Alexa Sonos All Rooms

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.

Alexa sonos all rooms.

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. 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. Requires to be close to sonos one and have all speakers grouped. Alexa play smooth jazz on boombox.

Enjoy all the conveniences of voice control with amazon alexa on sonos. It s the house icon at the bottom right of the screen. Here s what you need to do. Alexa does not recognize groups.

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. Your command to alexa via the sonos one to play music on all speakers in that group would be. Voice command works just fine to play music throughout all rooms. System setup 13 sonos speakers dating all the way back to the original and 7 alexa devices including 2 shows.

Creating groups where the sonos speakers are the default music playback for a command heard by your echo devices. Open the alexa app and select the smart home control icon. That group may consist of sonos one bedroom sonos play 1 kitchen and maybe a play 5 living room. You most certainly can.

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. Once everything was running the latest and greatest i then installed the sonos skill. Software updates i started by updating all speakers my sonos ios app and the alexa app.

You just cannot group both echos and sonos together. Alexa play playlist name on room name. The following steps assume you have all the devices and apps set up and ready for multi room. When i did exactly that alexa did not recognize any device.

Associate sonos and echo speakers and create groups you can also associate amazon echo devices with sonos speakers through 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.