A major benefit of connecting multiple echos to your home network is multi room audio.
Tell alexa to play in all rooms.
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.
Make sure any other connected devices such as lights thermostats speakers etc in that room are also added to the group.
If you own more than one echo echo dot or echo show you can ask all of them to play the same song.
All you need to do is tack the name of the target speaker onto the end of your command like alexa play the beatles in the kitchen of course you ll need to rename your kitchen s echo dot.
Just say alexa play bruce springsteen on spotify everywhere and if all goes well you ll hear the boss.
Audio from video content does not play on multi room music groups.
Amazon said on tuesday that its amazon echo units can now serve as a multi room speaker system.
Ready to take your new alexa powered multi room music setup for a test drive.
Once set up you can ask alexa to play music in a certain room across a whole floor or throughout the entire home with just one voice command.
Select and set up multi room music.
What s more if you pay for an amazon music family plan each echo can play different music all at the same time.