One of the most confounding moments after I got my first Amazon Echo Dot was when its light ring began pulsing yellow, signaling… well, what exactly? Indeed, Echo devices such as the standard Echo, ...

If your Alexa is blinking yellow, it means you have an unread message. If your Alexa is flashing green, it means you have an incoming call. Other colors (like blue, purple, orange, and red) indicate ...

Alexa makes it easy to connect to the smart lights in your home. As an example, we will walk step by step through connecting Philips Hue lights to your Alexa smart assistant. Philips Hue 2-Pack ...

Have you ever walked into your room to find your device flashing yellow? What about during a big thunderstorm, when your whole house loses power — when the electricity restores, a blue light starts ...

You can connect an Alexa device to smart lights in your house and set up context-aware lighting using the Alexa app. When you set up context-aware lighting, you can turn on all the lights in whatever ...

Deploying smart home technology is one of the more appealing promises of voice control systems like Alexa. It’s tempting (and maybe inevitable) to fall down a rabbit hole of complexity when you’re ...

In the weekly “What’s New With Alexa” email newsletter, Alexa owners can opt to receive an update of all the cool, useful, and sometimes irrelevant, ways that Alexa is growing up, so to speak. This ...

One of the most confounding moments after I got my first Amazon Echo Dot was when its light ring began pulsing yellow, signaling… well, what exactly? Luckily, deciphering the flashing lights on your ...