{"id":3192,"date":"2015-12-13T21:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T07:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2015-12-13T21:37:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T07:37:54","slug":"til-amazon-echos-bluetooth-can-pair-with-apple-osx-computers-but-not-microsoft-windows-10-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/13\/til-amazon-echos-bluetooth-can-pair-with-apple-osx-computers-but-not-microsoft-windows-10-pcs\/","title":{"rendered":"TIL: Amazon Echo&rsquo;s Bluetooth can pair with Apple OS\/X computers but not Microsoft Windows 10 PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/echo_osx_bt_20151213.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"echo_osx_bt_20151213\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"echo_osx_bt_20151213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/echo_osx_bt_20151213_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon tells us that is Echo intelligent speaker can pair with mobile devices? But, I wondered what about desktop PCs and notebooks? It turns out that it pairs and works fine with Macs running Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s OS\/X (I tested it with the current El Capitan release). However, Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Windows 10 Bluetooth stack couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even detect the Echo let alone pair with it.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you have a Windows PC and want to use the Echo as a wireless speaker, you are out of luck. However, if you run OS\/X on a Mac, it works fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon tells us that is Echo intelligent speaker can pair with mobile devices? But, I wondered what about desktop PCs and notebooks? It turns out that it pairs and works fine with Macs running Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s OS\/X (I tested it with the current El Capitan release). However, Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Windows 10 Bluetooth stack couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even detect the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,222,15,17,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-gadgets","category-mac","category-macosx","category-microsoft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-Pu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}