Multi room clarification please

[pdeseymour]

I have studdied ths manual and have researched with GPT but I am still confused. I have a Tidal stream on my WiiM ultra and would .ike to send the stream to a multi-speaker group via alexa. The Ale a speaker group is wor,ing and I have signed into Amazon on the Ultra. Is what I am trying to do possible?

 

[Burnside]

You can only use Alexa to send to an Alexa MRM group if Alexa supports the service you're playing, so it's not really a WiiM question/issue as such. Tidal is only supported on Alexa in the USA, and even at that, at CD quality at best if not just lossy MP3.

What region are you based in?

 

[pdeseymour]

You can only use Alexa to send to an Alexa MRM group if Alexa supports the service you're playing, so it's not really a WiiM question/issue as such. Tidal is only supported on Alexa in the USA, and even at that, at CD quality at best if not just lossy MP3.

What region are you based in?

I am in UK/Cambridgeshire. Thanks for this. I have wasted a good few hours trying to fathom it! It was this, from the manual, that confused me....
Amazon Alexa Multi-room Audio
1.
Open the Amazon Alexa app on your smartphone or tablet.
2.
Tap Devices at the bottom of the screen.
3.
Tap the + icon in the top right corner of the screen.
4.
In the menu that appears, choose Combine speakers, then select Multi-room music.
5.
Select the Echo and WiiM devices you want to include in your multi-room music setup, then tap Next.
6.
Assign a group name for the multi-room music setup (e.g., "Bedroom").
7.
Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the setup.

 

[Burnside]

I am in UK/Cambridgeshire. Thanks for this. I have wasted a good few hours trying to fathom it! It was this, from the manual, that confused me....
Amazon Alexa Multi-room Audio
1.
Open the Amazon Alexa app on your smartphone or tablet.
2.
Tap Devices at the bottom of the screen.
3.
Tap the + icon in the top right corner of the screen.
4.
In the menu that appears, choose Combine speakers, then select Multi-room music.
5.
Select the Echo and WiiM devices you want to include in your multi-room music setup, then tap Next.
6.
Assign a group name for the multi-room music setup (e.g., "Bedroom").
7.
Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the setup.

Yeah, that just means that you can add a WiiM device to an Alexa MRM group just as if it were an echo, but it also means in that context your WiiM device behaves as if it were an echo - it doesn't mean that your WiiM can bestow its abilities (like Tidal or DLNA/UPNP support, for example) to that MRM group and its members.

To expand upon that, it doesn't mean that if you had a CD player attached to your WiiM that it could send its audio to the MRM group - it's only devices like the Echo Link or Echo Link Amp that can do that for an Alexa MRM group and even then only with USA firmware (or a "cunning plan" )