Amazon Alexa App on W10?

My daughter gave me a full-size Echo (not the Dot) for Xmas, and she
activated Alexa on it, using my Samsung Galaxy Tab4 Android tablet.
I thought to try to link it to my W10 PC. The latter is not wireless
as it is Cat5-connected to my router, which is otherwise wireless. I
cannot find a W10-compatible download to do the job.

Has anyone done this and can tell me what to do? I read a post that
said Amazon Alexa won't talk to W10. Hmmm.
Thanks
JW

On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:28:34 -0500, "BurfordTJustice"
wrote:

Why do you knowing want active spyware on your items?



Good point. I didn't think of that. I guess I shud only use the Echo
to link with my tablet. But then, I think I saw an indication that
my tablet version was not compatible with Alexa. I hope that's not
true.
Thanks
JW

wrote:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:28:34 -0500, "BurfordTJustice"
wrote:

Why do you knowing want active spyware on your items?



Good point. I didn't think of that. I guess I shud only use the Echo
to link with my tablet. But then, I think I saw an indication that
my tablet version was not compatible with Alexa. I hope that's not
true.

Not your tablet, but your tablet's version of Android is too old.

The problem is to do the initial setup of the device to link it to your
WiFi you must first connect to the WiFi network the device creates in
order to change the settings. A bit of a 'Catch 22' here.

If you do not have a suitable Android device the simplest solution is
just get one of those cheap USB WiFi adapters...you only need it to link
to the Echo's initial WiFi network. Once you set set it up and get it to
link to the wireless of your LAN you can manage it via a web browser on
your desktop at the alexia.amazon.com URL.


--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

wrote:
My daughter gave me a full-size Echo (not the Dot) for Xmas, and she
activated Alexa on it, using my Samsung Galaxy Tab4 Android tablet.
I thought to try to link it to my W10 PC. The latter is not wireless
as it is Cat5-connected to my router, which is otherwise wireless. I
cannot find a W10-compatible download to do the job.

Has anyone done this and can tell me what to do? I read a post that
said Amazon Alexa won't talk to W10. Hmmm.
Thanks
JW

If you're on Windows 10, why not go to the Store and do
a search on Alexa ?

That's what you're supposed to do, fill Microsofts pockets with money.
If a Store application is purchased, Microsoft gets 30% of the
purchase price to keep. The developer gets the remaining 70%.
If a Store application is free, Microsoft gets nothing.

Paul

On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:03:07 -0500, "Jonathan N. Little"
wrote:

wrote:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:28:34 -0500, "BurfordTJustice"
wrote:

Why do you knowing want active spyware on your items?



Good point. I didn't think of that. I guess I shud only use the Echo
to link with my tablet. But then, I think I saw an indication that
my tablet version was not compatible with Alexa. I hope that's not
true.

Not your tablet, but your tablet's version of Android is too old.

The problem is to do the initial setup of the device to link it to your
WiFi you must first connect to the WiFi network the device creates in
order to change the settings. A bit of a 'Catch 22' here.

If you do not have a suitable Android device the simplest solution is
just get one of those cheap USB WiFi adapters...you only need it to link
to the Echo's initial WiFi network. Once you set set it up and get it to
link to the wireless of your LAN you can manage it via a web browser on
your desktop at the alexia.amazon.com URL.

What web browser? My Edge and IE won't seem to work. I tried them.
JW

On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:12:49 -0500, Paul
wrote:

wrote:
My daughter gave me a full-size Echo (not the Dot) for Xmas, and she
activated Alexa on it, using my Samsung Galaxy Tab4 Android tablet.
I thought to try to link it to my W10 PC. The latter is not wireless
as it is Cat5-connected to my router, which is otherwise wireless. I
cannot find a W10-compatible download to do the job.

Has anyone done this and can tell me what to do? I read a post that
said Amazon Alexa won't talk to W10. Hmmm.
Thanks
JW

If you're on Windows 10, why not go to the Store and do
a search on Alexa ?

That's what you're supposed to do, fill Microsofts pockets with money.
If a Store application is purchased, Microsoft gets 30% of the
purchase price to keep. The developer gets the remaining 70%.
If a Store application is free, Microsoft gets nothing.

Paul

Hi Paul.

I have not been able to reach my daughter today to ask her, but she
might've set up my Alexa Echo using her smart phone? She had to use
something. I wasn't here when she did what she did. Alexa is now
talking to me on my gift Echo, so she did something.

