Alexa Sonos All Rooms

I have 5 rooms of sonos gear and a group called everywhere in which i have added and preferred all my sonos speakers.

Alexa sonos all rooms.

It s the house icon at the bottom right of the screen. Software updates i started by updating all speakers my sonos ios app and the alexa app. Once everything was running the latest and greatest i then installed the sonos skill. You most certainly can.

Requires to be close to sonos one and have all speakers grouped. Alexa play playlist name on room name. System setup 13 sonos speakers dating all the way back to the original and 7 alexa devices including 2 shows. When i did exactly that alexa did not recognize any device.

After you ve added all the speakers rooms you have to give the alexa group a unique name like boombox. Your command to alexa via the sonos one to play music on all speakers in that group would be. 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.

Alexa play smooth jazz on boombox. 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. 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. That group may consist of sonos one bedroom sonos play 1 kitchen and maybe a play 5 living room.

They are two different technologies. 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. Here s what you need to do. 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 just cannot group both echos and sonos together. 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. Alexa does not recognize groups.

Voice command works just fine to play music throughout all rooms. I have several sonos play1 sonos connect and recently got a sonos one.