Tag: Google Home Echo
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How to Connect Echo Dot to Internet
This piece demos how to connect Echo Dot to internet. It lists what you’ll need to get your new Dot speaker up and running on the internet. You must do this when… Setting up a brand new Echo Dot. Someone gives you a used Dot and you wish to use it in your home. You…
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How to Reconnect Echo Dot to New WiFi
You need not completely erase your Amazon Echo settings in the Alexa app in order to reconnect Echo Dot to new WiFi. Armed with your tablet or phone with the Amazon Alexa app, reconnecting your Dot to a different WiFi network is a snap, as follows. We assume here that the Amazon Alexa App has…
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Update Amazon Echo Firmware Instructions
We know of no way to directly update Amazon Echo firmware on many of the Alexa Echo smart speakers. Instead, that process appears to be automatic. I.e. They update quickly on their own when Amazon pushes new firmware. This usually occurs within a couple hours. Or at worst, you might receive the update within a…
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How to Set Sleep Timer on Amazon Alexa Echo Gen 1
The original (first) Amazon Alexa Generation One Echo smart speakers now provide a sleep timer function. This you can set and cancel with your voice! So gere, we show using voice commands, how to set sleep timer on the Amazon Alexa Echo Gen 1 smart speaker. Firstly, the Alexa sleep timer works by asking Alexa…
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How to Reconnect Google Home to WiFi
You may sometime relocate your Google Home speaker, and want to link it with another WiFi network. Or, the Google Home does not show as reconnected in the Home app. In either case, the speaker is no longer linked to your Wi-Fi network. So this post shows how to reconnect your Google Home to WiFi…
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Does Google Home Have Bluetooth ?
The Google Home scan now function as a Bluetooth speaker. You can connect your iPad, iPod, or other Bluetooth audio source to the Google Home, and then play music on your device, and have it come out of that smart speaker. You can also link a BT speaker to Google Home. Then any streaming music…
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Does Google Home Mini Have Bluetooth ?
The Google Home Mini smart speaker, like the first Google Home, indeed does offer the ability to act as a Bluetooth speaker. You can connect your iPad, iPod, iPhone, or other Bluetooth audio source to the Mini, and then play music on your device, and have the audio come out of the Mini. While serving…
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Google Home Mini Adapter Details
The adapter shipped with the Google Home Mini is a typical medium-current USB supply. So we cover the Google Home Mini adapter here. But if you’re not able to find an original replacement adapter, any high power USB supply with a micro USB jack works too. However, the five foot long white cable is permanently…
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How to Set Up Google Home Mini
This post details how to set up Google Home Mini, to account for new WiFi routers or other WiFi changes. This also works for new speakers that you wish to add to an existing Google account. With your iOS or Android based mobile device and the Google Home app, how to set up your speaker…
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Google Home Mini Reset Button
Where is the reset button on Google Home Mini speaker? Most smart speakers do indeed have a reset button. Or at least, there’s a reset button combination that you press when you want to factory reset the unit. So you use this button or button combination to reset these speakers when they behave in strange…