Creating smart home device group allows you to use a single command to turn on or turn off the devices. Normally, such groups are created when you have installed smart home devices in multiple rooms of your house. Once you make the group, you can use Alexa to control smart home devices. Check this guide … Read more
The portable battery base for Amazon Echo has made it possible for users to carry the smart speaker to many places. However, when your location gets changed, you need to change Alexa device location as well. This you can do on your iPhone and Android device, as well as directly on the compatible Echo device. … Read more
Receiving your Amazon shipping alerts on an Alexa device is one of the coolest things in your digital life. Normally, you receive such alerts of your package on your mobile phones. But how exciting for you to listen to an alert that says, “your Domino’s pizza order goes out for delivery”. Want a bite? Jokes … Read more
Changing language settings on Alexa is your primary need as you interact with this intelligent assistant with your verbal commands. But why should you modify Alexa language settings for your Amazon Echo devices? Well, if you have purchased any of the Echo devices from the speakers of languages not known to you, there may the … Read more
A MAC address for Amazon Echo devices is the globally unique identifier, which is also called hardware or physical address. Normally, MAC address is assigned to all network devices and they are used as a network address for IEEE 802 network technology which includes Ethernet and Wi-Fi. This MAC stands for Media Access Control address. … Read more
When you setup and customize Alexa speakers Flash Briefing, you will get tailored news updates, traffic and weather information on your Echo devices (if you are too lethargic to hold your phone or tablet to read news). Once your alarm goes off and you wake up, you can get flash briefing from your Alexa. Apart … Read more
How comfortable it is to control your multiple smart home devices at once! A single command to Alexa and it will carry out multiple tasks. This you can do by setting up Alexa routines. Creating Alexa Routines helps your Amazon Echo devices to perform many different tasks you want at a particular time. For example, … Read more
Your Amazon Echo devices stores all your Alexa commands, and thus has got knowledge of what you are doing at what time. When you wake up, when you go to sleep, what you shop, what you eat – everything is in the memory of your intelligent device. In a way, it encroaches upon your private … Read more
Following a news item about how a six-year kid used Alexa and placed order for dollhouse, parents are now worried about these accidental Alexa purchases by kids. Well, you can easily control your digital voice assistant and prevent Alexa from ordering products without your permission. There are two ways you can prevent such accidental shopping … Read more
When you register your Alexa-enabled device, voice purchasing feature is turned on by default. As long as your Echo devices take your commands, your world is full of roses, but when the same Echo devices begin voice purchasing without your knowledge, you are in the soup. If you are in the habit of placing orders … Read more