The Alexa app on iPadOS, prompting to Set UP the Echo Studio smart speaker.
This piece shows how to connect the Echo Studio smart speaker to the internet. Plus, this routine works for brand new Studios as well as used ones that you want to put on another network or account. Note though that in certain situations, your Studio may set itself up automatically if the following conditions are met:
After plugging the Echo Studio into AC power, give it a couple minutes, and if it announces that setup is complete, then you’re good to go. But if not, follow the instructions below to get it up and running.
You need the following to connect your smart speaker to the internet:
You’ll need to run the Alexa app on a compatible mobile phone or tablet computer. For this demo, we’re using an iPad Air tablet.
The Echo Studio does not come equipped with an RJ45 Ethernet port. So, you must connect it to the Alexa service through a wireless network. Further, that network must have internet access, and it must be in range of the speaker when connecting.
Get the Alexa app in the Google Play (Android) store, or the App Store (iOS, iPadOS). Download and install the right version for your device, and then log into it with your Amazon account credentials. If you just created an account, be sure to use those credentials.
If you do not already have an Amazon account for your Studio, then get one at https://amazon.com/ . Follow the prompts there to set one up.
Or, when you run the Alexa app in Step 2 under the How to Connect Echo Studio to the Internet, Step-by-Step below, and you’ve never signed into the app with a valid account, Alexa will ask you to sign in, as shown next.
There, the app lets you create a new account if you don’t already have one. If you do not, then press the Create a New Amazon Account button in the lower center portion of the login screen. Then, the app walks you through that account setup routine. Note that you must have an account to run the following steps.
Turn on Bluetooth on your mobile device, because the app uses Bluetooth to find nearby Amazon Echo devices in some situations.
Plug the included AC cord into the device.
Plug the other end of that cable into an AC outlet, and plug the adapter into a working outlet. The speaker then boots up, as shown next.
Now, your Studio is probably already displaying its orange light ring on the top of the unit, as shown next. If you see that orange lighted ring, then skip ahead to the next step. Or if not, then work through this step.
After connecting a new Echo Studio to AC power, the unit typically enters Setup mode automatically. You will also hear it announce this. and as mentioned, the ring will turn orange and display a spinning pattern.
But if this is not a new Echo Studio, it may not right away go into Setup mode. So in that case, you must factory reset it. In summary, to reset, press and hold the Action button, as pointed out in the next picture, until the Studio starts resetting. After this hard reset, the unit then enters Setup mode.
At any rate, how ever you get it into Setup, once you have it there, move on to the next step.
Find the Alexa app on your mobile device, as we did on the iPad Air device, as shown in the next picture.
Tap the Alexa app icon to run it. If this is your first time starting the app, it will prompt you for your Amazon account and password. Again, if you just set up a new account above, log into the app with those account credentials.
Plus, if this is your first Echo device, the app will ask you to set up a new device.
Should the app prompt, enter your Amazon account details. Doing this will sign you in via the Alexa app. The app then remembers your account information the next time you run it, so that you won’t have to punch in this data every time.
The later versions of the Alexa app are pretty good at detecting new devices nearby. So upon starting the app, you may very well see the following screen.
If so, tap the blue Continue button, and then skip ahead to step 12 below. As seen in that step, the system then prompts you to select the WiFi network.
If the app does not detect your new Echo Studio right away, it displays its Home screen. We got the Home page pretty quickly, since we have other devices on our Amazon account, as shown next.
Find this called out by the green arrow in the last picture.
Hitting the More control brings up the Alexa app’s main menu, as shown next.
Visit the next page in the process by tapping the Add a Device menu item (left top of the screen), highlighted by the green arrow in the last picture.
This brings up the Setup->What type of device are you setting up? screen, as shown next.
Tapping the Amazon Echo item brings up the first Setup screen for Echo devices, as shown next, where you pick which model of the Echo you’re connecting. In this case, we want to connect an Echo Studio device to the internet. So, we’ve pointed out that option with a green arrow in the next picture. You may have to scroll down a bit to see this option on your mobile device.
