Just follow the simple steps below.
Alexa announce in all rooms.
Turn your devices and the alexa app into an intercom.
Once you know the name of the device you want to call.
Unlike the intercom feature announcements are a one way function.
Open the alexa app go to the communicate tab on the bottom navigation bar tap announce tap the microphone icon and say your message tap the arrow button to broadcast it.
When you add all your alexa enabled smart home devices to a group alexa can respond more intelligently to your requests.
Over the weekend amazon rolled out new alexa functionality.
Tap echo alexa and you ll see a list of amazon devices.
Simply turn to your nearest echo device and say alexa announce that alexa broadcast alexa tell everyone or alexa make an announcement alexa will record your voice and make every echo device in the house chirp followed by your announcement.
Tap the communicate icon in the alexa app.
You can also call almost anyone for free or send personalized voice messages.
Those that are offline will be labeled as such.
The main advantage here is that you no longer need to know the name of the group associated with your devices or the names of those particular devices.
You simply say alexa announce that dinner s ready to the nearest echo device and from there alexa will broadcast dinner s ready to every other amazon echo echo dot echo show and all the.
With the exception of the bathrooms we can talk to an alexa everywhere in the house including the.
First create a group to house the echo devices you want to include in the multi room playback.
Make sure you ve set up a smart home device group.
Everyone within earshot of an echo will hear your announcement but won t be able to respond without either activating the intercom or making an.
It s been about a month since we put an alexa device into just about every room of the house.
Let alexa help your household and family stay better connected.
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.
Open the alexa app on your smartphone and tap devices in the lower right corner.
Use drop in to open up instant two way conversations between rooms announcements to broadcast from any room.
This means you can now add your echo device to a group with other devices in the same room giving alexa the ability to know what devices are nearby.
Then just ask alexa to play music on the group and the sounds are piped to all the devices in that.
