We should note that even if your speaker is paired like this to your phone, it will still accept your voice commands. You can adjust the volume from your smartphone, from the speaker directly, or with voice commands. Whether you play music on your smartphone, get phone calls, or watch videos on Facebook, the Google Home or Nest will take over for your phone's speakers. Now your speaker will act as audio output. The Google Home will make a sound to confirm.
Next, you have to go to your phone's Bluetooth settings.įind your speaker and pair it with your device.
Press the button you'll find at the bottom of the screen titled Enable Pairing Mode. Amazon Echo has Alexa, Google Home speakers have Google Assistant, and Apples HomePod works with Siri, the digital assistant on your iPhone since 2011. Go to Device features > Audio > Paired Bluetooth devices. Tap on your Google Home speaker and then on the Settings wheel at the top. If you have a compatible device (phone, speaker, etc.), you can get Google Assistants attention by saying one of two wake words: OK Google or Hey Google. Here's how you can use your Google Home as a speaker no matter what apps you're using: "Play music for running/showering/cleaning/etc" "Play (artist name)" or "Play music by (artist name)."Īlso, ask to "Play songs like (artist name)" for similar singers or bands.
You can now go to Bluetooth setting on your Windows 10 and. You can also name a particular album, ask for it to "Play songs like (song name)." First, go to Google Home, find the Google Home speaker you want to pair it with your desktop. "Play (song name)" or "Play (song name) by (artist)." Here are some ways you can ask your Google Home for this. You can use some extra voice commands to control your music playback. The speaker will use your selected music service. You can also ask it to play your favorite playlist, a whole album, or podcast. Now you can say "Ok Google, play Let It Go," or whatever other song inspires you these days. Tap Settings > Music and choose the music service you prefer. In the Home app, let's go set up the default music app.
Don't worry-you can set it up later if you don't want to do this now. Through software updates to Google Nest devices and Google Assistant, additional functionality has been added over time. In the setup process, you can choose the default music service. Scroll down to Speaker, tap it, and wait a little while for your phone to find the device and connect to it.Īssign a room you keep the speaker in and connect to your Wi-Fi network. Tap the + sign on the corner and Set Up Device. Install the Google Home app and launch it. pcm.!default '.format(self._class_._name_)) File "/home/pi/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ sounddevice.py", line 2572, in _check raise PortAudioError(errormsg, err) sounddevice.You'll need two things-a Google Home or Nest device and the Google Home app ( Android/ iOS). asoundrc should be exactly the same as below except the Bluetooth address "40:00:88:00:18:0E", which should come from your original. You need to modify it to look like below. The original ~/.asoundrc file looks like this: $ cat ~/.asoundrc You need to modify this file to set up the built-in microphone on the docking hub. asoundrc file will be generated with the Bluetooth speaker info in it. Your speaker should produce a chime or voice notification to indicate the Bluetooth connection is successfully made.Īfter the Bluetooth speaker is connected, the. Go to the speaker icon on the top menu bar. You will get a successful pair message but the speaker is not connected yet.Highlight the speaker entry and click Pair. You should see the speaker discovered.Put the Bluetooth speaker in pairing mode.Go to the Bluetooth icon on the top menu bar, turn on Bluetooth and then add a Bluetooth device.Setup Bluetooth SpeakerĪfter reboot and the desktop screen comes back, pair with your Bluetooth speaker.
Reboot the Pi to take the setting in effect. These options are under Preference/Raspberry Pi Configuration, then go to Interfaces and checkmark the SSH and VNC options. If you don't want to use the monitor, keyboard, and mouse at next startup, enabling these options would allow you to remote access the Pi. Start a terminal and edit /boot/config.txt sudo nano /boot/config.txtĭisable the analog and hdmi audio by inserting '#' in front of the following line in the file: #dtparam=audio=on This step is important to get the Raspberry Pi Zero Docking Hub audio to work with the Google Assistant software. You only need to do once unless the network setting has changed or need to be changed. Left mouse click over the WiFi icon on the top bar.