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Volumio Alexa Skill – Find out more

Volumio Alexa Skill? We’ve got you covered!

 

Dear Community!
We’re excited to announce that Volumio Alexa Skill is now available. This means you will now be able to control Volumio playback using Amazon’s Alexa voice control.

We know that virtual assistants and voice user interactions are becoming more and more mainstream and widely adopted by consumers. So we wanted to give you access to Volumio Alexa Skill.

 

This feature is available now for all MyVolumio users on a Virtuoso and Superstar plan.

If you want to upgrade you can click here and chose one of our Virtuoso or Superstar Plan.

Enabling Volumio Alexa Skill:

First,  install the Volumio Alexa skill from Alexa’s app. Then, on search skills write “Volumio” and install it.

Steps for Alexa Skill configuration:

  • Now, Click on “Activate” to start the configuration.
  • Then, login using your MyVolumio credential and allow Alexa.
  • Once you receive your user credential information confirmation, click on “Find” to find the registered Volumio devices or ask: “Alexa, discover my devices”.Note: when the device search is finished we suggest you to wait about 30 seconds before play the music.
  • Finally, play the music on Volumio using the device name. For example, if you have a device called “kitchen”, ask “Alexa, play on kitchen”

Now, You can control Volumio by using voice commands such as:

“Alexa, turn up the volume on Volumio” or “Alexa, next song on Volumio”

That’s it!

We hope you will enjoy it!

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