How to Setup Amazon Echo Dot with Clock

There may be times when you are wondering how to set up your Amazon Echo Dot with Clock if you have received one as a gift or you have purchased one for yourself. You won’t notice too much difference between it and the standard Amazon Echo Dot, because it’s pretty much the same. It is also important to note that the LED display added to this system supports certain settings you might not be aware of.

This article goes over how to set up Amazon’s Echo Dot with Clock, as well as the basic features that make it smarter than the display-less Echo devices that we would also consider among the best Alexa devices.

A Guide to Setting Up the Echo Dot with Clock

Step 1: Power on your Echo Dot by plugging it into the wall. There will be an orange light at the top of the device when it is ready for connection. It will turn on when it is ready to connect. The following is a guide that explains what all the different colors of the Alexa light mean. As soon as the Alexa app is downloaded to your preferred mobile device, go to your home Wi-Fi network and connect to it to begin setting up your Alexa device.

Step 2:  The Alexa app is available on the App Store and Google Play. Select the devices to list on the bottom bar of the app > choose the ‘+’ icon in the upper right corner > Add the device > Amazon Echo > Echo Dot > 4th Generation.amazon 

Step 3: Click on ‘Yes’ if you would like to find your Echo Dot with Clock by using the search function. From the list of available devices, choose the Echo Dot from the drop-down menu. Even if there’s a number after the word, it won’t matter to the setup process because the number won’t affect anything.

Step 4: For the Echo Dot with Clock to connect to your home’s Wi-Fi network, you have to enter your Wi-Fi credentials.

Step 5. Once you have completed the setup process, you can customize your Echo Dot to have a clock installed on it.  There are several ways for you to customize the software, such as renaming the smart speaker, defining the location, making it understand your voice, etc. You can check out our Amazon Alexa guide to get started with a new Echo device by checking out our guide to Alexa.

What’s the Echo Dot with Clock capable of?

• Alarms and timers are useful tools.
• You can set the time according to your preference (24-hour clock or 12-hour clock).
• The temperature outside is currently 23 degrees.
• The volume, the equalizer, and the brightness of the display have been changed.
• Titles of songs should be displayed when tracks begin to play.
• Solve math equations using the appropriate formulas.

A guide to controlling Echo Dot’s clock display

You can say the following things directly to your Echo Dot to make it respond to the display on the clock:

• “Alexa, you need to turn the display on or off.”
• “Siri, turn on/off the clock by using Alexa.”
• “Alexa, please change the clock format from 12-hour to 24-hour format.”
• “Alexa has set the brightness on the TV to 10.”
• “Hey Alexa, change the brightness of the room to the minimum.”
• “Thank you Alexa for setting the timer.”
• “Alexa, what do you mean by 9 x 4?”

If your Echo Dot becomes unresponsive, you can find instructions on how to reset your Dot if things go wrong.