The most affordable way to extend alexa to multiple rooms is to buy the echo dot and extend it with the remote.
Alexa in all rooms.
For example use names like the kitchen the living room and the kids room.
Then just ask alexa to play music on the group and the sounds are piped to all the devices in that.
Alexa has all sorts of tricks up her sleeve but voice activated playback of your favorite music has always been front and center this week amazon doubled down on her ability to stream tunes by.
Select and set up multi room music.
First create a group to house the echo devices you want to include in the multi room playback.
That setup will cost 80.
That way when you ask alexa to drop in or call the echo the voice instructions sound completely natural.
To test this try standing in a room where you have just created an alexa enabled group and say alexa turn on the lights if the command works you are all set.
If you re asking alexa to play music on an echo device in one room but another alexa enabled device starts playing music somewhere else there are a few solutions to try.
Use the present group names or select custom name and create your own name.
But there is an area in our house where three rooms are easily within the various devices earshot.
How to fix alexa playing music on the wrong device.
Audio from video content does not play on multi room music groups.
Make sure any other connected devices such as lights thermostats speakers etc in that room are also added to the group.
To help make this as simple as possible we suggest you give your echos logical names.
This makes sense if you already have a speaker system for.
I have them all in a single group.
Multi room audio lets you control music playback on echo speakers.
How to use alexa to drop in on rooms across your house.
Use the alexa app to create a multi room music group.