Considering SmartThings: How exactly does it work with Sonos?

[JDRoberts]

Continuing the discussion from Alexa + SmartThings + IFTTT + Harmony to turn TV on and off by voice:

@Fubie

Hi everyone! I’m a Newbie to Smartthings itself as my first Smartthings will be the V2 that I pre ordered last week.

The reason I ordered one is because I already have 2 x Echo’s(Alexa’s) 4 x Sonos Speakers, The Harmony Ultimate remote and some Hue Bulbs.

From what I thought since these all integrate thru the Smartthings Hub once I have them activated in the Smartthings Hub I could just issue voice commands to my echo and it would just work.

Example: I have a playlist called “Stuff” I would not be able to just say… Alexa, start playlist Stuff on Sonos in the Office?

I’m not slamming at all I just want to know what I will need to do after setting up the Smartthings Hub once it get’s here.

Thank you for any insight, it is most appreciated.

I don’t have Sonos, but a lot of community members do, so hopefully they can answer your question here.

@btk @smart @MichaelS @dfairbro1

[dfairbro1 (Dawn Fairbro)]

Welcome @Fubie also have Sonos and Echo. I was able to get Alexa to play Sonos by saying Alexa play (turn on, not sure which) Kitchen Sonos. worked great. It just started playing the last Pandora station I was listing to. Still working out how to do play list and volume control … but it dose work. It was an easy setup as I am just an average end user… not a programmer or coder.

[Tyler]

@JDRoberts

Example: I have a playlist called “Stuff” I would not be able to just say… Alexa, start playlist Stuff on Sonos in the Office?

You’d be able to do this with a bit of work. You’d need to create a virtual switch on your SmartThings account and use the Sonos Mood Music to trigger that playlist when you turn on a virtual switch with Alexa.

[Fubie]

Awesome!

If you have more commands as you play with it I would appreciate it if you could post them!

[JDRoberts]

It sounds like you may be able to start the Sonos device with just a simple echo command, but if you want to start a specific playlist that wasn’t the last one playing, you may have to go back to the virtual switches concept.