponing her Vegas residency due to health concerns; (get well Dolly!) Suddenly, my system muted TV audio and music started playing rather loudly-you guessed it-Dolly Parton! System is a Beam (g2) Sub 4 and 2 One's as surrounds. I have had Alexa devices respond when they "heard" a wake word from a TV program but this is a first for me with Sonos. No wake word preceded this playing of the music.Upon checking recently played, it was an Apple Music station that was created for Dolly Parton. Not an existing or favorite. Any ideas are appreciated.

As a long term Sonos user I recently purchased an Era 300 to replace old Ones. The sound quality is excellent when playing music, radio, etc. however the Alexa voice is way too quiet. If I increase the volume to better hear Alexa the music becomes too loud. Is there anyway around this problem? Jim

So I checked the app and the speaker is listed. But the same is pretty much true for Alexa and Siri so why should I expect more from Sonos?

TV works perfectly with Sonos playbar. want a simple command for Alexa to share that signal with a 2nd Sonos speaker. Same as ticking the box on the Sonos app.

Please help as I am going crazy trying to sort this.Due to other issues, I had to factory restore my Sonos One but am now finding it impossible to re add Google Voice Assistant, I have relinked the account (I only have one, so no issues there) tried adding Alexa as an experimet, which does add, but does not react to voice comands, says system not online, but it definitely is,  just want to get Google back up and running, have tried everything with no luck. All I have is the message "This may take a minute. If it is taking too long, try again" and the icon just spinning away, I have no idea what to try next.Any help would be much appreciated. Kind regards Darren. 

The Sonos voice audio response is so loud and out of sync with the level of music that we are playing. I see some other posts from quite a while ago discussing this and they are closed for further comment so I’m posting a new one.I just got our second era 100 So our children could use the built-in voice control to play music so that I don’t have to give them screen devices to control it. However, The Sonos voice response is so loud it practically shakes the walls. It’s obnoxious and I’m about to turn off voice control, and that basically makes the whole use case useless.is there a solution for this? 

Sonos One acknoedges voice request but then fails to play  anything

Hi, I’m trying to add Amazon Alexa to my Sonos Beam (Gen 2), but I keep getting an error. Here’s what happens: I go to the Sonos app and choose to add Amazon Alexa. The app shows “Connecting to Amazon…” for a while. Then I get an error message: “There was a problem adding Amazon Alexa.”  I have tried several times, but the issue persists. My phone is connected to Wi-Fi, and the Sonos system is working fine otherwise. Has anyone experienced this? Any solutions or troubleshooting steps I can try?I´m enough of all those Sonos bugs… thanks

As I'm not able to reply anymore on the other topic here's a copy paste below. This issue still exists and is there for years now with a period in between it did work without issues. Any update on this? I'm experiencing the exact same issue as described below with my Sonos One Gen1. I can say volume 30 instead of volume 3 or volume 50 instead of 5 etc.to have it work correctly but it's still a bit weird this hasn't been solved so far.Info from another topic by ​@P.Janssen“For some months now I’m experiencing an issue when asking Google Assistant to set the volume of our speakers/rooms to a desired volume. This does not work properly when asking to set the volume to either level 3, 5 or 10. The other volume levels seem to work okay though, as per below list:“Hey Google volume 0” : room volume is correctly set to 0% “Hey Google volume 1” : room volume is correctly set to 10%

I’ve just setup my Sonos one when I say Alexa play a playlist on Apple Music it will say now playing playlist there is no sound even tho I have volume upmy arc works good when I say play Adele playlist from apple musicwhere could be the problem guys thanks in advance

When i say hey google play some music or a specific music, it says “Playing song name on sonos from spotify” but then it does nothing? It works completely fine from google assistant on my phone and from my google tv. But when i tell my google nest hub 2 it just says “Playing song name on sonos from spotify” without actually doing it?

Bonjour à tous j ai une barre de son beam et depuis qques temps quand je demande à Alexa de jouer une radio ou de la musique elle me dit ok mais je n entends rien ma barre est mise à jour merci pour ce que ce vous pourrez faire pour moi les Amis bon dimanche bruno

I see this is a topic that's been raised before. I have 2 different Era 100 speakers, neither of which play when I ask Alexa to play BBC Sounds.The voice assistant says it is playing but it doesnt. I have tried: Rebooting devices and routerDisconnecting and reconnecting BBC Sounds appDisconnecting and reconnecting Alexa Any suggestions gratefully received! Thanks. 

I have a question.i have sonos one.i would like to connect  azamon.co.jp of alexa.  But, he connect amazon.com. Plaese teach me, how to azamon.co.jp of alexa.

Hi,I just subscribed to deezer and set it up with sonos voice controlIt works fine to listen to a specific title, an album, or a public playlist but I can’t listen to my playlists (it says “the content canno’t be found”)I tried everything including updating my sonos one, delete and reinstall deezer and even reseting my sonos and it still don’t work. Has anyone have a solution ?

​@NullReference Sonos Alexa is also not working for me in UK (non Beta), I assume as per:https://status.sonos.com/ 

As anyone who uses Google Assistant routines on Sonos knows, it was quite a while ago that Google started saying “Sorry, I don’t understand” to any action in a routine that attempts to speak a verbal output on a Sonos speaker. The bug came and went a few times, and then settled in permanently with no acknowledgement from Sonos or Google.I experimented a bit to see if there was any workaround, such as playing a standard sound effect (unfortunately Google doesn’t have any built in sound effects) or playing a pre-recorded audio file with the response (that works, but media volume is muted as long as the routine is running, so the audio isn’t very audible).If all you want is a simple verbal acknowledgement to know that the routine ran, you can add actions in the routine to increase volume and then decrease volume by the same amount. That results in Google saying “Ok” or “Got it”, and it does work on Sonos speakers.