Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. What you can see right here is the
brand new Amazon Echo Dot 3rd generation device. I'm going to get
it unboxed and set up in my hom.e I'm going to show you that process, and I'll
give you a little snippets along the way of how this new Echo Dot is to use in
your home. Alright, so if you remember the box from the original Echo Dot or the
second generation of the Echo Dot, you'll actually remember that it was much
slimmer, so this is a much thicker package here, and you can see the device
as soon as you get in there, you can see it right in there. Now I'm going to pull
it out and it really still is the same device, the same size as it originally
was. After you get the plastic off, you can see the four buttons still on the
top there. You can see the plus and the minus, those are your volume buttons, and
then you also have on this side, the mute microphone butto,n and on the other side
here we have the wake button for Amazon Alexa. Another thing to show you here is
it appears that there are four far-field microphones on the top of this device, so
you see if those four dots or those four holes in the device, that appears to
be four microphones on the top of this, whereas you know if you were comparing
this to the second-generation, you can see here, as I get it closer to the
screen, you can see that there was actually just one in the middle of this
device. As I open up the rest of the package here, you do get a manual from
Amazon, not that we're gonna use that, that's what you have this for here,
there's actually a second manual here, and then you're getting basically a card
for things to try with the Amazon Echo Dot. Now under that of course is going to
be our power or our AC adapter here. So what I'll tell you about this new
device from Amazon, the power adapter is quite long actually. I'm going to put it
around five feet here, it's definitely my wingspan, and on top of that this is a
single connector that goes into the back of the Amazon Echo Dot. You can see it
right there, there's a second connector there, and that's going to be the same
3.5 millimeter connector that we've always had. So I've just gone ahead and
plugged in the Amazon Echo Dot. I'll let it go through its short boot up process
here. "Hello. Your new device is ready for setup. Just download the Alexa app and follow
the instructions." *French startup message as well*
All right now,
here in Canada, you just heard it, it went through English and French, and
that is relatively important here in Canada, so that was a nice little touch
that Amazon did there for those of us in Canada. All right now I have my Amazon
Echo Dot sitting here, it's ready to go with its connection process, you can see
the little orange ring going, so I'm going to go into the Amazon Alexa app,
and what's amazing about this latest process, or this latest setup process that
Amazon has created, is when I ordered this through my Amazon account, before it
showed up on my doorstep, I had this inside the Alexa app. So that's quite the
setup process, so now inside the Alexa app, you can see I'm going to go into the
devices section, or the home control section of the Alexa app, so from the
devices screen here, there's a couple of different methods you can go to get
through the setup process. The first one is in the top left, you can see Echo and
Alexa, I can tap on that icon and go into a setup process there, because as I said,
Amazon's already added this device to this application. The other method is
here top right, I can click that plus, and add a device down here, so I'm just going
to go in through the other method you could see right there, just hit add a
device and it starts the same process, but here's my Echo Dot, which I just
ordered, it's shown up in the app, and I can just tap on that and now I'm in the
device settings, and if I simply tap change here next to the Wi-Fi network, we
start the setup process on this Echo Dot. So now they're just saying, let's go
ahead, get you connected to Wi-Fi, make sure the orange light is here, tap
continue again, and now they want you to connect your iPhone to the Echo Dot. So
what they're telling you is to go to the Wi-Fi settings on this iPhone and select
Amazon - QBK network. So you're going to see that actually on Wi-Fi when you're
looking for Wi-Fi networks to connect to here. So I'm just gonna skip over there,
we're gonna go into settings on my iPhone,
very similar process on an Android device, go into Wi-Fi here, and now you
can see that Amazon - qbk is right there. So I'm going to tap on that. "You've
connected. Now go back to the Alexa app." So now I'm just gonna skip back and as soon
as I skip back, it moves us along here in the process. So I'm tapping continue to
continue this setup process, again I really haven't done anything as of yet,
but you can see I have a previously saved to Amazon a Wi-Fi network, so
because I have these other devices in my home, and I've chosen to save those
credentials, there's that Wi-Fi network. If I didn't have it, I just simply have
to tap on one of these other networks and go ahead, and put in my credentials.
Regardless, I'm going to tap on that account, and now it's just preparing the
Echo Dot for connection to my Wi-Fi network.
Your device is ready. So there you go that's it, that's the entire setup
process right there. Amazon really meant it when they said that this was a simple
setup process. Now so just tapping continue cause my echo dot is online. It's
ready to use, I can go ahead and start using this device right now, so now that
I have my Echo Dot all set up here, I could go ahead, I can add it to groups,
obviously you can go ahead and add it to music, and continue down the process of
putting more and more into this device, but this was a simple set up process. I
just wanted to show you the bare-bones of getting this device set up in your
home, and how easy it is here, and just what you get with the device as well. So
there you have it everyone, thanks for watching, we'll see you next time.