Touching the Echo Studio device brings up the Is your Echo Studio Plugged In and Displaying an Orange Light? screen, as shown next.
Touch the blue Yes bar.
This starts the app scanning for new Amazon Echo devices to connect, as shown next.
Now at this point, the app is waiting to hear from the device you’re connecting. It will hear it then, when you place that device in Setup mode.
If your Echo Studio is indeed in Setup, then after a brief pause, Alexa should find it, as ours did, and display it in a found-devices list, as shown next.
If Alexa does not find your Studio, make sure you have Bluetooth turned on in your mobile device that’s running the app. Turn that on, and then check again that your speaker displays the orange light ring.
Note that the Amazon Echo Studio only stays in Setup mode for several minutes, and times out after that. Should that happen, then just press the Action button until the orange light appears, or unplug the speaker from power for a few seconds and plug it back in. This should re establish Setup mode.
In this demo, we tap the Echo Studio-2RK device, pointed at by the green arrow in the last picture above.
This brings up the Select your Wi-Fi Network page, as shown next.
Just prior to the app showing this screen, it runs a WiFi scan from the device you chose, for in-range WiFi networks that said device sees. Then, it’s this list that the app displays for you.
Tap the wireless network you want your speaker to sign into. In our case, we’re choosing the 937T681J4059H_5G_Guest network. That one is pointed out by the green arrow in the last picture.
Tapping a WiFi network may ask you to enter the password for that network. If it does, type it in.
Skip down to the next step if you don’t see this prompt. Indeed, the app may not prompt you, if you’ve previously saved this network’s information to your Alexa account. This is true for us in this scenario. So Alexa did not ask us for the password.
While your speaker tries to set itself up on the network you picked above, the app shows the Connecting your Echo to Wi-Fi screen, as pictured next.
After some seconds, and if all goes well, you see the following screen. This shows that the Echo Studio successfully connected to your internet network.
Also, the Echo Studio then makes a chime sound, and announces that it’s ready for use.
But if it does not connect and you get errors, follow any instructions that the app displays. If you entered the wrong wireless network password, the app prompts you to re-enter it.
Now if the problem connecting is network related, you may have to troubleshoot that issue on your internet router. In that situation, once you’ve fixed the problem, try rerunning this routine again. We suggest that you close the Alexa app and start it clean first. Then, again, be sure that your Alexa Studio is in Setup mode before doing this routine again.
Touching Continue brings up the Choosing a Location for your Echo Studio page, as pictured next.
Touching Continue then brings up the Which room is your Echo Studio In prompt, as shown next.
In this demo, we tapped the Bedroom choice, as shown in the next picture. Note that a check mark appears to the right of the selection you make once you touch that choice.
Touching the Continue bar then brings up the Where is your Echo Studio page, as shown next. The app is prompting you for the street address where you’ll be using your speaker, as shown in the next screenshot.
The default address, which is filled in, and which we covered up in our demo, is shown above. This is the street address listed on your Alexa account.
Review this address, and if it’s the one you want, tap it. A check mark should then appear to the right of it, as shown in the next picture.
If the listed street address is not not the one you want, then tap the Enter a new address link on this screen, and follow the directions to type in the street address you want.
Once done, the system returns you to this screen, except that now, the correct street address for your speaker should be listed. Tap that, and then move on to the next step.
Once you bump the Continue strip, your Echo Studio speaker is now connected to the internet, and ready to answer voice commands. The system confirms this by displaying the following screen.
Then, the Alexa app takes you back to its Home screen, as shown next.
You may now close the Alexa app if you wish.
Your Amazon Echo Studio is now ready to accept and execute voice commands and answer questions once the lighted orange ring darkens after setup. Try asking it some questions like:
… and so on. Of course, be sure to precede each question with your Echo wake word. The default is Alexa. Or it could be Computer, Amazon, or Echo if you changed it.
Enjoy this Alexa device. It’s a truly hi-fi sounding stereo streamer by itself, or when you pair it with another Echo Studio to form a stereo pair.
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