Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1372

Hello. Happy Sunday. It’s Teri here. It’s Sunday. And that means that we answer a question from the community.

This one comes from Carolyn H. from the Facebook group. As I always like to give the reminder, if you’re not part of our Facebook group, then please feel free to join it.

You just go to VoiceinCanada.ca/Community. That gets you right into the Facebook group. So here’s the question from Carolyn.

She is wondering how you can tell if all of your devices are on one network. So, why might this be an issue?

Is it if you do have two separate networks, or maybe more than that, and you need your devices to all be on one network?

How can you confirm that through your Alexa app? Well, there is no easy way to check if all of them are on the same network other than go through the devices.

It’s a little bit hard to exactly explain that because depending on how your device is connected to the Internet, whether it’s through an accompanying app, or whether it is directly to your Wi-Fi network, the options are going to be a little bit different.

But the general idea is this, you go into your Alexa app, you click on devices (Which you’re going to see at the bottom along the row of icons), then on the top (The easiest way to do this is to scroll as far as you can over to the left, and then you’re gonna see all devices)

Now you click on that, and you’ll see a list of every single device that you have that has been connected.

That is where you can see the Wi-Fi network that that particular device is attached to

Network Check For All Your Echo Devices

You click on a device, and depending on what type of device it is, again, and how it’s connected, you may have to take another step.

If you click on, for example, an Echo device, you will see a number of options. But if you scroll down to the bottom, you’ll see “Status” and it says “Wi-Fi Network” there.

And that is where you can see the Wi-Fi network that that particular device is attached to. If you want to change it, of course, you just click on that.

Now with some other devices, for example, in my case, I have some lights that are connected through the TP-Link app.

If I click on one of those lights, then I have to click on the gear icon in the top right corner. And then, you can see, it’ll tell you how it’s connected.

In my case, it says “Connected via TP-Link.” So, then I know that the setup was through, however, I set up my TP-Link app.

And in that case, I know I could go back into the app if I wanted to. It is set up through the particular network that corresponds to my Echo devices.

So I hope that’s helpful for you. I know that’s kind of a little bit of a complicated answer. But the bottom line is, is there an easy way to check to see if all the devices are in one network?

No, but there’s a workaround. You have to go into each individual device and check it out that way.

Okay. So, Carolyn, I hope that is helpful for you. And Cathie, thank you for providing the answer. Really appreciate that.

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Listen on your Echo Device! Easy as 1-2-3!

Voice in Canada Flash Briefing Icon1. Open your Alexa app and click on the Menu button > Settings > Flash Briefing.
2. Click on “Add Content” and search for “Voice in Canada”.
3. Click on “Voice in Canada” and the Enable button.

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