hello Automaters! Thanks for tuning in again there are always two questions I
get related to Bluetooth number one how do I get these as a Bluetooth speaker
any my Google Home or Google Assistant enabled products number two what I also
get a lot is how do I make another Bluetooth speaker that's what this is
here how do I turn that into the playing device and basically broadcast from here
to this Bluetooth speaker so let me show you how to do that today now if you're
looking for the other video here's a card up at the top if you want to know
how to use your Google Home product as a Bluetooth speaker I can go ahead and I
can show you that just in a separate video
now that's again up in the top right here right now actually right there so
now in terms of using a different Bluetooth speaker as the speaker what I
can tell you is that your microphone is not going to work here so even if your
device has a microphone on it you're not going to be calling up the Google
Assistant here on that Bluetooth speaker you will still need to call up the
Google Assistant here on your Google Home device so that's number one number
two what you're going to need is the Google Home application now you should
already have that but I'm going to go ahead and open that up here just so that
we're ready and I'm going to show you a few functions within the Google Home
application for making this a very easy process now number one I have to have my
Bluetooth speaker on it already so this little light here flashing indicates
just so you know that no Bluetooth connection has been made but it is ready
to make a connection now we also have to prepare this device to be ready for a
Bluetooth connection so I'm going to use the Google Home Hub today but you could
do the exact same things on your Mini or your Mac's or your standard Google Home
and in a lot of cases the Google Assistant enabled smart displays or
other speakers so now inside the Google Home application I'm going to scroll
down I'm going to find this device it's called the living room
so I'm just tapping on that and now up in the top right you can actually go
into the settings for this device scrolling down there's a couple of
different settings that we're going to want to talk about over time here but
the default speaker is essentially what you want to go into here when you're
talking about trying to get music or other content to play on another
Bluetooth speaker so here you can see the word pair Bluetooth speaker
now as I tap on that it will scan for devices and you can see instantaneously
it found the anchor that's what this is a seven nine oh eight and I simply tap
on that and now I hit done now if you're struggling pairing a Bluetooth device or
a Bluetooth speaker you may already be paired either here you can see that it's
now made that connection maybe you're paired to something here or you're
paired here but ultimately you've now paired that and you can see that I've
set that now as my default speaker so we've made the connection it's now my
default speaker so when I ask for media to play here it will actually play out
on this speaker right here so let's go ahead and do a demo play royalty-free
music sure here's royalty-free music on Google Play music
so I think you can see that is actually the one playing now I can do all of my
controls over here so it's streaming across but I have a pause button and I
also have the ability to control volume here on this device now if I'd like I
can also control volume over here on my Google Home device so volume to 10% so
there you go now we can barely hear it over here volume to 50% so there it goes
it's probably hard for you guys to hear but it did actually increase the sound
level stop so there you go that's the basics of this now whenever we talk
about basically pairing these devices and setting something as the default
speaker I can go ahead and I can switch from the default speaker there's nothing
I can really do with my voice here in terms of setting a default speaker but
now that these two are paired what happens no matter what essentially when
I ask this device to play music or I ask for music to be played on this device
what's actually going to happen is it's going to play it here so what do I mean
by that now down here at the bottom is my multi room group it's called and if I
go into the settings of that multi room group you can see my kitchen speaker
which is actually this Google Home Mini rate here in my living room hub right
here and I could add more devices if I'd like but now because I've set the
default speaker on this device to actually be this when I ask for media to
play on multi room group it will play on these two devices so let's go ahead and
do that play royalty free music on multi room group
pause now what you're noticing right there is actually the fact that these
two are no longer synchronized so as I play across Bluetooth here to this
device these are no longer synchronized so what I have to do now is actually
analyze between these two devices how to get them synchronized and then use some
of the sliders here in the Google Home application now I'm going to take a few
minutes and figure out which of my two speakers is further ahead in the song
and then which of them is further behind and then I'll do the demo for you
all right so I took a few minutes and I figured out basically that this device
is further behind and that makes sense when you're transmitting across
Bluetooth that's going to introduce some delay so when you're talking about
casting music from here or you're just basically starting the music service
this one's just starting the music service this one is receiving a
Bluetooth transmission after it was started on here so what I need to do is
I need to actually delay this device rate here so as I told you before that
is my kitchen speaker and so what I'm going to do is go into the settings for
that and again now if this was further behind for some reason you could do that
in this devices settings but inside of this device settings here here's the
group delay correction as I'm playing now I listen and I just delay more and
more to get these two speakers working essentially in harmony so let's go ahead
and do that you'll see me play here for a little bit but ultimately I should be
able to create this synchronization relatively quickly every time you move
the slider what I'll tell you is pause for a few seconds make sure you're
listening and try and figure out did I go too far or am i closer or further so
let's go ahead and start that play
so that's about all I have for you here today obviously there's a lot of
different options for you now to go ahead and connect with a Bluetooth
speaker and utilize your Google Home products as a Google Home speaker you
can have ultimately that synchronization that audio synchronization problem if
there is too much delay basically introduced by a speaker like this in
general what I'll say the 200 milliseconds that Google gives you on
that slider is usually good enough but for older Bluetooth speakers like this
one it could be too much to get perfectly synchronized so there you go
everyone hopefully this helps you utilize your Bluetooth speaker in your
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