Alexa In All Rooms

How to use alexa to drop in on rooms across your house.

Alexa in all rooms.

Use the alexa app to create a multi room music group. Select and set up multi room music. The most affordable way to extend alexa to multiple rooms is to buy the echo dot and extend it with the remote. Multi room audio lets you control music playback on echo speakers.

If you re asking alexa to play music on an echo device in one room but another alexa enabled device starts playing music somewhere else there are a few solutions to try. But there is an area in our house where three rooms are easily within the various devices earshot. First create a group to house the echo devices you want to include in the multi room playback. To help make this as simple as possible we suggest you give your echos logical names.

Alexa has all sorts of tricks up her sleeve but voice activated playback of your favorite music has always been front and center this week amazon doubled down on her ability to stream tunes by. Fire up the alexa mobile app tap the menu button in the top corner of the screen tap settings device settings tap the plus button and then tap add multi room music speakers continue. That way when you ask alexa to drop in or call the echo the voice instructions sound completely natural. Then just ask alexa to play music on the group and the sounds are piped to all the devices in that.

I have them all in a single group. In rooms well separated by walls we re able to use alexa in each room. Use the present group names or select custom name and create your own name. Audio from video content does not play on multi room music groups.

That setup will cost 80. This makes sense if you already have a speaker system for. If you ask alexa what is playing she tells you the song on the group that you hear in maybe one or two rooms top but there is no sound. Make sure any other connected devices such as lights thermostats speakers etc in that room are also added to the group.