Setup Instructions for My Speaker

Hardware Requirements

Some Alexa-compatible hardware (eg an Echo or a Dot or a Sonos One)
A configured Sonos system
An iOS device (iPhone/iPad) or a Windows 10 PC connected to the same network as your Sonos system
Music! Either a library of mp3 files or a music service subscription
Supported music services are:
- Amazon Music
- Apple Music
- iHeartRadio
- Napster
- Pandora
- Slacker
- Spotify
- Tidal
Other Sonos-supported music services may work with varying degrees of success. If you have a problem with one, please email us and we will see if we can improve it.

One-Time Configuration

Say 'Alexa, open My Speaker' - this will create a card in the Alexa app which will let you:
Login via your Sonos account (if you can't remember the details, check in the Sonos app itself)
On your iOS or Windows 10 PC, install the app from the link given
Start the app on your device
The app will find your Sonos players, and say it is ready
Your Amazon account is now linked with your Sonos network, so you can start talking!
For a list of things to say, click the menu item 'Things to say' in the app

How does it compare to the official Sonos Alexa integration?

When we created My Speaker we assumed the official Sonos Alexa integration would make it obsolete. We were wrong! My Speaker offers many features that the official solution does not, and here is our summary:

Alexa Speech Integration Features
Feature	My Speaker	Sonos
Local music support	✔	✘
Spotify	✔	✘
Apple Music	✔	✘
Pandora	✔	✔
Tune-In	✔	✔
Amazon Music	✔	✔
Group/Ungroup Players	✔	✘
Group Volume Control	✔	✘
Remembers last room	✔	✘
Remembers last music service	✔	✘
Supported countries	USA,UK,Canada,Australia,India	USA,UK,Germany,Others
Alexa Invocation	tell My Speaker to play artist	play artist in the roomname
Other Supported Music Services	iHeartRadio Napster Slacker TIDAL Many others	Google Music iHeartRadio SiriusXM

In fact if you enable both the official Sonos Skill and My Speaker you can get automatic-volume-reduction-when-you-say-Alexa (known as 'ducking') with the extra features of My Speaker.

Important Notes

The My Speaker app will need to be on a device that is on the same network as your Sonos equipment - if it powers down or you take it to Starbucks, you won't be able to talk to your Sonos speakers.

The app will be automatically run in the background if it is not explicitly started.

You can run the app on as many devices are you like, even a mixture of iOS and Windows. So long as one of them can be found, My Speaker will work.

iOS users: If you force-kill the app you will need to manually start it, once, for iOS to run it in the background in future.