10 of the best things you can do with the Amazon Echo

Got another Alexa speaker? Or on the other hand considering getting one - like the Amazon Echo Plus ($150 at Walmart), or Echo Input ($20, best case scenario Buy)?

Smart Speaker with Alexa

There's a ton these brilliant speakers can do - to such an extent that it can feel overpowering to make sense of where to begin. As opposed to burrow around the Alexa application searching for highlights, look at the 10 best tips and deceives to kick you off.

Understand more: The best Alexa directions for exercise, better rest and stress help.

1. Alexa Make telephone calls (fundamentally, landline calls)

Exactly when you thought house telephones were dead, Amazon brings them back. Alexa would now be able to be utilized to make calls to other Alexa gadgets in different houses. What's more, similar to the replying mail of the '90s and '00s, you can even leave a message.

Simply note that any individual who has your number can call your Alexa speaker, yet you can square undesirable approaching calls.

I happen to believe it's a great and welcome element, if my folks don't utilize it to monitor me time and again...

2. Akexa Control your savvy home

Controlling your lights, entryway locks, apparatuses, switches and other savvy home gadgets is most likely what Alexa is best at doing. You can peruse the brilliant home similarity instrument to perceive what Alexa works with, yet here are a few plans to kick you off:

Control your lights. You can ask Alexa to turn lights on or off. She'll even change the shading if the lights are shading evolving.

Open or close your carport entryway. Keen carport entryway openers like Garageio work with Alexa.

Change the temperature. "Hello Alexa, set the temperature to 68." Honeywell, Nest and Ecobee are only a couple of indoor regulators that work with Alexa.

3. Alexa Get cooking thoughts and tips

No, Alexa can't really cook for you (yet), however she certainly makes cooking simpler and less unpleasant. I for one keep Alexa in the kitchen to accomplish things like:

Get transformations. "Alexa, what number of tablespoons in a quarter-cup?"

Request plans. Alexa can get plans from AllRecipes. She can likewise be utilized to pursue plans bit by bit on your iPad with GoodNes.

Play music. "Hello Alexa, play some smooth jazz." Because cooking is increasingly fun with music!

Control a sous vide machine. On the off chance that you cook sous vide, you can ask Alexa to set the temperature.

Set a clock. You can set numerous clocks and approach her for time remaining.

Here's our more drawn out rundown of everything Alexa can do in the kitchen

4. Alexa Get the news

As you prepare for work or show up home in the wake of a difficult day, Alexa can tell you what's going on the planet. This is called your Flash Briefing and can be redone to incorporate the news sources you need to get notification from. What's that you state? You need to hear CNET News? No issue .

5. Alexa Engage your children for a considerable length of time

In reality, increasingly like, "let your children engage themselves." Alexa is loaded with games, Easter eggs, senseless responses to senseless inquiries and substantially more. Here are a few different ways Alexa can keep your children occupied:

Mess around. This guide incorporates a couple of our preferred Amazon Echo ($70 at Amazon) games.

Discover Easter eggs. Alexa cherishes a decent inside joke.

Set clocks and play music. Children will rapidly figure out how to converse with Alexa and can approach her for clocks, music and arbitrary incidental data.

6. Alexa Find out about more highlights

On the off chance that Alexa can't accomplish something out of the case, there's most likely a Skill for it. There are such a significant number of Skills, truth be told, that Amazon made something many refer to as a Skill Finder, which you can use to, um, discover Skills. Dispatch it by saying, "Alexa, open Skill Finder" or "Alexa, reveal to Skill Finder to give me the aptitude of the day."

7. Alexa Get fit (or attempt to)

While you can't take Alexa to the exercise center (except if you have a Tap, obviously), you can get her to give you wellness criticism and direction. Here are a few different ways she can enable you to get solid:

Mind your FitBit details. When you synchronize your FitBit with Alexa, there are numerous things you can ask, as, "Alexa, ask FitBit how I'm doing today."

Get nourishment data. "Alexa, what number of calories in a banana?"

Do an exercise. In the wake of empowering the 7 Minute Workout expertise, simply state, "Alexa, Start 7 Minute Workout."

8. Alexa Control your TV

Disregard burrowing around for the remote - Alexa can control your TV for the most part by voice. The arrangement takes a touch of time (and cash), yet once you're set up, you can make statements like:

Alexa, turn on the TV.

Alexa, turn on Netflix.

Alexa, advise Harmony to stop

9. Alexa Use Spotify to play music

As a matter of course, Alexa plays music through Amazon Music, in light of the fact that clearly. Yet, in the event that you use Spotify, you can change this setting so that Alexa utilizes Spotify as the default player. Here's the secret.

Alexa has progressively worked in highlights for Amazon Music, be that as it may. For instance, you can approach Alexa for the melody of the day, and she'll play it for you.

10. Alexa Train Alexa to do for all intents and purposes whatever else

Alexa can't converse with each gadget or site - numerous organizations simply haven't jumped aboard yet. In like manner, not all highlights of upheld savvy home gadgets can be controlled with Alexa. In any case, there is a workaround that gives you a chance to associate Alexa to unsupported gadgets, applications and sites. It's called IFTTT.

Along these lines, for instance, you can utilize IFTTT to make a "rule" that changes your lights' shading when your clock is up. That is not something you can just ask Alexa to do - you need to program it through IFTTT. In case you're prepared to dive in, here are our most loved Alexa IFTTT plans.