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 play in all rooms.
When i say alexa play david bowie everywhere i get ziggy stardust playing in all those rooms.
Play music on sonos by referring to the room names in your sonos app.
Alexa does not recognize groups.
All you need to do is tack the name of the target speaker onto the end of your command like alexa play the beatles in the kitchen of course you ll need to rename your kitchen s echo dot.
You most certainly can.
That group may consist of sonos one bedroom sonos play 1 kitchen and maybe a play 5 living room.
Alexa play smooth jazz on boombox.
Sonos makes the best multi room audio system and with its echo devices and alexa amazon arguably makes the best voice assistant ecosystem.
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.
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.
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.
Your command to alexa via the sonos one to play music on all speakers in that group would be.
It makes loads of sense to get the two playing nicely.
For example if you have a sonos room called kitchen request alexa play music in the kitchen please note that you must have the sonos app to use the sonos skill.
Enjoy all the conveniences of voice control with amazon alexa on sonos.
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.
Voice command works just fine to play music throughout all rooms.
They are two different technologies.
I have several sonos play1 sonos connect and recently got a sonos one.
When i did exactly that alexa did not recognize any device.