Tag: Amazon Alexa

  • Set Sleep Timer on Amazon Alexa

    Set Sleep Timer on Amazon Alexa

    The smaller Amazon Alexa Dot Generation 2 smart speakers now provide a useful sleep timer function that you can command with your voice!  To use it, you first ask Alexa to play a radio station, podcast, flash briefing, or other streaming service. Then, once the broadcast is playing, ask her play for only as long…

  • How to Set Sleep Timer on Amazon Alexa

    How to Set Sleep Timer on Amazon Alexa

    The smaller Amazon Alexa Dot Generation 2 smart speakers now provide a useful sleep timer function that you can command with your voice!  To use it, you first ask Alexa to play a radio station, podcast, flash briefing, or other streaming service. Then, once the broadcast is playing, ask her play for only as long…

  • How to Reset Amazon Alexa Dot

    How to Reset Amazon Alexa Dot

    Covers How to Reset Amazon Alexa Dot.  Now a complete reset can become necessary at times. Why? Because maybe you’d like to sell your old one, especially with newer versions coming out so often these days. Or perhaps you just want to connect it to a new Amazon account, or to different WiFi. So for…

  • How to Set Sleep Timer on Amazon Alexa Echo Dot Gen 2 Smart Speaker

    How to Set Sleep Timer on Amazon Alexa Echo Dot Gen 2 Smart Speaker

    The smaller Amazon Alexa Echo Dot Generation 2 smart speakers now provide a useful sleep timer function that you can command with your voice!  To use it, you first ask Alexa to play a radio station, podcast, flash briefing, or other streaming service. Then, once the broadcast is playing, ask her play for only as…

  • How to Set Sleep Timer on Amazon Alexa Echo

    How to Set Sleep Timer on Amazon Alexa Echo

    The smaller Amazon Alexa Echo Dot Generation 2 smart speakers now provide a useful sleep timer function that you can command with your voice!  To use it, you first ask Alexa to play a radio station, podcast, flash briefing, or other streaming service. Then, once the broadcast is playing, ask her play for only as…

  • You Can Change Amazon Alexa’s Name

    You Can Change Amazon Alexa’s Name

    You Can Change Amazon Alexa’s Name that these speakers respond to when you say it.  Furthermore, the current name choices are, “Alexa…,” “Amazon…,” “Computer…,”  “Echo…,” and “Ziggy…” The word is the name you call out when you want Alexa to start listening for a follow-up request.  It’s how you “get her attention,” so to speak. …

  • Connect Spotify to Amazon Alexa

    Connect Spotify to Amazon Alexa

    Here, we describe the Connect Spotify to Amazon Alexa procedure here, that lets you play your Spotify content on your Alexa devices.  Now after you finish Spotify setup, you can listen to your Spotify playlists and collections on any of your Alexa speakers. Connect Spotify to Amazon Alexa: Prep Steps What you Need First You…

  • Alexa Spotify Commands for Echo Dot

    Alexa Spotify Commands for Echo Dot

    Play Spotify music on your Dot speaker with the following Alexa Spotify Commands for Echo Dot.  Note that the voice commands work the same on all Alexa speaker models. But first, for that to work, link your Alexa account to your Spotify Premium account. For a detailed explanation of how to do that, see our…

  • Alexa Spotify Commands for Echo

    Alexa Spotify Commands for Echo

    Play Spotify music on your Alexa speaker with the following Amazon Alexa Spotify commands for Echo.  But first, link your Alexa account to your Spotify Premium account. For a detailed explanation of how to do that, see our post Spotify Setup Instructions on Amazon Echo Alexa Devices. Control your Spotify music playing with your voice! …

  • Amazon Alexa Bluetooth Pairing

    Amazon Alexa Bluetooth Pairing

    This post shows the Amazon Alexa Bluetooth Pairing routine. We illustrate this with a JBL Flip 5 party speaker and the Alexa Input device, although just about any Alexa speaker would pair the same way as shown here.  Since this Bluetooth connecting happens between the speaker and Alexa directly, you need not turn Bluetooth on…