Tag: Echo Speaker
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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…
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Echo Dot 2 Power Adapter Specs
We cover the Echo Dot 2 power adapter specs for these smart speakers here. Specifically, this is an often seen medium-current USB switching power supply. Furthermore, the detachable cord has a female A style USB connector with the usual USB wattage. See it in the next picture. Now the US version of this USB power…
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How to Reboot Echo Studio Speaker
You may wish to reboot the Echo Studio hi-fi Amazon speaker if it behaves strangely, becomes non responsive to commands and questions, puts out unusual sounds, and so on. And since Alexa speaker rebooting is so easy, then before getting into any intense troubleshooting, always try a speaker reboot first. This often clears up many…
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Set Echo Speaker to Pairing Mode
You must know how to set the Echo speaker to pairing mode to connect it to a Bluetooth device such as a smart phone or tablet, to play music from that device on your Echo Dot. In other words, you’re making your Echo Dot into a Bluetooth speaker. But why would you want to do…
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What Is Amazon XXX
What is Amazon XXX? This is a special Wi-Fi network that Amazon smart speakers create during setup. The smart speaker itself becomes the access point of this network. Then, a device running the Alexa app connects to this amazon xxx network. Next, it sends user preferred settings to the speaker. The smart speaker then saves…
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Adapter for Echo 1 Alexa
Here, we give the adapter specs for Echo generation 1 Alexa speaker. Now the US version of this adapter has non folding AC prongs. It also has a six-foot long attached cord, and is quite light for its 21 watt power output. Furthermore, it’s square yet modest width and height allows easy fitting into power…
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How to Reset Amazon Echo 1 Speaker
Some problems you can fix with just booting the speaker. But when you must reset, come here to see how to reset the Amazon Echo Gen 1 smart speaker. But If you just want to fix strange errors on the speaker though, a reset may be too drastic. Why? Because a full hard reset means…
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Echo Gen 2 Reset Button, Where to Find It
This post shows where the reset button is on the Echo Gen 2 smart speaker. On this speaker though, we find no separate reset button. Instead, you press the Mic Off and Volume Down (-) buttons on the top of the unit are pressed and held down at the same time to start a factory…
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Unpacking Echo Dot 2nd Gen Speaker
Not too complicated packaging for the Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker. Very simple to unbox, power up, and prepare it for setup. This post demos unpacking the Echo Dot 2nd Gen speaker. It also covers connecting it to power. Unpacking Echo Dot 2nd Gen Speaker, What’s On the Box For our vision impaired and blind…
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Amazon Echo Reset Button, Where to Find It
We find the Amazon Echo reset button on the generation one (original) Alexa Echo smart speaker on the underside of the unit. E.g. See this pointed at by the purple arrow in the next picture. Note that the button is easy to get to, once you turn the speaker upside down. Furthermore, just sit the…