Voice control and smart home

How can I play my favorites ( My Sonos) via Sonos voicecontrol.

We have eight Sonos speakers around the house. I'd like to change the wake word on just one of them - Sonos Smooth - to a wake word other than “Alexa". It seems to be impossible. Is it? 

After moving house and setting up my speaker again six months ago I lost the ability to ask Alexa to play BBC sounds. I have tried using Alexa, Google and Sonos voice assistants but nothing works. I'm currently using Google which always defaults to try and play it through Tune In radio which doesn't work with the app on my phone and still tries to use it even with the app uninstalled on my phone! It's incredibly frustrating as this was all I really used the speaker for.

If I say "Alexa, play Radio 4" BBC Sounds through my Sonos One says "Playing BBC Radio 4” followed by "BBC Sounds”…but then goes silent. I’ve followed all the tips and suggestions I can find but to no avail. Help!

The web is awash with all sorts of answers to similar questions, some with answers two or three years old which might as well be written on papyrus for all their relevancy to today.So let me ask my own.Here’s what I have now:1 Google Nest Wifi Router 1 Sonos 1 speaker 1 crummy old wired doorbell chimeWith these I can play music through my IPhone on the speaker via Nest WiFi, to which the speaker is connected. I can, sometimes, hear the crummy doorbell ring.Now I want to add an electronic doorbell/camera to this mix.I am looking at the Google Nest Wired doorbell.  Wired, so I don’t have to mess with batteries.  I could care less if the existing chime worked. I could even disconnect the chime itself, since it isn’t always loud enough. I want the signal from the bell to connect to the Nest Router and from there to the Sonos speaker and chime over the speaker. I see a lot of content saying you can get the doorbell to ring through a Google speaker but I don’t want to buy another speaker jus

changing language for talking to alexa, how to changing language to communicate with Alexa 

Pretty sure that this isn’t a fault with my Sonos kit, but hoping others may have had a similar issue and know how to fix it.  I have two Echo Dots. One in the lounge and one in my bedroom. The lounge Dot works in conjunction with my Sonos PlayBase, which is paired with 2 Sonos One SLs. In my lounge, if I ask Alexa to play BBC Radio 2, she duly obliges and the music is played via the Sonos speakers. If I do the same thing in my bedroom, where the Dot works with a single Sonos One SL, Alexa plays Radio 2, but from the Dot speaker. What’s more, if I specifically ask her to play it on the bedroom speaker, she refuses.  I’ve heard that this may be a licensing issue, but that doesn’t explain why it works as desired in the lounge. I’ve double checked all the settings, and they are the same on both Dots and all the speakers.  Moderator edit: Added that “Ones” are in fact “One SLs”

My Beam Gen 2 cannot seem to process more than one command without staying quiet for a while…If I ask it to turn on the tv it does then ask it to turn on the lights it does but it will not accept an immediate third command and stays quiet for some time….then the sound comes back to normal and the beam is ready to accept a new command. Anyone else have this issue

I have an ArcSub2Ones HT setup and a separate Five, combined in an Alexa group.When the group is playing and I ask Alexa in the Arc to increase the volume, it doesn’t apply it to the Five. How can I fix that?

I use Alexa with my sonos system. Sometimes, especially when Alexa misinterprets the wake word, the chime volume is very loud. It startles people in the room!How can I control the chime volume please?TIA .... Greg 

I’ve been trying to add the ability to control my Sonos system with Google Assistant. In the Sono2 app, I go to “Service & Voice”, then select “+ Add a third-party smart device to control Sonos”. I then get the option of either Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. When I choose Google Assistant, I get the following screen: It doesn’t let me add any functionality in the app itself. I have followed this instructions on Google Assistant but it doesn’t work. I spent a long time on the phone with Sonos Technical Support but they couldn’t solve this. Anyone get past this issue? Thank you 

I cannot get Spotify to work on either my Sonus one or beam. Recently updated my router and connected both items and added Alexa. Alexa speaks and actions my request but nothing plays. Has anyone experience this and know how to fix. They both worked fine before. On the flip side, Google assistant works fine. So confusing please help.  

We have a number of Sonos speakers, three of which use Google voice search. We each have our own Spotify user profiles and Google Assistant accounts, including my wife. For both of us, Google complies with commands to do things like switch on lights, and if we ask it "Who am I," it knows each of us by name. But for me, it only functions when I request music. It indicates that it doesn't understand for my wife. Using her Spotify app, she can effectively send music to Sonos, but voice commands are ineffective.

Can I setup my arc for Sonos voice and setup a Sonos one to use google in the same room?

