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Hi
My Daughter received an Amazon Echo for Christmas.
It is not my thing at all (She resided with the mum) but she has a question:
How do you get Spotify to work on the Echo?
When my Daughter has the option to log in using Spotify, it states that the username/password is incorrect but when she logs into Spotify there is no problem.
Any suggestions will be gratefully received by my 9 year old!
My Daughter received an Amazon Echo for Christmas.
It is not my thing at all (She resided with the mum) but she has a question:
How do you get Spotify to work on the Echo?
When my Daughter has the option to log in using Spotify, it states that the username/password is incorrect but when she logs into Spotify there is no problem.
Any suggestions will be gratefully received by my 9 year old!
DoctorX said:
El stovey said:
Privacy from what though? People dropping in or are people worried about hacking into the camera somehow?
Dunno. Given the number of times my Dot pipes up unbidden it’s surely a matter of time before an inadvertent video call is made whilst someone’s on the job 
TheGreatSoprendo said:
When I got my Echo Dot a few months ago, I bought a couple of TP Link HS100 smart plugs. Although they've always worked fine though TP Link's own app, Kasa, I've never got them to work with the Echo - Alexa simply doesn't find them when I ask to discover devices (either thru the app or by voice command).
I exchanged a couple of e-mails with both Amazon and TP Link support and did everything they suggested but to no avail. I ended up giving up on them but now I've got a few days off, I thought I'd have another go at them. So this morning, I factory reset my router, my dot, and both plugs and uninstalled the Alexa and Kasa apps and started again from scratch. Much to my annoyance, exactly the same thing happened - everthing was fine until Alexa tries to discover the plugs, at which point they seem to become invisible. They still work fine with Kasa, though.
I'm a bit stumped as to what else I can do to get them working. Has anyone had similar issues or have any suggestions as to a possible solution?
I have the TP Link plugs working fine through Alexa. Presumably you've added the Kasa skill to the Alexa app and added the plugs as devices in the skill?I exchanged a couple of e-mails with both Amazon and TP Link support and did everything they suggested but to no avail. I ended up giving up on them but now I've got a few days off, I thought I'd have another go at them. So this morning, I factory reset my router, my dot, and both plugs and uninstalled the Alexa and Kasa apps and started again from scratch. Much to my annoyance, exactly the same thing happened - everthing was fine until Alexa tries to discover the plugs, at which point they seem to become invisible. They still work fine with Kasa, though.
I'm a bit stumped as to what else I can do to get them working. Has anyone had similar issues or have any suggestions as to a possible solution?
Is it just me, or has anyone else's Echo Dot suddenly swapped to playing mono only?
I have three, all plugged into external speakers. As of this morning, two are only playing in mono? Bluetooth, streaming radio - both mono only. Have checked connections. Strange...
We had a power spike in the storm night before last which threw a surge protector. I hope that's not related...
I have three, all plugged into external speakers. As of this morning, two are only playing in mono? Bluetooth, streaming radio - both mono only. Have checked connections. Strange...
We had a power spike in the storm night before last which threw a surge protector. I hope that's not related...
RizzoTheRat said:
My wife "Dropped in" on my Echo from hers last night, and I could hear her speaker relaying everything I said back to me. Never had it do that before. We stopped and I dropped in on her instead and it was fine. Is that a random glitch or has anyone else had it?
We use drop in quite a lot and I’ve never had that happen.RizzoTheRat said:
My wife "Dropped in" on my Echo from hers last night, and I could hear her speaker relaying everything I said back to me. Never had it do that before. We stopped and I dropped in on her instead and it was fine. Is that a random glitch or has anyone else had it?
I’ve had that too. It’s the reason I don’t use drop-in any more.Smart grouping of devices under Alexa.
If you have multiple Alexa devices around the house, you can now group other devices under control of the echo in that room.
Being a long time Alexa user, I had set up my smart devices to get around the issue of the echo devices not being location aware by creating specific groups for lights/sonos/etc.
Now I have found that I can now group the same devices under direct control of a located echo. This allows you to just say "lights on/off/green/blue/50%/etc" rather than specifying a previously named group of lights.
