Amazon Echo help

[Mike_J_Smith]

I bought 2 Echo Studio's in the Amazon Prime Day sale.

I've set them up and they work well for me, but I was expecting that other friends and family members would just be able to connect to it and play music through it, but it looks like there is no easy way of doing that.

For example, my wife wanted to play some music when we had friends round, but she can't connect to the Studio. In the end she had to set it up as her device, which removed it as one of mine.

In the US they have guest connect, which sounds good but we don't have that in the UK.

It looks like the only way is for me to add my wife to an Amazon Household account, but that seems like a faff and doesnt allow visitors to play.

Is there a way to do it or have I just bought the wrong things?

 

[goldy6660]

What would the purpose of guest connect to be? Wouldn't it just use the services you have anyway? Short of Bluetooth I can't see why it'd be a benefit

 

[Mike_J_Smith]

What would the purpose of guest connect to be? Wouldn't it just use the services you have anyway? Short of Bluetooth I can't see why it'd be a benefit

It would allow other people (family members and house guests) to use the speaker to play music through.

At the moment (as far as I can tell) I am the only person who can play music through the speaker. I was hoping that it would just work as a bluetooth or airplay type speaker and allow others to easily play music through it. Hopefully I'm wrong, hence the post, but I think I might just go back to Sonos.

 

[Kenai]

It should work as a Bluetooth speaker, put it into pairing mode, pair with it from the phone/whatever you're trying to play from, play music. Just as any other Bluetooth speaker functions really afaik.

 

[Mike_J_Smith]

It should work as a Bluetooth speaker, put it into pairing mode, pair with it from the phone/whatever you're trying to play from, play music. Just as any other Bluetooth speaker functions really afaik.

Well, I've just bluetooth connected to the speaker which we had set up as my wife's, so I'm hoping we were just being idiots yesterday and it is that easy! Couldn't get it to work at all yesterday, but it was hot and we were busy trying to sort out my 10 yr olds birthday party - that's my excuse anyway. I'll re-add it as my device and check my wife can connect over bluetooth.

 

[jrwagh333]

I mean... you could just talk to it to tell it to play something.

 

[Mike_J_Smith]

I mean... you could just talk to it to tell it to play something.

ha, yes. It's not really the same as browsing and selecting soungs / stations though. It kind of works, but not the same thing.

 

[goldy6660]

Can't everyone use the services you have if they just ask for whichever music? That's the way it works for anyone in our house, just uses my Deezer account

 

[Kenai]

Can't everyone use the services you have if they just ask for whichever music? That's the way it works for anyone in our house, just uses my Deezer account

Still useful to have the Bluetooth functionality - lets people play music from services you don't have, playlists they've got setup, maybe even music stored on their device.

 

[goldy6660]

Still useful to have the Bluetooth functionality - lets people play music from services you don't have, playlists they've got setup, maybe even music stored on their device.

Like others have said though can't they just take a second and pair it?

 

[Kenai]

Like others have said though can't they just take a second and pair it?

Bluetooth pairing doesn't enable Alexa to access services on the paired device via voice commands afaik.