Alexa Sonos Play In All Rooms

Alexa does not recognize groups.

Alexa sonos play in all rooms.

Alexa play smooth jazz on boombox. It makes loads of sense to get the two playing nicely. Enjoy all the conveniences of voice control with amazon alexa on sonos. Your command to alexa via the sonos one to play music on all speakers in that group would be.

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

Requires to be close to sonos one and have all speakers grouped. 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. When i say alexa play david bowie everywhere i get ziggy stardust playing in all those rooms. When i did exactly that alexa did not recognize any device.

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. You most certainly can. After you ve added all the speakers rooms you have to give the alexa group a unique name like boombox. Voice command works just fine to play music throughout all rooms.

I have several sonos play1 sonos connect and recently got a sonos one. They are two different technologies. Sonos makes the best multi room audio system and with its echo devices and alexa amazon arguably makes the best voice assistant ecosystem. You just cannot group both echos and sonos together.

Play music on sonos by referring to the room names in your sonos app.