Pair Bluetooth Devices to Your Google Home

Authored by: Support.com Tech Pro Team

1. Introduction: Google Home: Pair Bluetooth

Google's intelligent personal assistant is simply called Google Assistant. It is a voice service that can help you with tasks, entertainment, general information, and more. It is found most commonly on the smart speakers part of the Google Home lineup, but also across a range of different devices, like smartphones, laptops, wearables, and TVs.

You can stream audio from other devices to the Google Home speakers through a Bluetooth connection.

Google Home needs to have at least firmware version 1.26.93937 for the Bluetooth functionality to work.

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3. Google Home: Pair Bluetooth

A Google Home speaker has to be discoverable over Bluetooth to be able to pair it with other devices. This can be done with the Google Home app:

1. On the main screen tap on the Menu symbol on the top left or the Devices symbol on the top right.
   

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2. If you tapped on the Menu symbol then select Devices from the menu. Otherwise skip this step.
   

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2. Scroll down to find the device card for the Google Home speaker that you want to make discoverable over Bluetooth. In the top right corner of the device card, tap the three dots positioned vertically.
   

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2. Then select Settings.
   

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2. Under Device Info tap on Paired Bluetooth devices.
   

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2. Then tap on Enable Pairing Mode in the bottom right corner of the screen. This will make the Google Home speaker discoverable over Bluetooth.
   

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2. Switch over to the device that you want to pair with the Google Home speaker and continue with the pairing process from there. If you don't know how to do this, refer to the user guide for that specific device.
3. Once the Google Home speaker was paired successfully to the other device, it will show up in the Paired Bluetooth devices list of the Google Home app like below.