Alexa Sonos All Rooms

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Alexa sonos all rooms.

You just cannot group both echos and sonos together. Alexa play smooth jazz on boombox. Requires to be close to sonos one and have all speakers grouped. Voice command works just fine to play music throughout all rooms.

Creating groups where the sonos speakers are the default music playback for a command heard by your echo devices. System setup 13 sonos speakers dating all the way back to the original and 7 alexa devices including 2 shows. Software updates i started by updating all speakers my sonos ios app and the alexa app. Enjoy all the conveniences of voice control with amazon alexa on sonos.

Associate sonos and echo speakers and create groups you can also associate amazon echo devices with sonos speakers through the alexa app. It s the house icon at the bottom right of the screen. The following steps assume you have all the devices and apps set up and ready for multi room. After you ve added all the speakers rooms you have to give the alexa group a unique name like boombox.

Open the alexa app and select the smart home control icon. Your command to alexa via the sonos one to play music on all speakers in that group would be. Once everything was running the latest and greatest i then installed the sonos skill. Added a alexa dot in the bed room thinking i could add the alexa tab to the system and control the sonos players also from the dot.

Using the alexa mobile app you can pick and choose which alexa speakers including both echo devices and alexa enabled speakers from third parties such as the sonos one or the polk command bar. You most certainly can. Alexa comes built in sonos arc one move and beam have alexa built right in for all the benefits of a smart speaker plus incredible sound for music and more. Alexa does not recognize groups.

When i did exactly that alexa did not recognize any device. That group may consist of sonos one bedroom sonos play 1 kitchen and maybe a play 5 living room. However if you group 3 rooms say room 1 2 and 3 via the sonos app and then say alexa play tom petty in room 3 it will play in the entire group. They are two different technologies.

I have several sonos play1 sonos connect and recently got a sonos one. When i say alexa play david bowie everywhere i get ziggy stardust playing in all those rooms.