Play music on sonos by referring to the room names in your sonos app.
Alexa sonos play in all rooms.
When i did exactly that alexa did not recognize any device.
They are two different technologies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You most certainly can.
Alexa play smooth jazz on boombox.
Your command to alexa via the sonos one to play music on all speakers in that group would be.
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 makes loads of sense to get the two playing nicely.
Voice command works just fine to play music throughout all rooms.
Enjoy all the conveniences of voice control with amazon alexa on sonos.
Alexa does not recognize groups.
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.
That group may consist of sonos one bedroom sonos play 1 kitchen and maybe a play 5 living room.
After you ve added all the speakers rooms you have to give the alexa group a unique name like boombox.
I have several sonos play1 sonos connect and recently got a sonos one.