Turning off the microphone.
How do you turn off lights with alexa.
If you just want to know what it is ask alexa on your echo if you have any.
With inexpensive hardware you can get alexa to turn individual or groups of lights on and off and by using routines you can make them turn on automatically at set times.
How to turn off yellow ring notifications on echo.
Click on the microphone button on the bottom of the alexa device.
When you do step 1 both that button as well as the indicator ring running around the outside of the device will glow red.
Once the correct night light skill is enabled all you have to do to use it is say alexa open night light the light ring pulse between cyan and royal blue for several minutes.
Here is how to do it.
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The perfect pairing for your smart home lighting setup using alexa is an echo speaker and lifx smart lights.
Alexa can turn on the exact lights you want just by saying turn on the lights.
If you find the light rings on your amazon echo distracting you can now easily turn them off following the instructions above.
The amazon echo dot has a single button you can push to turn off the microphone and also get alexa to stop listening.
Choose your amazon echo from the list of devices.
Now your new light group will be available as a tile directly from the devices tab of the alexa app and you can ask alexa to turn on the lounge or whatever you decided to name your new group.
Lt s great to have a light bulb that you can ask alexa to turn on and off.
This is super easy to setup.
Ok so let s start with getting rid of those yellow rings.
The process of turning off the microphone is very similar.
Alexa knows what lights to turn on based on the amazon echo device you are asking.
Tap on settings followed by device settings.
You don t have to specify the light that you want to turn on.
The little cousin to the echo the amazon echo dot is a short smart speaker is a streamlined version of the bigger echo.
Alexa lights on alexa lights off alexa dim main lights to 50 set the light to blue set the light to soft white make the light warmer cooler alexa set the temperature to 21.
Start the alexa app on your device.
Here s some ideas to get you started.
Select do not disturb and enable it.
So you have your home lighting cameras plugs and more set up with alexa and your scenes and groups too.