Amazon Echo Plus User Guide Newbie to Expert in 1 Hour!

By Tom Edwards

Here it is - The Amazon Echo Plus User Manual that should have come in the box!

BONUS - Sign up to our free monthly newsletter and never miss news, views, tips and tricks of your favorite streaming media devices, including the Amazon Echo.

From the Number 1 Best Selling authors in Computers and Technology, this clear and concise guide will show you how to get the very best from your new Amazon Echo Plus.Step by step instructions will take you from newbie to expert in just one hour!

About the Authors:
Tom and Jenna Edwards are the Amazon Tech authors behind the Number 1 Best-selling e-books 250+ Best Kindle Fire HD Apps for the New Kindle Fire Owner and Fire HD 8 & HD 10 User Guide: Newbie to Expert in 2 Hours!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tom Edwards
• Release date: Nov 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370895670

Tom Edwards

Tom Edwards, originally from London, England, settled in Sacramento, California where he met his wife Jenna Edwards. Both work in the tech industry, Tom is a web designer and Jenna is a graphic artist, they share a passion for technology and embrace all the latest gadgets with gusto! The reviews of all the apps in their bestselling ebook 250+ Best Kindle Fire and Fire HD Apps for the New Kindle Fire User were written and researched by Tom and Jenna. Jenna also designed the book cover. Other than exploring new tech, Tom and Jenna enjoy spending time with their kids and cooking for friends.

Book preview

echo-plus-cover.jpg

Amazon Echo Plus

User Guide

Newbie to Expert in 1 Hour!

by Tom Edwards & Jenna Edwards

Copyright © 2017 by Tom Edwards & Jenna Edwards – All rights reserved.

AMAZON ECHO PLUS & ALEXA are trademarks of Amazon Technologies Inc. All other copyrights & trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. Reproduction of any part of this eBook 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 [e-mail].

001800221

Other Books By Tom & Jenna Edwards

Amazon Echo User Guide - Newbie to Expert in 1 Hour!

Amazon Echo Dot User Guide - Newbie to Expert in 1 Hour!

Amazon Echo Show User Guide - Newbie to Expert in 1 Hour!

Fire HD 7 User Guide - Newbie to Expert in 2 Hours!

Fire HD 8 & 10 User Guide - Newbie to Expert in 2 Hours!

Fire TV Stick User Guide - Newbie to Expert in 1 Hour!

Amazon Fire TV User Guide - Newbie to Expert in 1 Hour!

Contents

Introduction

Do You Need This Book?

How To Use This Book

1. What is Amazon’s Echo Plus?

Here Are the Echo Plus’s Technical Specs

How Does the Plus Compare to the Rest of the Echo Family?

2. Setting Up Your Amazon Echo Plus

What’s in the Box

Setting up the Main Unit

Accessing the Alexa App

Connecting to Wi-Fi

Using the Alexa Voice Remote

Using the Echo Plus as a Bluetooth Speaker

3. Amazon Alexa App Basics

The Home Page

The Now Playing Page

4. Video

Amazon Fire TV

Dish TV

5. Music

My Music Library

Upload Music to My Music Library

Prime Music: What it Offers

Spotify: What it Offers

Pandora: What it Offers

iHeartRadio: What it Offers

TuneIn: What it Offers

SiriusXM: What it Offers

6. Books

Audible: What it Offers

Kindle Books: What it Offers

7. Lists

Shopping Lists

To-do Lists

8. Reminders & Alarms (and Timers)

Reminders

Alarms

Timers

9. Routines

10. Alexa Skills

Enabling Alexa Skills

Tips for Picking Skills to Try and Managing Enabled Skills

Develop a Skill to Share

11. Smart Home

Setting Up your Smart Home Devices

Getting the Most Out of your Smart Home Devices

Troubleshooting Wi-Fi Issues with Smart Home Equipment

Top Smart Home Alexa Skills

12. Things to Try

What’s New

Echo Plus

Ask Questions

Calling and Voice Messaging

Check your Calendar

Connect Bluetooth Devices

Control Music

Control Smart Home Devices

Control the Color of Smart Lights

Discover Music

Drop In - Alexa’s Intercom System

Enable Skills

Find Local Businesses and Restaurants

Find Traffic Information

Fun and Games

Get Weather Updates

Go to the Movies

Hear the News

Keep Up with Your Sports Teams

Listen to Audible Audiobooks

Listen to Amazon Music

Listen to Kindle Books

Listen to Podcasts and Radio

Shopping

Set Alarms/Set Reminders/Set Timers

To-dos and Shopping Lists

Use These Phrases Anytime

More Alexa Products to Try

13. Settings

Devices

Accounts

General

14. Help & Feedback

The Alexa App User Guide

Alexa Device Support

Calling and Messaging

Drop In

Music, Video and Book

News, Weather & Traffic

Smart Home

Shopping

Alexa Quick Fixes

Contact Us

A Final Quick Reminder About Updates

Want the Latest Amazon Echo & Alexa News?

