Very much appreciated. Are you looking to pick up a Play 1... I assume?

@@KevinRossRN Actually I have a surround sound system (Beam, 2 Play:1s, Sub, Boost). I watched your original video on the Play:1 before I bought my first pair; then added the Beam and Sub and Boost. i am glad you updated the original video because I had some issues with some of the things mentioned (how Sonos streamed music). From time to time I rewatch some of my favorite videos, so this isn't the first time I viewed this video, just the first time I felt motivated enough to comment. Again, good work, and please make more videos about Sonos. Thanks!

Well again, I really appreciate the comment. And, yes, there was a lot that changed from my original video, and actually a few things that I was misinformed on, but with failure comes learning. That sounds like a great set up, and I have a feeling I'll put more Sonos content out. Keep being awesome and enjoying those speakers. 👊🔉

@@KevinRossRN Thanks -- I'll be watching. --Steve

Awesome. And yes, the mood does hit me and I just can't stop myself. Hope you enjoy your setup. I've had these for five years and they still rock. Let me know how the setup goes. 👊

I’ll be interested to hear whether you’re able to get this working where you are.

Thanks 🙏 Happy to have helped.

That’s awesome to hear. My kid now uses these speakers and they’re still going strong. 🤘

Much appreciated! And yes, that does make sense. Good luck with your buying decision. Let me know how it works out.

That's awesome to hear. Agree that these sound great. A friend of mine has the same setup and it really fills the whole main floor living space.

Thanks! I use them on the daily and they've held up quite well. Be sure to keep me posted on what you decide.

I've bought three Play 1's last week and I'm very happy with them. The Sound from these small speakers is amazing. Thinking of replacing my Amazon Echo with a Sonos One next.

now that sounds like you've got quite the cool set up there. Glad to be of help to you, feel free to keep me posted on how things go with setting up the echo Dot.

Nice! We still use this setup on the daily. My pleasure to help. 👊💥

Thanks! Well, yes, this video was certainly quite a few years after the original one if that's what you're referring to. Still rocking these speakers though...How about you?

@@KevinRossRN Yes, same original 2 Play:1s, a Beam, a Sub, and three Ports. Maybe in a year or so a new TV, an Sonos Arc and a Gen 3 Sub.

Wow! You are certainly invested in the system. Glad to hear these are still working out for you.

You mean linking the Sonos speaker (Play 1) to another speaker that's not a Sonos speaker? Or are you having issues with two Sonos speakers not connecting to use either in the same room, or in different rooms?

Thinking about hitting the 🍀later

Happy to help. Yes, using the FireTV stick (with the remote) does work. Hold down the microphone on the remote and just say stream (whatever music service) in the office, or living room, or wherever your speaker is.

And thank you. 🤙

Great question. Unfortunately, this feature doesn't seem to work on the Play 1's...you'd think that it would be possible 🤷‍♂️

Actually, this was the correction to that other video. When that video went live, about a week later Sonos got rid of the bridge. No bridge needed my friend. You are good to go to enjoy. This video just discussed the ability to pair with an Alexa, which just adds some features, but also not necessary.

@@KevinRossRN Yes, I called Sonos and they said that my Play 1 pair of speakers didn't need a bridge and would work on the S2 app unless they were more than 50 feet apart with a weak wifi signal. So, I'm just going to set them up in the office with just the app. Thanks again.

Yep, I use mine wirelessly without the bridge and it’s been just fine. Still have them in rotation after all these years.

Well, that depends. The echo dot breathes some new life in the original Play 1's, however to answer your question further, I'm still using these and haven't "upgraded." There's still a couple extra features in the Sonos One, like Airplay as a built in functionality, as an example, but that's also something I don't use. The speakers themselves are pretty much the same. And, if you have a dot laying around, to me it's a no-brainer to save some cash... My opinion of course.

