Sonos

With this skill, you can ask Alexa to play music from Alexa music services – including Spotify Premium, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn, SiriusXM and iHeartRadio – on your Sonos One or from an Amazon Echo device wirelessly connected to your Sonos speakers (in open beta). Start music from more than 80 other popular music services with the Sonos app, and tell Alexa to pause, resume and turn up the volume.

When starting music on Sonos using an Amazon Echo device, you must specify the name of the speaker you wish to control. For example, you must say, “Alexa, play Lorde in the living room.” This is temporary as we work to refine the Alexa on Sonos open beta experience. This is not required for Sonos One users. For control commands such as “next,” “pause” or “resume,” you are not required to refer to the Sonos speaker name.

Example Interactions:
“Alexa, play music for meditation in the bedroom”
“Alexa, play top hits from the 1970s in the kitchen”
“Alexa, pause the kitchen”
“Alexa, resume the kitchen”
“Alexa, what is playing in the living room?”
“Alexa, turn up the volume in the bathroom”
“Alexa, volume 5 on the patio”
“Alexa, mute the kitchen”
“Alexa, repeat the song in the kitchen”

The Sonos Skill is currently only supported in the US, Canada (English-only), UK, Germany and Austria. Please note that you must have the Sonos app to use the Sonos skill. Download the Sonos app https://www.sonos.com/controller-app and check out the Sonos system requirements at https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/127/~/sonos-system-requirements

Setup Steps:
1. Click “Enable” to begin the setup process.
2. Log into Sonos using your Sonos account credentials.
3. After confirming your account information, click “Discover” to discover your Sonos devices, or simply say “Alexa, discover my devices.” (Note: Discovery takes 20-30 seconds. We recommend waiting 30 seconds after discovery completes to play music.)
4. Play music on Sonos by referring to the room names in your Sonos app. For example, if you have a Sonos room called “Kitchen,” request “Alexa, play music in the Kitchen.”


Troubleshooting:
- If music playback initially fails, try running discovery again by saying, “Alexa, discover my devices,” and wait 30 seconds after discovery completes to play music.
- If you would like to rename your Sonos rooms, do so in the Sonos app, and once complete, try discovery again.
- If Alexa responds, “Something went wrong,” wait 10 seconds and try again. If the problem occurs again, contact Sonos customer support https://www.sonos.com/contact/voice-control/contact-options
- Check out the Sonos system requirements https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/127/~/sonos-system-requirements


Additional Things to Know About our Open Beta:
- You cannot yet request playback of music from Sonos services, playlists and personal libraries.
- You cannot yet use your voice to group rooms together. (For example, “Group the kitchen and living room” or “Move music from the kitchen to the patio.”) Please use the Sonos app for grouping.
- Each time an Alexa input device hears the wake word (“Alexa”), the volume will be lowered on all Sonos speakers in the home so the question can be heard and you can understand the response. Eventually, this functionality will change to only lower the volume in the room you are controlling.
- Custom room names (e.g. David’s Bedroom) work with Alexa, but Alexa might have a hard time with less common room names, so it’s best to keep it simple.
- To control volume, we recommend always using “volume” in the request. For example, “Volume up in the kitchen,” “Volume down in the bedroom,” “Volume 3 on the patio,” “Turn up the volume in the living room.”


Additional Things to Know about Sonos One:
- Sonos One does not support the following Alexa features: Drop In, Calling and Messaging, as well as setting reminders and receiving notifications.
- Sonos One does not yet support Audible and eBooks.