Find Alexa IP Address

Asus RT-AC87R wireless router, diisplaying its -Attached Devices List- page, with a connected Echo Sub speaker highlighted. All MAC addresses hidden.

One good way to find the IP address of the Alexa devices on your network, is to get the MAC address of your Alexa device in the Alexa app, and then look in your router’s admin pages where you can map that MAC address to the device’s currently assigned IP address. There, most routers list all the devices connected to them along with IP address and other hardware related information, as ours does below.

Find Alexa IP Address: Introduction

Why would you need to know how to find the IP address of Amazon Echo devices? You would want this address to check that the device is correctly linked to your WiFi network. Knowing that your speaker has an IP address assigned to it is valuable. It helps in debugging internet issues between your device and the Amazon cloud servers. If it has no IP address, you won’t be able to play music, get news, control lights, or anything else that these units normally do. So in this post, we show you how to find this address using a combination of the Alexa app and a typical router’s Attached Devices pages.

Further, You can locate the device’s MAC ID (hardware address) as well, using this same method. How? The MAC ID is listed in the Alexa app on the device’s About page. In fact, we need the MAC address first, and then that we’ll use to find the device’s current IP address. Note that fortunately, registering your device does not require its MAC address. Unfortunately however, as of this writing, the app does not show the IP address of its connected speakers. Thus, we must perform the added step of looking up the IP address associated with the device’s hardware address on the router.

Note that the device whose IP address you want must be powered ON and connected to your network. Since these addresses are normally allocated dynamically by the network, your speaker won’t have this address unless it’s connected.

Find Alexa IP Address: Step by Step

1. Go to the Alexa App’s Home Screen

Bring up the Alexa app on your mobile device. We’re running this scenario on an iOS based iPad Air.

The Home page of that app we show next.

Amazon Alexa app Home screen on iOS, with the main menu button highlighted.

2. Tap the Menu (Hamburger Control) Item

Tapping the Menu option on the Home screen brings up the main menu screen, similar to what’s pictured next.

The main menu, showing the -Settings- option.

3. Tap the Settings Menu Item to Continue with Find Alexa IP Address

The Settings option is pointed at by the green arrow in the last picture.

This pulls up the All Devices page, as shown next.

The -All Devices- page in the app showing an -Echo Sub- speaker listed.

4. Tap the Echo Device whose IP Address to Find

In this demo, we want to find the IP address for our Echo Sub subwoofer speaker. So we tapped that entry in the screen pictured last.

We then saw the Device Settings page, as shown next.

The -Device Settings- page for an Echo Sub.

Next, scroll down the page to find the About option, as highlighted in the next picture.

The -About- option.

5. Tap the About Option

Hitting About pulls up the About screen for the device you selected in the last step, as shown next for our Echo Sub speaker.

The -About- page for an Echo Sub, showing that speaker’s MAC address.

The MAC address appears on this About page for our Echo Sub, as shown in the previous screenshot. Note that we’ve partially blocked this hardware address along with the speaker’s serial number for security purposes.

To find your devices IP address, write down its MAC address that you get from this screen on your Alexa app, as we’ve done here. Then, move on to the next step.

6. Find MAC Address in Router’s Connected Devices List

Finding the IP address associated with the given MAC address works differently on the many routers and networks out there. But in our case, we have the Asus RT-AC87R router and WiFi access point. So we show its Attached Devices screen where we found the MAC address listed from above. Most routers have page that shows all the network devices they’re currently hosting.

Asus RT-AC87R wireless router, displaying its -Attached Devices List- page, with a connected Echo Sub speaker highlighted. All MAC addresses hidden.

We circled the entry with the same hardware address as our Echo Sub that we got in the last step. In our example, the Echo Sub’s IP address is 192.168.0.45.

7. Done with the Find Alexa IP Address Routine !

We have now shown one way how to find the IP address for an Echo device like a speaker. We hope this outline helps you debug any internet connectivity issues with your Alexa smart speakers. Take care.