All current Google Home smart speakers may now be used as Bluetooth speakers, thanks to firmware and Google Home app updates in 2017. Here, we show how to connect your tablet or phone to a Google Home smart speaker via Bluetooth. That way, you can then transmit audio to the speaker for room-filling, awesome sounding … Continue reading Google Home Pairing
Google Home Equalizer Settings
The Google Home suite of smart speakers, including the first, original Google Home assistant speaker, now offer bass and treble eq controls. These you can adjust on a per speaker device basis via today’s Google Home app. This post demos the Google Home equalizer settings. It shows how you can use them to adjust the … Continue reading Google Home Equalizer Settings
AC Power Adapter for Google Home Mini
An adequate AC power adapter for Google Home Mini is a USB power supply that outputs a nominal 1.8 amps at 5 volts (8 watts or more). Should the adapter that comes with the Mini break down, then you’ll certainly need another. So this post makes several Google Home Mini replacement power adapter suggestions. These … Continue reading AC Power Adapter for Google Home Mini
Pair Wonderboom Instructions
This post gives instructions to pair a Wonderboom to common Bluetooth devices. Start with your Wonderboom switched OFF (all dark LEDs). Then, follow along to pair it with most any Bluetooth source device. In this demo, we show how pairing works on our iPad Air mobile computre. But like procedures work for iPhones, iPods, and … Continue reading Pair Wonderboom Instructions
Google Home Mini Power Cord Specs
The power cord that ships with the Google Home Mini smart speaker is a typical medium-current USB supply. We cover specs and details for this cord here. But if you’re not able to find an original replacement power cord, any medium and high power USB power supply with a micro USB jack works too. The … Continue reading Google Home Mini Power Cord Specs
Google Home Mini Pictures
We’ve snapped many pictures of the Google Home Mini smart speaker, its accessories, and the original packaging, for the various posts we’re writing about this voice activated speaker. So we’ve put these photos together here in one place, for quick and easy viewing and perusing. Enjoy. Google Home Mini Speaker Packaging Pictures Firstly, here are … Continue reading Google Home Mini Pictures
Connect Wonderboom 1 and 2 Instructions
This piece gives directions to connect the Wonderboom 1 and 2 speakers together so that they both play the same audio content from a paired source Bluetooth device. In this example, we use one Wonderboom 1, and one Wonderboom 2 speaker to show how this works. You can indeed pair two Wonderboom 1’s, two Wonderboom … Continue reading Connect Wonderboom 1 and 2 Instructions
Link Spotify to Google Home Mini
If you’re a Spotify streaming service subscription holder, you can now listen to your playlists and request songs from the Spotify library to play on your Google Home Mini smart speaker. Here, we demo how to Link Spotify to Google Home Mini, with step by step instructions with lots of screenshots. However, Google Home will … Continue reading Link Spotify to Google Home Mini
Factory Reset Chromecast Audio
Here, we give instructions to factory reset the Chromecast Audio streaming receiver. First, a factory reset restores this device to factory default settings. Plus, doing this fixes strange errors you might see from the unit. It also erases any WiFi network info stored on the Chromecast Audio. And finally, it ensures that this streamer will … Continue reading Factory Reset Chromecast Audio
How to Factory Reset Chromecast Audio
Here, we show how to factory reset the Chromecast Audio receiver. First, a factory reset restores this device to factory default settings. Plus, doing this fixes strange errors you might see from the unit. It also erases any WiFi network info stored on the Chromecast Audio. And finally, it ensures that this streamer will not … Continue reading How to Factory Reset Chromecast Audio