This also gets around the issue of having to name a Sonos device with something other than just "Lounge" if you have an echo called lounge. My issue was when I wanted to play music and I had to ask the "lounge" echo to play on the "Lounge Sonos".
To set everything up I first changed the names of all of my devices to include a description and location of the device. Once the devices have been renamed, I could then set up the smart groups - "Kitchen", "Lounge", "Garage", "Study", etc.
You will need to set all of this up via a smart phone app (doesn't work on PC/MAC website).
Under Smart Home, go to Groups and add a Group.
Create a Smart Home Group.
Name the new group eg: "Lounge" and then click next.
At this point, you will find all of your ALEXA ENABLED DEVICES listed first, followed by DEVICES. (If you also have SCENES, they will also be listed).
Click the lounge echo device and all other devices to be associated with the lounge echo and then save.
Once the Lounge group has been created, you will notice that it says "Alexa enabled" under the group name. Create other groups as needed.
Now that you have smart groups configured, you can say "Lights on" when in the lounge and just those come on. You can still specify other groups like "Lounge lamps" or "Lounge LEDs" to control individual groups of lights if you wish from the lounge or other room.
Previously, when I wanted to play music on my Sonos systems, I would have to specify "Lounge Sonos"/"Garden Sonos"/"Kitchen Sonos", etc. With smart groups, I can say "play music on lounge".
The implementation of Sonos/Echo isn't quiet location aware at the moment as you still have to specify a location of the device when you want to start playing music, but the subsequent commands don't require you to specify the device (providing you are using Amazon Music to stream). To control iTunes on Sonos, you still need to specify the device location.
If you have multiple Alexa devices around the house, you can now group other devices under control of the echo in that room.
Being a long time Alexa user, I had set up my smart devices to get around the issue of the echo devices not being location aware by creating specific groups for lights/sonos/etc.
Now I have found that I can now group the same devices under direct control of a located echo. This allows you to just say "lights on/off/green/blue/50%/etc" rather than specifying a previously named group of lights.
This also gets around the issue of having to name a Sonos device with something other than just "Lounge" if you have an echo called lounge. My issue was when I wanted to play music and I had to ask the "lounge" echo to play on the "Lounge Sonos".
To set everything up I first changed the names of all of my devices to include a description and location of the device. Once the devices have been renamed, I could then set up the smart groups - "Kitchen", "Lounge", "Garage", "Study", etc.
You will need to set all of this up via a smart phone app (doesn't work on PC/MAC website).
Under Smart Home, go to Groups and add a Group.
Create a Smart Home Group.
Name the new group eg: "Lounge" and then click next.
At this point, you will find all of your ALEXA ENABLED DEVICES listed first, followed by DEVICES. (If you also have SCENES, they will also be listed).
Click the lounge echo device and all other devices to be associated with the lounge echo and then save.
Once the Lounge group has been created, you will notice that it says "Alexa enabled" under the group name. Create other groups as needed.
Now that you have smart groups configured, you can say "Lights on" when in the lounge and just those come on. You can still specify other groups like "Lounge lamps" or "Lounge LEDs" to control individual groups of lights if you wish from the lounge or other room.
Previously, when I wanted to play music on my Sonos systems, I would have to specify "Lounge Sonos"/"Garden Sonos"/"Kitchen Sonos", etc. With smart groups, I can say "play music on lounge".
The implementation of Sonos/Echo isn't quiet location aware at the moment as you still have to specify a location of the device when you want to start playing music, but the subsequent commands don't require you to specify the device (providing you are using Amazon Music to stream). To control iTunes on Sonos, you still need to specify the device location.
sybaseian said:
Smart grouping of devices under Alexa.
If you have multiple Alexa devices around the house, you can now group other devices under control of the echo in that room.....
I have a 2 x Amazon Dots that both operate the same Sonos speaker, and I use Spotify Premium. I currently have to say If you have multiple Alexa devices around the house, you can now group other devices under control of the echo in that room.....
'Alexa, play radio 2 on Sonos'.
So are you saying I can now set it up so I don't have to specify 'Sonos', and can get away with just saying "Alexa, play radio 2?"
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