The room name appears in the 'room settings' section of the app and may look something like this. it’s a thing Sonos call 'Bonding' and is created from within the Apps 'room settings' section, so your Beam and it’s surrounds (when 'bonded') show as just one single room. When you setup your Beam and it’s two Play:1 surrounds, that is actually different to the term 'grouping'. Sorry if any of the below info is teaching you to 'suck eggs' and you are already fully aware of these things, but it maybe useful anyway to some others reading this thread. Ok, so for grouping sonos speakers without alexa you need to group using the sonos app, and for grouping sonos speakers with alexa you can use mutiroom from the alexa app.īUT, i don't want to group anything, i just want alexa to start playing in my office where there is just a sonos play5. Then from your Echo Dot use the command 'Alexa, play soft jazz on ' 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. You can't group Sonos devices for multi room audio within the Alexa App, you have to use the Sonos App. Like the OP, I cannot find any Audio Group command set up in Settings. Alex (Echo Dot) recognizes my two sonos systems (Playdeck and two Sonos Play Ones plus a standalone Play # in another room), but says I need to set up a multiroom group using the Audio Groups section of Settings in the Alexa App. Nobody actually addressed this guys Q directly. ![]() there are too many patents/licences at stake, plus a strong competitive market is much better for the consumer and will help to drive the business forward. many think it may not ever happen at all, though some partnerships are beginning to emerge. One day we may see cross platform speaker grouping happen, where everything is playable on 'everything' in perfect sync, but I’m not going to hold my breath whilst waiting for this to happen. I guess the closest step towards a multi-speaker cross-platform music system is Apple's new AirPlay 2 protocol, but even then, it still has a long way to go to get things in sync, plus the audio plays through the controller device rather than direct from the audio source to 3rd party speakers. ![]() I can’t see this changing too much in the neat future. Presently the Amazon and Sonos speakers operate entirely separate from each other, in the same way that Sonos and Bose and other speakers do not work together through their Apps. ![]() Sonos has its own Multi-Room grouping system in the Sonos App, which is faster/easier to group/ungroup speakers 'on the fly' and supports stereo paired speakers and those in a bonded home theatre setup. Not really the Amazon Alexa 'Multi-Room Music Groups' is currently just for Amazon echo devices only, which are all standalone and cannot be stereo paired etc. The fact this has not been added in almost a year is very disappointing Then I tried to group the speakers and it didn’t know the command. I purchased the beam and just enabled Alexa and the first thing I tried after haveing it play so Music is to also play the current song on another speaker and no go. Wow I can not believe this is not a feature yet.
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