I say "properly" because even though the device paired initially with smartthings and I can certainly do *some* things with the Soundbar (like control the volume) through the app, a couple of weird things keep happening which make me doubt it really paired properly:
1. The smartthings app keeps declaring, over and over, that a new sound bar device has been detected (the Q80R) and I should try to add it. I've tried at least a dozen times and it always times out about 80% of the way throught the pairing process, so I'm guessing this is just the Q80R being over-willing to pair itself forever until you finally say "Never" on the Smartthings auto-discovery dialog. However:
2. The device, as discovered by Alexa (which is actually the whole *point* of getting it paired with smartthings, being able to control only the volume of the device not being very useful!) , shows up as a *switch* type. Yes, I can use Alexa to turn the sound bar on and off. That's it. When I try to register it with Alexa as an actual speaker device, it says that Smart things has no knowledge of such a speaker device, hence my current distrust of step 1.
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