Question

Anyone re-engineered a google mini into a large speaker ?  

Answer 1

Why? Google already makes that.  

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@clorindaclorinde want bigger ‍♂️

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@intervale just buy sonos

Answer 2

Why would you want to do that ?  

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To get more and better sound maybe?  

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Ah. Ok. I've been up for 2 days. Ignore me lol

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I think I was reading the question wrong.  

Answer 3

A larger speaker doesn't necessarily translate to "louder". The small power amp in the device will not likely provide enough power to push the larger speaker adaqualty. What you want is a more "efficient" speaker. I have no idea what the specks are on the speaker they use, but you want to find a speaker with a higher sensitivity rating if you want louder output.  

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@clown no it would need an amp in the speaker to power it appropriately

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Then why not just buy a better speaker?  

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@nealy nothing suits

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That may also be an option, but I don't believe the mini has an aux output, so you'd have to use the speaker output which is already amplified. This would likely introduce distortion as most power amps are designed to accept low level signal but you would be feeding it a signal that is already amplified. Its likely the amp in the mini can't easily be defeated. If you are good with electronics and like tinkering, this might be a fun project to experiment with, but just know it might not work as well as expected.  

Answer 4

What about connecting it to a Bluetooth speaker?  

Answer 5

You need to find the output of the preamp if any at all . interested though .  

Answer 6

How about a bluetooth speaker and then send the Google sound to it. You can also get a bluetooth 'dongle' that attaches to any speaker.  

Answer 7

The easy option is chrome audio but I have tons of mini’s and don’t mind a bit of destruction soldering type stuff  

Answer 8

I know you can use a bluetooth connected audio receiver or speaker for music. Otherwise you would have to perform some DIY modifications to tap into the analog audio output.  

Answer 9

I haven’t had any physical practice with this, but I’m pretty sure you could do some sort of raspberry pi google assistant setup, and have it output to whatever speaker/amp combo you want

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Something like this maybe?  
https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi...tant/

Answer 10

I did that.  

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Do you know the power of the amp embedded in the mini?  

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@blase no, sorry. I simply attached bigger speaker to get better sound. And it works. The only issue, that I lose some frequencies on high volume level, but I usually don't set it so high. I wish mini to have stereo output  

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Yeah, I agree about the stere output.  

Answer 11

It going to be mono, so maybe do it to 2 minis and create a left/right setup.  

Answer 12

They should have never killed Chromecast audio. Pair that with a home (nest) mini would be great

Answer 13

The mini has a native bluetooth feature. You can make it play music via bluetooth speakers, no need to re-engineer it.