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How to Set Up and Use Your Echo Show Smart Display

How to Set Up and Use Your Echo Show Smart Display

Amazon’s Echo Show smart displays let you use voice commands to control your smart home devices, make video calls, watch movies and TV shows, and more. However, your Echo Show won’t be so smart until you set it up properly. Here’s how to set up your new Echo Show device, how to use it, and common settings that you might …

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How to Change Alexa’s Voice, Accent, and Language

How to Change Alexa’s Voice, Accent, and Language

Alexa was designed to make your life easier, but she’ll only be useful if you can understand her. Thankfully, if you ever get tired of listening to Alexa’s voice, you can always change it. Here’s everything you need to know about how to change Alexa’s voice, accent, language, and how to make her whisper or talk less. How to Change …

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How to Connect a Smart Plug to Alexa

How to Connect a Smart Plug to Alexa

Smart plugs can make your regular “dumb” home appliances smarter. And if you want to add voice control to manage your appliances via a smart plug, they can be synced to the Amazon Echo, too. Find out how to connect your smart plug to an Alexa device with this step-by-step guide. What is a Smart Plug?  A smart plug is …

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How To Connect Your Ring Doorbell to Alexa

How To Connect Your Ring Doorbell to Alexa

Connecting your Ring Video Doorbell to Alexa lets you use voice commands to answer your door without getting off the couch. Plus, you can connect your Alexa smart displays and Fire TV streaming devices to your doorbell, so you can see your visitors and talk to them hands-free. Here’s how to connect your Ring Video Doorbell to Alexa and how …

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How To Set Up Alexa on Your Echo Device

How To Set Up Alexa on Your Echo Device

Amazon’s Echo smart speakers are only smart if you set them up properly. Whether you just bought an Echo speaker or received one as a gift, you’ll need to set up Alexa on your device before you can start asking questions, listening to music, and more. Here’s how to set up Alexa on your Echo speaker, so you can take …

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How to Change the Volume on Your Alexa Devices

How to Change the Volume on Your Alexa Devices

If your Alexa speakers are too loud or too quiet, there are many ways to change the volume. You can even enable a feature to automatically change Alexa’s volume based on how loud you are talking and the background noise. Here are all the ways to change the volume on your Alexa devices using the physical buttons, voice commands, and …

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How to Set Up Philips Hue Without a Hue Bridge

How to Set Up Philips Hue Without a Hue Bridge

If you bought a set of Philips Hue smart light bulbs, you won’t necessarily need to buy an expensive Hue Bridge to control them. Depending on what kind of bulbs you have, you can also use the Philips Hue app on your smartphone to turn your lights off, dim them, change the color of the light, and more. Or you …

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How To Use Alexa Guard to Monitor Your Home for Free

How To Use Alexa Guard to Monitor Your Home for Free

If you have an Amazon Echo speaker, you can use Alexa Guard as a basic security system for free. Then you will get alerts sent to your smartphone when Alexa hears something dangerous happening inside your house. Here’s everything you need to know about how to set up Alexa Guard on your Echo speakers. What Is Alexa Guard? Alexa Guard …

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How to Install Your SimpliSafe Devices

How to Install Your SimpliSafe Devices

Smart home security is essential in this day and age. The SimpliSafe home security system was designed to cover all your home security concerns using separate devices. Here’s how to install your SimpliSafe devices, including your Base Station, Keypad, and sensors. Before you begin, you should map out where you want to place all your devices. Using the manual as …

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How to Make Phone Calls with Alexa

How to Make Phone Calls with Alexa

Did you know you can make hands-free phone calls with Alexa? In fact, you can also receive calls with your Alexa device, or even make emergency 911 calls too. Once you know how to make phone calls with Alexa, you won’t need that old rotary phone sitting in your living room anymore. Here’s how to make phone calls with Alexa. …

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