Managing Multiple Amazon Echos Part 1: Basics

What happens when you have 2 or more Amazon Echos? Will they conflict with each other? Will they play the same song or different songs? How do timers, skills, shopping lists, to-do lists, and calendars function across 2 devices?

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[troye]

Was going to purchase another echo device, but was worried 😱 about having two Alexas in small home. These vids were a BIG HELP thanks Caroline😁

[mikewesthead]

Great video - Had to pause it though and switch off my Echo's mic as my Alexa got over-excited and started answering your questions!

[enniciasmith]

I Missed You So Much! When I Said That, I Meant I Had Never Watched Your Videos In A Long Time! I’m So Happy I’m Watching This!

[chasharper]

Caroline, Thank you so much for this Video. You are a Lifesaver I just bought one for my wife for a gift and need a 2nd for bedroom. Her alarm went off in kitchen lol. This will save me it showed me to use 2 together. Your answers and in depth coverage helps more than you know. Bless you.

[daluvofnikki]

I bought 4 and gave two of them away as Christmas Gifts. Then I bought a 5th one as another gift for a family member. Oddly I have not seen this family member so I decied to keep it for myself. So last night I installed it in another room. I like to be able to speak to her and ask her to do things no matter where I am. I may purchase others down the road. I am waiting for Amazon to add more features. I do control my Lights and Security Cameras using IFTTT with Alexa. I love it.

[angelabitzan]

Hi Caroline, just watched your Part 1 video. Great tips! We currently have 3 Echo Dots - 1 in each of our kid's rooms (downstairs) and then one upstairs in our kitchen. The problem we are having is my boys will fall asleep listening to music on theirs, but then when our daughter goes to bed and turns on her meditation through her dot the music turns off in the boy's room. I've tried changing the wakeup names, but it still happens. Advice??
Also, is it possible to send an announcement from my upstairs dot to just ONE of the dots downstairs instead of it going to both??

[drewbrew]

Thanks for the help! i was considering getting a second Echo Dot but was worried about them conflicting with each other in my small apartment.
I also learned that i could mute Alexa for this video! 🤣

[JohnFleuriet]

I have two Alexa echo dots, when I tell one to play a song, they both play the same song and they are in different rooms. How can I get them to play separately and just one at a time if I choose

[AndreaMcCart]

Hi ... Love your videos. Thanks so much. My question is: can you syn 3 dots to play the same music at the same time?.

Andrea

[zacgrubble]

Your videos are just excellent! Thanks so much for all of them!

[shadoman]

I just got a second Echo dot and you answered the question that I needed to know. That was about the timers and alarms. I was hoping that setting a timer would be on all devices not just local to that device. Explains a lot. I hope they add the function to have timers and alarms everywhere. I have both devices in the same room at the moment and I wondered why they seemed to randomly answered me.

[transitvandoors]

New to these devices so appreciate your tips

[mister-Kayne]

Your video on managing multiple Alexa Devices was excellent, clarifying key points for new users like myself (planning two more devices). While support was helpful, your video filled knowledge gaps regarding wake words. Your clear explanations make complex topics user-friendly. Subscribed for future content! Your work is commendable, perhaps Amazon could collaborate with creators like you to bridge user knowledge gaps.

Having said that I believe amazon should also improve the accessibility for users of assistive technology like Voice Over on IOS Devices, currently it is very inconsistent. There is no ability to have a custom wake word for a specific device, you can name the device but I am not sure how it makes a difference functionaly. Here in India, we just have 2 voices for Alexa, Indian Male and Female that is such a limitation when IOS offers so much variety in the voices for their smart assistant i.e. Siri.


Once again thank you for this video; Have a good one!

[MrVeeBlog]

Information I need to have. Thanks Caroline.

[robertrichard]

Is there a way to have Alexa to play reminders over all devices at once?

[feyaia]

Ha! I was watching your video and when you asked Alexa a question, mine answered. Jinks! :-)

[dwcobb]

Thank you so much. We are buying a house and my dream is a Echo in the kitchen/living room and a Dot in a hobby and craft room and your first demo of not having both devices answer a command was a major question in my head. Thank you so much

[kiwicomposer]

You can have multiple gmail etc accounts on each echo and each one can be set or switched to different accounts so for example. My Office can be My account and I can get get schedules etc for my account. My partner can have a device in say the kitchen switched to her account and she can get her schedules on the device in the kitchen. This can happen at the same time t so the account l is local to the specific device while switched to that account.. And you can switch either echo to which account you like when you want. Both accounts are available on both devices but they can be switched separately and uniquely.

[richardrmagno]

can you adjust the volume for each zoned device or do they have to be set at the same volume?

[jakryk]

Of course, the main reason I bought a second Dot was so I could set a timer in the kitchen and have it go off in the family room. This is such an obvious use there should be some way to do this.