Picture of an Amazon Smart Plug, connected to AC power, and switched ON. Note the solid blue light at the left front of the unit.
You may need to hard factory reset an Amazon Smart Plug to restore proper operation should it stop responding to Alexa commands coming from either your Echo smart speaker or the Alexa app. Or, perhaps you’d like to change the WiFi network and / or password to which this smart plug connects. In either case a hard reset will do the trick.
Plug the smart socket into a working wall outlet as shown next. The pilot lamp will flash red several times, and either begin flashing blue, or turn off entirely as it does in the next picture.
Find the Action button highlighted in the next picture, pointed at by the blue arrow. Keep it pressed in, until the light on the front starts blinking red.
You may see the pilot lamp on the front flash a blue and red at first. If so, then keep holding the Action button until the blue stops, and all you see is a red on and off blinking, as shown next.
Wait for the light to begin flashing red. You should see no blue in the blinking pilot lamp.
Then, when you release the button, the light then glows a solid red for several seconds while the factory reset takes place.
Finally, the light begins blinking on and off blue (no red here) as seen next.
This means that the factory reset is now complete, and your Amazon smart plug is now ready for setup or sale.
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