Simply say “ Alexa, pair“, to put the Echo into pairing mode. If you have a lot of music on iTunes, and you want to play that using the Amazon Echo, there is a very simple way to do this as well. You can do this for any song that is available on Spotify. Even better, you can simply ask Alexa to play a playlist for you, and it will happily oblige! Choose Spotify from the list, and log in with your Spotify account to start streaming music from your Amazon Echo. Then, just go to “ “, and click on the “ Music and Books” tab in the left menu.
You just have to sign up for a premium account on Spotify (it’s free for the first 30 days, and $9.99 per month after that). If you’re in a country where Spotify services are available, the set up is pretty simple. So, let’s get started with getting the Amazon Echo to stream music from our Spotify account. Unfortunately, only the premium membership works with the Echo. Spotify is a great music streaming service that provides both free and premium tiers for listening to music. So, let’s extend the Echo’s functionality a bit, shall we? Now that we have set up the basic functionality of the Amazon Echo to work for our location, we can ask Alexa to set alarms and reminders, and they will work flawlessly. Next, try saying “ Alexa, what’s my location?”Īlexa will reply with your location in terms of your distance from the center of the city you’re in.
Search for “timeZoneId” in the text editor where you pasted the curl command, and change that to whatever time zone you are in. Now, we can start editing it. The first thing you will need to change, is the “timeZoneId”.
Now that we have copied the request as curl, we can go ahead and start changing the fields to values that suit us. Follow the steps below to get your local timezone working on the Amazon Echo: Right click on it, and select “ Copy as curl“.
If you’re on an Android device, the process is even simpler, and you can follow our article on installing geo-restricted apps on an Android device, or just install the APK file.
You can follow our article on installing geo-restricted apps on the iPhone, or watch the embedded video. If you are on an iOS device, and you’re not jailbroken, don’t worry. Fortunately, there are simple workarounds to this problem.
The first hurdle that users will face while trying to get Echo set up outside the US is the fact that the Amazon Alexa app ( Android, iOS) is simply not available anywhere other than the US. Although, as of this writing, this method works perfectly fine, so you should be ok. So be cautious, and don’t blame me if you mess something up. Note: If Amazon changes anything, or if you don’t follow this method correctly, you might end up stopping your Echo from working at all. So if you’re in a country like UK, Australia or in India, you can use the methods we’re going to discuss below to get Amazon Echo working for your location. The process should be pretty much the same for other Alexa devices like Amazon Tap or Echo Dot. In this article we’ll discuss a couple of methods that can be used to make Amazon Echo usable outside of the US.