How to Add JBL Charge 3 Bluetooth Speakers?
I just bought a JBL Charge 3 bluetooth speaker.
Wanting to use not just my iPhone with it, I wondered how I could connect via bluetooth to my 15" MacBook Pro running Sierra 10.12.2, with my 200+ gig iTunes music library in iTunes version 12.5.4.
After some googling and another article elsewhere on the forums at apple I realised that, the instructions weren't that clear on the JBL manual. Opening my bluetooth preferences I could see a device which might have been the my speaker but I wasn't sure?
That device starting with SMA001d, was I thought, my JBL Charge 3 Speaker. So I tried pressing the button I thought was the correct one to pair it with my laptop.
But really I'm still not sure. Even after repeated pressing of what I thought was the pairing button on the top of my speaker it still wouldn't connect.
So I dug up the JBL Charge 3 speaker again and had a closer look. This image on this page, page 2 is important.
The bluetooth symbol itself [first on the left] is how you pair to other devices, not the other infinity type symbol [fouth from the left] Once I had worked this out the speaker then appeared in my bluetooth preferences list. See this picture below. Note that device starting with SMA00 is still there?
So now I can run my iTunes library anywhere within the house, using my iPhone as a remote control and within range of the laptop itself. #winning













