How To Hook Up Echo Dot To Lights

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How to hook up echo dot to lights. Follow the instructions to set up your device. Select amazon echo and then echo dot. Make sure your phone has plenty of charge to complete setup connect your smart lights and the plug in the hue bridge and ensure your wifi network is up and running. Amazon echo 3rd gen 90 at amazon.

But now with the new way alexa handles groups you can associate certain lights with a specific echo device. The initial setup will be done from the alexa app. In the past if you wanted to tell alexa to turn the lights on or off in a room you had to be specific as to which room. Open the alexa app.

Alexa can also check the status of motion and contact sensors. Smartthings works with amazon echo echo dot and amazon tap. Insert power cable into echo. Lt s great to have a light bulb that you can ask alexa to turn on and off.

Connecting the philips hue lights to the amazon echo or echo dot or any of amazon s alexa enabled devices is fairly easy but if you want to do more than just dim and brighten your lights it. Plug in your device. Open more and select add a device. When the light ring turns blue it indicates that the power is connected.

Alexa can be used to control light bulbs on off switches dimmer switches thermostats locks and scenes configured with smartthings. An alexa smart speaker has the power to control your lights plugs and other devices and it s so easy to set up. With the dot being so affordable if you re a fan of the echo then it s certainly worth the expansion even if that s just to give you voice control over your smart lights or heating from more. Just connect the included power supply directly into echo dot and connect it to a wall power.

This is probably the easiest step in the entire setup process because echo does not require any battery to run. If you have an echo and supported smart lights with the smart hub for those that need it it s easy to get set up. Amazon s echo line of smart speakers can be used to control a plethora of different supported lights. Setting up the echo for smart lighting.