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How to set up an Amazon Echo: top tips for your new Alexa speaker

Go off to the best showtime with your new smart speaker

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1 of the most appealing aspects of the Amazon Repeat (and probably 1 of the many reasons it's go so popular so fast) is just how easy it is to use.

But even for the tech-lovers, navigating a new piece of tech sometimes isn't every bit simple as you expect. That's why we're here to aid you brand sure yous're set upward as chop-chop as possible and can get-go bossing Amazon'south smart assistant Alexa around in no time.

With the Repeat range expanding nigh year-on-year, and the built-in Alexa assistant getting smarter all the time, at that place's never been a better time to buy an Repeat or add ane to your growing collection of smart home devices.

In 2022, Amazon updated the range with the new spherical Echo, Repeat Dot, Echo Dot with Clock, and Echo Testify 10 – and that means older models are cheaper than ever before, and still well worth considering.

Whether you've picked up one for yourself or someone else, this is our pace-by-pace guide to setting up a new Amazon Echo smart speaker. You certainly don't want to exist showing off your new toy to guests only to find it doesn't understand you or it's otherwise not working – only we can help with a smooth introduction.

Once you've got your new Amazon Echo unboxed, become this guide in forepart of y'all, and in simply a few minutes you'll be enjoying everything the smart speaker has to offering.

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Setting up your Amazon Echo

To go started you, of class, need an Echo and whatever power adapter came with it. These speakers don't run on batteries, and then make sure you've got the correct power cable ready and waiting (and non some generic replacement).

On the software side, yous'll need a phone or tablet (Android or iOS) set up to install the Alexa app. Since this is an Amazon device, you can too apply an Amazon Fire tablet to configure your Echo for its start employ if you take one at home.

When your Echo is up and running information technology feels almost like a standalone device, but to get started we need to use a telephone or tablet to tell information technology what to do... before we literally beginning telling it what to do.

Head on over to the app store on your device of choice – on an iPhone this is the App Store, on Android it's the Google Play Store, and on Fire devices it's the Amazon Appstore.

Once in the store, find and download the official Amazon Alexa app, which shouldn't exist too difficult to find.

echo dot with clock 2022 — Some models of the Echo also include a three.5mm output, but this is optional. (Prototype credit: TechRadar)

Now we've got the required software, it's fourth dimension to go the Amazon Echo hardware itself fix. Have the speaker and plough it over to find the ability jack, so take the Echo's power adapter and plug it into the power jack on the Echo speaker.

Finally, take the power adapter's other finish and plug information technology into the wall. Peachy work! Your Amazon Echo now has power, and should commencement glowing as it configures itself. We're on our manner to setting it up.

Yous're nearly there! In one case your Echo is connected to the mains, y'all'll take to await a couple of seconds for it to initialize. Its light band will turn bluish for a couple of moments, so switch to orange, and then play a short audio greeting. At this point the Amazon Echo is ready for the concluding setup step.

Next, open the Alexa app you downloaded earlier on your phone or tablet, so tap the 'More than' carte in the bottom-right to become to Settings for the next set up stage.

Select 'Add together a device' to start the Wi-Fi connexion procedure. You at present need to teach the Echo how to log into your home Wi-Fi, and so it can get online on its ain in hereafter.

Next, select which Amazon Repeat speaker you want to set up and so pick the correct language from the next page.

Select 'Connect to Wi-Fi' from the next page to go along the set upwards process and become connected: first, the instructions ask you to check that the device is currently displaying an orange band.

If not, you'll accept to concur the 'action button' for five seconds offset to put the device into setup style. With that done, you'll need to hop out of the Alexa app and into your phone's own settings menu.

Get to Wi-Fi settings. Turn on Wi-Fi (if it's not on already), then select the Amazon Echo device from the list of admission points – the Echo'southward name should start with the word "Amazon". One time connected, go back into the Alexa app.

The Alexa app should now say it is connected to the Repeat. Tap 'Continue', then select yours from the listing, and so enter your Wi-Fi password. (Don't remember it? Your admission password is most likely printed on a sticker on your router.)

Tap 'Connect' in the app once the password is typed in. Depending on your home's Wi-Fi speed, it might take a few moments for the device to connect, but once it has done you should exist taken back to the settings card, with your Amazon Repeat now listed as being online. On the device itself, the light ring should turn off.

By default your Amazon Echo will be set up to activate when it hears the word "Alexa", simply at that place are a few reasons why you might want to alter this.

Maybe i of your family members is called Alexa and yous don't want your smart speaker to actuate whenever yous're talking to them? Or peradventure you simply like having a smart dwelling house that's configured differently to everyone else's?

Thankfully, it's a fairly elementary process to change your wake word to something that'south more convenient for you.

amazon echo studio — (Image credit: Amazon)

You're done!

Congratulations, your Amazon Echo is now fully ready up, connected to your Wi-Fi, and ready to start running errands for you, automating tasks and answering pointless trivia.

If you want a test to brand sure that it's working, you tin can endeavour out few a simple commands to become started: try saying your wake give-and-take, followed by "hello". If everything'south working as expected and so your Amazon Echo should say "how-do-you-do" dorsum. Simple, really.

If y'all're having problems, don't worry. If your Echo only won't hook up, try giving information technology a factory reset: while the device is switched on, printing and hold the microphone off and volume down buttons simultaneously for 20 seconds to do this.

Some Alexa devices also have pinhole reset slots, which just demand to be pushed in with a paperclip or SIM removal tool until the LED light color changes (cheque the supplied instructions if you're not sure).

Original article past Jon Porter.

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Olivia is TechRadar's Senior Editor - Home Amusement, covering everything from headphones to TVs. Based in TechRadar's London offices, she'south a popular music graduate who worked in the music industry before finding her calling in journalism. She's previously been interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live on the subject of multi-room audio, chaired panel discussions on diversity in music festival lineups, and her bylines include T3, Stereoboard, What to Picket, Superlative X Reviews, Artistic Bloq, and Croco Mag. In her spare time Olivia likes gardening, painting, and hanging with her true cat Ethel and golden retriever Dora.