Pause Sonos pausing Sonos obviously today I can now combine my Google Home
this is a Google Home Hub but you can have a Google Home a Google Home Mini or
a Google Home Hub just like I have and you can combine it with any Sonos speaker
today and I'm going to show you how to do that let's get going all right now if
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today we're gonna go through some extra functions that you can have here with a
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your life now on the topic of Google Home and so knows what I have here today
is a Sonos Play:1 speaker so this is one of the oldest versions of the Sonos
products in like I said this is going to work with basically anything on the
market from Sonos today what we're going to do is connect these two services
through another service called if this than that (IFTTT.com) and you saw what I could do
there I played a specific specific song actually and you can play any of your
favorites in your Sonos library so I'm going to take you through now how to do
all that but let's just do a little bit more in terms of demos here so hey
Google resume Sonos resuming Sonos set Sonos volume to 30 Sonos volumes set
to 30 so you can see right there it did drop down Google pause Sonos pausing
Sonos hey Google start Sonos okay now playing on Sonos
hey Google pause Sonos okay so you could see there that I went through I started
different favorites there it's just going to be different commands that you
can give I paused I resumed and I changed the volume all of that was set
up in a matter of five minutes so let's go through now a demo here on the
computer on your mobile whatever you'd like to use and get this set up for you
in your home I've gone ahead and gone to ifttt.com and I already have an account
there you're going to need to sign up for that as soon as you go to that
website you'll see a sign-up process get an account there you're also going to
need to do two other things here I'm just going to show you how to do that
through the search so the first thing I'm going to search for is Google
Assistant you will need to connect this service so you can see I'm going to the
services tab tapping on Google Assistant and top right it says settings for me
but what you would have there is connect if you didn't already connect that
service to if this than that same thing for Sonos here I'm going to
go to the service and Sonos is right here so you're going to need to connect
Sonos and Google Assistant and as well you're going to need an if this than
that account now top right I can go to new applet and from here I can tap on
the plus and now I search for Google Assistant once I tap on that you can see
there's four choices here and I'm just going to choose say a simple phrase you
may need to choose a different one later now just to show you my Deadpool
throwback I'm going to say just "Wham!" to my Google Assistant and or I could say
Deadpool throwback if I'd like and of course what I want the Assistant to say
is Deadpool throwback on Sonos and then I tap on create trigger now we move
forward from there let's hit the that portion of this choose Sonos and here I
want to show you just a ton of things that you can do with Sonos this is rare
for me I haven't seen these many control functions from a service in a long time
so you can play any of your favorites that's the my Sonos component
in the Sonos application you can play a stream which is straight from a URL so
you could pick a radio station straight off the internet and choose that you can
skip back and forth and tracks volume up and down or you can set the volume like
you saw earlier in the demo a mute and an unmute function allows you to mute
the sound but continue the play back in the background and of course you can go
ahead and pause and unpause which will stop and start the music as you'd like
now for this action I'm going to tap on play favorite and now I'm just going to
choose which favorite and you can see in here I have a ton of different favorites
I have radio stations I'm going to choose the Careless Whisper here but I
have radio stations I have playlists I have albums I have artists whatever you
want and you can choose which devices in which rooms and you can now of course
group rooms within the Sonos application as well so I'm going to click create
action and now we're done here this is all created and now anytime I say Wham
to any Google Assistant that includes a Google Home a Google Home Mini whatever
it's now going to play that song for me and now what I can do from there is I
can use a number of other applets or create a number of other applets here so
there's a couple of pre-made ones that you'll find on so Sonos' page when you
just search for it here on if this than that so you can see this one use Google
Assistant to set the volume to 0 to 100 so I just have to say set solos volume
to and that number sign is a variable that you will actually say as part of
your command and it will set it to that in the room you'd like if you'd like you
can include grouped rooms that's that applet right there you could of course
create it through the process I just showed you as well
you saw me resume Google Assistant again this is on the Sonos page and you could
just simply search for this within the if this than that service as well you
can play a favorite and this is the other one that I was I
was using earlier in the video where I just said start so no so you know guys
overall there's not a lot to tell you beyond this I will show you how to make
sure that things show up in your favorite list here on the Sonos
application so let's switch over to my iPhone now down at the bottom of the
Sonos application you can see my solos and just as I scroll through here you're
seeing all the different items now I just brought up the Careless Whisper
they're the song from Deadpool that's how I chose that you can see I can also
choose an album a playlist a song or a radio station if I'd like and that's
just what I have set up here now if you wanted to you could go to another part
of the application called the search portion you can search for whatever
you'd like I'm going to search for Wham that's the artist actually and you can
see it's connected to Google Play Music and I can choose top songs and if I tap
the top right three dots I can add that playlist to my Sonos and now when I go
back to them my sono side of the application you can see top songs that
one on the left is what I just added that's now accessible from if this than
that if I'd like to choose that as a favorite with a different commands so
there you have it everyone that's basically how I got to the point of
playing anything I wanted on my solos through my Google Home or Google
Assistant I hope this has helped you out and of course if it has go ahead and
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