Tag: Alexa
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How to Disconnect Spotify from Alexa
You may need to disconnect your Spotify account from an Alexa host device because, You’re giving an Alexa to your child. So you wish to keep them from listening to adult stuff on Spotify. But you still allow access to other family sensitive Alexa features. You cancelled your Spotify subscription. So you want to clear…
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How to Connect Spotify to Alexa
Here, we describe how to connect your account on Spotify to your Amazon Alexa smart speakers. After you finish Spotify setup, you can listen to your Spotify playlists and collections on any of your Alexa speakers. How to Connect Spotify to Alexa: Prep Steps What you Need First You must first set up an Amazon…
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How to Connect Alexa to Another WiFi
How to connect Alexa to another WiFi network? Well, to do that you must put that Alexa speaker into Setup mode first. There, you choose the WiFi network you’d like to have the speaker log into. You can set another WiFi network that Alexa uses on either your desktop computer or mobile device. Now below,…
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How to Update Alexa WiFi
How to update Alexa WiFi connection? First, put the Alexa based speaker into Setup mode. There, you choose the desired WiFi network. That’s a simple summary of how to switch WiFi networks for Alexa speakers. Below, we walk through changing Alexa WiFi connection with an Amazon Alexa Echo Dot 2 speaker. But, this WiFi change…
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How to Change Alexa Name to Jarvis
Here we answer the question: How to change Alexa name to Jarvis? You can indeed change the name that the Amazon Alexa enabled speakers respond to when you say it. But you can’t change it to Jarvis. Currently, there are only five choices for the name that an Alexa speaker responds to. Those are, “Alexa…,”…
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How to Connect Sony X 5 to Alexa
This post shows how to connect the Sony X 5 Bluetooth mini speaker to Alexa smart speakers. Since this pairing happens between the Sony and Echo devices directly, you need not turn Bluetooth on in the mobile device you’re using to set up this wireless connection. How to Connect Sony X 5 to Alexa, Step…
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How to Pair JBL Xtreme 2 with Alexa
This post shows how to pair a JBL Xtreme 2 with Alexa devices. We do this with the Alexa Input. But the same you could also do with an Alexa Dot, Spot, or any other Alexa smart device that supports Bluetooth. Since this BT connecting happens directly between the speaker and Alexa, you need not…
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Set Up Pandora on Alexa Instructions
We show here how to set up Pandora on Alexa. Why? Because Alexa devices do not come with the Pandora streaming music service enabled by default. Indeed, if you ask Alexa to play Pandora, and Pandora has not been properly configured in your Alexa app, you’ll likely hear a response like: “To play a station,…
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How to Factory Reset Alexa
A complete factory reset Alexa Echo routine is necessary at times. Why? Because maybe you’d like to sell your old Alexa device. Or perhaps you just want to connect your speaker assistant to a new Amazon account, or to different WiFi. So, with those tasks in mind, this post details factory resetting the Alexa…
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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…