JBL Flip 4 alongside an Amazon Echo Dot 2 speaker.
This post demos How to Pair JBL Flip 4 Bluetooth Speaker With Amazon Dot speakers. These include the generation 1 and generation 2 Dot Amazon speaker versions. Since this linking happens between the JBL Flip 4 and the Amazon Dot speakers, you need not turn Bluetooth on in the mobile device you’re using to set up this pairing.
First, with your JBL Flip 4 powered off (power button is dark), run through this routine to pair it to your Amazon Dot. We’re using an iPad Air tablet to create this pairing.
We found the app on our iOS iPad Air as shown in the next screenshot. In our case, the Alexa app is on the third home screen page. It’s pointed at by the blue arrow.
The app displays its Home screen as shown in the next screenshot.
Next, find the hamburger item in the top left corner of the screen. This is pointed at by the blue arrow in the last screenshot.
This then brings up the Alexa app’s main menu, as shown in the next screenshot.
The Settings option is pointed at by the blue arrow in the last screenshot.
This brings up the Settings screen, as shown in the next screenshot. From here, choose which Amazon device you wish to pair with your JBL Flip 4 Bluetooth speaker.
This takes you to the device-specific settings screen for the Amazon speaker you chose.
In this demo, we’re pairing from our Bedroom Dot Dot speaker to our Flip 4 speaker.
Find the Bluetooth option pointed at by the blue arrow in the last screenshot.
This brings up the Bluetooth Devices screen, as shown next.
At this point, you’re ready to start a Bluetooth scan by your Dot speaker. You’ve selected this Dot in the last step. So, that Dot will be the one that scans for Bluetooth devices.
But don’t press the Pair a New Device button just yet. We must first power up your JBL Flip 4 speaker and put it into pairing discovery mode.
Put down your mobile device for a bit, and turn on the JBL Flip 4 by quickly pressing its Power button. See this circled in green, in the next picture.
The speaker then powers up.
But since our Dot here does not know about this speaker, the Flip 4 will not pair with it automatically. Not yet anyhow. Thus, the light that comes on in the power switch denotes this not-paired state by glowing solid white, as shown next.
Note that your Flip 4 may be flashing blue, especially if you’ve never paired it with a device since the last factory reset. In that case, skip the next step (Step 8) and pick up with Step 9.
Now, to allow the Dot to find your JBL Flip 4 speaker, place the speaker into Bluetooth discovery mode. To do that, press and release the Bluetooth button, as shown in the next picture.
When you press the Bluetooth Discovery Mode button, the speaker makes a repeating single pluck guitar note sound several times. Also, the power button changes from a solid white glow to flashing blue. See this next.
The screen with the blue Pair a New Device button should still be showing, as in the next screenshot.
This starts your Amazon Dot scanning for any nearby Bluetooth devices that are themselves in Bluetooth discovery mode. Your Flip 4 is now in Bluetooth discovery mode. So your Dot should find it.
After a short pause, you should see something like the screen we got. Shown next.
In our demo, the Alexa app found our JBL Flip 4 speaker, named Tom’s Flip 4.
See the screenshot above. Our scan found two devices. It found the JBL Flip 4 as well as our Roku player. So, we located our Flip 4 speaker in the list, as pointed at by the blue arrow in that picture.
Pair to the JBL Flip 4 by tapping the listed speaker in the Bluetooth Setup screen, shown in the last screenshot above.
The Dot then pairs with the Flip 4 (“Tom’s Flip 4” in this demo). The Alexa App’s Bluetooth Settings screen then changes to look something like the following.
Also, the JBL Flip 4 makes the Speaker Paired sound (the three ascending guitar notes). Note that the Bluetooth symbol to the left of the listed speaker item turns blue in the last screenshot.
The speaker is now paired with your Dot. It’s power button glows solid blue to indicate successful pairing, as shown next.
We have now successfully paired our JBL Flip 4 portable speaker with our Amazon Dot speaker device. We can now ask Alexa to play music on this Dot, and those tunes will play on the excellent sounding JBL Flip 4. Enjoy!
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