This much seems the case:
1) My in-home Verizon router is wired/wireless of course.
2) My W10 PC is connected to that router via cat5.
3) My W10 PC has no wireless adapter, just its on-board cat5
connector.
4) My w10 PC is using Edge, Internet Explorer, and Firefox, none of
which seem to allow access to alexa.amazon.com.
5) My Galaxy Tab4 Android OS may be too old to work with the Echo and
its Alexa. Doesn't seem to.
Thanks
JW

On 12/17/2017 12:52 PM, -= Hawk =- wrote:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:44:37 -0500, "BurfordTJustice"
scribbled:

Echo and Alexa are both Spyware.

Only for the delusional.

These voice devices send what you say* to a server THEY control. That
sounds like spyware, and regardless of "user agreements" THEY have the
information and CAN do what they want with it.

* Supposedly only after you say the "trigger phrase" (and until when?)
but doing otherwise IS possible.

--
8 days until the winter celebration (Monday December 25, 2017 12:00:00
AM for 1 day).

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Morality is moral only when it is voluntary."

On 17 Dec 2017, wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10:

My daughter gave me a full-size Echo (not the Dot) for Xmas, and
she activated Alexa on it, using my Samsung Galaxy Tab4 Android
tablet. I thought to try to link it to my W10 PC. The latter is
not wireless as it is Cat5-connected to my router, which is
otherwise wireless. I cannot find a W10-compatible download to do
the job.

Has anyone done this and can tell me what to do? I read a post
that said Amazon Alexa won't talk to W10. Hmmm.

Amazon says, "The Alexa app is available on mobile devices with:

Fire OS 3.0 or higher
Android 5.0 or higher
iOS 9.0 or higher

"You can also go to https://alexa.amazon.com from Safari, Chrome,
Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Internet Explorer (10 or higher) on your
Wi-Fi enabled computer."

In other words, there is no "app" for Windows, but if you can't or
don't want to use your phone or tablet, you can connect with a web
browser on a Windows or Apple computer. It should work on Windows 10,
though I haven't tried it myself.

On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 15:54:58 -0500, Nil
wrote:

On 17 Dec 2017, wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10:

My daughter gave me a full-size Echo (not the Dot) for Xmas, and
she activated Alexa on it, using my Samsung Galaxy Tab4 Android
tablet. I thought to try to link it to my W10 PC. The latter is
not wireless as it is Cat5-connected to my router, which is
otherwise wireless. I cannot find a W10-compatible download to do
the job.

Has anyone done this and can tell me what to do? I read a post
that said Amazon Alexa won't talk to W10. Hmmm.

Amazon says, "The Alexa app is available on mobile devices with:

Fire OS 3.0 or higher
Android 5.0 or higher
iOS 9.0 or higher

"You can also go to https://alexa.amazon.com from Safari, Chrome,
Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Internet Explorer (10 or higher) on your
Wi-Fi enabled computer."

My tablet has Android 5.1.1. My W10 PC has no wireless.
So I guess I willl have to forget getting the Echo and its Alexa to
work wiith my W10.

As I said, I thought to create a shopping list using Alexa, which I
tried with only a few items, But I wud want it to show on the tablet
which I could hand-carry into the store, So far, I don't see same.
I'll try further.
Thanks
JW
JW


In other words, there is no "app" for Windows, but if you can't or
don't want to use your phone or tablet, you can connect with a web
browser on a Windows or Apple computer. It should work on Windows 10,
though I haven't tried it myself.

wrote:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:03:07 -0500, "Jonathan N. Little"
wrote:

snip

The problem is to do the initial setup of the device to link it to your
WiFi you must first connect to the WiFi network the device creates in
order to change the settings. A bit of a 'Catch 22' here.

If you do not have a suitable Android device the simplest solution is
just get one of those cheap USB WiFi adapters...you only need it to link
to the Echo's initial WiFi network. Once you set set it up and get it to
link to the wireless of your LAN you can manage it via a web browser on
your desktop at the alexia.amazon.com URL.

What web browser? My Edge and IE won't seem to work. I tried them.
JW


Any. Just setup for a guy Windows 10 with Firefox. His Note Tab2 was too
old, but his HP desktop has a WiFi adapter. You need to have a WiFi
card/device in your PC to *start* the process...

When you first turn on the device it will broadcaster an SSID. You then
connect directly to the device via that connection. Then you can
configure it to your LAN's SSID and password. Once it is configured to
be on your local LAN you can then manage it be managed by signing into
your Amazon account (I got the URL wrong) alexa.amazon.com


https://www.windowscentral.com/using-amazon-echo-windows-10

In fact I ma pretty sure you would not have have Windows at all, could
have done it in Ubuntu... You just have to have WiFi on your machine to
start the process. I don't have|nor would have an Alexa. But I do have a
Chromecast and can set it up in the same manner with my laptop running
Ubuntu 16.04.

--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Paul wrote:

If a Store application is purchased, Microsoft gets 30% of the
purchase price to keep. The developer gets the remaining 70%. If a
Store application is free, Microsoft gets nothing.

