How to Pair Sony SRS XG300 to Alexa

An Echo Dot 4 smart speaker beside the Sony SRS XG300 boombox speaker.

This post shows how to pair the Sony SRS XG300 boombox Bluetooth speaker to Alexa smart speakers. Now this pairing happens between the Sony and Echo devices directly. Thus you need not turn Bluetooth on in the mobile device you’re using to create this connection.

How to Pair Sony SRS XG300 to Alexa: Step by Step

With your XG300 OFF (status lamp is dark), run through this routine to pair it to your Alexa Echo device. We use an iPad Air tablet to set this up.

1. Find the Alexa app on your Mobile Device

We found the app on the iPad Air. Here, the app is in a custom folder. The Smart Speakers folder.

The Alexa app icon on iPadOS. You must pair the Sony SRS XG300 to Alexa in the Alexa app. So start the app first.

2. Run the Alexa App

Then the app displays its Home screen.

The -More- option on the Alexa app Home screen.

3. Tap the More Item to Continue with How to Pair Sony SRS XG300 to Alexa

Find the hamburger item in the lower right corner of the screen.

This brings up the Alexa app’s main menu.

The main menu -Settings- item.

4. Tap the Settings Option on the Main Menu

Then this brings up the Settings screen.

The -Device Settings- option on the -Settings- screen.

5. Tap the Device Settings Option

Touching Device Settings brings up the All Devices page.

The Echo Dot 4 appearing on the -All Devices- screen.

From here, choose which Echo device you wish to link with your Sony SRS XG300 speaker.

6. Tap the Alexa Device you Wish to Pair

Then this takes you to the device-specific settings screen for the speaker you chose.

In this demo, we’re pairing from our Thomas’s 2nd Echo Dot 4 speaker to our XG300.

The -Connect a Device- item on the Echo Dot 4 -Settings- screen.

7. Tap the Pair a Device Item

Find the Pair a Device option.

This then brings up the Setup screen.

The -Pair Bluetooth Device- screen.

At this point, your Alexa device scans for nearby Bluetooth devices that are in pairing mode. Here, we selected an Echo Dot 4 earlier. So, this speaker will be the one that scans for BT devices.

Note that our Dot speaker found no devices so far. But it will in the next steps.

8. Power Up the Sony SRS XG300

Bring your XG300 close to your Alexa device to pair. Then power up that speaker by pressing the Power button.

The -Power- button on the Sony SRS XG300 speaker.

This light should then start glowing green.

The -Power- light glowing green. You must power up the speaker before you can pair it to Alexa.

9. Place the BT Speaker into Pairing / Discovery Mode

Then put the XG300 into pairing mode by pressing and releasing the Pairing button.

The -Pairing- button on the XG300.

When pairing mode starts, the XG300 announces, “Bluetooth pairing.” Then the BT status lamp starts flashing blue in a pulse-pulse-pause, pulse-pulse-pause pattern.

The -Bluetooth Pairing- lamp blinking blue.

10. Find the Sony SRS XG300 on the Alexa App SETUP Page

With the XG300 now in discovery mode, it should appear on the Pair Bluetooth Device… page in the app.

The Sony SRS XG300 showing as Discovered on the -Setup- page in the Alexa app, just prior to when you pair to the Sony SRS XG300.

Note that if your boombox does not show up on this page now, then try the following.

Move it very close to the Alexa.
Close and restart the Alexa app.
Then repeat steps 3 through 7 along with step 9 above.

So we usually find that this gets the XG300 to appear here as it should.

11. Find your Sony SRS XG300 on the Discovered Devices List

See the last screenshot above. Our test speaker is there.

12. Finally, Pair your Alexa with your XG300

Then pair to the speaker by tapping its corresponding entry on the Pair Bluetooth Device… screen.

Your Alexa speaker then pairs with the boombox.

The app then takes you back to the Thomas’s 2nd Echo Dot 4 screen.

The SRS XG300 showing as Connected to an Echo Dot 4 in the Alexa app. Now finished with How to Pair Sony SRS XG300 to Alexa.

Note that our boombox now shows as paired. Also, the Sony speaker makes the Speaker Paired sound (the ding-dong sequence), and it announces, “Bluetooth paired.”

This speaker now has a pairing with your Alexa smart speaker. Its Pairing light glows solid blue to signal that successful pairing is in effect.

13. Done with How to Pair Sony SRS XG300 to Alexa !

Finally we can now ask Alexa to play music or news. Then those programs will come out of the Sony SRS XG300. Be sure though, to speak to the Alexa speaker when making requests, and not the Sony. Thus the XG300 has a pairing with Alexa. But it’s the Alexa device that still hears your voice commands through its far field microphones.