Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #791
Hello there, Dr. Teri Fisher here with your flash briefing for Sunday and on Sundays I like to answer questions from the community.
Now this is the question that I got through email and it’s from Michael East and it’s a fantastic question, a really, really common question and a really, really pertinent question given what’s going on right now with the whole social distancing thing.
So, he says this, this is his question, right? He says, “In order to keep in touch with my mother-in-law, we purchased two Echo Shows. ‘Okay, great.’ They’re all set up on my account and they communicate well in our house right now. Is it a simple matter of just dropping it off, dropping one unit off at the mother in law’s house and then getting it on her WiFi and we’re ready to go. Meaning we would simply say, call Omar from our home and we’ll connect to her.”
So here’s the deal with this question Michael, this is a great question.
So if I am understanding you correctly, when you say that they are set up on your account and they communicate well in your house, what I’m assuming you mean is that the Echo Show for you and for your mother-in-law are both under the same Amazon account.
Now, if that’s the case, when you bring it into her home and you set it up on her WiFi, my understanding is that it is still under your account, correct.
Make sure that you have enabled the communication settings and that’s done through the Alexa app.
So you’re not actually going to be calling her, what you’re going to be doing is you’re going to be dropping in because when you use the drop in feature, it’s like an intercom and it’s like it’s virtually in the same home because it’s in the same account and so you’re going to have to give that Echo show a name, whether it is Omar or whatever it is.
You’re going to then say, “drop in on Omar.” The other thing that you may have to do is you may have to make sure that you have enabled the communication settings and that’s done through the Alexa app on the communicate button at the bottom, and then you’ll see a drop in tab and it will allow you to choose which devices you are allowed to drop in on.
So you might want to set that up before you bring it over to her house.
I hope that makes sense, when you would use the call feature is if it’s somebody that you’re calling through a device through an Echo device, but you’re not on the same account, you’re calling an independent person.
So I hope that makes sense, please let me know if that doesn’t answer your question.
I hope that does help and if anybody else has any feedback on that, then feel free to join the discussion on Twitter.
Just use my Twitter handle and I will make sure to share out the information, my Twitter handle is DrTeriFisher.
Alright, thank you so much for that question again and take care, hope you’re having a great weekend.
Talk to you tomorrow
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