How to Make Sony XP500 Discoverable

The Bluetooth pairing / discovery button on the Sony SRS XP500 speaker.

To pair your SRS XP500 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 XP500 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 XP500.

How to Make Sony XP500 Discoverable, Step by Step

1. Turn On the XP500

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 -Power- button on the Sony XP500.

The speaker then comes on.

The -Power- lamp flashing green.

2. Press and Release the Discovery Button

Secondly, this lets you discover your XP500 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.

The Bluetooth pairing / discovery button on the Sony XP500.

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.”

The Bluetooth pairing status light glowing blue.

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.

3. Done with How to Make Sony XP500 Discoverable

The Sony XP500, showing as discovered on the Bluetooth Settings page on iPadOS.

Finally, while the Bluetooth Status lamp is blinking, you should see the XP500 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.