Alexa Sonos All Rooms

Voice command works just fine to play music throughout all rooms.

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 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. Once everything was running the latest and greatest i then installed the sonos skill. When i did exactly that alexa did not recognize any device.

Your command to alexa via the sonos one to play music on all speakers in that group would be. It s the house icon at the bottom right of the screen. System setup 13 sonos speakers dating all the way back to the original and 7 alexa devices including 2 shows. When i say alexa play david bowie everywhere i get ziggy stardust playing in all those rooms.

Here s what you need to do. Software updates i started by updating all speakers my sonos ios app and 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. You most certainly can.

Requires to be close to sonos one and have all speakers grouped. They are two different technologies. The following steps assume you have all the devices and apps set up and ready for multi room. 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. You just cannot group both echos and sonos together. Alexa play playlist name on room name. Alexa play smooth jazz on boombox.

That group may consist of sonos one bedroom sonos play 1 kitchen and maybe a play 5 living room. Associate sonos and echo speakers and create groups you can also associate amazon echo devices with sonos speakers through the alexa app. Alexa does not recognize groups. 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.

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