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Windows 10/11 not able to play sound to Nest Mini stereo pair over bluetooth

anirudhgargi
Community Member

 I am trying to connect my HP PC with Windows 11 with Stereo paired Google Nest Mini speakers. I can pair them together; they respond to voice command and play music as stereo pair normally. 

Now when i try to connect to my windows laptop as Bluetooth speaker they do get detected and paired. But windows refuses to show it as a Sound Output device. So cannot have my browser or any other app sound over Bluetooth.

I checked in Devices settings - seems a Microsoft driver is loaded and is categorized as audio device - but is not picked by windows as audio 'output Device' as stated. 

I tried the same with my iPhone - that is to add the same Stereo Paired Nest Mini on my iPhone 12 - it got paired and works smoothly as single device. 

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Kmerson
Community Member

I think the problem is the driver. You might need to install a specific driver for your Bluetooth antenna that has superseded the original or it is simply out of date. There should be an option to update your driver

Princesss
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi everyone,

 

Thanks for visiting the Community.

 

@anirudhgargi, we appreciate all the details you've shared. To further isolate the issue, could you try to connect your Google Nest Mini to other device like your phone to see if you will also experience the same thing. That way, we can sort things out and check if this is a compatibility issue.

 

By the way, thanks @Kmerson for your suggestion.

 

Best,

Princess

Hey hi, 

As mentioned by me in the updates, i was able to connect the stereo nest mini pair nicely on my iPhone.  On windows it gets detected, paired and connected. But windows 10 refuse to see this as a audio output device. So even though nest mini stereo gets connected, no entry of it comes in 'audio output' device. Latest windows update (no driver update pending) is there. 

Super easy to reproduce issue i believe for the nest team. Just get 2 nest mini - make then stereo pair - then try to connect this pair as a BT speakers to windows. 

Princesss
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi there,

 

Thanks for the details you've shared. For an immersive music and media experience, you can connect 2 speakers to set up stereo sound. Stereo sound pairing is available on Google Home, Google Nest Mini (2nd gen), Google Home Mini (1st gen), Google Home Max, and Google Nest Audio. Both devices need to be the same model (Example: 2 Nest Mini speakers or 2 Nest Audio speakers) and located in the same room. 

 

If you want to involve your Windows PC to connect those speakers, then you have to connect it via Bluetooth but only with one speaker. Hope this sheds some light. 

 

Best,

Princess

This is definitely an odd limitation, I can connect my iPhone and Android to these together. Why with windows i have to manage with one speaker. Show it to your BT driver teams and they can fix it or they can show it to windows BT driver teams. 

Princesss
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi anirudhgargi,

 

We appreciate your insights about this. However, there are no guarantee that it will successfully connect to all devices due to compatibility issues. Google Nest speakers are designed to only connect to devices like phones, tablets, other speakers and headphones, though it can also connect to laptops but not all computers. 

 

In line with this, we’d like to encourage you to send a feedback regarding this or for any features that you’re looking forward to using with our Google Nest devices.

 

Best,

Princess

Muddi
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey anirudhgargi,

 

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

 

Cheers,

Muddi

Muddi
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi anirudhgargi,

 

Just bumping in to make sure that you've seen our responses. I'll be locking this thread if we won't hear back from you again in 24 hours. Feel free to create a new one if you have more questions or have other concerns in the future.
 

Cheers,

Muddi

anirudhgargi
Community Member

Windows stands updated to latest version. Nothing shows up in update.
Another info - when i not stereo paired these Nest Mini(s), They connect nicely with Windows as single BT speaker. Quickly shows up as a sound output device.

Seems when they stereo paired - the new device they exposed on BT (maybe like its a headphone) is not picked by Windows properly.. 

 

Deeper inspection i see device exposes itself over BT as a BT sink device (which is expected) and a AVRCP too (for controls) again as expected. There is some misc unknown service too. 

Refer the screenshots for this 1) https://postimg.cc/t119gKmR 2) https://postimg.cc/fJ0FJwMr 

 

See if anyone can suggest what's happening here.