10 Amazon Echo Setup Tips: How to Set it Up Like a Pro

From the house of Amazon, comes the smart speaker known as Echo. It is powered by Amazon’s own personal assistant service called Alexa. It is similar to Google Assistant and Apple Siri. Think of Alexa trapped in a speaker and that’s your Amazon Echo.

You can use Echo to play music and get information like weather, traffic updates, to-dos, news etc. Now to do all this, you have to setup your Echo device first. If you recently purchased your Amazon speaker, in this post, we will tell you some tips to set up your Echo device like a pro.

Let’s dive in.

1. SETUP AMAZON ECHO PROPERLY

If you have successfully setup your Echo device, you can directly jump to next points. However, if you are facing an issue while trying to setup the Echo device and the Alexa app on your Wi-Fi, we have done a detailed guide on how to fix the Echo Wi-Fi issue, check it here.

2. CHANGE ECHO TIME ZONE

After setting up Echo, if you ask her What’s the time or What’s up, she is going to say the wrong time. Well, that's because most Echo devices are set to the US time zone. You have to manually change the time zone. Once you change the time zone, Echo will automatically set the correct time itself.

To change time zone and time of your Echo device, follow the steps:

Step 1: Open the Alexa app on your phone. You can also open the Alexa website. In case you haven’t installed the app yet, you can download it from links given below.

Step 2: In the Alexa app, tap the Settings icon on the bottom bar. Then tap on your Echo device.

Step 3: Scroll down and look for the Device time zone option. Set your region and time zone in the Region and Time standard options.

3. CHANGE ECHO DEVICE LOCATION

Usually, Amazon Echo's location is set to Seattle. If you ask for the weather or current location, Echo will say Seattle. To change the default location of your Echo device to any other country like India, Canada etc, follow the steps:

Step 1: Open the Alexa app and tap the Settings icon. Then, tap on your Echo device.

Step 2: Under your Echo device settings, look for Device location. Tap the Edit button next to Add a street address option. Enter your location.

4. SET TEMPERATURE UNIT

Now that you have set up your device location, you would want to change the temperature unit. By default, Alexa uses Celsius measurement. 

If you want to change it to Fahrenheit, open the Alexa settings and go to your Echo device Settings. Then turn the toggle off for Temperature Units under the Measurement Units option.

ALEXA, WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Now that you have setup Alexa like a pro, it's time to use Alexa properly. Here are some essential Alexa skills that every Echo user must know.