Pairing Alexa / Echo Devices for Stereo

Finding I had a couple of spare Gen 1 Echo devices (the nice solid ones with the rotary volume dial atop) I thought I would try and pair for proper Stereo effects in the Kitchen. Sadly there are distinct pairing combinations you can use. and two Gen 1 Echos don’t cut the mustard. I wasn’t too worried as the reason for the spares is that I have slowly been upgrading Echo’s so they all support the HD quality stream so suspect I will be buying some more!

This chart from Amazon details what you can actually pair together.

Echo DevicePairable Devices
Echo (1st Generation)Echo Sub
Echo (2nd Generation)Echo (2nd Generation)Echo Sub
Echo (3rd Generation)Echo (3rd Generation)Echo Plus (2nd Generation)Echo Sub
Echo Dot (3rd Generation)Echo Dot (3rd Generation)Echo Dot with clockEcho Sub
Echo Dot with clockEcho Dot with ClockEcho Dot (3rd Generation)Echo Sub
Echo Plus (1st Generation)Echo Plus (1st Generation)Echo Sub
Echo Plus (2nd Generation)Echo Plus (2nd Generation)Echo (3rd Generation)Echo Sub
Echo Show (1st Generation)Echo Sub
Echo Show (2nd Generation)Echo Sub
Echo Show 5Echo Show 5Echo Sub
Echo Show 8Echo Sub
Echo StudioEcho StudioEcho Sub
Source Amazon – https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GZRS8FRPWWFPPZ63

Grrr Nettle woes next

After finally getting RHASH to build, a few easy days and then Nettle would not build. I tried everything, MAKE CLEAN, DEINSTALL, rebuilding build dependencies, nothing worked. Re-installing the old package again kept everything work.

In deperation, I saw the the GHOST-BSD laptop I am currently testing had a built package for nettle-3.6 so in desparation and part trial, I copied the nettle package from the laptop to the server and then issued SUDO PKG ADD path/to/nettle.3.5.xxx and hey presto, it installed and after several reboots and rebuilds of dependent packages it works. Its probably not the safest or more secure, but allowed all the packages that then depend on GNUTLS to build to the latest ports.