Tag: Google Home Echo

Google Home Mini Pictures

We’ve snapped many pictures of the Google Home Mini smart speaker, its accessories, and the original packaging, for the various posts we’re writing about this voice activated speaker.  So we’ve put these photos together here in one place, for quick and easy viewing and perusing.  Enjoy. Google Home Mini Speaker Packaging Pictures Firstly, here are … Continue reading Google Home Mini Pictures

How to Reset Echo Dot 1, Hard Factory Reset

This first release of the Echo Dot assistant is no longer the most recent version of this smart speaker. Thus, you may wish to reset it to get it ready to sell or gift to another. So in this piece, we cover how to reset the Echo Dot 1 back to factory default settings. How … Continue reading How to Reset Echo Dot 1, Hard Factory Reset

Echo Spot Hard Reset Instructions

In this piece we offer our Echo Spot hard reset instructions. They show how to hard reset echo spot. You must do this to… Reset settings to their factory default values. To correct faulty behavior. Put the Spot on a different Amazon account or WiFi network. Or to prepare it for sale or gifting. Further, … Continue reading Echo Spot Hard Reset Instructions

Pairing JBL Charge 3 with Google Home

This post demos how pairing JBL Charge 3 with Google Home smart speakers works. Further, these include the original, mini, and max Google Home versions. Plus, since this pairing happens between the Charge 3 and the Google speakers directly, you need not turn Bluetooth on in the mobile device you’re using to establish this pairing. … Continue reading Pairing JBL Charge 3 with Google Home

How to Pair JBL Xtreme with Amazon Alexa Echo

This post demonstrates how to pair JBL Xtreme with Amazon Alexa Echo and Echo Dot speakers. These instructions include the Echo Dot generations 1, 2, and 3 smart speakers. And, since this pairing happens directly between the Xtreme and the Echo Dots, you need not turn Bluetooth on in the mobile device you’re using to … Continue reading How to Pair JBL Xtreme with Amazon Alexa Echo

Echo Spot WiFi Setup Instructions

Here, we offer Echo Spot WiFi setup instructions, for the Amazon Alexa Echo Spot talking video speaker. Now keep in mind that you need not completely erase your Echo Spot settings to set it up it on a new wireless network. Further, you need neither a tablet nor phone running the Amazon Alexa app, because … Continue reading Echo Spot WiFi Setup Instructions

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 … Continue reading How to Set Sleep Timer on Amazon Alexa Echo

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 … Continue reading Amazon Echo Reset Button, Where to Find It

Restart Echo Dot Instructions

We offer these restart Echo Dot instructions to help correct some unusual symptoms that your Amazon Dot smart speakers may show. No Power Button to Restart Echo Dot With Since none of the Dots to date has a power on / off button, you restart these units by unplugging them momentarily.  Unplug them from AC … Continue reading Restart Echo Dot Instructions