Google Home App 2017, showing the Paired Bluetooth Devices screen, with the Enable Pairing Mode link highlighted
Google Mini can now also work as a Bluetooth Speaker due to firmware and Home app updates back in 2017. So in this post, we show how to put the Google Mini in pairing mode so your streaming smart devices can find and connect to it.
First, make sure that both your tablet or phone, and your Google Mini are online and connected to the internet.
Next, enable Bluetooth on the source device that you’re pairing with the Google Mini. In our case, we’re pairing from an iPad Air.
Then, and assure that you see the “Now discoverable as” message, as shown next.
On our iPad, this app appears on the third home page, as pictured next.
That app’s Home screen then displays, as pictured next.
Then, find the hamburger menu control near the top left corner of the Google Home app home screen. This brings up the main menu window, as shown next.
This brings up the list of Home devices that the app knows about, as shown next.
Find the control menu (hamburger) item pointed at by the purple arrow in the last picture. The hamburger menu opens, as shown in the next picture.
in the hamburger menu as displayed in the previous picture, with the purple circle around it. You then see the Device Settings screen for the specific Google Mini speaker device displayed on the previous screen, whose specific setting options are shown on the screen shown next. In our case, that device is named Office Speaker.
Note that we’ve scrolled down to the Device Settings section on this screen to find the Paired Bluetooth Devices option, as circled in the next picture.
The Paired Bluetooth Devices screen then appears as we see next, where we could select a Bluetooth device from a list of devices that we’ve previously paired with, had we ever paired with any before. Since we have not, the screen is almost entirely blank.
This puts the device we’re working with into Google Mini pairing mode. That is, it will now show up when other in-range devices scan for Bluetooth Devices. Confirmation of this is shown by a black bar momentarily appearing at the bottom of the Paired Bluetooth Devices screen, as shown next.
Find Bluetooth Settings somewhere in the Settings app on your phone or tablet.
On our iPad Air, we hit the home button, tapped the Settings app, and then tapped Bluetooth on the left side of the screen, to reveal the following screen.
Now once you put the Google Mini in pairing mode, you’ll usually want to then connect to it as well. So for completeness, we include that step here.
Then, if all goes well, the Google Mini plays a short burst of musical chords, and pairing then occurs.
At this point, all your tablet’s generated sounds would play on your Google Mini smart speaker. Pairing is complete.
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