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Creating Alexa Speaker Groups on an Orbi Mesh Network.
I have an ORBI mesh system (1 router, 3 satellites). I also have a number of Alexa Echo devices. We use speaker groups, including one call everyehre, that encompasses all of our dots. Until recently, this worked great.
Recently, we just acquired 2 more DOts for Mother's day. When I tried to add them to the speaker group, I was unable to, being told that they were on different networks. When I tried to recreate the group, I couldn't even recreate what used to be there. Every time I added one Dot to the group, others became disabled, with no pattern. In fact, one dot could pair with either one of 2 other dots, but not both.
Has anyone had any kind of experience like this? Has anyone figured out how to work around this?
(Posting here, even though it is probably a combination of issues with the Echo Dots, Alexa App, and the mesh network.)
Apparently, just asking the question fixes the problem. I tried it again, and for some bizarre reason, I was able to form all of the groups again. Not sure what changed, or if it just took a little while for the new Dots to introduce themselves, but I'm all good now.
Technology. Gotta love it.
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Please contact Amazon for help, support and information regarding there products.
FURRYe38 wrote:Please contact Amazon for help, support and information regarding there products.
The problem is that I am not sure if this is a problem with Amazon or Orbi, since Amazon seems to think that it is connected to several different networks, even though the Orbi mesh should appear as a single wireless network.Do all of these Echo devices appear on the list of Attached Devices (web interface) or the Device Manager (Orbi "app") as connected to the Orbi?
