Alexa and Sonos ecosystem

You have to specify which one you want to use for the commands when using the Echo Dot, otherwise it'll think you're talking to it.
Is that the planned functionality or just a limitation of this initial release? The original Sonos/Alexa announcement video from way back in 2016 clearly showed a guy issuing commands to an Echo Dot to play music on a Sonos speaker without having to specify that speaker by name, so I think a lot of us were under the impression that the eventual Alexa integration would have that capability. I don't know if Amazon's API allows that yet, but I hope you all can find a way to get that to work eventually.

Thanks for all of your hard work. Overall, I'm super excited about today's announcements!

Looking for setup details... I assume a Sonos speaker and an Echo in the same room must have different names? Right now with the systems not linked I have duplicate names in most rooms such as an Echo called "Living Room" and a pair of Sonos speakers called "Living Room". Will bad things happen if I don't make these all unique before doing the discovery in the Alexa skill?
Worst case, Alexa might not know which device you're targeting and say it doesn't support that command, or start playing on the wrong device. I've seen trouble with lights and speakers named the same thing.

You have to specify which one you want to use for the commands when using the Echo Dot, otherwise it'll think you're talking to it.
Is that the planned functionality or just a limitation of this initial release? The original Sonos/Alexa announcement video from way back in 2016 clearly showed a guy issuing commands to an Echo Dot to play music on a Sonos speaker without having to specify that speaker by name, so I think a lot of us were under the impression that the eventual Alexa integration would have that capability. I don't know if Amazon's API allows that yet, but I hope you all can find a way to get that to work eventually.

Thanks for all of your hard work. Overall, I'm super excited about today's announcements!
We'd love to get the implicit targeting sorted out, it is already for the Sonos One. The integration will get better over time.

I had to change the names of my dots and speakers to be different, so that the voice command would "target" the correct thing.

We'd love to get the implicit targeting sorted out, it is already for the Sonos One. The integration will get better over time.

Hope integration will get better soon, give it now any commands for Mulitroom? I tried to play Music in the Office and command Alexa to play the same Music in the Kitchen but it didn't work.

Grouping needs to be done in the app, for now, apparently. But once they're grouped, a command for one room will affect all grouped rooms.

Grouping needs to be done in the app, for now, apparently. But once they're grouped, a command for one room will affect all grouped rooms.

Tried it with Grouping, but Sonos Play 1 in Office played different Titel than the Play 1 in the Kitchen maybe the last one that was played via Sonos app, not so smoth as i have expected. Looking forward for better solution via Voice Control creating and disabling groupings like Sonos App like do it 🙂

Grouping needs to be done in the app, for now, apparently. But once they're grouped, a command for one room will affect all grouped rooms.

Tried it with Grouping, but Sonos Play 1 in Office played different Titel than the Play 1 in the Kitchen maybe the last one that was played via Sonos app, not so smoth as i have expected. Looking forward for better solution via Voice Control creating and disabling groupings like Sonos App like do it :)

Nejino,

I find if you go into the Sonos App 'Rooms Tab' and group together two or more Sonos rooms, such as kitchen and dining room... then start the music by saying such things like..

Alexa, Play Pink Floyd in the Kitchen' ... the music definitely plays on both rooms.

Or ... there’s a way to do it ALL, without even opening the app. See below:

Start the music using Alexa in one room, like this...
'Alexa, Play Pink Floyd in the Kitchen' ... the music starts just in the kitchen, but then you can go to the Living Room speaker and hold down the PLAY/PAUSE button and that will group the Living room with the speaker(s) currently playing in the Kitchen ... (it groups with the last playing room) ... the music is pulled through from the Kitchen to the Living Room and the two rooms remain grouped until you ungroup them in the App.

Whilst the rooms remain grouped the Alexa streaming music is perfectly in sync across all speakers in the group ... great stuff.

I like the fact you can also raise or lower the volume in each room separately using Alexa aswell, even when they are grouped together.

Love it ! ... and Sonos are saying there is even more stuff to come.

I too would like to see a darker theme option and smaller icons for the iPad controller, but I really do like the potential for the new 'My Sonos' tab... I have created 'shortcut' links to several top song playlists across three different music services...

I notice also that the 'browse tab' remembers its last viewing position as the user navigates around the other App tabs and interface, that is until the controller app is fully closed... that is also much better.