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Old 12-07-2020, 11:17 AM   #4330
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Originally Posted by John F View Post
My first impressions of my new Echo 4...

Taking it out of the box, it looks larger than I thought it would. The setup was fairly simple, although the quick install instructions weren't very helpful: it said to open the app and follow the instructions but when I opened the app there were no messages/instructions.

No comments on audio quality, I haven't played this at louder sound levels.

In case this helps anyone... I added this to an existing group, and when I went to play music, it said something like "... the service is unavailable ..." (I don't recall the wording). I quickly called Amazon, and then found that in the group, audio was going to the Dot that was in the group (and the Dot was powered off).
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
I ran into something similar when I first installed the new Dot. I asked it to play music, and after she said "now playing..." just got silence. Turned out there is a new (to me) setting in the app to set the "default speaker" for a group, and the now-unplugged Echo 2 I was replacing was still the default.
Did Amazon give you guys a free 3 months of Prime Music with your new Echos? They used to do that, but I’m not sure if they still do.

I've encountered group default speaker settings too. I think that setting was added during an update a while back. I had to do internet searches to find what the issue was. IMO, groups and scenes are still flaky in their implementations, and they don't always play by the rules.
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