- Hey, what's up everyone?
Today we're gonna be talking about some fun things
that you can do with this device,
so stay tuned.
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All right, so this guy's been out for a little while now,
and I have seen lots of unboxings
and first impression videos
which there's nothing wrong with that
because I do those myself,
but I wanted to go into a few key features on this thing
and then also show you guys some
unique ways on how to use this.
So, let's get started.
Okay, number one on my list
is adding this device to a group or bedroom.
Now, the reason you're gonna wanna
add this to a group is because
that way you can use this device to control that room.
So say for example, I put this in the group for my office,
and I had it in here,
but then I changed my mind,
and I wanted to move it upstairs,
and while I'm upstairs,
I tell the device here "turn on the lights".
Because it thinks it's in an office,
it's gonna be turning on my office lights.
Now, I can specify what lights I want it to turn on,
I can say "turn on my master bedroom lights",
and it'll do that,
but if I just wanna be nice and simple
just "turn lights on and off",
different things like that,
I've also got the fire tv in my room now,
so if I wanna say "play this on the tv",
it now knows it's the tv that's in the master bedroom,
I have to have this guy in the master bedroom group,
so everything in that group can be referred to
with just the simple phrase
instead of the full name of that device
which is just super convenient to have.
Computer, put Echo Show 5 in master bedroom group.
- [Alexa] Okay, the Echo Show 5
is in the master bedroom group.
- All right, so number two on the list
is using this guy as a digital picture frame.
So what you would do is you would swipe down from the top,
go into settings, go to the home and clock section,
type on customize your clock,
and then you're going to pick it from there.
If you wanna do personal photos,
you do have to have an Amazon Prime account
which includes Amazon Photos,
you would load photos up there
and then from there you would create albums,
and then, on this device, you would select that album
that you want to use as your digital clock.
I went through and I created an album
that just has my logo on it,
so that way it's permanently just my logo
instead of one of the random backgrounds that they had,
and that is how I got this on my background here.
So if you do set up an album with a bunch of pictures,
it will rotate through those.
Okay, so number three on the list is alarms,
and alarms sounds pretty straight forward,
but there are some certain things
that you cannot do on this device with alarms
that you would need to use the app for.
For example, if you wanna change the alarm tone on here,
you have to go into the app
and you can select the different tones in there.
Also if you wanna choose gradual volume,
you would have to do that through the app, too,
so it would start quiet and slowly get louder and louder,
and you can also adjust the alarm volume in the app.
Something that you cannot do in the app however,
that you can only do with you voice
is if you want the alarm to wake you to music.
So I found that if I want my alarm to wake me up
to say Maroon 5 or if I have a playlist
or something like that, I can do that,
but I have to request it with my voice.
Alexa, set an alarm for 5:30 a.m. to Maroon 5.
- [Alexa] Alarm set for 5:30 a.m.
tomorrow to Maroon 5 radio on Pandora.
- Perfect, now, if I wanna go into the app,
I can make that a recurring alarm
to play everyday or weekends or weekdays,
I can set the schedule in the app there,
but that is how you get this guy to play to music.
All right, number four on the list is drop-in calls.
Now, you can use this device
and another echo show device to do drop-in calls.
I tested this early with the family,
so let's jump to that footage right now.
Drop-in on Echo Show 5.
I don't see you yet!
Oh there you are.
(baby coos)
Emi, who's that?
- Hi Honey.
- Emi can you say hi?
(child vocalizes)
Hi Avery!
You're so cute.
We'll see you later.
- Goodbye!
- Bye!
Sorry for the echo on that,
she's just right in the room next to me.
All right, number five on the list
is showing your security cameras.
I did a whole video on connecting
your security camera account to your Alexa,
so I will link it up here
if you guys want to check that out,
but once you have it linked,
all you need to do is ask the device to show the camera.
And this is really convenient if you have this
next to your bed or in your office
and want to check your security cameras,
you can do that by saying "show the Arlo front door".
- [Alexa] Okay.
- And there it is.
There's my Arlo front door.
All right, number six on the list
is that you can use this guy as a Bluetooth speaker.
So this has a great speaker built in to it,
and if you want to use your phone
and play all the music on your phone
through the speaker here
which is just a cool little feature to have.
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(child vocalizing)
All right, number seven on the list
has to do with probably one of my
biggest complaints about these devices,
and that's all of the echo devices,
and that is the fact that they
don't have a built in battery.
Like, I wanna be able to pick this up,
go outside with it, go to a different room with it
for a half hour, a little bit of time,
whatever that is, be able to listen to my music,
watch a video, whatever it is,
and just be mobile with it.
That is something that these devices are greatly missing,
but, but I do have a solution for that,
and that is this power brick
with an AC outlet on the side here.
Because of the size of this thing, too,
it makes a great little platform to plug that in
and be able to take this around.
We have already used this outside,
I've set up a couple little videos
for the girls to watch while they're playing or music,
and we just set this in the corner while they're outside.
It kinda keeps them entertained,
they can listen to some music.
Or, for example, the other night
we ate dinner on the outside table
and were able to take this out there with us
and listen to music,
and it was just such a great little experience,
so unfortunately the one that I have
isn't available anymore,
but I will put links to other ones
if you guys are interested in getting that.
I ran this guy for about an hour on this brick,
and I'm down to 80 percent,
so you can get quite a lotta time out of this thing
which is just a fun little thing to have.
You could take it camping, whatever you wanna do.
Now the last little bonus thing I wanted to about
is that I bought the stand for this guy.
The stand is magnetic, so if you put it on here,
it will connect to it via magnet,
and it allows you to tilt the device up or down
which is convenient to have
because if I'm sitting right now at this table,
and I'm looking at this thing,
it's kind of hard to see it,
but I can always tilt this back and look up,
and now it's perfectly looking right up at me,
so that is just a fun little thing to have.
Couple other of features on here
is that you can close the camera.
So if you have this in your bedroom or wherever it is,
and you don't want that camera,
and it does have a physical shutter that you can close here,
and it'll tell you that the camera is off.
Other than that, it looks very similar
to its bigger brother the Echo Show Second Generation
which I just recently reviewed,
so I will link that up there
if you guys want to check that out.
But that's all I have for this video.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
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