topic Re: Music control in Speakers and Displays

Music control

CH13 — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 06:54:07 GMT

i have linked my apple subscription to my music in the home hub and I know I can ask the assistant to play my playlist and then skip songs using the home app but is there anyway to just pick a song on my phone and then it play on the speakers.

I dont always want to play music from a playlist and talking to the assistant every time I want to play a song is frustrating as she always gets it wrong.

I know with an Alexa you can play on the phone and it stream to the speakers why can’t I do this on google speakers?

thank you

Re: Music control

David_K — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 12:59:44 GMT

You can do that if you pair your phone with your speaker using Bluetooth.

Open the Home app and tap your speaker.
Tap the settings cog top right > Audio > Paired Bluetooth devices > Enable pairing mode.
Open your phone's Bluetooth settings and select your speaker.

Re: Music control

CH13 — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:18:57 GMT

Thank you that’s very helpful. Can I then use my group speakers so it plays from all?

Re: Music control

David_K — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:21:59 GMT

No unfortunately. Bluetooth can only be used with 1 speaker. Speaker groups require you to cast music or audio to them, they can't be used with Bluetooth.

Re: Music control

CH13 — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:25:44 GMT

Ok thanks and there isn’t any other way to stream to all speakers only Bluetooth ? Thank you

Re: Music control

David_K — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:31:35 GMT

No unfortunately not, as your phone will only pair with one Bluetooth speaker at a time.

Re: Music control

Muddi — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 04:21:00 GMT

Hey CH13,

I hope we were able to answer your question with the info provided by @David_K. If you have additional questions, feel free to respond to this thread and we'd be happy to further assist you.

Cheers,

Muddi

Re: Music control

Princesss — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:18:32 GMT

Hi folks,

We just want to check if you have seen our response posted above. Let us know if you have additional questions, otherwise we'll be locking the thread.

Best,

Princess

Re: Music control

Muddi — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:43:27 GMT

Hi CH13,

We haven’t heard back, so I'll be locking this thread if we won't hear from you in 24 hours. Feel free to create a new one if you have more questions or have other concerns in the future.

Cheers,

Muddi