I have three Amazon Echo devices, each allows me to connect by bluetooth from my laptop and use the Windows 'Cast to Device' feature to play locally stored music (MP3/FLAC) directly to the speaker.
When I use the devices to stream from online music services, I can play to a pre-set group 'everywhere' and it replicates the sound on all three devices simultaneously - this doesn't appear to be available for locally streamed music.
I have attempted asking Alexa to share the music to other locations but she doesn't want to play. I have also downloaded the limited PC Alexa app from the Microsoft store, but whilst it recognises the individual devices, it doesn't have the function to create a device group like the mobile app does.
Would appreciate any advice on device setup or software configuration - maybe I need to manually create a bridged group of bluetooth devices in Windows, if that's 'a thing'?
I suspect I'll need third party software to achieve this outcome.
When I use the devices to stream from online music services, I can play to a pre-set group 'everywhere' and it replicates the sound on all three devices simultaneously - this doesn't appear to be available for locally streamed music.
I have attempted asking Alexa to share the music to other locations but she doesn't want to play. I have also downloaded the limited PC Alexa app from the Microsoft store, but whilst it recognises the individual devices, it doesn't have the function to create a device group like the mobile app does.
Would appreciate any advice on device setup or software configuration - maybe I need to manually create a bridged group of bluetooth devices in Windows, if that's 'a thing'?
I suspect I'll need third party software to achieve this outcome.
- Windows Build/Version
- Windows 11 Home, 22H2
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11 Home
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- HP
- CPU
- 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
- Memory
- 16 GB
