Hi! Okay here’s something people might want to try and of course there will be variations on what I’ve did. Last night was the perfect night for entertaining after a wonderful sunny day we had an evening where the temperature got down to the low 20’s so had a few friends around. So let the music roll from spotify I thought and then the idea came to me of using the Chromecast Audio outside. To do this I needed power but I certainly didn’t want to go to the trouble of using an extension power cable. I have an Ankor Powerbank here which I normally use to charge my Smart phones but there’s no reason at all I could see why the Powerbank shouldn’t be able to power the Chromecast Audio? After all! the Chromecast Audio is a USB powered device and the Powerbank delivers power through either one of two USB ports. So then I connected the Chromecast to the B&W T7 speaker, selected the Spotify App on my Samsung Galaxy S6, selected the content I wanted to hear and then selected the Chromecast Audio from the “Devices” list, a nice compact system outside playing audio. Of course I could have cut out the Chromecast component completely and just used Bluetooth to stream from the Galaxy S6 to the B&W T7 but using the Chromecast gave me extra flexibility, I was - had I wanted -able to control the music without my friends knowing about it and interrupting their enjoyment of the music with text to speech. I was also able to control the music from afar. So an idea for you to try I guess.
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