How To Install An Alexa Dot

How to prepare up the Amazon Repeat Dot

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The Amazon Echo Dot is one of the all-time-value smart speakers you can buy; at $49 (and commonly priced lower), it'due south one of the least expensive means to get Alexa into your abode. Despite its small size, it delivers groovy sound if yous desire a small smart speaker for your bedroom, study, or kitchen.

But before you start using the Echo Dot and all of the best Alexa skills, you'll need to set it upwards kickoff. Fortunately, the entire process just takes a few minutes, even if y'all're new to the world of smart home devices. Hither's how to ready your Amazon Echo Dot.

Did you purchase the Amazon Repeat Dot with Clock? We take a dedicated guide showing y'all how to prepare the Repeat Dot with Clock, which is similar, just has a couple more steps.

And exist certain to check out our how to use Alexa guide for more tips and tricks to using Amazon's phonation banana.

How to set up the Amazon Repeat Dot

Stride ane: Download and open the Alexa app (Android and iOS) on your smartphone or tablet.

Stride ii: Select Devices in the lower right corner.

Step 3: Printing the Plus sign in the superlative right corner, or press the hamburger menu (the three horizontal lines) in the upper left corner

Stride iv: "Add Device."

Step 5: Press the Amazon Echo icon, followed by the Echo Dot icon that appears on the next screen. Then, press the image of the third-generation Echo Dot.

Footstep 6: Plug in your Echo Dot using the included power adapter. In one case the blue light ring has turned orangish, your device is in Setup Style.

Footstep 7: Await for your Repeat Dot to appear on your phone and select it. You'll be prompted to go to your Wi-Fi settings. Once there, select the network called "Amazon-30." So, return to the Alexa app.

Step 8: Choose the Wi-Fi network to which you desire to connect your Repeat Dot. Enter your password if required.

Step 9: Select the external speaker your Echo Dot will be using. If yous won't be connecting this device to an external speaker, skip this step.

Step 10: Select the room where your Echo Dot is located (or create a new room).

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Monica Chin is a writer at The Verge, covering computers. Previously, she was a staff writer for Tom'south Guide, where she wrote about everything from artificial intelligence to social media and the internet of things to. She had a particular focus on smart home, reviewing multiple devices. In her downtime, you lot tin usually find her at poetry slams, attempting to exercise, or yelling at people on Twitter.