Play music on Bluetooth speakers or headphones

Stream music that plays on your Google Nest or Dwelling house speaker or display to your favorite Bluetooth speakers or headphones.

Note: All media playback will play on the external speaker that'south paired with the Google Nest or Domicile device. Alarms, timers and Google Assistant'due south responses will play on your Google Nest or Dwelling device.

Step 1. Pair and connect a Bluetooth speaker and Google Nest or Domicile device

Complete these steps if it's the first time you're connecting your speaker to your Google Nest or Home device.

  1. Turn on your Bluetooth speaker and make sure it's in pairing manner. Press the pairing button on your Bluetooth speaker, if possible.
  2. Open up the Google Home appGoogle Home app.
  3. Make certain yous're in the right domicile. The name of the home is at the top of the screen. To change homes, tap the arrow next to the dwelling name.
  4. Touch and hold your device's tile.
  5. At the top right, tap Settings and then Audio.
  6. TapDefault music speaker and then Pair Bluetooth speaker. Your Google Nest or Home device volition and then scan for Bluetooth devices.
  7. Tap the Bluetooth device in one case information technology appears on the screen and thenDone.
  8. Your Bluetooth device will at present pair with your Google Nest or Dwelling house device.

Tips to pair and connect devices

  • You can only have one connected Bluetooth speaker or headphones to play music through at a time.
  • Once you lot pair and connect your Bluetooth speaker to a Google Nest or Home device, it volition auto-connect unless the speaker gets disconnected or turned off.
  • You tin pair a Google Nest or Home device to multiple Bluetooth enabled speakers or headphones, but it will only connect to the nearly recently connected device.
  • Cheque which mobile devices are connected to your Google Nest or Home device.

Step 2. Play music

In one case your Bluetooth speaker is paired and continued to your Google Nest or Abode device, use basic and advanced music commands to mind to music and playlists.

Using sound groups

If you lot use speaker groups to listen to media similar music, podcasts and audiobooks from multiple speakers at once, you can proceed to practice that with your Bluetooth speaker. But add the Google Nest or Home device that's continued to the Bluetooth speaker to any speaker group. Learn how to create or add together your speaker to an sound group.

Note: You lot may need to suit for the playback delay that tin happen when you use a Bluetooth device. Learn how to correct group playback delay.

Disconnect Bluetooth speaker and Google Nest or Home device

You can disconnect a Bluetooth speaker from a Google Nest or Home device but exit it paired.

Using the Google Home app

Using your voice

Say "Hey Google, disconnect Bluetooth."

Note: Your Bluetooth speaker volition stay connected to the Google Nest or Habitation device until yous disconnect.

Reconnect a Bluetooth speaker and Google Nest or Home device

In one case you pair and connect your Bluetooth speaker to a Google Nest or Home device using the steps above, the Google Nest or Dwelling house device will automatically reconnect unless the Bluetooth speaker gets disconnected or turned off.

If your Bluetooth speaker doesn't auto-connect, complete these steps:

Using the Google Home app

Using your voice

  1. Make sure your Bluetooth speaker is on (or in a country to accept connections).
  2. Say "Hey Google, connect Bluetooth."

Unpair a speaker and Google Nest or Home device

This volition remove your Bluetooth speaker from the paired device listing. Y'all'll need to pair and connect this speaker to use it again.

  1. Open up the Google Home appGoogle Home app.
  2. Touch and concur the Google Nest or Domicile device you want to unpair.
  3. At the top right, tap Settings and thenSound and thenPaired Bluetooth devices.

  4. Tap the X next to the device you want to unpair and thenUnpair.

Prepare a problem

My Bluetooth speaker is connected but audio isn't playing

If your Bluetooth speaker is fully paired and connected but there'south withal no audio, try these steps:

Pace 1. Cheque the volume of your devices

  • Bluetooth speaker
  • Google Nest or Abode device
  • By voice: To adjust the book, say "Hey Google, plow it upwardly"

Pace ii. Reconnect your devices

  1. Unpair devices
  2. Pair and connect

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