Mixing SONOS and Echo in a house

bazzabear

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I'm hoping someone can give me some advice on a slightly complicated set-up situation. We have SONOS stuff in our house, but we have bought our daughter an Echo Dot for Christmas. (I'm not sure how much use she will give it, so not willing to lay down £150 right away. We may upgrade to a SONOS One in future.)

Anyway, I'm pretty sure we won't be able to group them together, that's not a problem.

But the question I have come to this thread to ask is:

The Dot has arrived alongside an email telling me that the device is automatically registered to me. If it is a gift, I should de-register. But I'm thinking that maybe I should keep it registered to me, so it's part of our device household and can interact and use our wifi. E.g. it might be nice to be able to relay Alexa messages through it to avoid having to scream up the stairs that dinner is ready!

But am I wrong? Is there going to be a downside to this? For instance, she's going to get a Spotify account of her own too. Will it being registered to me make it a pain for her to use to play from her Spotify account?

Thanks for any thoughts or advice.
 
We have a mix of Sonos, Echo and even a Google Hub.

The Echos can play music on the Sonos. You can set up a room so when you talk to the Echo it automatically plays on the Sonos.

There's no need to deregister the Echo, you can just disable purchases. I think the device must be registered to an account to work.

You can register a separate Spotify account to the Echo and it'll play fine through the Sonos.
 
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Well. This didn't work even slightly. it's been a massive pain in the backside to get it to do anything even vaguely as I was hoping.

The Dot is set up in my daughters room, and she has her own Spotify account now. But I can find no way to get it to happily play from her Spotify account.

this link:
community.spotify.com

Re: FAMILY AND ECHO ALEXA

Hey all, If you're interested in using multiple Alexa speakers at the same time, you'll need to not only have separate Spotify accounts, but also separate Amazon accounts. If you'd like you can create an Amazon Household which allows you to have multiple profiles in the same account, and...
community.spotify.com community.spotify.com

suggests that we have to set up separate Amazon and Spotify accounts - but that then means we're on completely different loops - and no idea whether that would cause issues with them being on the same router.

Can't get her phone to connect to the Dot at all to play spotify normally anyway currently. The only way to play her own music through it so far has been to connect the phone to the speaker by bluetooth - and even that was a struggle.
It does appear as a device in Spotify on my own phone, or on my computer - but is greyed out and says unavailable for listening on.

I reckon I'm going to have to leave it a while now so I don't have a meltdown and drop kick it through a window.
 
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