Play audio from home mini onto a Bluetooth speaker via bluetooth

[evocraig]

I want to play the audio from my mini onto a louder Bluetooth speaker via bluetooth. Google searches say this is simple but when I go to Google home app and select my mini there no options to connect to a Bluetooth speaker.

I've tried adding the speaker in home first (via add device / speaker) but it's not there. Help??

[GothamNY]

Hi @evocraig, what are the links to those Google searches? Nest speakers are natively incoming devices and do not connect to other speakers or act as a source to send output to another device.

It'll be interesting to see those links, please post them here. Thanks.

[GothamNY]

I think I misunderstood your question -- here is how you can connect a Bluetooth speaker. My reading of your post was you wanted to connect Nest output to a louder speaker where the Nest was the source. But what I think you might want to do is have the sound come out of both speakers, which you can do by following the instructions above.

[evocraig]

I want to send the audio from my Google mini and listen to it via bluetooth on a standard Bluetooth only speaker. Can this be done?

Thanks.

[GothamNY]

OK, so I didn't misunderstand. No, there is no way for you to Bluetooth out FROM the Nest to link it to another speaker so that it can serve as a source for content. Following the link I gave you if your speaker is able to be linked via the Home app and discoverable you can play the music from both which accomplishes the same thing.

[evocraig]

Thanks for your help. 

[GothamNY]

No problem. Keep in mind that while the Bluetooth speaker may have a higher volume level, content via Bluetooth tends to be double compressed and lower quality than content streamed over WiFi. As such, there may be a delay from the Bluetooth speaker when used in conjunction with the Nest speaker which can be really annoying.

Give a shout if you have other questions.

[GarrettDS]

Hey folks, 
It looks like we have come to a solution so I'm going to be locking this thread. Thanks to GothamNY for the help here. If you have any other concerns or questions, please feel free to create a new thread. 

Have a great day. 
Garrett DS