How to use Alexa: Features, tips and tricks in our complete guide
WEBAug 25, 2023 · How to set up your Alexa speaker. Getting your Amazon Alexa speaker set up and ready to go is pretty hassle-free. Just follow these steps. This will work for standard Amazon Echo and Echo Dot speakers, which are the most popular.Echo Show devices, such as the Echo Show 10, need to be plugged in and you follow the on-screen instructions.You’ll still need the Alexa smartphone app though.
The best Alexa skills: 69 essential Echo apps you need to download
WEBOct 16, 2023 · 7 Alexa skills to download first. Spotify – Request music with your voice and now access podcasts and play them via your Alexa speaker. Amazon Story Time – One for those with kids, have Alexa read a bedtime story. Ambient Sounds – Fall asleep with the sound of the sea/forest/New York city streets in the background.
Is Alexa always listening? Is your smart speaker spying on you?
WEBFeb 14, 2024 · The short answer is yes, Alexa is always listening to you. Or, rather, the microphone on your Alexa smart speaker is always active (by default, at least) and is constantly monitoring voices in your home in order to hear its wake word. If your Echo speaker wasn’t always listening there’s no way it would hear your commands starting “Alexa ...
Best streaming sticks and devices 2023: Get a smart TV ... - The …
WEBOct 17, 2022 · Amazon’s best streaming stick, the Fire TV Stick 4K Max does exactly what that unimaginative name suggests. The Max part of the device’s moniker, added for the 2021 flagship, refers to it being 40% more powerful than the non-Max 4K Stick, with a new 1.8GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM and a faster GPU running the show.
The best smart home systems: Top ecosystems for home …
WEBJun 5, 2024 · Google, Amazon, Apple and SmartThings are the major players in the smart home arena now, with their smart speakers, ecosystems and voice assistants not only making your connected smart home devices easier to control, but to make home automation a doddle. And things are set to become even easier in the coming months and years, thanks to the ...
Apple HomeKit: Everything you need to know about living in an …
WEBJan 2, 2024 · Your comprehensive guide to the Home app, best HomeKit tech, and more. HomeKit is Apple’s smart home system, offering a platform for users of its iOS devices to take control of their connected home.. Actually, getting technical for a moment, HomeKit is actually a a software framework and communication protocol developed by Apple, you won’t see a HomeKit app on your iPhone or iPad.
Homebridge guide: How to make everything HomeKit-compatible
WEBJul 12, 2022 · The smart way to bring HomeKit support to everything from Nest to Sonos. As good as Apple HomeKit is, delivering both voice control and some powerful automation, the system is rather limited when it comes to hardware support. For example, you won’t find any Nest or Ring support for the platform, and there’s limited compatibility for other big brands such as Arlo, Sonos and a whole lot more.
Complete guide to 4K Netflix: How to get UHD in your living room
WEBDec 27, 2022 · You can tell if the content is available by going to a show (preferably a Netflix original) and looking under the title. It should say “Ultra HD 4K” or “Dolby Vision” and not “HD”. Ensure your 4K device is plugged into a HDCP 2.2 compliant HDMI port and not the nonsense ones some TV makers add around the sides.
The best smart home buttons for automations, controls, routines …
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · Best overall smart home button: Flic 2. Buy now: Amazon | From $29.99 / £29.99. Flic has been in the smart button game longer than most – it first went live on Indiegogo in 2014, smashing its $80,000 target and raising almost $1 million. The Flic 2, which also began life as a crowdfunding campaign, is easily the …
Philips Hue tips and tricks: 21 secrets for mastering your smart lights
WEBJun 20, 2024 · 2. Set power-on behaviour. Sometimes your Hue lights don’t always turn on based on a command from the Hue app: maybe you flicked the light switch, for example, or there was a power cut. Via Power-on behaviour in the Settings page of the Hue app, you can set what each Hue bulb should do when power is restored. 3.
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