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If you have an Echo with a screen, like Echo Show, you need to set the brightness with touchscreen controls.
In short, the Echo Dot with Clock is everything you’d expect it to be and has the same pros and cons as before. You can also use voice commands like, "Set brightness to one,""Change brightness to maximum," and "Turn display off. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. That’s not ideal if you share a bed with someone, or have thin walls and neighbours who don’t appreciate your 3am Alexa chinwags. Adding a clock is a small change but a significant one, especially if you keep the Echo Dot in the bedroom as I do.
It’s a look that actually works well – it’s certainly a lot nicer than the plastic puck of the second and first generation Dots, only the former of which was released to the UK. Whether it’s Kindles, Fire Tablets or Echos, each new version brings small improvements that you weren’t aware you needed until they arrived.
The Echo Dot with Clock is a great example of this – far from an essential upgrade but very nice to have. Aside from the third and fourth-generation Echo Dots, the Echo Show and Echo Spot both have LED screens to display the time. Underneath that fabric is a segmented LED display capable of showing a digital clock and shows other things when required. That suggests that there’s a little more going on here than just the voice changes, but your mileage may vary.The former is handy for cooking, as the clock is replaced with a visual countdown when a timer is set. With other smart speakers, you have to ask how long is left every time you want to know, and obviously being able to see it at a glance is far more convenient. One other peculiarility: these Echo devices with the new voice suddenly stopped working with my Xiaomi smart bulbs. Given the iPhone it used to house – a 2009 iPhone 3GS – has long since departed, it only exists to tell the time.
Months after release, this still hasn’t arrived on any of the other Echos dotted around my house but hopefully they’ll change to match eventually. You can adjust the brightness on your Echo Dot clock with voice commands or through the Alexa app on your phone. One more thing I noticed with this and the new third-generation Echo: Alexa has a new, smoother sounding voice, closer to Google Assistant’s to my mind.Alexa still isn’t as good as Google Assistant but in terms of hardware, the Echo Dot comfortably beats the Google Home Mini, so until somebody puts Google Assistant in a dinky speaker with a 3. When using a voice command, you can set the brightness using a numerical value or turn the display off entirely. If you want to dim your Echo Dot clock display quickly, you can use the Alexa voice command “Alexa, change brightness to minimum. You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site.
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