How to Connect Amazon Echo to Bluetooth Speaker

Not only can you use your Amazon Echo speaker as a Bluetooth speaker. But you can also connect it to another Bluetooth speaker, and hear Alexa audio through that speaker wirelessly.  Thus, we show here how to connect an Amazon Alexa Echo speaker to a Bluetooth speaker in the following paragraphs.

Note that your Alexa speaker must be connected to the internet and linked to your Amazon account in order to be able to connect it with a Bluetooth speaker.  Our demo here assumes that you have taken care of all those logistics.

How to Connect Amazon Echo to Bluetooth Speaker

1. Find the Alexa App on your Device

First, we’re running this demo on an iOS based iPad Air as shown in the next screenshot.  In our case, the Alexa app is found on the third home screen page of apps, as pointed at by the blue arrow.

2. Run the Alexa App

The app displays its   Home   screen as shown in the next screenshot.

3. Tap the Hamburger Control

Next, find the hamburger item in the top left corner of the screen, as pointed at by the blue arrow in the last screenshot.

This brings up the Alexa app’s main menu, as displayed in the next screenshot.

4. Tap the  Settings  Option on the Main Menu

The   Settings  item is pointed at by the blue arrow in the last screenshot.

Then, this brings up the   Settings   screen, as shown in the next screenshot.  From this screen, you can select which Echo device currently set up on your Amazon account, you wish to connect with your Bluetooth speaker.

5. Tap the Echo Device you wish to Connect to your Bluetooth Speaker

Next, this takes you to the device-specific settings screen for the Echo speaker you chose.

Now in this demo, we’re pairing from our   Bedroom Dot   Echo Dot speaker to our external Bluetooth speaker.

6. Tap the   Bluetooth   Item

Now, find the Bluetooth option pointed at by the   blue   arrow in the last screenshot.

Tapping this brings up the   Bluetooth Devices   screen, as shown next.  Thus at this point, you’re now ready to start a scan by the Echo speaker you’ve selected in the previous step for available Bluetooth devices.   But don’t press the   Pair a New Device   button just yet.  We must first power up your Bluetooth speaker and put it into pairing mode.

7. Power up your Bluetooth Speaker

In this demo, we’re connecting with a Craig model CMA3568 Bluetooth speaker, as pictured next.  This speaker automatically goes into pairing mode when it’s first powered on.  The blue pilot lamp on the front, to the right of the Bluetooth on-off switch, comes on and blinks rapidly when this speaker enters pairing mode.

In the next picture, we’ve turned on the CMA3568, and the blue pilot lamp is blinking.

8. Tap the  Pair a New Device   button.

Now once your Bluetooth speaker is powered up and in pairing mode, go back to the Alexa app on your mobile device, and tap the blue  Pair a New Device   button, discussed in Step 6 above.

This starts a scan by your Echo speaker for in-range Bluetooth devices, and lists any that it found on the next screen.  In our case, our Alexa Bedroom Dot speaker found two devices during its scan; our Roku player and our Craig CMA3568 Bluetooth speaker.  The Bluetooth speaker is pointed at by the blue arrow in the next screen shot.

9. Tap the Bluetooth speaker to Connect with your Echo Smart Speaker

We’re connecting ours with the CMA3568 entry (the Craig model CMA3568 Bluetooth speaker).

Doing this adds the speaker to the   Previously Paired Devices   list for the currently selected Echo smart speaker, displays this list as shown in the next screenshot, and then attempts to connect to the Bluetooth speaker.

After several seconds, and assuming all goes well, the connection successfully occurs.

Then the Bluetooth logo appears to the left of the speaker entry in the  Previously Paired Devices  list, as shown next.

You should now hear any audio that would normally come from the Echo smart speaker you just connected, from the Bluetooth speaker that you just successfully connected it with.  Alexa may tell too, you that you’ve successfully connected with your Bluetooth speaker for the first time, and that you can now unpair by saying, “Disconnect my speaker.”  Also, you can unpair by powering off the Bluetooth speaker itself.

Then once your Bluetooth speaker has been added to the previously paired devices list, your Echo smart speaker will connect to it any time it detects that speaker is activated and in Bluetooth range.  With our Craig speaker, we just turn the speaker on and it automatically reconnects to our Bedroom Dot, without us having to do anything manually in the Alexa app.

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References for How to Connect Amazon Echo to Bluetooth Speaker

1. You can Finally Pair the Amazon Echo with Bluetooth Speakers,  from CNet
2. Connect Your Echo Device to Bluetooth Speakers, from Amazon Help

Revision History

• 2019-04-05: Added key phrase targeting, more tags, and subheadings.  Removed ad code and fixed some typos.
• 2017-12-29: Originally published.