Alexa In All Rooms

Use the present group names or select custom name and create your own name.

Alexa in all rooms.

To test this try standing in a room where you have just created an alexa enabled group and say alexa turn on the lights if the command works you are all set. 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. This makes sense if you already have a speaker system for. I have them all in a single group.

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. In rooms well separated by walls we re able to use alexa in each room. 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. For example use names like the kitchen the living room and the kids room.

Make sure any other connected devices such as lights thermostats speakers etc in that room are also added to the group. That setup will cost 80. Use the alexa app to create a multi room music group. Audio from video content does not play on multi room music groups.

Multi room audio lets you control music playback on echo speakers. Then just ask alexa to play music on the group and the sounds are piped to all the devices in that. To help make this as simple as possible we suggest you give your echos logical names. The most affordable way to extend alexa to multiple rooms is to buy the echo dot and extend it with the remote.

That way when you ask alexa to drop in or call the echo the voice instructions sound completely natural. 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. How to use alexa to drop in on rooms across your house. First create a group to house the echo devices you want to include in the multi room playback.