"Connect to WiFi and wake device" when trying to use Alexa speaker group

[Vexir]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

MacBook Pro 18,1 + iPhone

Operating System

Latest for both

My Question or Issue

Spotify Connect + Alexa has always has major issues and never reliable. Today's flavor of the week is this. All the devices in the group are awake and respond to me. The device tab seems to flip flop between these two:

[Vexir]

Hey guys, I have figured it out for my situation. Spotify didn't recognize the device group "Everywhere" from which I want to play, but it recognized the individual devices in that group. The third method below worked for me. I changed from "Everywhere" to "Upstairs", and the recognition of "Upstairs" was instant. I could have kept using "Upstairs", but I still wanted to name "Everywhere" so I changed back to "Everywhere". It is stilling working.

There are three things you can try. First two things already mentioned previously in this thread.

1. Sign out Spotify from everywhere. Do so on desktop site.

2. Unlink and link Spotify in the Alexa app.

3. Change the name of your Alexa group (remove the old group if it lingers after you change the name).

I imagine the first two methods would work for greyed out individual devices and the first method would work for greyed out speaker group.

[AmeliaWatson1817]

Sadly the suggestion of signing out everywhere doesn’t work for me. 

[efanmar]

The suggestion doesn't work for me too.

Spotify Support, where are you????

[autumnxrose]

Same issue here. Tried all the above steps. Just set up an Echo Dot device I got for Christmas and it shows waking up and grayed out apart from the other Alexa devices. 

[AmeliaWatson1817]

I had success this morning by saying “Alexa Spotify connect” but it reverted back to not working later on. I guess it’s one extra step

[MihailY]

Hey folks,

Apologies for the lack of updates on our end.

We'd like to report this to our tech team so for anyone experiencing this, please provide the exact models of the affected devices in addition to the details requested by @Ivelina (see below):

• Does the issue only happen with newly added devices?
• Does it happen with groups or individual speakers?
• Are there other Spotify users in the household using them?
• What have you tried so far in order to fix the issue?

Thanks for your help!

[zambiana]

Spotify, it seems all you’re good at is asking the same questions over and over again. You’ve already been told what the problem is yet to keep asking “Does the issue only happen with newly added devices?”, etc. How long are you going to keep asking these questions? You’ve been told the answers to these questions more than three times. Just help us already.

[gctso]

Hey guys, I have figured it out for my situation. Spotify didn't recognize the device group "Everywhere" from which I want to play, but it recognized the individual devices in that group. The third method below worked for me. I changed from "Everywhere" to "Upstairs", and the recognition of "Upstairs" was instant. I could have kept using "Upstairs", but I still wanted to name "Everywhere" so I changed back to "Everywhere". It is stilling working.

There are three things you can try. First two things already mentioned previously in this thread.

1. Sign out Spotify from everywhere. Do so on desktop site.

2. Unlink and link Spotify in the Alexa app.

3. Change the name of your Alexa group (remove the old group if it lingers after you change the name).

I imagine the first two methods would work for greyed out individual devices and the first method would work for greyed out speaker group.

[FrozenSkeeter]

I am having the same issue, just started happening after 3 months. I cannot get it to reconnect at all. If I go to Alexa I can switch to a single speaker.

[jlocke1979]

Spoiler

I had the same problem. GCTSO’s (above) recommendation #3 worked for me. 

[MihailY]

Hey folks,

Thanks for your comments.

@gctso, thanks for sharing these steps and @jlocke1979, thanks for letting us know what worked for you. 

@FrozenSkeeter, can you try the above and let us know if the issue persists?

Cheers, 

[Stevepud]

I've got Gen 5 Echo Dots, and mine all do the same in Spotify app.
I try to connect to the Dots but they just show "waking up" but never wake until I tell Alexa to "Connect to Spotify" then they wake.

I cannot connect to any of them from Spotify on the Web even with the voice command. The only way to connect on Spotify Web, is to connect in the app first!

[AleGonzalez]

Nothing works… except the advise from the guy who said to ask “Alexa play music” 🤷🏻‍♂️

[MihailY]

Hey @AleGonzalez,

Thanks for reaching out.

Can you please confirm you've tried @gctso's solution? If yes, and the issue persists, please send over the info requested in the status update post.

Cheers,

[thetrvekvlt]

Same issue here as poster above. All updated, fairly new phone, haven't had issues, just today my devices don't appear anymore, Amazon speaker groups also don't appear. I have used android auto today, just as I did before. Really annoying and know bug.

[thetrvekvlt]

The main issue is that Amazon Alexa speaker groups have been completely obliterated from the app. As they are not single devices but groups they cannot be selected anymore. This is really a horrific development or, as you may call it, new "feature". I don't see why I wouldn't switch to Amazon music now.

[1112325]

I have the same issue and I've tried everything already suggested. I have no idea why it stopped working from today. Neither the app and the desktop version can play music on my Echo dot 5th generation. Please help

[rhosk]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

ALL

Operating System

ALL

My Question or Issue

It seems that Alexa (music) Groups don't show up in Devices any longer. Just FYI. I believe the Alexa App just updated, so not sure if it's related to that or not. 

Edit: Disregard, it eventually fixed itself. Not sure if it was "Network", "Alexa", or "Spotify", but I guess you just need to be patient.

[akorhan]

This problem exists in Spotify more than 2 years I guess. I have echo 4 5 gen echo dot 5 gen and echo studio. All have similar issues from time to time. A workaround you can select the unavailable echo from Alexa app 

[MihailY]

Hey folks,

Is there someone who has tried the solution in the Top Answer comment and is still experiencing the issue? If yes, please post the info requested in the status update.

Thanks!

[gwenolechenouard]

Hi,

Plan Premium

Country FRANCE

Device PC Windows 11 (last updated) + Samsung A52s (Android 13)

2x Echo dots gen 5 (grouped)

Does the issue only happen with newly added devices? : i don't know
Does it happen with groups or individual speakers? groups
Are there other Spotify users in the household using them? no

The problem is: when I tell alexa to play spotify on my speakers group (voice command "Alexa, play Spotify"), the music is played but:

1- the group AND the 2 echo dots are grey on Spotify windows app.

2- the group AND the 2 echo dots are not shown on Spotify android app.

3- most spotify api player commands returns error 500 (get playback state, transfer playback, pause playback ...)

To solve the problem, I need to restart both echo dots. Then everything works normally.

But if I stop playing spotify on the group or if I play spotify on another device, and then I wait for 15 minutes and ask alexa to play Spotify on my group name, the problem is back.

I tried to unlink the 2 speakers from the group (so the group is deleted). Everything works normally, even if I stop playing for 15 minutes and ask Alexa to "play Spotify" on my echo dots 5 individually.

I have 2 others echo dot (gen 4) at home, but they are not grouped. If spotify is playing on one of them, and if I ask Alexa to transfer to my echo dot group, the problem happens. I didn't try to link those two echo dot gen 4 in a group.

The first time I had this problem, is when I bought the 2 echo dot gen 5 and made a group with them.

If I rename the group on Alexa app, it's works but if I stop playing for 15 minutes, the problem occurs again.

I hope it will help developpers, cause I can't stand unplug powersupply on the 2 echo dots many times in a day....

Edit: my echo dots gen 5 group is a left and right speakers group