hello everyone thanks for tuning in again what you can see right here next
to me is the Amazon Echo Plus this is the second generation device and sitting
right next to me is the first generation device so we're gonna go ahead get this
unboxed get it set up in our home and then show you the little bits and pieces
that make this a different product so let's get going
alright now first off obviously there's some upgrades that have occurred here a
couple of the big pieces for you the woofer here is better it's a 3 inch
woofer this was a 2.5 inch woofer the sound quality is expected to be improved
between these two devices the other thing that I think is really interesting
is there is a temperature sensor built-in onboard here with the Amazon
Echo Plus second generation one last thing and this is what we've seen from
Amazon throughout their line of products this is now a more matte finish we're
moving away from kind of the plastic metal design here that they had in their
first and second generation of most of these products so let's go ahead and get
this opened up so now moving into the box right away and this is how it is
with most of Amazon's products you can see right away so this is how the unit
came right out of the box that's really all you're getting is the speaker here
in some plastic wrapping and then just this little component right here which I
believe is just going to be a couple of manuals all right so I've just managed
to get this unwrapped out of the box let me show you a few things right away now
obviously sitting right next to this device here what we have is a much
shorter Echo Plus it's a little bit wider and right away what you'll notice
is it is definitely a lighter home automation product or home automation
hub here now moving on on top of the product here you're going to notice a
few things now you're going to notice a new arrangement of microphones on this
and this is similar to what we saw with the Echo Dot there's still the four
control buttons so you can see the plus and - that's your volume control the
wake button which is the dot there and then the microphone button there that
are the mute microphone button rather on the back similar to the Echo Dot you can
see right here this is a 3.5 millimeter speaker port and right here this is your
power so again very similar to the Echo Dot at
this point there are of course a few other things in the box here this is the
other component that was in the box there's really nothing else so let me go
ahead and get that open I'm pretty sure I know what's in here so we do have the
power adapter it's a 30 watt power adapter so that's getting a little up
there in terms of power requirements and then of course as always we have the
couple of manuals and the things to try card from Amazon so we have that right
there and there's a couple of manuals and QuickStart guides that we could use
but hey that's why you're here watching this video so a couple other things as I
get the adapter here all ready to go and then we plug in our Echo Plus this is a
100 to 240 volt adapter so it is ready to go multi-national obviously you'd
need to change the plug there but that was a question I had on one of my
previous videos so I'm just gonna get this plugged in and then we'll get going
hello bringing your device online just a moment connect sound of a hot bath a
vide by empty so very similar to what I saw with the Echo Dot there was that
French language there at the end which is important here in Canada so you know
I'm thinking throughout the world Amazon is now paying attention to that
multinational or multi-language component
your device is ready now right there I've done absolutely nothing so in my
home what I'll tell you is I do have other Amazon Echo devices and I do have
an account already signed up with Amazon that's the account I used to purchase
this device so if you have used that account to purchase this device and you
have other Amazon Echo products in your home that is the setup process I already
have my Wi-Fi credentials saved to Amazon and literally this is ready to go
now if you didn't already have those credentials saved in I'm gonna give you
a quick run-through of how that would work in your home so stick with me here
as we go through it alright so we need to start within the Alexa application
and you will have to sign in to that application with a set of credentials
from Amazon you'll either have to sign up for an account or you'll have to sign
in with the credentials now you should have credentials because you bought an
Echo Plus I'm going to tap over on the bottom right into the home control
section of the application here and now top right I'm going to click the plus
once I do that I can hit add device and then I'm going to choose Amazon Echo and
Echo plus once I choose Echo plus you can see that it's looking for the Wi-Fi
devices or the available Wi-Fi devices that are out there you need an orange
ring on the top of your Amazon Echo Plus in order for it to be broadcasting this
Wi-Fi so once I have that here I'm going to tap on it and then from there I'm
going to select my Wi-Fi network now I've already saved credentials inside of
Amazon's application here but if you didn't you would just simply have to tap
on your network and then put in your password to your Wi-Fi network and it
just goes through a simple connection process literally that's it guys this is
as much as you have to do to get this connected and set up on your Wi-Fi
network and from you're ready to ask Alexa whatever you'd
like now from here what you're going to want to do is connect this device to
your other home automation or your other smart home products you're going to want
to connect to Amazon music or Spotify get those set up here you can play the
radio all of those things are available right out of the box with the
appropriate accounts on top of that you can of course go through reminders and
all those lists and and all those other functions that you purchase us for and I
will be producing tutorials as we go forward here with both the Echo Dot and
the Echo Plus now of course with a speaker that's good that's going to be
the next video I'm going to show you just from a review
perspective how good this speaker is so thanks for watching everyone we'll see
you next time