Google’s Nest speakers are ideal for anyone looking to set up a proper smart home, with the tightest integration you could imagine withGoogle Assistantand Google Home.
One massive benefit to having a bunch ofsmart speakers(and normal speakers, too) dotted around your home is the ability to use multi-room audio to play music and other audio in multiple places at once. Here’s how to get that working with Google Home.
How to set up multi-room audio for Google Nest speakers
There is a wide range of devices that you’re able to use to play multi-room audio through Google. The first step is to create a speaker group, as follows.
How to create a speaker group on Google Home
This will leave you with a speaker group that you may send music and audio to.
Send audio to a speaker group
You’ll probably want to know how to actually go about doing that bit, too. Here are the steps.
This should send your audio or music to the speaker group of your choice. Bear in mind that you may create multiple groups with different combinations of speakers, so you should be able to create a bunch of permutations that let you choose different setups.
What Google devices work with multi-room audio?
to work with its multi-room audio setup, you have to be able to add a speaker to a Google speaker group using the steps above. For Google’s own in-house hardware, the following devices are compatible with speaker groups:
If you’re keen-eyed, that list ofChromecastoptions (including Built-In) should catch your eye - this massively widens out the pool of available speakers. Firstly, there are a host of great smart speakers out there with Chromecast built into them, and they should all work.
Secondly, you’re able to plug your Chromecast (whichever generation it is) into a really wide range of devices to get even more support, making the list of potential devices practically endless.
