Alexa Sonos All Rooms

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Alexa sonos all rooms.

I have several sonos play1 sonos connect and recently got a sonos one. I have 5 rooms of sonos gear and a group called everywhere in which i have added and preferred all my sonos speakers. 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. 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. When i did exactly that alexa did not recognize any device. 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.

The following steps assume you have all the devices and apps set up and ready for multi room. System setup 13 sonos speakers dating all the way back to the original and 7 alexa devices including 2 shows. Voice command works just fine to play music throughout all rooms. Alexa play playlist name on room name.

It s the house icon at the bottom right of the screen. 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. After you ve added all the speakers rooms you have to give the alexa group a unique name like boombox.

Requires to be close to sonos one and have all speakers grouped. Creating groups where the sonos speakers are the default music playback for a command heard by your echo devices. You most certainly can. You just cannot group both echos and sonos together.

Associate sonos and echo speakers and create groups you can also associate amazon echo devices with sonos speakers through the alexa app. Open the alexa app and select the smart home control icon. When i say alexa play david bowie everywhere i get ziggy stardust playing in all those rooms. Alexa does not recognize groups.

That group may consist of sonos one bedroom sonos play 1 kitchen and maybe a play 5 living room. 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.