With the development of applications and products with increasingly wireless use, alexa is born, as well as "Hey Siri". At the beginning in the development of digital environments we had to have products that were not very mobile and that were linked to a cable. With the more and more use of these products in our lives, it was no longer just one cable, but thousands.. That's why wireless devices like Alexa were born.
In this comfortable way we can manage all kinds of controls that are linked to it in our home, office or the environment that we choose. If you don't know what we're talking about when we say Alexa, it's probably because you don't have a device nearby yet, but we're going to explain it here. Connecting Alexa to your mobile phone is very simple and useful if you want to eliminate some daily tasks in your house by simply asking your new personal assistant.
What is Alexa?
PFor those who do not know what Alexa is about, it is a wireless voice system that is used to send, through your voice, actions that will be completed automatically. That is, having a device connected to the Internet, which you will have to add the rest of smart devices to the same network for it to work. In this way, Alexa recognizes through a criteria of words that you are referring to and she activates them without you having to leave your site.
To give a graphic example, if you have not yet entered this wireless system, we can ask Alexa for everything. If we want it to turn on the living room light, we can say "Alexa, turn on the living room light". And she will turn it on. For this to work, your lights must have an intelligent system that is connected to the network, it is not valid with traditional light. You can also make it turn on the television, set the alarm or do other types of tasks that are connected to the service.
But not only that, you can also ask for other functions internally. Since Alexa is connected to the Amazon service. And if you also have Amazon premium services, you can ask it to play certain songs, to tell you the current temperature of a certain city or to set a timer if you are making a cake in the oven. And even though you have to buy this device called the Echo to perform these functions, now you can add your phone to it so you never touch your phone again to, say, answer a call.
Connect via Bluetooth
You can buy this device directly on Amazon and it is a product in different sizes and prices that you can have in a few days. The price differs from one to the other depending on the size and some extra functions. Since this Echo device also has the function of a speaker. If you want a device where, in addition to all of the above mentioned, it can serve as a music speaker, perhaps you should take the largest size.
To connect our device via Bluetooth we must follow the following steps:
- You can go to your Echo, with the voice command «Alexa pair«
- Alexa will receive your request and he answers you with "Ready to pair» (If you don't get that answer, you have to wait)
- Now go to your mobile phone.
- Go to Settings > Bluetooth
- Once there look for the device Alexa EchoXXX or some similar name
- Click on it and wait for link.
- Once you have linked, Alexa will take care of telling you “linked device" or something similar.
Then you would have ready the connection via Bluetooth on your mobile phone in a simple and fast way. But if this way does not convince you, you can also do it through the application that we explain below in the next section.
Connect Alexa to your mobile phone
To connect your device through the mobile app you will need to have access to your app store whether it is an Android device or you had any other such as iOS or HarmonyOS. To do this we will perform the following steps:
- The first thing we have to do is go to our mobile and click on Play Store
- Once the store is open, we write Amazon Alexa and we give in Download.
- When it has been downloaded, we left Google Play y let's go to our application and we open
- Must accept access permissions and notifications for it to work properly
- Go back to activate bluetooth, this time you won't need to say anything to your device.
- At Alexa app, we go to the section of Devices
- Select option Echo and Alexa
- Te a list appears of devices. Find yours and click on it to link.
- You may get a message or have to head to bluetooth to give permission link, allow it.
- A short time later, the phone will indicate that it is correctly connected
Advantages of connecting Alexa to your phone
Like the previous devices mentioned such as light or televisionKeeping your mobile phone connected means being able to carry out the activities you have on it, without even touching it. By having it connected, Alexa has access to certain functions of the phone as you have indicated.
- play audio. If you have any audio you want to play from Alexa, you can ask Alexa to play it using a voice code. Without the need to unlock the phone or having to go to that function by touch.
- You won't need to use your fingers. Sometimes we have our hands full, such as cooking. In this way we can ask Alexa to perform certain functions on our smartphone without having to type anything on it.
- You can connect data such as time and hour Of the device.
- Bring the shopping list and add anything you're missing to that list with a voice command.
- You can know your exact location at a certain time through Alexa and save it if you need it.
- Make or answer calls without having to use your hands for it
- Send contacts to your friends through command like “Alexa, send this contact to Antonio Móvil”.