Sonos Group Rooms Alexa

Sonos makes the best multi room audio system and with its echo devices and alexa amazon arguably makes the best voice assistant ecosystem.

Sonos group rooms alexa. 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. Enjoy all the conveniences of voice control with amazon alexa on sonos. I have 5 rooms of sonos gear and a group called everywhere in which i have added and preferred all my sonos speakers. And an update to the sonos skill means that when you now talk to alexa on the sonos player in the same room ducks its volume rather than your entire system see how to use alexa with sonos for.

I ve groups of speakers in living room bedroom1 bedroom2 and kitchen. From what i can see it will always be overridden by the sonos app. It makes loads of sense to get the two playing nicely. From the rooms pane on the left side of the app click the group button next to the selected room.

If i group all the rooms in sonos then tell alexa to play radio 1 in the kitchen it plays to all speakers. Tap the rooms you want to add to the group then tap done you can also tap everywhere to group all of your rooms. From the system tab tap group next to the selected room. You can t group sonos devices for multi room audio within the alexa app you have to use the sonos app.

They are two different technologies. I have made a group called everywhere in alexa which i selected all the sonos groups. When talking to an alexa enabled device like an echo dot that s in the same alexa group as sonos you ll no longer need to say the room name when giving sonos a command. Then from your echo dot use the command alexa play soft jazz on sonos room name and audio will be output on all sonos devices grouped with that device.

Just select the rooms tab on the sonos app to group the sonos devices together. Select the rooms you want to add to the group then click done. When a sonos speaker is associated with an echo device or a collection of echo devices within a group in the alexa app then commands made to that specific echo. With alexa s preferred speaker feature you can put multiple sonos products together in one alexa group like downstairs or outside then play music to all of.

The entire group will then play it in sync. 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. The good news is that creating these groups also prevents the annoying situation of your sonos speakers are muted in the whole house when an alexa command is made in another room. You just cannot group both echos and sonos together.

Group using the sonos app then tell alexa to play to any grouped speaker. You can also group after the fact.