Alexa Speaker Group Help

[Sir Topham Hatt]

We have three Echo speakers.

Two are registered to my partner, one is registered to me. We'll soon be getting a 4th, which I will register giving us two speakers each.

 

However, when I want to make a group of speakers, it only sees the one registered to me.

Or the Everywhere group only shows the one speaker.

 

Even though the Alexa app can see all speakers and I can play music to any of them, it just can't see them in a group setting.

 

I guess it can't as not all the speakers are registered to me?

And I guess there's no way round it? 

[Joe User]

I haven't done this in a while, so double check the info below.

 

I believe if they're not registered on one primary account they can't be grouped.

 

You can set up an Amazon family, register the speakers to one account and give access to the other. Then you can say 'Alexa, change accounts' to switch between the two accounts. 

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Hmm.

 

I can't remember why we decided to register them each instead of just one person. I think it was to do with playing music from Spotify in that we wanted to have one playlist upstairs and another downstairs.

 

Seems unnecessarily restrictive though as from each account, we can see all speakers and interact with them all, as well as play music from our own Spotify accounts on any of them.