The Amazon Echo is a Bluetooth Receiver

Peter Rukavina

Lost in the shuffle of the Amazon Echo Dot that we’ve been using for the past month is its capacity to receive as well as send via Bluetooth.

I knew you could pipe the audio from the Echo into a Bluetooth speaker; what I only realized today is that you can pipe the audio of other services—like a phone or tablet—to the Echo.

For me this solves the problem of there being no SoundCloud skill for the Echo: I can simply use the Android SoundCloud app and send the audio to the Echo. Because the Echo is hardwired to our hifi, this gives me a handy bridge to blasting SoundCloud audio into the living room.

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