Amazon Echo Dot 2nd Generation Smart Speaker Top View
In this demo, we give the procedure for Pairing Amazon Echo Dot as Bluetooth Speaker, linked to an iPad Air tablet. This lets us play any audio that the iPad is playing, through the Amazon Dot.
You might do this if you connect your Dot to your home stereo system for its great sound. And you would like to hear streaming music services through your hi-fi system. Further, you’d like to do this without plugging any cords into your tablet.
This demo assumes that you’re connecting the same iPad as what you’re running the Alexa app on.
Make sure that both your mobile and your Dot are online and connected to the Internet.
Turn Bluetooth ON, on the iPad, and assure that you see the “Now discoverable as” message, as shown next. The Dot will not connect to the iPad unless the iPad advertises itself on Bluetooth.
On our iPad, the Alexa app appears on the third home page, as pictured next.
The Alexa home screen then displays, as shown next.
This brings up the Alexa Settings screen, as shown next.
Find it in the Alexa Devices list. Ours is pointed to by the green arrow in the picture just above.
Then, Tap that Speaker.
This brings up the device settings screen for that Dot, as shown next.
This is the one circled in the last picture above.
Then the known Bluetooth devices list screen appears, as shown next.
This puts your Dot into discovery mode. In this mode, the Dot broadcasts its device name in the Bluetooth domain. It also scans for other broadcasting devices (others in discovery mode).
In our case here, it’s the Tom’s iPad device.
Next, if all goes well, pairing then happens.
Then the Alexa app adds this new device to its known Bluetooth devices list. The app then displays this updated list, as shown next. It also shows the device as connected by coloring the Bluetooth symbol to the left of the device name, blue.
When pairing occurs, your Dot tells you this by saying, “Connected to Tom’s iPad. Now that you’re paired, next time, just say, ‘Connect my phone.’.”
You have now built a Bluetooth connection between your Dot speaker and a Bluetooth device. Now, Amazon remembers the details of this connection. You can see this when you go into the Alexa app, to the Bluetooth devices list as displayed above. You will see your new device there. Connecting to it later is much simpler thus. E.g. Tap the device in the app, or command your dot to do it by saying, “Alexa, connect to Tom’s iPad.”
At this point, all of our iPad sound plays on our Dot. So, we’re done.
Sometimes, the Amazon Echo Dot does not find your Bluetooth source device as it did in step 7 above. Or, if it does find it, it fails to connect to it when you tap the found device name. For these cases, start the pairing from the source device instead of the Dot, as follows.
Remember that step 6 places the Dot into Bluetooth discovery mode. To repeat, that Dot should show up on any other in-range Bluetooth devices that are themselves scanning for in-range speakers.
Since we wish to pair our iPad, we then go into that iPad’s Settings, to the Bluetooth section.
Tapping Bluetooth places our iPad into discovery mode. It also starts scanning for nearby Bluetooth speakers, as shown next.
Ours shows as Echo Dot-E9W.
In this demo, touching Echo Dot-E9W starts the pairing from this iPad.
As it did in method one, our Dot announces that the Be link is up by saying, “Connected to Tom’s iPad.” Yours will say something similar, although your source BT device name probably will not be Tom’s iPad.
Now that you’re paired, next time, just say, ‘Connect my phone.’.” Also, a good connection made adds your device to the Previously Paired Devices list in the Alexa app.
Go ahead and start playing your tablet music through your Dot. The Dot now functions as a decent Bluetooth speaker.
You can disconnect your Dot from your tablet by saying, “Alexa, disconnect <your device’s name>”
Then, the Dot responds, “Now disconnected from <your device’s name>.”
This ends the Bluetooth link between the Dot and your source BT device.
Or, you may also disconnect by using Alexa app.
Go to the Alexa app, to Settings, to your device settings, then to its Bluetooth options, like we did above in steps 3 thru 5 in connection method one.
The Previously Paired Devices list appears as follows.
E.g. Tap the down arrow on the right side of the device list entry.
This exposes the Disconnect and Forget Device options, as shown next.
Find the Disconnect item pointed to by the green arrow in the last picture.
This causes the Dot to end its Bluetooth connection with your source BT device.
See the now-gray Bluetooth symbol pointed at by the green arrow in the next picture. The gray tells us that the Dot is not longer linked with our Bluetooth source device.
We hope this post clears up the confusion that can result when using your Dot as a Bluetooth speaker.
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