Picture of the Alexa Echo Spot talking smart speaker, showing its WiFi Network Connected Successfully screen.

How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot Touchscreen Speaker

Here, we demonstrate how to set up the Alexa Echo Spot smart video speaker. Now keep in mind that you need not completely erase your Alexa Echo Spot settings to set it up again. Further, you need neither a tablet nor phone running the Amazon Alexa app, because this speaker has its own touchscreen. Plus, you can access all the necessary settings pages for getting it up and running for the first time, or when setting it up again.

What to Do First in How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot

Note that you can set up a WiFi network on the Echo Spot whether or not it successfully connects to a network currently. However, the speaker must be powered up you start.

Also, the WiFi network you set up on the Spot must have internet access. Why?  Because the Echo Spot will not function on many limited access or closed wireless networks.

1. Turn On your Echo Spot

After several to ten seconds, a Home Screen appears as shown next.

Picture of the Alexa Echo Spot speaker, front view, showing the local weather. How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot.
Alexa Echo Spot speaker, front view, showing the local weather.

 

How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot

1. Bring up the Actions Menu

Do this by swiping down from top of screen.

The Actions menu then appears as shown next.

Picture of a finger continuing to swipe down toward the center of the Amazon Echo Spot speaker screen, to reveal its main menu.
Continuing to swipe down toward screen center reveals main menu.

 

Picture of the speaker displaying its Main Menu screen, with the Settings button highlighted.
The speaker displaying its Main Menu screen, with the Settings button highlighted.

2. Tap the Settings Button

Find the Settings button on the Actions menu, as pointed at by the green arrow in the last picture.

The Settings screen then appears, as shown in the next picture.





3. Tap the Network Settings Menu Item

Find the Network Settings option shown in the last picture.

Picture of the speaker displaying its Settings screen. Showing a finger swiping up to scroll down through the list of settings. How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot.
The speaker displaying its Settings screen. Showing a finger swiping up to scroll down through the list of settings.

Tapping Network Settings brings up the Connect to Network screen, as shown next, and gives access to the Echo Spot WiFi settings.

Picture of the Alexa Echo Spot speaker, showing its Connect To Network screen.
The Alexa Echo Spot speaker, showing its Connect To Network screen.

4. Find Desired WiFi Network to Continue with How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot

The Connect To Network screen lists all in range as well as saved WiFi networks. So to find the wireless network you wish to setup your Echo Spot on, swipe up and down on this screen until you spot it. If you don’t see the network you want, then Maybe your Echo Spot is too far away from it. Move the speaker closer to that access point / router if this happens.

In this demo, we’re going to setup to the villasalon WiFi network on our Echo Spot. This SSID is circled in green, in the picture following.

Picture of the speaker showing its Connect To Network screen with the VillaSalon WiFi network highlighted.
The speaker, showing its Connect To Network screen with the villasalon WiFi network highlighted.

5. Tap Desired WiFi Network Entry

If your chosen WiFi SSID is a password protected network (as it well should be), the Echo Spot then prompts you for its WiFi password, as shown next. Our villasalon network is indeed secured with a password.

Picture of the speaker, displaying its WiFi Password Entry screen, with blank field, no password entered yet. How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot.
The speaker displaying its WiFi Password Entry screen, with blank field, no password entered yet.

6. Tap the Hide Password Button (Optional)

Skip ahead to the next step if you want to see the password characters appear onscreen as you enter them.

But if you want them hidden, then find the Hide Password option at the top of the screen. Hiding the password characters makes them show up as stars (*). But you need not hide the password if you’re alone or do not care if anyone looks sees it over your shoulder.





7. Enter WiFi Network Password

Type in the WiFi password for the wireless network you’ve chosen, using the onscreen virtual keyboard, as shown next. We’ve hidden our password. So we got the star characters as we typed ours in.

Picture of the speaker, showing its WiFi Password entry prompt screen, with password field filled in. Password characters are hidden.
The speaker, showing its WiFi Password entry prompt screen, with password field filled in. Password characters are hidden.

8. Tap the Check Mark Button to Continue with How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot

Once you’ve typed the WiFi password, tap the gray check mark button at the bottom of the screen, as shown in the last picture.

The Echo Spot then displays the Wi-Fi Network Confirmation screen, as shown next. Note that the villasalon network name appears, along with the password field (star characters).

Picture of the Alexa Echo Spot Speaker, Showing its New WiFi Network Confirmation screen.
The Alexa Echo Spot speaker, Showing its New WiFi Network Confirmation screen.

If this is the WiFi network you wish, then go on to the next step. If not, then tap the  Back  button, found in the top left area (ten o’clock) on the screen, to choose a different WiFi network from the list of available networks.