Before we start, we just want to remind you about the FREE updates for this book. The Amazon Echo family of devices are still in their infancy. The landscape is changing all the time with new services, apps and media suppliers appearing daily.

Staying on top of new developments is our job and if you sign up to our free newsletter we will keep you abreast of news, tips and tricks for all your streaming media equipment.

If you want to take advantage of this, all you need to do is sign up for the updates here: www.lyntons.com/updates.

Don’t worry; we hate spam as much as you do so we will never share your details with anyone.

Introduction

Welcome

Welcome and thank you for buying the Amazon Echo Plus User Guide: Newbie to Expert in 1 Hour!, a comprehensive introduction and companion guide to the exciting possibilities that this all-new 2nd generation Echo Plus Bluetooth speaker and personal assistant has to offer.

Do You Need This Book?

We want to be clear from the very start - if you consider yourself tech savvy, e.g. the kind of electronics user that intuitively knows their way around any new device or is happy Googling for answers then you probably don’t need this book.

We are comfortable admitting that you can probably find most of the information in this book somewhere on Amazon’s help pages or on the Internet - if, that is, you are willing to spend the time to find it!

And that’s the point… this Amazon Echo Plus book is a time saving manual primarily written for those new to streaming media devices, Bluetooth devices and tech that works in tandem with your PC or mobile device.

If you were surprised or dismayed to find how little information comes in the box with your Echo Plus and prefer to have to hand, like so many users, a comprehensive, straightforward, step by step Echo Plus guide, to finding your way around your new device, then this book is for you.

Furthermore, as mentioned above, the Echo Plus and other Echo/Alexa enabled devices are still fairly new in the big scheme of things and there will be new features, skills and services, not to mention Echo Plus tips and tricks, appearing constantly over the coming months.

We will be updating this Echo Plus manual as these developments unfold, making it an invaluable resource for even the tech savvy.

Even if you are buying the first edition of this Echo Plus instruction book, never fear, you too can keep up to speed with all the new Echo Plus updates by signing up to our free email newsletter here - www.lyntons.com/updates - so you’ll never miss a thing.

How To Use This Book

Feel free to dip in and out of different chapters, but we would suggest reading the whole book from start to finish to get a clear overview of all the information contained.

We have purposely kept this book short, sweet and to the point so that you can consume it in an hour and get straight on with enjoying your Amazon Echo Plus.

This Echo Plus user manual aims to answer any questions you might have and offer Echo Plus information including:

What is the Amazon Echo Plus and how does it work?

What does the Echo Plus do?

How to setup your Echo Plus

How to setup Alexa

How to manage your Amazon Echo Plus account

How Echo Plus and Alexa work together

Echo Plus tips

Echo Plus specifications

Echo Plus settings

And a general Amazon Echo Plus review

This Echo Plus tutorial will also look closely at Echo Plus features including:

The Alexa voice remote (including Echo Plus voice commands)

The Echo Plus Alexa app

Echo Plus extras

The Echo Plus shopping list and to do list

Amazon Echo Plus radio, music and news

How to use Alexa Skills

Echo Plus smart devices (including home hubs and lights)

Amazon Echo Plus accessories

Plus much, much more....

And for further Amazon Echo Plus customer support we have links to

Amazon Echo Plus customer service

Echo Plus discussion forums

Echo Plus feedback

Echo Plus quick start guide

Echo Plus videos

Echo Plus Help Pages, help desk and community

As we will be updating this book on a regular basis we would love to get your feedback, so if there is a feature that you find confusing or something else that you feel we’ve missed then please let us know by emailing us at [e-mail]. Thank you!

So without further ado let’s begin...

1. What is Amazon’s Echo Plus?

The first thing you might notice about the Echo Plus is how similar it looks to the original 1st generation Echo. And that’s a fair comment, visually there’s hardly any difference at all. It’s under the hood, so to speak, that the Echo Plus is different.

The Echo Plus has better quality speakers than the original Echo but the main difference between the Plus, and all other Echo devices, is its built in Smart Home hub. If you’re looking to join the Smart Home revolution then Amazon is targeting this