@@KevinRossRN I like saving cash. I almost never airplay music. I use it all the time for the TV however. thank you

@@reyesben I'm with you on saving some cash. Best of luck with your final decision. 👊🔊🎶

This is from a forum that a user reported the same issue, however it seems that these steps worked. There's three options: 1/ Duplicate device names - Alexa prefers that names for Devices, Groups and Scenes are unique, 1.1/ Please open up the Alexa App>Smart Home and make a note of any duplicate device names; 1.2/ You can then change them in the source app. e.g. Use the Sonos App to change the name of Sonos players. (I personally use the naming standard Room Name + Device type. e.g. Kitchen Sonos, Kitchen Echo Dot, Lounge Sonos, etc) 1.3/ Once you have changed any duplicate names then please In the Sonos app, select Settings>Room Settings and for each of the Sonos One's sign into 'Voice Services' and select 'Remove Amazon Alexa from this Room'; 1.4/ In the Alexa app, select the Alexa Icon in the centre of the row of Icons at the bottom of the screen and ask ‘Alexa, Discover Devices’. 1.5/ Here is a link to my naming standards: en.community.sonos.com/amazon-alexa-and-sonos-229102/best-practices-for-naming-of-devices-6819283/index1.html 2/ Some form of Account Linking or Authorization has not completed successfully. There are a number of causes for this and it's best to try these steps 1 at a time and test before moving on to the next step if the problem persists: 2.1/ Open the Alexa App>Skills>Your Skills>Sonos and 'Disable' followed by 'Enable'; 2.2/ Ensure that you don't have multiple Amazon accounts logged into different Apps on your device, as this can confuse the Amazon Authorization. If yes, then please log out of the other accounts and then complete step 2.1 again; 2.3/ If the problem still persists, please logout of all Amazon accounts then select the Alexa App>Skills>Your Skills>Sonos and 'Disable. Now power down all Sonos devices for 10 secs, allowing for any wired devices to boot before booting the remaining Sonos players. Now log back into the Alexa App>Skills>Sonos and 'Enable' 3/ If the problem persists then an entire reset of the Authorization & Account Linking process is required: 3.1/ In the Alexa app, select Skills>Your Skills>Sonos and then 'Disable'; 3.2 In the Alexa app, select ‘Devices>All Devices'. Now select each Sonos Device in turn and click the Trash Can in the top right of the screen; 3.3/ In the Sonos app, select Settings>Room Settings and for each of the Sonos One's sign into 'Voice Services' and select 'Remove Amazon Alexa from this Room'; 3.4/ If you have any wired Sonos devices, please power down for 10 secs and then switch on and wait for it to boot; 3.5/ Now power down all other Sonos Players for 10 secs then switch them back on and wait for them to boot; 3.6/ In the Sonos app, Select Manage>Add a player or sub' and add the Sonos One's again. This will complete the set-up process again; 3.7/ In the Alexa app, select Skills>Your Skills and ensure the Sonos skill is 'Enabled', if not please 'Enable'; 3.8/ In the Alexa app, select the Alexa Icon in the centre of the row of Icons at the bottom of the screen and ask ‘Alexa, Discover Devices’. Ensure that your Sonos One's are displayed correctly and not shown as 'Off Line'. 3.9/ Also check one last time that there are no devices with the same name. Remember, if there is a need to rename any then you'll need to carry out step 3.8 again. Let me know if any of this works. I haven't had this issue, but curious to see if this resolves what's going on.

So you're saying that in the Sonos app you can't pair them? But the app recognizes them both, correct?

@@KevinRossRN I seem to be able to get them to play the same music at the same time, but it isn't surround sound as I thought it would be.

Thank you! So that's a great question. When you select the Play 1 as the preferred speaker, it will then play music back through those speakers. However, if you ask about weather or some other command, it will still play through the echo dot. Hoping for an update myself on this skill.

Now this is definitely a unique question. So with the skills set in Alexa, this is just acting as the remote for Sonos to stream that music that it can already do on its own...However with this turntable setup I don't think this will work. I'd have to search to see if there is a specific skill for this, but I don't believe you'd be able to have the turntable go through the Alexa (as a bridge) and then beam that over to the Sonos, unfortunately. Let me dig around a little.