Microsoft gets the annually renewed subscription cost from the author.
Everyone has to pay to advertize/sell/distribute on Microsoft's store.
Microsoft gets money whether the author does or not. Google charges a
one-time fee. Microsoft charges every year.

wrote:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:12:49 -0500, Paul
wrote:

wrote:
My daughter gave me a full-size Echo (not the Dot) for Xmas, and she
activated Alexa on it, using my Samsung Galaxy Tab4 Android tablet.
I thought to try to link it to my W10 PC. The latter is not wireless
as it is Cat5-connected to my router, which is otherwise wireless. I
cannot find a W10-compatible download to do the job.

Has anyone done this and can tell me what to do? I read a post that
said Amazon Alexa won't talk to W10. Hmmm.
Thanks
JW

If you're on Windows 10, why not go to the Store and do
a search on Alexa ?

That's what you're supposed to do, fill Microsofts pockets with money.
If a Store application is purchased, Microsoft gets 30% of the
purchase price to keep. The developer gets the remaining 70%.
If a Store application is free, Microsoft gets nothing.

Paul

Hi Paul.

I have not been able to reach my daughter today to ask her, but she
might've set up my Alexa Echo using her smart phone? She had to use
something. I wasn't here when she did what she did. Alexa is now
talking to me on my gift Echo, so she did something.

This much seems the case:
1) My in-home Verizon router is wired/wireless of course.
2) My W10 PC is connected to that router via cat5.
3) My W10 PC has no wireless adapter, just its on-board cat5
connector.

This is where you problem is. As I said you FIRST need something with a
wifi adapter to START the process because the Echo doe not have an
Ethernet jack. You have to configure it first on its "startup SSID" to
give it the settings for your LAN's (Verizon router) WiFi. Once done you
can talk to it via alexa.amazon.com with any modern browser. But you
MUST to that initial setup first. That is why I said a cheap $30 WiFi
USB adapter would work.



--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Wayne wrote:

Nil wrote:

Wayne wrote:

My daughter gave me a full-size Echo (not the Dot) for Xmas, and
she activated Alexa on it, using my Samsung Galaxy Tab4 Android
tablet. I thought to try to link it to my W10 PC. The latter is
not wireless as it is Cat5-connected to my router, which is
otherwise wireless. I cannot find a W10-compatible download to do
the job.

Has anyone done this and can tell me what to do? I read a post
that said Amazon Alexa won't talk to W10. Hmmm.

Amazon says, "The Alexa app is available on mobile devices with:

Fire OS 3.0 or higher
Android 5.0 or higher
iOS 9.0 or higher

"You can also go to https://alexa.amazon.com from Safari, Chrome,
Firefox, Microsoft Edge, or Internet Explorer (10 or higher) on your
Wi-Fi enabled computer."

My tablet has Android 5.1.1. My W10 PC has no wireless.
So I guess I willl have to forget getting the Echo and its Alexa to
work wiith my W10.

As I said, I thought to create a shopping list using Alexa, which I
tried with only a few items, But I wud want it to show on the tablet
which I could hand-carry into the store, So far, I don't see same.
I'll try further.

You can run Android apps on Windows.

https://www.extremetech.com/computin...r-windows-pc-2

Google's Android emulator
BlueStacks
or Remix OS (or other Android image) ran inside a virtual machine (VM)

http://www.osboxes.org/android-x86/

You could use VirtualBox or VMWare Player as the VMM (virtual machine
manager) and run Android as a guest OS. Everything runs slower in a VM
but doesn't sound like you want to play video games or do video editing.

wrote:
My tablet has Android 5.1.1. My W10 PC has no wireless.
So I guess I willl have to forget getting the Echo and its Alexa to
work wiith my W10.


Here $9 for Christ sake

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Buy it, plug it in, turn on and hold the button on your Echo per
instructions, look for the Echo's SSID to show up in the WiFi networks
in Windows, connect to it and configure away....

--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

Wayne wrote:

My W10 PC has no wireless.

Here $9 for Christ sake

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=details&O=&Q=&ap=y&c3api=1876%2C{creative}% 2C{keyword}&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI34v4x4GS2AIVFrXACh3T MQdiEAQYASABEgK-hvD_BwE&is=REG&m=Y&sku=884836

Eligible for free shipping on orders of over $49.

Buy it, plug it in, turn on and hold the button on your Echo per
instructions, look for the Echo's SSID to show up in the WiFi networks
in Windows, connect to it and configure away....

Under $4 at Newegg.com and with *free shipping*.

But does the OP really want to sacrifice 1 Gbps wired Ethernet that's
solid and more secure than 150 Mbps wireless?