Tag: Google Home Echo
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Bluetooth Pairing Mode on Google Home
All smart speakers in the Google Home family now support Bluetooth. They can act as Bluetooth speakers themselves. This allows you to play audio from your phone or other mobile device through them. Indeed, you get better sound quality through a Google Home. So in this demo, we prepare the original Google Home to act…
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Amazon Echo Reset Button
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…
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Pairing JBL Clip 3 With Amazon Echo Dot Speakers
Shows how Pairing JBL Clip 3 With Amazon Echo Dot Speakers works. These smart speakers include generations 1 through 5. So this pairing happens between the Clip 3 and the Echo Dot devices. Thus you need not turn Bluetooth on in the mobile device you’re using to set up this pairing. Pairing JBL Clip 3…
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How to Pair JBL Flip 4 With Google Home
This post demonstrates how to pair JBL Flip 4 with Google Home speakers. These include the original, mini, and max Google Home versions. Now this pairing happens between the Flip 4 and the Google speakers directly. So you need not turn Bluetooth on in the mobile device you’re using to establish this pairing. How to…
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How to Connect Google Home to Honeywell Thermostat
We bought a Google Home smart speaker with the Google virtual assistant, and were pleased to learn today, that Google Home now supports connecting our Honeywell Total Connect Comfort (TCC) thermostat. We checked under the smart home devices option in the Google Home App. Honeywell is now listed there, and it found our home thermostat we scanned for smart devices on our home network. No…
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How to Pair Victor Reader Trek with Alexa Echo
The Victor Reader Trek GPS navigator, eBook player, pod catcher, and internet radio now can connect to most any Bluetooth speaker, allowing you to listen to podcasts, books, recorded notes, and streaming internet radio through that wireless speaker. We thus, demonstrate here how to pair Victor Reader Trek with Alexa Echo. How to Pair Victor…
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Turn Up Volume on Google Home Mini
There are many ways to Turn Up Volume on Google Home Mini. These depend on the app(s) you’re streaming from mainly. But the unit itself has two touch pads as well, for volume control on its left and right edges. Plus, you can set volume with the native Google Home app. Finally, the Mini also…
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How to Turn Up Volume on Google Home Mini
There are many ways for how to turn up volume on Google Home Mini speaker. These depend on the app(s) you’re streaming from mainly. But the speaker itself has two touch pads as well, for volume control on its left and right edges. Plus, you can set volume with the native Google Home app. Finally,…
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How to Reset Alexa Echo Dot 3rd Generation
Here, we show how to reset the Alexa Echo Dot 3rd Generation smart speaker back to factory default settings. So why would you ever reset ? Well, you may wish to sell or give this speaker to another person. Or link it to a new Amazon account. Or connect it to a new WiFi network. …
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Echo Dot 3rd Generation Factory Reset
Here, we give Echo Dot 3rd Generation speaker factory reset directions, that show you how to set this smart speaker back to default factory settings. So why would you factory reset ? Well, you may desire to sell or give this speaker to another. Or to sync it to a new Amazon account. Or to…