The Bluetooth pairing / discovery button on the Sony SRS XP500 speaker.
To pair your XP 500 Sony karaoke party speaker with a wireless source device for the first time, or to refresh old connection info in that device, you have to know how to place this speaker into discovery mode. Now in this mode, this unit broadcasts its name and currently valid connection handles over the Bluetooth airwaves, so that nearby BT source devices can use this information to link to it. Thus in this post, we show you how to make the Sony XP 500 discoverable, to let you pair it with phones, tablets, computers, and smart speakers. Thus you can play your favorite tunes from those devices, on the XP 500.
Firstly, turn on the speaker by rapidly pressing its Power button.
E.g. See this button, pointed out by the bright blue arrow, in the next picture.
The speaker then comes on.
Secondly, this lets you discover your XP 500 on your source BT device. So, place the unit into discovery mode by pressing and releasing the Discovery button, as we point it out in the next picture.
Additionally, when you press and release this button in a quarter second, the speaker talks to you in a female voice, and says, “Bluetooth pairing.”
Plus, the Pairing Status lamp begins flashing blue in a pulse-pulse-pause-pulse-pulse-pause pattern. We point out this light in the last picture.
Finally, while the Bluetooth Status lamp is blinking, you should see the XP 500 on any in-range phone, computer, tablet, or smart speaker, that is within several feet of it, as we see in the last picture above. The speaker appears as “SRS-XP500” there. At this point, you can go ahead and connect to the speaker from your source device.
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