Can I use wireless speakers with my exisisting wired speakers and system?

[techunfriendly]

I am not a technical woman, but am having a party and want to add some music to other areas.
We had speakers wired into the ceilings of a few rooms and 2 on the back deck when we had our house built 7 yrs ago. I plug my ipod/iphone/tablet into the receiver and the same music plays in all the rooms (which is fine). If I wanted to have music on my front porch or in other area's, can I use wireless speakers in conjunction with current set up?

 

[americanaudiophile]

You can add a bluetooth transmitter like this
http/www.amazon.com/Miccus-Home-RTX-Bluetooth-Transmitter/dp/B00713RSE0/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1394218482&sr=8-6&keywords=bluetooth+adapter+for+tv
and connect it to the tape out or pre out of the receiver. That would allow bluetooth speakers to work.
Sonos would be another option.
www.sonos.com
You could add a Sonos Connect to your receiver and Sonos Play wireless speakers (which do need to be plugged into AC). Your phone would not have to be connected to the receiver. Your phone would not be streaming music for hours it would just be a control so the batteries would not run down. Would give you multizone capability too.

 

[ninadr]

I'm looking for the same solution... and Sonos connect is too expensive. I have an onkyo surround sound system (wired, non-bluetooth) and usually either plug my ipod/phone/ipad into the aux input left/right and can play everything through my house. (And btw, I have the two lines of speakers and the second is hardwired to my outside deck already). Or, I can use a bluetooth transmitter, attach to the same aux input, and synch it to my iphone or ipad and play music through my house without physically connecting any device. So now I want to ADD wireless speakers to play in my kitchen at a party and got the two jam stereo speakers. When my device (iphone/ipad) is hooked to the aux input and I bluetooth the device to the new speakers, the stereo shuts off and the wireless speakers play. I can't use the bluetooth transmitter because I can only bluetooth my phone/ipad to EITHER the wireless speakers OR the transmitter hooked to my stereo. Without using Sonos, how in the world can get music through the aux and the wireless?

 

[John Rock]

This is not a solution, rather it's another question: Could your surround movie or bluetooth transmitter or bluetooth speakers (even the wired speakers) have a way to know that they are supposed to be the rear channels (aka surround channels)?