I am trying to connect my WiiM to 2 Echo Studios which I paired though the Alexa app to get stereo sound. The problem is that WiiM only detect and connect either the left or the right Echo and not the paired Echo system. Consequently I get only sound out of one of them. Is there a way to solve this ?
Can’t connect to 2 Echo Studios paired in Stereo
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Connect two WiiM devices to their respective Echo Studios with optical digital cables and set up linkplay multi-room music for stereo playback. I can't think of any other way. However, I don't know if there is any benefit to doing it..
PS: If you have one WiiM, you can also connect it with a 3.5mm pin to aux mono cable. I don't think there's any benefit to it anyway.
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Thank you very much for your suggestion but despite the use of a second WiiM device, I wouldn’t be listening to a stereo sound since both Echo Studios would be fed by separate sources not being possible to set them in stereo mode.
I don't think you can output from WiiM to Echo Studio pair in stereo via Alexa. But @Brantome might have a good idea about this. Let's wait a little longer until he wakes up.
In the case of the aforementioned suggestion, after pairing the two WiiMs with Linkplay MRM, And you can output is divided between L and R like this.
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I’m unclear what you’re trying to do here and what you mean by trying to “connect” your WiiM to the pair of Echo Studios. Stereo pairing of echos is an Alexa construct to deliver Alexa supported music services - the pair can’t be fed bu any other source.
What exactly are you wishing to achieve?
What exactly are you wishing to achieve?
Hi there and thank you for your comments. My intention was to feed my pair of Echo Studios in Stereo configuration by one WiiM linked by Bluetooth to listen to stereo sound. I was thinking that my WiiM could recognize the paired Echo Studios, it does not, it is only able to connect to either one of the two Echos.
You are absolutely right, thanks that could work but using 2 WiiM devices was not my preferred solution.I don't think you can output from WiiM to Echo Studio pair in stereo via Alexa. But @Brantome might have a good idea about this. Let's wait a little longer until he wakes up.
In the case of the aforementioned suggestion, after pairing the two WiiMs with Linkplay MRM, And you can output is divided between L and R like this.
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When it comes to Bluetooth, physical echos only allow a one to one connection. As I said, an echo stereo pair is an Alexa cloud construct whose audio is delivered from a cloud based Alexa supported streaming service. As a cloud construct, you can’t Bluetooth connect to it.
Best you could do with a WiiM or any other audio source is use a physical cable splitting the left/right signal and feeding each Echo Studio separately via its aux input socket.
Edit: for example, 2 of these to feed from a WiiM Pro/Plus’s RCA L/R outputs, each to an Echo Studio.
If using a WiiM Mini, you’d need to get a 3.5mm stereo to twin 3.5mm mono cable such as this.
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I guess, I will take it as it is and accept the limitation. Using 2 WiiM to enable stereo sound does not seem worth it. Thank you very much for your advice !.
I believe I have a work around for this. It requires a Fire TV Cube and a SPDIF to HDMI audio extractor. There is a sonos spdif to hdmi cable but I do not know if that would work for non-sonos systems.
WiiM SPDIF output to Fire TV cube HDMI input. The multiple echo studios/subs are connected to your Fire TV Cube. Voila.
WiiM SPDIF output to Fire TV cube HDMI input. The multiple echo studios/subs are connected to your Fire TV Cube. Voila.
Isn't the HDMI audio extractor a device to separate the audio signal from the HDMI?
It might be possible if the extractor has an SPDIF input, but I believe it is usually an output jack. My apologies if I am wrong.
Can you give an example of a device here for future reference?
Again, overkill (even if it worked as queried by @Wiimer ) when £6 worth of cables as suggested in comment #8 would suffice for a stereo pair, compared to £140 for a fire tv cube. Admittedly, you couldn’t use an echo sub as well, but that’s not a stated requirement here.
Yeah, my understanding too that the purpose of such an adaptor is to extract the audio from an hdmi stream, not to inject audio into it. There may very well be an adaptor to to that, but I doubt it’d be called an audio extractor as it’s not extracting
A cheap optical splitter like this would get your two studios working but without the sub https://www.amazon.co.uk/RAWAUX-Splitter-Switcher-Converter-Amplifier-Black/dp/B09MFQJQR2/ , albeit not a L/R channel split (unless you used two WiiM devices to feed the studios)
You should be able to add an echo stereo pair plus sub to an Alexa MRM group, so the use of an Echo Link being fed by a WiiM should work.
There have been a few posts discussing this, most recently https://forum.wiimhome.com/threads/advice-from-amazon-uk-users.4445/ , but particularly https://forum.wiimhome.com/threads/...lti-room-music-problems-getting-started.2016/ comments #3 and #8
Again, leaving out the sub and dispensing with splitters, couldn't you just take the analog out L/R from a WiiM into the aux in on the Studios? Ok, you'd need two RCA to 3.5mm cables, but again they're easy to come by viz. https://www.amazon.co.uk/DRUT-3-5mm-Phono-Single-Cable/dp/B0CJ5NV161/
I see that is very helpful. It would be nice to stream non-amazon audio sources to multiple locations and an echo studio/sub pair. Bummer that it requires the purchase of a discontinued item. Seems like echo system shines more for Amazon HD content.
I've noticed sound distortion when using the input on echo studio. I think it just poor quality on the studio. I think the echo is really best when audio can be transmitted to it through wifi sadly.
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