Only music can be played in a multi room group. Simply use the alexa app to create groups with two or more echo devices by naming the group such as downstairs once youve created the group simply say alexa play john mayer downstairs.
Tap it then scroll down and tap create group.
How to get alexa to play music in all rooms.
Grouping your devices for simultaneous playback.
Customers in the us uk and germany can start using multi room music today on their echo echo dot and echo show devices.
Use the present group names or select custom name and create your own name.
Timers alarms flash briefings and audiobooks will only play on a single device.
How to play music on all or some of your amazon alexa speakers at once you can set up multi room audio in a snap with help from alexa.
Once youve set up all your devices in the alexa app you can use voice commands to play music in different rooms.
Another way to extend alexa is a single echo and a voice remote.
The voice remote uses bluetooth and i was impressed by the range when i tried it out in the cnet smart home.
Then just ask alexa to play music on the group and the sounds are piped to all the devices in that group.
The preferred speaker can be an echo device a speaker from bose or sonos a multi room music group or a speaker set.
You can set up the preferred speaker of a smart home group to stream to with alexa play music.
While youre there in the alexa app we can go ahead and knock out the next step.
To add multiple echo devices to a single group from the alexa app tap devices on the.
Just tap on preferred speaker at the bottom of your smart home group.
Currently this only works on the echo echo dot and echo show.
That will cost 210 and it will give you the best speaker of the set plus an alexa contact point in one room.
Audio from video content does not play on multi room music groups.
Select and set up multi room music.
To do so head back to the settings section and scroll down until you see multi room music.
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