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Can’t Add multiroom music speakers to pair of echos on Orbi guest network
I have an Orbi RBR20 with a satellite. I am trying to get an amazon echo and an Echo dot to play the same music. I follow the steps on the echo app for “Add multiroom music speakers”. When I select t...
Jimdaff wrote:
I have an Orbi RBR20 with a satellite. I am trying to get an amazon echo and an Echo dot to play the same music. I follow the steps on the echo app for “Add multiroom music speakers”. When I select the first echo the second one changes status to “Device Unreachable” and becomes unselectable. I cant create a group when one is unreachable.
Could this be happening because I have them on my guest network? I talked to Amazon support and they could not resolve this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you want to have the speakers on the Guest network you need to allow them to see each other and your LAN. You can configure this in the GUI as follows:
Jimdaff wrote:
I have an Orbi RBR20 with a satellite. I am trying to get an amazon echo and an Echo dot to play the same music. I follow the steps on the echo app for “Add multiroom music speakers”. When I select the first echo the second one changes status to “Device Unreachable” and becomes unselectable. I cant create a group when one is unreachable.
Could this be happening because I have them on my guest network? I talked to Amazon support and they could not resolve this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you want to have the speakers on the Guest network you need to allow them to see each other and your LAN. You can configure this in the GUI as follows: