as soon as you get your Echo Show 5 out of the box out of the wrapper and
plugged in you're going to want to set it up let's go
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again you can see my Amazon Echo Show 5
is plugged in and it is booting up now what's amazing about this setup process
is almost all of it is on the device until you want to get into music and
video and things later in the process now the first thing you're going to do
is select your language and then you're going to be given the opportunity to
select your Wi-Fi network so you're going to need your credentials for that
but an Echo Show 5 will connect to either 2.4 or 5 gigahertz networks
now once it's done that you'll need to put in your credentials for an Amazon
account and this is really the biggest thing you need for the whole setup
process because after that it knows who you are and it knows a lot of
information about you that you've already put into Amazon system if you
have groups already set up then they will show up here and you can add your
device to a group and rename it now if you don't have that that's something for
later for you to kind of change settings on in Amazon's Alexa voice assistant
application on your phone but for now just put it in there and you will get to
a point where it's asking you to download and install a new update or a
new firmware update it'll go through a couple of reboots and then it will come
back up and your device will be set up and ready to go now you get a nice
little introduction video here from Amazon they teach you a number of things
about the device but I'm about to show you all of those things and a little bit
more hi we're glad you're here it's time to get you and your Echo Show 5 off and
running
Now the device is ready so finally you're done and up on the top is actually a camera
shutter closure switch so you can actually pull that closed and it will
stop the camera from being able to see entirely that's a physical thing there's
also a mute microphone and you can see how it turns off the camera as well now
there's volume control buttons on the top that you will have seen when you
unbox this thing and there is an aux port in the back you can use bluetooth
as well to go to other speakers if you don't like this speaker but it is very
good now you're seeing me play with brightness and the Do Not Disturb modes
that are also on the menu as you swipe down but here's the overall settings
page there's a lot more here that you're going to want to go through and I'm
going to show you a couple of things first off Bluetooth is very simple you
can tap on there and now you will find that device in your phone or your tablet
or whatever other Bluetooth device simply tap on it and it will pair the
two devices now I can play music from my phone you saw me connect my iPhone and
it is now playing on that now to disconnect you can actually use your
voice or you can use on screen there you could change your Wi-Fi network if you
wanted to switch between different ones for any reason or you take this on the
road the homeland clock section allows you to customize what the whole device
looks like on the screen here now there's different backgrounds that you
can choose you can also choose to show the date or the weather but the
background section is really interesting because you can use set apps or you can
use Amazon photos and when you tap on those Amazon photos those are photos
you've put into amazon photos themselves and there's the ability to take a photo
and actually have that go into your amazon photos you can see me doing that
right here that now shows up as part of my rotation now in the display you saw
me playing with the brightness before but it has an adaptive brightness
setting on it and when you turn that off you can now see that I'm able to adjust
the brightness on the device sounds allows you to
change everything from alarms to the simple sounds that are on the device but
here's one of the most powerful things that you'll find on the Echo Show now if
you swipe from the right to the left you will see a new menu and the first thing
in there is the ability to communicate with people the second thing is the
ability to control your smart home now keep in mind I have all of these things
already set up in Amazon's voice assistant account but you can see how I
can manage by device by type of device by groups that I've set up in the
application there's a ton of options here I can also tap on the different
cameras that I have in my home that are already connected you're seeing music
now on-screen which is another choice in that menu and you can go ahead and play
your favorites from there very quickly there's of course the prime videos
offering here as well and you have to be a subscriber an amazon prime subscriber
to get that working but that is there as well now routines is really your
ultimate in smart home control and if you already have a number set up they
will show up here if you don't you're going to want to start creating some of
those in Amazon's voice assistant application which we do have videos
about here they also have some featured ones that they will show you here on the
device the alarm section you could set alarms by voice if you'd like but you
can also add an alarm physically there now of course you can ask for news
weather you can play audio books that you have on Amazon's device there is a
ton of things to do with the web browsers on board both silk and Firefox
are on board including watching YouTube and I use it for something called action
tiles now otherwise guys you're going to need the rest of the setup tutorials
here with your Amazon Echo Show 5 so on screen is a playlist for you to go and
learn all of the other details here for setting up this great device