How To Hook Up Alexa Dot To Wifi

Whether you ve changed your home internet recently or you re trying to get connected at a friend s house or hotel changing the wi fi network assigned to your alexa speaker is both quick and easy.

How to hook up alexa dot to wifi. Select echo alexa. Open the alexa app tap devices on the bottom of the screen then echo alexa on the top left. The alexa device will have no idea where to connect. Open the alexa app.

In this case you ll need to open the amazon alexa app tap on the registered device and change the connection manually. The alexa app may ask you to manually connect your device to your alexa controlled amazon echo device through your wi fi settings. Other times it s the wi fi signal is being blocked by a physical object. The amazon echo is the body and alexa is the brains but you re going to need to connect to a wi fi network in order to receive the full capabilities of both.

Sometimes the router or modem needs a restart. Echo devices can t connect to ad hoc or peer to peer networks. In order to hook up alexa to a new wifi router put the speaker into setup mode first. First of all if you haven t set up your amazon echo yet it won t be able to connect to any wi fi network.

Alexa will speak again to confirm the echo has successfully connected to the network and that s it. It s not always clear why alexa won t connect to wi fi. Select change next to wi fi network and follow the instructions in the app. Below we walk through hooking up alexa with an amazon alexa echo dot 2 speaker.

Select which device you want to connect then hit the blue change button beside the wi fi network. But the hook up alexa process is alike for the other speakers. The process for connecting wi fi to a new alexa device are different than changing an existing device over to a new wi fi network. These troubleshooting tips can help you get your echo dot or alexa enabled devices back online and taking your commands.

Echo devices connect to dual band wi fi 2 4 ghz 5 ghz networks that use the 802 11a b g n standard. There you choose the desired wifi network for the speaker. Once connected to that network alexa will speak from the echo to say you re connected and you can now return to the alexa app to complete setup. Connect echo dot to wifi.

This article explains how to connect alexa to wi fi for the very first time plus how to change wi fi networks for an existing device.