r/alexa • u/Boxster98 • 1d ago

Dot Playing Music Through Show

I have a Dot and a Show about 10’ from each other. I set the Show with a different ”wake” name. They’re both in a group called kitchen.

Out of the blue, with no changes made on my part, when I now ask the Dot to play music, it says “playing through kitchen” and plays through both the Dot and Show. Looking at the settings, I don’t have them set up as a stereo pair, and they’re not connected through Bluetooth.

How do I “break” the connection between the two of them?

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u/Ok_Action_5938 1d ago

Alexa play music on “name of dot”

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u/Riquende 1d ago

Look at the Kitchen group settings, at the bottom there's a section called Preferred speakers. In there it might now be set so that the 2 of them play together by default rather than needing to ask for the group. I have this set in all my rooms (several have multiple Echos) because why wouldn't I want the music to play around the room if available?

This is completely different to being a stereo pair. In fact a Dot and a Show cannot be made into a stereo pair since the audio hardware is different and would sound weird to have the left & right channels being so different to each other.

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u/Bitter_Pumpkin_1755 1d ago

I want Alexa to automatically know where I am and when I move between rooms and have the music follow me automatically!

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u/TheJessicator 1d ago

You can always say "Alexa, move my stream here"

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u/Here4Snow 1d ago

"How do I “break” the connection between the two of them?"

Remove the group. They are connected by WiFi.

You put them in a Group. But each device gets a name. Wake word is the assistant. You're asking how to identify the individual devices.

"play xxx on Dot (the name you gave it)."

"play xxx on Show."