Amazon Echo Dot and Sonos - How to Voice Control your Sonos speakers!

This is NOT voice controlling a Sonos. It is simple voice controlling an Echo and streaming it through an Aux In on the Sonos. Truly voice controlling Sonos would mean you are controlling the applications built into Sonos, and this does not accomplish that.

What do you need the sonos for? Just plug the dot into your computer speakers.

So what if I have a few play 3's and 5's around the house? If I hook up the the dot to the Sonos Connect, will ALL of my sonos speakers stream my music? Also, can you speak to maybe buying an older connect to save a few bucks like the zp80 or zp90? Thanks for the video, hope to hear back soon! -Adam, Littleton, CO.

Can you help me out? I have a Connect hard wired and a Play5. How are you able to send music to the Play5 thru the Connect? Aren't you sending to the Connect seperately and wifi to the Play5 and you can control it thru the app? Nothing really goes from the Connect to the Play5 directly. Unless you can explain to me what I'm missing (which is a good probability).

Great video Sanjay! I just got the Sonos Connect and Echo dot for my wife for XMAS. It's connected to my Yamaha receiver. However you have to turn on the receiver yourself as Sonos and Echo don't control it. Plus since the Sonos Connect has a different input to the receiver than the TV I don't get any audio out of Alexa if the TV is on so I have to unplug the line from the Echo Dot to the Sonos Connect while the TV is on to ask Alexa questions. If I want to use Alexa to control my Spotify(through the receiver) I have to connect the line back in and switch the receiver input. Any workarounds?

I'm going to try this. I have a Sonos connect that has been sitting around gathering dust the last year and I have a Sonos speaker I'm not using. I also have the Amazon Dot.what kind of cable did you use for the line out of the Dot?

You are not controlling the Sonos with the Echo, you are bypassing the Sonos. You could have used the audio out from the Echo straight to you speaker amp. That is not a good move (if your speakers are any good).

The Echo Dot is inexpensive, has several microphones, has a speaker, wifi, a bluetooth transmitter and also, what must be, a very cheap DAC (digital to audio converter). Your Sonos Connect should have a much better DAC, but you're not using it. You're streaming over the Echo Dot's compressed wifi, and using a cheap DAC.

Instead you should be using the Echo Dot to "Tell Sonos to play Coldplay" and Sonos will stream the music with its own (specifically designed) wifi, and use its own DAC.

There was no point in you having the sonos connect in that setup. You just wasted £500

Maybe this was already answered but are you using a 3.5mm headphone jack cable?
How are you using a single line out to a dual line in? I'm confused....

Hi Sanjay, Thanks for the video. I just wanted to know as you selected "Line in" on the Sonos what happens when you want to play your own music collection through Sonos and NOT using the dot to do it. As an example I dont have spotify but quite a large collection on Hard Drive, which Sonos uses to play. so when i use my Sonos controller ( on my phone ) will Sonos Switch from "Line in" and play my Library, or do you have to switch it back from "line in" to play your music?

And now i have the same Question in Reverse! If it does switch Automatically as the last thing i did was play my Sonos Library i then talk to the dot, will Sonos detect the Dot's voice and switch " on " the line in


I guess i am just trying to rule out if switching things about is going to be a pain. My wife uses Sonos most mornings before work, so when i get back home at night can i just talk to the Dot without switching the line in back on

I have a question can you use sonos connect and link a Home theatre system that you already have I have Panasonic sound bar and sub which is really good quality can I link with the Sonos connect and add to Sonos play 1 as my rear speakers ? Great video by the way

Well, that is a cute way to listen to streamed music through a SONOS unit, but the title mislead me to come here.  I would not call it "Controlling" your Sonos with the Echo".  That would imply I can tell Sonos to play  music from my local library on my network or perhaps tell Sonos which rooms to play music, change volume, etc.  I would have made the title to read "playing streamed music through sonos."  I guess I will have to wait for Amazon to release a skill to control my sonos.   Nice video though.

I'll be getting at least a Dot to play around with. Thanks for the video. I'm reading that Yonomi App might be able to do the same thing without a Connect. So, Dot > Yonomi > Sonos. Fun times!

@Sanjay My only question is if in your current set-up you bought another echo dot and put it somewhere else in the house, but near or connected to a Sonos Play. When you spoke to the far away  dot would it still play music through the Sonos speakers by talking to the dot that is connect to the Play? Does that make sense.

So I would have to spend $400 bucks on a connect: amp to connect a 50 dollar product?

"I'm not going pull it out and show you that"...... I would hope not! 0-0

Hi Sanjay, just to be clear, is your Sonos speaker in the bathroom wired to your connect or is it playing 'wirelessly''?

Your best songs ever includes Cold Play!! How can you be taken seriously! Ha. Thanks for video.

so my question is... what if your wife's name is Alexa?

Great video! I have one question with your set up, particularly since you mentioned that you have the Echo (I presume in another room) and the Echo Dot. I understand that you can directly speak to the 'Dot' and have it play music through Sonos Connect, and have it broadcast to all Sonos speakers (as well as whatever is physically attached to the Connect). However, can you also directly speak to the main Amazon Echo (the taller one!) and have it play music through all your speakers?