I've got echo dot devices all over the house and I create virtual switches that trigger alexa to say stuff. The settings seem to allow me to pick only one speaker to broadcast to. How can I set alexa to speak on all speakers instead?
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Instead of Say, use Send Announcement.
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depends what app you are using.. i am using the alexa tts manager app..
in that a device is automatically created called "all echos" and you simply use that to send to all devices in your notifications.
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awesome! thanks man
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In the Alexa app 'Echo Speaks' (superior to TTS imho) is a generic group pre-setup by Amazon called 'Everywhere'. On the Echo Speaks app there is a switch for Create Multiroom devices. When enabled, you will find a new device in your devices list for Everywhere (WHA). [or whatever you've overridden the name as]. I believe the WHA is Whole Home Automation - a semi-experimental virtual device section being worked on by Amazon.
You can send to this device - the major benefit is synchronized audio. On the Alexa side, you can add/removed devices that belong to this WHA group - so you don't wake the kiddies for example. I added my car-play to it, and get verbal notifications as I drive, which is pretty cool.
I see you have some Flex devices - those things are wickedly slow and never seem to sync their audio. I really like tonesto's app for many other reasons - I can set volume levels, trigger off amazon ring colors and some really nifty extended features. And I just installed a Synology NAS 220+ so I can run Docker and the package Tonesto is creating which I understand is soon to arrive designed to replace the Heroku service which has gone 'pay for'.
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