PhonAndroid Amazon Echo: how to install and configure the connected speaker

If you have an Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, or Echo Spot connected speaker, now is the time to plug it in and set it up! Follow this quick guide to find out all about the procedure, where to install it, and how to connect your other connected objects via bluetooth, or via Skills.

Have you just received an Amazon Echo connected speaker? Did you just plug it in and are a bit lost? We offer to guide you step by step to configure your Echo and launch your first commands to Alexa.

How to install and configure your Amazon Echo?

The first thing to do when you unbox your Amazon Echo is to find an optimal location for it in a room of your house. The range of the speaker's seven mics is relatively wide, but Alexa is still less likely to make fewer errors when you're near her. So choose a place near where you will be most likely to use it: sideboard next to the sofa, in front of the TV, in the kitchen... Once the location problem is solved, connect the speaker with the supplied adapter.

The light circle above the speaker should then be orange, as shown here:

If not, you can press and hold the button • on top of the speaker for 5 seconds. The rest of the setup is a breeze. On your smartphone:

Install the Amazon Alexa app from the Google Play Store or App Store

Once logged in with your Amazon account, go to the gear icon at the bottom right

Tap SET UP A NEW DEVICE and follow the wizard

On one screen, the app will ask you to connect to your Echo's WiFi network. You must then connect to a network containing Amazon in its SSID, as if you were trying to connect to the Internet. Then return to the app to complete the setup.

Amazon Echo: how to connect all your connected objects to it?

So of course, already on its own, your Amazon Echo is very useful. But it quickly becomes essential if you connect various devices to it.

Connect your speakers to the Amazon Echo's auxiliary audio output

Amazon Echo speakers all have an auxiliary output, which is very practical for easily improving the audio quality. To use it, simply connect it to your hi-fi system with a jack to RCA audio cable, or male jack to male jack, suitable for your device. No configuration is required.

Connect your bluetooth speaker or headset

Pairing a Bluetooth device is incredibly simple and effective:

Put your speaker or headset in pairing mode (long press on the pairing button)

Say: Alexa, Bluetooth pairing

A confirmation message will come out of your newly connected speaker or headphones

Connect lamps, switches and other connected objects

Amazon Echo is the most compatible range of speakers with connected objects on the market. But the support for your connected objects is not native. You must indeed install a Skill (aptitude or talent in French) corresponding to the brand of your connected objects to control them. The procedure is very simple – here is for example how to connect your Hue lamps:

Install and configure your lights and the Hue Bridge following Philips instructions

Go to Amazon.com and log in to your account

In the search box type Skill Hue

The first result should normally be the correct Skill

Click Activate in Block

Obtain this skill

You can then start saying commands like "Alexa, turn on the living room lights." Of course, if you encounter any difficulties during the configuration, report it in the comments. To get started with Alexa, we advise you to read this list of essential commands.

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