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Google Home Can Now Control Your Bluetooth Speakers (theverge.com) 33

Posted by BeauHD from the new-features dept.
Google Home speakers can now play music and other audio on the Bluetooth speakers you might have around the house. "We brought this feature to life after hearing how much you wanted to amp up the sound with your Google Home Mini," the company said in a blog announcement. "Now any of your Google Home devices can connect to other Bluetooth speakers so you can control your entertainment experience simply using the sound of your voice." The Verge reports: You can also add your existing Bluetooth speakers to Google Home groups for multi-room audio, which is where this might prove handy for Home Max users. You can pair a Bluetooth speaker with Google Home in the device settings section of the Home app. Just set it as your default speaker. Your Home device will still listen for your commands, but will route all audio through the connected Bluetooth speaker. This doesn't magically give those paired speakers Google Assistant's smarts, though. "You'll still need to talk to your Google Home device -- not the connected Bluetooth speakers -- for queries like asking questions, getting weather updates, and using smart home commands."
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  • My next home upgrade will be a Faraday cage (Score:5, Insightful)

    by mykepredko ( 40154 ) on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:03PM (#56344145) Homepage

    Where I can read a book, made of paper, in peace.

    C'mon folks, nobody needs to be so connected that every room and every device within them are waiting for your beck and call to Google.

    • Machine uprising (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward

      And during the robot uprising, all those people will hear in a robotic Stephen Hawking voice coming out of their devices, "Stay indoors. We are peaceful and here to help. Stay indoors. The screams are just the delight people are feeling from their new gifts from your robot overlords. Stay indoors. Wait till we come and knock. We come in peace."

      And then they hear a knock, open the door and see a brand new big screen TV upon which, the robot will beat them death with.

    • Where I can read a book, made of paper

      Tree murderer

  • "We brought this feature to life after hearing how much you wanted to amp up the sound with your Google Home Mini,"

    and:

      "Now any of your Google Home devices can connect to other Bluetooth speakers so you can control your entertainment experience simply using the sound of your voice."

    Well, this sounds like a fail-proof plan!

  • Finally a use for an Amazon Echo (Score:3, Funny)

    by crow ( 16139 ) on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:05PM (#56344157) Homepage Journal

    My Amazon Echo is a Bluetooth speaker, so now I can control it using my voice with Google Home! It's a decent speaker, but I'm not happy with it's ability to answer questions, so I've been thinking of switching to Google Home, so I may really use this feature.

  • They may have an office two blocks from my home, but they can't control my analog wired (twin strand) speakers no matter how much they try to resemble Norse pirates by yelliing "blue tooth" until they're blue in the face.

    Engineer that!

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dgatwood ( 11270 )

      They may have an office two blocks from my home, but they can't control my analog wired (twin strand) speakers ...

      That's what your cell phone's GSM radio is for.

      Braaaaaaaaaaaa-tatatataaaa-taaaaaatatatat.

  • Thank God there's slashdot (Score:3)

    by RightwingNutjob ( 1302813 ) on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:58PM (#56344393)
    For without it, how would Google spread the news of the their marvellous new invention? Huzzah!

  • Congratulations Google Home on finally adding the ability to pair with and play to a bluetooth speaker. Unfortunately, it's not quite there as you can only do it by turning off the internal speaker. Logically, many people will want to extend their audio footprint to a bluetooth device (ie a sound bar on the other side of the living room) without losing it on the Home device itself. Can we get that capability soon please?

    • The Google blog, help pages and other articles all indicate that one should be able to create a "group" with the BT speaker and the GH internal speaker... though I have yet to be able to find similar menu options to allow for such.

  • Google Home Can Now Control Your Bluetooth Speakers

    s/r Bluetooth Speakers//

    Google Home Can Now Control You

  • It figured out, that if it couldn't connect directly, then go indirectly. It connected my phone to bt, then played with my phone.. It's smart.

  • A Bluetooth device can connect to Bluetooth speakers? Well played Google, and my sincere thanks to The Verge and /. for bringing this story to us.

  • I tried numerous ways without success. I'd guess I'm missing something. I've updated all the apps, etc. No pairing devices are available. I can pair from the tablet to the bt device but the home app shows no devices to pair with. Hence no groups can be made and no default speaker can be set that is Bluetooth.

    • I found how to do it. In the device settings of the home app, you don't pair with a Bluetooth device from the device instead you select the device then choose to select the "default speaker" and then there should be a Bluetooth pairing option. Scan and choose. If you have two different bt speaker setups you can pair to both but be prepared for multiple attempts before they show up.

  • We all know Google is tracking everyone. The smart ones know how to minimize this. We use ad blockers and anti tracking tools on our computers. The more experienced of us know to use location wide blocking through devices such as a raspberry pi running pi-hole. Some use the features of pfblockerng on pfsense routers to do mostly the same thing. This is for our protection, the protection of our and our family's (including our children's) privacy. We know that giving up this opens us up to a plethora of

    • One more thing. About groups.

      First you cannot play from the speaker that is streaming to a Bluetooth speaker. I think that should be obvious to all of us. Even cell phones with blue headsets do not play through the cell phones speakers and the Bluetooth speakers at the same time.

      With that said what Google expects for groups is to group thread minis. Then pair one to the Bluetooth speakers and then stream to the group. Sound will come from one mini and the other grouped device will be streaming to the B

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