What's new with Alexa (November 2018)

Multi room audio works with Bluetooth devices! Each echo paired to its own Bluetooth speaker, works great!

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I actually did not use the native Alexa groups… We have apps for that! Lol

I recently did a lot more configuration in the Alexa app around groups and I’m finding it very useful.

I already had one or two room groups so I could do the ‘turn on the lights’ thing. But I’ve now created a group for every room and defined a ‘Preferred Speaker’ for every room that has a speaker. I don’t use Echos for music playback - I have a Sonos in just about every room so I have those defined. So now I can say 'Alexa, play channel 4 from SiriusXM and it will play in the room that heard me or I can just add the room name for playback somewhere else. Likewise I can say ‘Alexa, turn off the light in the kitchen’ while sat in my study.

I feel Alexa is really starting to come in to it’s own and the app is getting much better.

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The echo show gen 1 now has stereo pairing capability