Smart Home Group VS Multi Room Audio
On the other hand, multi room audio is just like creating a network of all speakers together. In this way, all your Echo devices play the same content across your home. This is useful in case of having parties or get togethers so that all Echo speakers can be used to play the same song track across the house.
How to Set Up Smart Home Groups on Alexa
Before we set up smart home groups on Alexa, it’s really important that first you name all your Echo devices separately so that you can easily distinguish between them. To make the nomenclature simpler, you can name them as “Kitchen Echo”, “Lounge Echo” etc. based on the location where they are kept at.
To name Echo Devices (in case you haven’t done it yet) launch the Alexa app on your smartphone, open Settings, tap on the device which you wish to rename, tap edit, assign a new name and hit the “Save” button.
- Head on to Alexa Settings in the app.
- Tap on “Smart Home” option.
- Navigate to Groups> Add Group> Smart Home Group.
- Enter any name for the group, you can also pick a name from suggestions if you like and then tap on “Next”.
- Now, once a smart home is successfully created assign the bunch of smart devices to this group.
How to Add New Device to Smart Home Group
In future if you ever purchased a new device and wish to add it to an existing smart home group here’s what you need to do.
- Launch Alexa app and tap on “Smart Home” option.
- Now select the group name to which you need to add the device.
- Tap on Edit and pick the device name from the list.
- Hit “Save” when you’re done.
We hope now you’re aware on how you can have better control over your voice assistants. Creating a smart home group can be beneficial in multiple ways!
Try it now to have more advanced control over every corner of your house separately.
