So I now have a couple of Echo Dot’s connected to Edifier Powered Speakers, one connected to my Home Theater Receiver and one connected to my Garden Speakers and amplifier, that last one I have paired with an Amazon remote so I can “speak” to it even when I’m outside.
The service is a yearly subscription but its only $5 a year so very reasonable, its still has its kinks and it will sometimes stop playing or not start in the week I’v had it enabled, bit I think it has to do with internet connectivity (hurricane Irma has left us with spotty internet here in South Florida) Fire up the Alexa mobile app, tap the + button in the top-right corner of the screen, tap Combine speakers, then tap the Multi-room music tile. Well the second drawback has been eliminated by a service called My Media for Alexa ( ), not really sure how they do it but basically you install a server on your PC where you have your music and then enable their skill for Alexa and it will basically allow you to use your own media like it was a music streaming service, you just ask Alexa to tell MyMedia to Play X or Y Artist, Album or Playlist and it will find and stream the music to you Echo. The Echo solution had two drawbacks, which was that it did no have multi-room capabilities (that was mostly fixed by its recent release of multi room groups) and one major drawback, that I could not use my own digital collection to stream to the Echo’s
The 1st 2 options were very enticing as I have heard very good reviews of both solutions, but they were above my budget for this project.
I have been wanting to build my multi-room Music solution for a while, but was debating whether to buy SONOS, Build my own wired/wireless speakers with something like Denon receiver and Heos speakers or go with Amazon Echo-Dots attached to powered speakers
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