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General Category => Alexa Across the Pond (Europe) => Topic started by: Stuart Hamilton on January 10, 2018, 07:00:08 am

Title: Playing music through more than one Bluetooth speaker
Post by: Stuart Hamilton on January 10, 2018, 07:00:08 am

I have an Echo in the kitchen and have managed to pair it with a Bose Solo soundbar in the sitting room but cannot get it to play music through both at the same time.
The only help I can find says to create a Multi-room music group on the Alexa app, but this doesn't seem possible without a second Echo device in the sitting room.
I can play the music through either the Echo in the kitchen or the Bluetooth connected soundbar in the sitting room but not both.
Any advice?

Title: Re: Playing music through more than one Bluetooth speaker
Post by: fstbusa on January 10, 2018, 08:26:03 am

you can't.  As you have already discovered, you could if you have more than 1 echo device but with a single device, you are allowed a single output.

Title: Re: Playing music through more than one Bluetooth speaker
Post by: samsethi on January 11, 2018, 02:47:54 pm

Hi Stuart


You are correct.  You can either play the output on your echo or the output on your bose soundbar. To play on both you need to either get a second dot and connect it to your soundbar.  Then create a multiroom group and say "play xxxx on the group everywhere" - the sound will come out of your soundbar and your echo dot.  You could even add a second better speaker to your kitchen via the aux port and then you have two good sound speakers connected to echo dots. 

Sam

Title: Re: Playing music through more than one Bluetooth speaker
Post by: Stuart Hamilton on January 11, 2018, 04:10:57 pm

Thank you both for your replies. Very useful and will stop me searching for a way of doing it. Sounds like i'll be buying another echo for the sitting room.
:-)