Alexa Sonos All Rooms

System setup 13 sonos speakers dating all the way back to the original and 7 alexa devices including 2 shows.

Alexa sonos all rooms.

Voice command works just fine to play music throughout all rooms. The following steps assume you have all the devices and apps set up and ready for multi room. Requires to be close to sonos one and have all speakers grouped. Once everything was running the latest and greatest i then installed 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. When i did exactly that alexa did not recognize any device. They are two different technologies. 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. Enjoy all the conveniences of voice control with amazon alexa on sonos. Software updates i started by updating all speakers my sonos ios app and the alexa app. Alexa play playlist name on room name.

Here s what you need to do. 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. It s the house icon at the bottom right of the screen. When i say alexa play david bowie everywhere i get ziggy stardust playing in all those rooms.

Alexa does not recognize groups. You most certainly can. That group may consist of sonos one bedroom sonos play 1 kitchen and maybe a play 5 living room. 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. You just cannot group both echos and sonos together. 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. Creating groups where the sonos speakers are the default music playback for a command heard by your echo devices.

After you ve added all the speakers rooms you have to give the alexa group a unique name like boombox. 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.