Amazon Echo Spot - The Complete User Guide: Learn to Use Your Echo Spot Like A Pro
By CJ Andersen
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This is the complete, up to date Echo Spot user guide from Tech Ace CJ Andersen that will show you how to use this new device like a pro.
This guide covers every aspect of the Echo Spot and its AI software Alexa including:
•Echo Spot Setup
•Alexa App Basics
•Watching Amazon Video
•Watching Movie Trailers
•Controlling Fire TV
•Controlling Dish TV
•Listening to Music
•Listening to Audio Books
•Shopping Lists & To-do Lists
•Reminders, Alarms & Timers
•Alexa Skills
•Smart Home Devices
•Asking Questions
•Check and Manage Your Calendar
•Find Local Businesses and Restaurants
•Find Traffic Information
•Weather Information
•Go to the Movies
•Hear the News
•Sports
•Shop Amazon
•Calls and Messaging
•And all other Echo Spot Settings
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Amazon Echo Spot - The Complete User Guide - CJ Andersen
Amazon Echo Spot
The Complete User Guide: Learn to Use Your Echo Spot Like A Pro
by C.J. Andersen
Copyright © 2017 by CJ Andersen — All rights reserved.
AMAZON ECHO Spot is a trademark of Amazon Technologies Inc. All other copyrights & trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. Reproduction of any part of this book without the permission of the copyright owners is illegal — the only exception to this is the inclusion of brief quotes in a review of the work. Any request for permission should be directed to [email protected]
Table of Contents
Introduction
Before we get started: Echo Spot Basics
The Echo Spot Preview
Specifications of the Amazon Echo Spot
Echo Spot Vs Echo Show
1: Let’s Begin! — Echo Spot Setup
2: Meet the Alexa App
The App, your Voice and the Screen
Alexa App Home Page
3: The ‘Now Playing’ Page and Player
4: Watch This and More! — Video
Watch Amazon Video on Echo Spot
Watch Movie Trailers on Echo Spot
Fire TV
Dish TV
A Word about YouTube
5: Songs by the Millions — Music
My Music Library
Amazon Music
Spotify
Pandora
iHeartRadio
Tunein
SiriusXM
6: Tell Me a Story — Books
Audible
Kindle Books
7: Write it Down & Get it Done — Lists
Shopping Lists
To-do Lists
8: Never Forget, Always Be On Time (& More) — Reminders, Alarms & Timers
Reminders
Alarms
Timers
9: Keep it Simple — Routines
10: Let’s See What She Can Do — Alexa Skills
11: 21st Century Living — Smart Home
12: Your Highly Capable Personal Assistant — Things to Try
What’s new?
Ask Questions
Check and Manage Your Calendar
Discover new Alexa Skills
Find Local Businesses and Restaurants & Reviews
Find Traffic Information
Weather Information
Go to the Movies
Hear the News
Sports: Keep Up with Your Pro and College Sports Teams & More
Shop Amazon (for Prime Members)
Calling and Messaging
13: Alexa & Echo Spot: Your Perfect Fit — Settings
Devices
Accounts
General
14: Resources Galore — Help & Feedback
Contact Us
Before You Go
Introduction
Hello and welcome! Thank you for buying this Echo Spot user guide and I look forward to sharing my knowledge and helping you to master your new Amazon device. If this is your first Amazon/Echo device then you will discover that the Alexa App is at the heart of everything you can do with the Echo Spot.
So, before we get under way I would like to make a couple of suggestions. Firstly, I would like to encourage you to sign up to my monthly Alexa Updates Newsletter and here’s why… Amazon is constantly tweaking, updating and expanding the capabilities of both its devices (Fire tablets, Fire TV, Echo, Echo Show, Echo Spot etc) and its AI software Alexa.
And when I say constantly I mean ALL the time.
The Echo Spot has only been available for a few weeks and there have already been a number of improvements and noteworthy additions in the time it has taken me to write this guide. While I will continue to publish updated editions of this guide, I want to be sure that anyone who has bought this book has the chance to stay up to date with the frequent changes.
My Alexa Updates Newsletter is the solution. Once a month I will send out a roundup of any significant or newsworthy developments that will enhance the use of your Alexa enabled Amazon device…including the Echo Spot.
Of course you can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time and I will never share your personal information with anyone. So go ahead and Subscribe Today: www.about.me/cjandersen
Secondly, I wanted to say a word about this guide, how it has been put together and the best way to use it. Of course, you should feel free to go straight to a particular chapter if there is some specific information you are looking for, but I would also urge you to read the book in its entirety as it follows a logical progression.
For that reason I have laid out this guide to take you step by step from setting up your Echo Spot ready to start using and then through every option within the Alexa App starting at the top and working down to the bottom. It’s really the easiest way to approach and master Alexa without jumping back and forth and getting lost in the numerous options.
I’ll also be reviewing the many third-party apps and Alexa Skills that you can access via the Echo Spot to maximize your enjoyment of the device, including:
Using music apps such as Amazon Music, Spotify, Tunein and iHeartRadio
Linking up to audiobook services like Audible and Kindle
Watching videos and movie trailers on the Spot
Setting up the Spot as an integral part of your Smart Home technology
Getting the most of the Alexa personal assistant, from setting alarms to ordering pizzas!
And, of course, troubleshooting common glitches that crop up from time to time…
I am confident that anyone, no matter what level their tech skills, will find learning and using their Amazon Echo Spot pretty straight forward. If there’s anything that you still find confusing after having read this guide then please email me at [email protected]
Okay, let’s go!
Before we get started: Echo Spot Basics
As an enthusiastic user of both the Amazon Echo and the Echo Show, I was super excited when the Spot was launched and have been very happy with its performance. The Spot is, to my mind, the perfect merger of the Echo’s personal assistant capabilities with the added benefit of having the Show’s screen for useful visual information (albeit a much smaller one); plus it works great as a really good-looking digital alarm clock!
The Spot has taken Echo’s old place in the bedroom where I can:
Set alarms and daily reminders
Look at the weather forecast
Listen to music while I’m getting dressed
Get news flash briefings and traffic reports
Drop in on the kids room to see that they’re OK
Make use of all the other benefits this personal assistant offers
One of the things I like best is that most of the information requested from Echo Spot also shows up on the Alexa App (more later), so I can view it there immediately or later when I want to review it.
I also like that if I unplug and move the Echo Spot, the device takes just a minute or two to reboot and reconnect to Wi-Fi.
A quick note on the wake word: Echo Spot requires a wake word to activate your device. For example, Alexa, what’s the weather like today
where Alexa
is your wake word. I’m guessing you already know that, so in this guide I don’t include a wake word when suggesting what to say to Alexa. For any voice command you read in this guide be sure to use your wake word first.
The Echo Spot Preview
Getting started with Echo Spot takes just a few minutes, and most of the setup happens automatically. Before you plug it in, though, look over your new Spot to familiarize yourself with the physical features of the hardware and the purpose of each.