Tag: Alexa Home Mini
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How to Put Google Home Mini in Pairing Mode
Google Home Mini can now also work as a Bluetooth Speaker due to firmware and Home app updates back in 2017. So in this post, we show how to put the Google Home Mini in pairing mode so your streaming smart devices can find and connect to it. How to Put Google Home Mini in…
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How to Pause Google Home Mini
You can pause or play of the Google Home Mini talking smart speaker by touching it as follows. You might pause it to stop it from playing audio when ready for bed or when taking a phone call. When paused, the speaker waits indefinitely for you to resume it. But it forgets the paused content…
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Google Home Mini Volume Control Explained
There are many ways to work the Google Home Mini volume control. These depend on the app(s) you’re playing from mostly. But the Mini itself has two touch pads for controlling volume on its edges. Plus, there’s also a volume control for the speaker in the Google Home app. Finally, you can access the Google…
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Hard Reset Alexa Echo Dot Instructions
The Alexa Echo Dot talking speakers need a hard reset every so often. This restores them to out-of-box, factory default state. Hard resetting them also fixes many weird behaviors they might show. Resetting prepares them for sale or gifting. So here, we offer these hard reset Alexa Echo Dot instructions for the three current generations…
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How to Reset Alexa Echo Dot
The Alexa Echo Dot talking speakers need a hard reset every so often. This restores them to out-of-box, factory default state. Hard resetting them also fixes many weird behaviors they might show. Resetting prepares them for sale or gifting. So here, we detail how to reset Alexa Echo Dot for the three current generations of…
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Unlink Spotify from Google Home Mini
Gives the unlink Spotify from Google Home Mini routine. Now you may wish unlink (remove, delete) your Spotify account from your Google Home Mini smart speaker because either: You’ve cancelled your Spotify subscription, and just want to get rid of its records from your Google Home app settings, to de clutter. You’re giving the speaker…
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How to Use Google Home Mini as Bluetooth Speaker
The Google Home Mini smart speaker, pictured above, may now be used as a Bluetooth speaker due to firmware and Google Home app updates in the last few years. In this article, we show how to use your tablet or phone to drive this speaker via Bluetooth. You indeed can send audio to the Mini,…
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How to Restart Google Home Mini
You may want to know how to restart the Google Home Mini smart speaker if it behaves erratically, becomes non responsive to questions and commands, locks up, emits strange noises, breaks up, chirps unexpectedly, and so on. Always try a speaker restart first, as this often clears up many problems, and avoids the unnecessary action…
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Google Home Mini Charger Specs
The Google Home Mini charger cord shipped with the smart speaker, is a standard medium-current USB power supply, though it does no charging. Why not? Because the speaker has no rechargeable battery inside. Furthermore, though a USB style cable, the five foot long white cord is permanently attached to the power plug part. Thus you…
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How to Hook Up Google Home Mini
This post explains how to hook up the Google Home Mini and get your speaker up and running after purchase, or when you move a speaker you already have to new WiFi routers or make other WiFi changes. With your iOS or Android mobile device and the Google Home app, setting up your speaker anew…