Echo Device Groups

[Declan]

Is there any way to control Echo groups from one dashboard? I can get mine working perfectly on individual echos. When playing in groups I can’t seem to start / stop or change songs on playlists from dashboard?

Thanks

[James]

@Declan, you can create “Multi-Room Music” (group) in Alexa, and add the group to SmartThings/Hubitat as an additional device via Echo Speaks. Once added to ST/HE, and authorized to SharpTools, you will be able to control this “group” device. However, there have been issues reported that Alexa can get confused when mixing the use of individual device and MRM groups, and not play the music on the device or group you specified. According to the feedback of the Echo Speaks developer, it seems to be a native issue that observed in the Alexa app as well.
See the discussion below for details.

Automate music on multiple echos through Echo Speaks and Rule Engine

Thanks for the ST community developed Echo Speaks, it allows great integration between Hubitat/SmartThings platform and the Amazon Echo devices, and I have seen many users using the Album Art feature and rules to create their own unique “jukebox dashboard” with their echo devices like mentioned in the post below. So I’d to share a trick how to create an automation rule to play music to multiple echo devices via “Multi-Room Music” group here. Echo devices sometimes have…