The instructions that come with the Philips Hue White Lights Starter Kit are short and sweet, making it look easy to get into automated home lighting. But if you want to control your Philips Hue lights with Amazon Echo, aka Alexa, it’s not quite that easy. It took me a while to figure it out, in fact. Plus, you will need to repeat part of the process every time you add a new … [Read more...]
Video – What Can Amazon Echo Do?
Amazon Echo is currently the number 1 bestselling high tech gadget on Amazon - but most people are still asking, "What Can Amazon Echo Do?" This post explains some of the amazing things that Amazon Echo can do. As soon as we got our Amazon Echo, we loved it. It makes a whole lot of things easier to do, and is a great addition to an ultra-modern home. Basically, Amazon … [Read more...]
Video – How to Set up the Amazon Echo on a Browser
How to Set up the Amazon Echo on a Browser It is really quite easy to set up an Amazon Echo on a browser. On a scale of one to ten, where one is opening a can of beer and ten is assembling a double bed from Ikea, setting up an Amazon Echo is about a two. We had few problems. Below is my video of how to set up the Amazon Echo on a browser. … [Read more...]
Best Cheap High Tech Gift: The Echo Dot
We highly recommend the Echo Dot as the best CHEAP high tech gift, for this and any other season. They make great, affordable gifts for almost anyone, even those who are not very techie. Basically, the Echo Dot is a smaller-but-just-as-smart version of the immensely successful Amazon Echo (read our full review of the Amazon Echo here). The Echo Dot is a hands-free, … [Read more...]
Best High Tech Gift: The Amazon Echo
We highly recommend the Amazon Echo (and the cheaper alternative, the Amazon Dot) as the best high tech gifts, for this and any other season. They make great, affordable gifts for almost anyone, even those who are not very techie. Basically, Amazon Echo does not ask you to change anything you do – it just makes many things that you already do much easier to do, in your home. It … [Read more...]