9. Tap the Continue Button

Find the  Continue  button at six o’clock at the bottom of the Wi-Fi screen in the last picture (the > button).

The Echo Spot then asks if you wish to save the WiFi password you entered above to Amazon servers, as shown next.

10. Switch Off the  Save Password to Amazon  Option (Optional)

The Save Password to Amazon option is ON by default. If you want to save your password there, then skip ahead to the next step.  Doing so means that the next time you setup any Echo device on the same Amazon account, that it will use that saved network information.  This means that you won’t have to reenter the WiFi network and password the next time you set up a new Echo Spot speaker on your Amazon account.

But if you with not to save your WiFi password, then tap the toggle switch at three o’clock on the prompt screen, shown next. This moves the switch to the left (OFF) position.

Here, we opted not to save it. Why? Because NOT saving it, in future demos, lets us use villasalon as a brand new WiFi network, and avoid the system automatically connecting to it anytime we’re in range of villasalon.

Furthermore, as of this writing, once you save the network password to Amazon, you cannot remove it from their list unless you ask their customer service agents to clear your saved passwords list in your Amazon account. Avoiding the time involved with messaging them is another reason not to save the password.

Picture of the talking speaker, showing its Save WiFi Password to Amazon screen, with that setting switch off. How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot.
The talking speaker, showing its Save WiFi Password to Amazon screen, with that setting switch off.

11. Tap the Blue Continue Button

Find the Continue (>) button at the bottom of the screen shown in the last picture.

The Echo Spot then attempts to set itself up on the WiFi network you entered above. While it does this, it displays the Connecting screen, as shown next.

Picture of the speaker, displaying its Connecting screen, while it attempts to connect to the current WiFi network.
The speaker, displaying its Connecting screen, while it attempts to connect to the current WiFi network.

After ten to thirty seconds, a WiFi connection is made successfully (or not).

If connecting fails, then the Echo Spot returns you to the list of available WiFi networks screen, with a WiFi Connection Failure message on your chosen network list item, as shown next. From there, you can either choose a different WiFi network, or pick the same SSID again and retry entering its password.

Picture of the speaker, showing that the attempted WiFi connection has failed.
The speaker showing that the attempted WiFi connection has failed.

But if all works as expected with setting up the new WiFi connection, you’ll see the Verify Amazon Account screen come up, as shown in the next shot.

Picture of the speaker, showing its Verify Amazon Account screen.
The speaker, showing its Verify Amazon Account screen.

This screen says, “To connect to a new Wi-Fi network we need to confirm that you are <your Amazon account name> by signing you in with your Amazon account password.”

12. Tap the Blue Next (>) Button to Continue with How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot

Find this button shown in the last picture, at five o’clock (lower right on the touchscreen).

The Echo Spot then asks for your Amazon account password, as shown in the screenshot in the next step.

13. Tap the  Hide  Button (Optional)

Skip ahead to the next step if you want to see the your Amazon account password characters appear onscreen as you enter them.

But to keep your password secret, then find the Hide option at the top of the screen. Again, hiding password characters makes them appears as asterixis (*).

Picture of the touchscreen speaker, prompting for Amazon account password. How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot.
The touchscreen speaker, prompting for Amazon account password.

We chose to hide ours for this demo.





14. Enter your Amazon Account Password

We typed in ours using the little virtual keyboard, as shown in the next picture.

Picture of the speaker, showing its Amazon Account Password prompt screen, with the password field filled in and its characters hidden.
The speaker, showing its Amazon Account Password prompt screen, with the password field filled in and its characters hidden.

15. Tap the Teal Done (Check Mark) Button

Find and tap the checkmark button on the bottom of the round Echo Spot screen, at the six o’clock position.

After a brief pause, and if all went as it should, you’ll see the Connected screen, as shown next.

Picture of the assistant speaker, showing its WiFi Network Connected Successfully screen.
The assistant speaker, showing its WiFi Network Connected Successfully screen.

Your Echo Spot has now successfully set up on the WiFi network you picked. Then, if that network has full internet access, you can give voice commands to it. Test this out as follows if you wish.

16. Return the Echo Spot to its Home Screen (Optional)

Say the command, “Alexa, go home.” This takes you back out of the WiFi connected screen, and displays a home screen, as shown next.

Picture of the speaker, displaying a home screen.
The speaker displaying a home screen.

You’re all done with Echo Spot WiFi setup, and successfully we hope!

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References for How to Set Up Alexa Echo Spot

  1. Alexa Echo Spot Official Product Page at Amazon.com

Revision History

  • 2020-05-26: First published.