@@KevinRossRN cheers bud, appreciate your help 🍻

You bet. I'm still looking. 👍

Thanks. I do not, but my friend does and he loves the beam paired up with the Play ones. It's pretty awesome actually. Very full sound throughout the entire open floor plan. Not to mention the ease of streaming without any other hardware.

@@KevinRossRN Hey many thanks for the prompt response!

@@qccanales8610 you bet... I appreciate you weighing in here 👊💥

Appreciate you reaching out. Honestly, as a standalone solution it wouldn't be feasible. You'd want to start here: amzn.to/2LXAXin and then build something out, which you could pair the Sonos speakers to. A little extra $, yes, but it's really where you'll need to start.

Yes, you can stop the play via Alexa. The Sonos is basically in a standby mode... Essentially, so it's not really turned "off" in a traditional sense of a switch. You can increase/decrease the volume via the Alexa... You'd just say "Alexa, turn the volume up in the office." Do you currently have a Play 1?

@@KevinRossRN yes i know i am asking if you can put in to stand by mode , like i have bose and if i play sound in living room and i am in the bedroom i can say alexa turn off bose than bose in living room going to stand by mode basically turn off sound and 2 wiestion can you say alexa vol on sonos 50% or volume level 5

@@rafal1509 So an example use case that may answer your question. I have Sonos on all levels... "Alexa, stream Pandora in the office..." Let's say I leave the office and head downstairs. "Alexa, pause the office." "Alexa, stream Spotify in the basement" I can switch between these two no problem, and even stream different stations on Pandora on different speakers. It doesn't recognize "standby" but will pause the station and then you can go back to it later and resume if you want. As far as volume, it's numeric from 0-10. So, it would be "Alexa, turn volume up in office to 4"

So Alexa and/or your phone become the remote, which would be on the same network... So, if you're asking Alexa to say stream Pandora or Spotify from your phone, it's still using the Sonos app to connect to the speaker... If you have more details or specifics I'll try to answer them as I'm not sure if this is the exact question you had.

I use my echo dot as a bluetooth speaker to play local media stored on my phone. Can that music go to sonos via echo dot.

So this is one area where the Airplay compatibility of the Sonos One (not the Play 1) is needed. The Sonos app allows for streaming from a media server (NAS or Computer), which didn't use to be the case years ago. However with the media server functionality, this is "exclusive" to those types of devices mentioned above, so not a smartphone. The Sonos One however does have Alexa built into it, but what you'd really be doing is streaming through AirPlay 2 functionality of that speaker. So, my recommendation would be to look at the Sonos One if streaming locally stored (on your phone) media is what you're trying to stream.

@@KevinRossRN thank you.. that clears my query :)

Great! Happy to help. And best of luck with whatever you decide my friend. 🎧🔈

Thanks! You'd need to go with a Sonos One that has Airplay support or something like the Playbar. You'd be tied up in a crazy workaround that probably wouldn't give you what you needed with the Play 1...unfortunately.

Kevin Ross LOL I already own two Play1’s and I was looking for a workaround until my new tv arrived as my old one lost sound for some reason. Thanks for the advise tho.

@@louishendricks3rd801 OH man! Wish I could offer better advice... I've just not been able to get it to work. Bummer. 👊

Download the Sonos app for your phone, or your computer. Everything gets set up (step-by-step) inside of the app. Very intuitive actually.

Actually, I did have Alexa stream to the speaker at around 14:30...if you didn't catch it, feel free to check it out. Do you have a Play 1 or looking to get your hands on one?

Yes they do. Indeed 😉

For the challenged attention span, TikTok is down the hall and to the left. 👈

@@KevinRossRN So, KZfaq is nonsense chattering...OoooK sir!

Well, some of it is, however it goes back to the dwindling attention span. “Review” is literally in the title of the video. If it was just about the Alexa setup then maybe the argument would have more weight. Although, if I had a fragile ego, then I wouldn’t be creating on the platform. So that being said, you are very much entitled to your opinion and more than welcome to find what you’re looking for either here, or on another channel. Have an awesome day 🤘

@@KevinRossRN Sure, 2' max for this review content and another say 1' for the Alexa setup tops! Rest 13' is talking up a storm! Have a good one!