Tag: Google Home Echo
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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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How to Factory Reset Amazon Echo Dot 3rd Generation
Here, we show how to factory reset the Amazon Echo Dot 3rd Generation Alexa speaker back to default settings. So why would you ever wish to do this? In fact, you may wish to sell or give your Dot to a friend. Or you might need to link it to a new Amazon account. Or…
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How to Change Echo Dot Wake Word
You can indeed change the wake word that the Amazon Alexa enabled speakers respond to. Current choices are, “Alexa…,” “Amazon…,” “Computer…,” and “Echo…” The wake word is the name you say to wake up the smart speaker. Alexa then starts listening for a follow-up command / question. The wake word is how you “get her attention,” so to speak. …
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How to Connect Echo Dot 2nd Generation to WiFi
It’s not necessary to completely erase your speaker settings in the Alexa app, just to connect it to a new WiFi network. With your mobile device and the Alexa app, doing this is a breeze. Also, you can run through the same routine to connect up a brand new Echo Dot. So given all that,…
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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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How to Pair Victor Reader Trek with Google Home
The Victor Reader Trek GPS navigator, eBook player, podcatcher, and web radio can connect to most any Bluetooth speaker. This allows listening to podcasts, books, recorded notes, and streaming internet radio through that speaker. We thus show here how to pair Victor Reader Trek with Google Home speakers that can act as Bluetooth speakers. How…
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How to Connect Echo Dot to WiFi
This piece shows how to connect Echo Dot to new WiFi network. It lists what you’ll need to get your new Echo Dot Alexa speaker up and running on the internet. You need to do this when you first set up a brand new Dot, when someone gives you a used one, or when you…
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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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Reset Echo Dot to Restore Proper Operation
The Echo Dot smart speakers need a hard reset now and then. This restores them to their out-of-box, factory default states. This also corrects many abnormal behaviors in these speakers. So, we show you how to reset Echo Dot in this piece. Why? Because this often corrects erratic behaviors in these speakers, and prepares them…
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Echo Dot 3rd Generation Reset Instructions
We offer here our Echo Dot 3rd Generation reset instructions. So why would you ever reset this speaker? Well, you may later decide to sell it. Or perhaps when Christmas comes, you might wish to bestow your Dot 3 to another person. Then to, you could want to connect it to a new Amazon account.…