Hi there. sorry this is a question you probably always here and fed up of answering but…. How do I get Alexa on my Sonos 5 ? Do I need to add a Alexa dot ( or echo or something in that range) and is it as simple as plug it in the back of the 5 and obviously download the app to my iPhone.  thanks

We have several Sonos speakers, 3 of which have voice, using Google. My wife and I each have Google Assistant and our own Spotify user profiles. For both of us, Google obeys commands for things such as turning on lights, and it recognizes each of us by name if we ask “Who am I”. However, it only works for me when asking for music. For my wife, it says it doesn’t understand. She successfully sends music to Sonos using her Spotify app, but using voice doesn’t work.Any suggestions? 

I’ve scoured the community for an answer to this, and all I see is the recommendation to check my smart tv and disable passwords (none are enabled) or to factory reset, which I prefer not to do. Is there someplace in the Sonos app or on iPhone settings I can control this? I don’t even see Airplay on my settings list on my iPhone 12. Thanks!

A Roam as my first piece of Sonos Voice Controlled hardware.  I find that SVC works fine for controlling Sonos Radio, but not for accessing content from my Pandora account, which I have set as my default service.  All I get is “we’re having trouble connecting to your music provider, please try again later.”  I have removed and reinstalled SVC and also reauthorized access to my Pandora account from Sonos, but to no avail.  Suggestions? 

I’ve scoured the community for an answer to this and all i see is the recommendation to check my smart tv and disable passwords (none are enabled) or to factory reset which i prefer not to do. Is there someplace in the sonos app or on iPhone settings i can control this? I don’t even see Airplay on my settings list in my iPhone 12. Thanks!

I have a google nest hub set up with the default speaker as my Sonos move, and the default music provider ass Spotify. Everything has been working great, except for sometimes when I ask google to play a specific song title, it will repeat the correct song but then play a completely different song not he speaker. I have spotify premium account set up on both google and Sonos. General playlist requests work for example “Play country music” but specific songs don’t. Any fix?

I set up google and Sonos and everything seem fine and connected. I ask “play queen on Sonos”first I get “sure, queen from Spotify, playing on Sonos”and 3 seconds later “sorry that mode is unavailable”

Hi, This is beginning to be a familiar story, please bear with me.So, there seems to be a clear distinction between the following events.When using an Amazon Dot, BBC sounds and station selection works. i.e. “Alexa, please ask BBC sounds to play Radio 2”  The usual BBC sound bite plays and asks me for the service I require. I ask for BBC Radio 2 and it plays.   When performing the same procedure with an Alexa enabled Sonos Play1, The BBC sound bite plays OK, but after saying “Play BBC Radio 2”, Alexa responds with “Playing BBC Radio 2” and then nothing. However, maybe more importantly, the light on the Play1 seems to go dimmer, indicating that it is no longer communicating and has ‘dropped out’. This may be a clue considering different servers to BBC sounds?I appreciate that this topic seems to have been thrashed but I’m sure I’m not the only one with this existing issue. Neither the tech lads can sort this out or any of the proposed solutions found here have worked.  I have tried endl

I have mostly Amazon Echo devices in my house, with the exception of two Sonos One speakers working as a stereo pair in my living room. Every Echo speaker is in an Alexa group “Everywhere” so I can play music “everywhere” in my house.Except the Sonos One speakers aren’t listed as available for the speaker group. I’ve heard that it’s the fault of Amazon for not allowing third-party speakers to be integrated into speaker groups in Alexa. I’ve also heard that it’s Sonos integration that’s to blame and that there are other third party speakers that can be part of a speaker group. Is there a solution? And if so, how do I get my Sonos One speaker pair onto my “everywhere” group?If not, what’s the update, Sonos? What would be involved for your speakers to be available for speaker groups through the Alexa app?

I have a sonos move and a google nest hub set up in the kitchen. Sonos move is set up to use sonos voice control so that I can verbally group it with the other sonos speakers in the house. I have a google nest hub  that will play specific spotify songs I request, but it only plays on the google nest hub speaker. I would like to find a way to ask google to play a specific spotify song but have it play on the sonos move speaker. I set the sonos as the google homes default speaker but when i request a song it says “okay playing (this song) on the kitchen speaker. sorry spotify premium is not currently available” even though i have my spotify premium account set up and it works when the sonos is not the default speaker.Is there a way to play spotify music by asking the google nest hub, and then have it play on the sonos speaker? 

When i try to start music on sonos using Google assitant it does not work. The system said that the Sonos is not available. How can it be fixed