Front right view of the JBL Xtreme 2 Bluetooth speaker.
This post shows how to pair a JBL Xtreme 2 with Alexa devices. We do this with the Alexa Input. But the same you could also do with an Alexa Dot, Spot, or any other Alexa smart device that supports Bluetooth. Since this BT connecting happens directly between the speaker and Alexa, you need not turn Bluetooth on in the mobile device you’re using to set up this link.
Start with your JBL Xtreme 2 powered off. Then run through this routine to pair the speaker to the Alexa device. We’re using an iPad Air computer to establish this linkage.
We found the app on an iPadOS 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.
Find the hamburger item in the lower right corner of the screen. This is pointed at by the green arrow in the last screenshot. Some older versions of the app display this control near the top left corner of the page.
Touching this item brings up the Alexa app’s main menu, as shown in the next screenshot.
The Settings option is pointed at by the green arrow in the last screenshot.
This brings up the Settings screen, as shown in the next screenshot.
From here, choose which Alexa device you wish to pair to your JBL speaker. The green arrow in the next picture points at our choice, the Thomas’s Echo Input device.
This takes you to the device-specific settings screen for the Alexa device you picked. The Echo Input here.
Find the Bluetooth Devices menu item pointed at by the green 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 the Alexa unit you just chose for this pairing. Again, our Alexa Input 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 the JBL Xtreme 2 and put it into discovery mode.
Set aside your mobile device for a minute, and turn on your JBL Xtreme 2 speaker. Here, we power ours up by quickly pressing its Power button. See this button pointed at by the green arrow, in the next picture.
The speaker then powers ON.
But since our Alexa device does not know about this speaker yet, she will not connect with the speaker automatically. Thus, the Power / Bluetooth Status light shows as white after you switch on this speaker. This assumes that the Xtreme 2 hasn’t paired with anything else since power up.
Now, to allow Alexa to find this BT speaker, place it in Bluetooth discovery mode. For this model speaker, we press and hold in the Bluetooth button, as pointed at by the green arrow in the next picture, until the unit makes a repeating guitar pluck sound.
This tells us that it’s ready to pair. Its Power lamp also flashes blue to signal that pairing mode is active.
The screen with the blue Pair a New Device button should still be showing, as in the next screenshot.
This starts your Alexa device scanning for any nearby Bluetooth devices that are themselves in discovery mode. Since our speaker is now in pairing mode, the Input 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 BT speaker, named JBL Xtreme 2.
We see our speaker in the list, as pointed at by the green arrow in the last picture.
Pair to the BT speaker by tapping the listed speaker in the Bluetooth Setup screen, shown in the last screenshot above.
Alexa then links with the speaker, as seen in the next screenshot.
To get back to the Device Settings screen, touch the Cancel link. Find it highlighted at the bottom of the screen in the last picture.
The app then takes you back to the Device Settings page for the Alexa device you just paired, as shown next.
Also, our speaker makes a Speaker Paired sound, the three rising guitar notes.
We have now successfully paired our BT speaker with an Alexa smart device. So we can now ask that Alexa to play music or any other audio content through this JBL speaker.
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