Alexa Sonos All Rooms

Alexa does not recognize groups.

Alexa sonos all rooms.

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. Associate sonos and echo speakers and create groups you can also associate amazon echo devices with sonos speakers through the alexa app. If you own multiple alexa speakers you can create a sonos style multi room audio system which enables you to sync the same music across multiple echo devices that could mean seamlessly listening to music as you move throughout your home or filling large rooms with multiple speakers working in tandem. The following steps assume you have all the devices and apps set up and ready for multi room.

Requires to be close to sonos one and have all speakers grouped. Open the alexa app and select the smart home control icon. Here s what you need to do. Voice command works just fine to play music throughout all rooms.

Once everything was running the latest and greatest i then installed the sonos skill. System setup 13 sonos speakers dating all the way back to the original and 7 alexa devices including 2 shows. After you ve added all the speakers rooms you have to give the alexa group a unique name like boombox. 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.

Enjoy all the conveniences of voice control with amazon alexa on sonos. When i say alexa play david bowie everywhere i get ziggy stardust playing in all those rooms. I have several sonos play1 sonos connect and recently got a sonos one. It s the house icon at the bottom right of the screen.

You most certainly can. I have 5 rooms of sonos gear and a group called everywhere in which i have added and preferred all my sonos speakers. Alexa play playlist name on room name. They are two different technologies.

Software updates i started by updating all speakers my sonos ios app and the alexa app. 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. Creating groups where the sonos speakers are the default music playback for a command heard by your echo devices. You just cannot group both echos and sonos together.

When i did exactly that alexa did not recognize any device. Your command to alexa via the sonos one to play music on all speakers in that group would be.