Playing a specific source / playlist / song on Sonos

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Advanced Sonos Commands for Alexa/Echo (choose playlists/radio, control volume, skip songs, etc.)

UPDATED TO REFLECT THE NEW FEATURES OF ECHO-SONOS: I have noticed that many people with Amazon’s Echo and Sonos devices have been wishing that they could do more than just play/pause the music that was already in the Sonos queue. Luckily, someone wrote a really great set of Echo-Sonos instructions on how to integrate Alexa and Sonos. Basically uses jishi’s node-sonos-http-api and merges those commands into a new Alexa skill. Using Echo-Sonos, Echo can: Global commands (no rooms required): Presets: “Alexa, tell Sonos to play Rock” Pause all: “Alexa, tell Sonos to pause all” Resume all: “Alexa, tell Sonos to resume all” Room-specific commands, where “ROOM” could be any of your Sonos room names (eg Kitchen, Master Bedroom, and so on): Playlists: “Alexa, tell Sonos to start playlist…