▷Amazon Echo: how to install and configure the smart speaker 🥇

If you have an Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, or Echo Spot smart speaker, it's high time to plug it in and set it up! Follow this quick guide to find out all about the procedure, where to install it, and how to connect your other objects connected by bluetooth, or via Skills.

Have you just received an Amazon Echo connected speaker? Have you just plugged it in and are a little lost? We suggest you guide you step by step to configure your Echo and launch your first commands to Alexa.

How to install and configure your Amazon Echo?

The first thing to do when you've unboxed your Amazon Echo is to find an optimal location for it in a room in your home. The range of the speaker's seven microphones is relatively large, but Alexa is still less likely to make fewer mistakes when you are near her. So choose a place near which you will be most likely to use it: sideboard next to the sofa, in front of the TV, in the kitchen ... Once the location problem is resolved, connect the speaker with the adapter. provided.

The light circle above the speaker should then be orange, like here:

If not, you can hold down the button • above the speaker for 5 seconds. The rest of the setup is a snap. On your smartphone:

Install the Amazon Alexa app from the Google Play Store or the App Store
Once logged in with your Amazon account, go to the gear icon at the bottom right
touch CONFIGURE A NEW DEVICE and follow the wizard

On a screen, the application will ask you to connect to your Echo's WiFi network. You must then connect to a network containing Amazon in its SSID, as if you were trying to connect to the Internet. Then return to the application to complete the configuration.

Amazon Echo: how to connect all your connected objects to it?

So of course, already on its own, your Amazon Echo is very useful. But it quickly becomes essential if you connect various devices to it.

Connect your speakers to the auxiliary audio output of the Amazon Echo

The Amazon Echo speakers all have an auxiliary output, which is very convenient for easily improving the audio quality. To use it, simply connect it to your hi-fi system with a jack to RCA audio cable, or male jack to male jack, suitable for your device. No configuration is required.

Connect your bluetooth speaker or headset

Pairing a bluetooth device is extremely simple and efficient:

Put your speaker or headphones in pairing mode (long press on the pairing button)
Say: Alexa, Bluetooth pairing
A confirmation message will come out of your newly connected speaker or headset

Connect lamps, switches and other connected objects

Amazon Echo is the range of speakers most compatible with connected objects on the market. But the support for your connected objects is not native. You have to install a Skill (aptitude or talent in French) corresponding to the brand of your connected objects to control them. The procedure is very simple - here is for example how to connect your Hue lights to it:

Install and configure your lights and the Hue Bridge following the instructions from Philips
Go to Amazon.com and sign in to your account
In the search box type Skill Hue
The first result should normally be the correct skill.
Click on Enable in the Obtain this Skill block

You can then start saying commands like “Alexa, turn on the living room lights”. Of course, if you have any difficulty setting up, let us know in the comments. To get started with Alexa, we recommend that you read this list of essential commands.