Smart Life Echo To Control Smart Devices App User Guide
- June 16, 2024
- Smart Life
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Smart Life Echo To Control Smart Devices App
What you need to get started
Before using Echo to control your smart devices, make sure you meet the following conditions.
- Stable Wi-Fi network which could access to Amazon server. (For mainland China users)
- An Echo device, including Echo, Echo Tap, or Echo Dot.
- An Amazon account. (If you don’t have one, sign up first )o
- Smartlife-SmartHome app and a related account.
- Make sure there’s at least one device under your Smartlife-SmartHome account, and the device’s name could be easily recognized by Echo.
Add devices in Smartlife-SmartHome (Refer to App Instruction)
You can skip this part if you’ve already add some devices to your SmartLife- SmartHome account, and in the meantime the devices’ name are easily recognized.
Download Smartlife-SmartHome (Refer to App Instruction)
You can scan the QR code below to download the Smartlife-SmartHome app:
You can also search “Smartlife-SmartHome” in either App Store or Google Play
to install the app.
SmartLife-SmartHome
Register a Smartlife-SmartHome account and sign in the app (Refer to App Instruction)
Open the Smartlife-SmartHome app, tap “Register” to register an account, then sign in the app.
Add device and change device’s name (Refer to App Instruction)
Sign in with the Smartlife-SmartHome account, add the device, then change device name to a easily recognized word or phrase, like” Air conditioner or Dehumidifier”.
Setup Amazon Echo and enable Smartlife-SmartHome Skill
- We suggest using web for configuration in mainland China since Alexa app is not available here.
- User can configure Echo through web or Alexa app.
- Web configuration link: http://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html
- Download Alexa app: Alexa Alexa
- iOS version download: App Store
- Android version download: Google Play
- We take app configuration as an example. Configuration through web and app are basically the same.
Set up Echo with Alexa app
You can skip this part if your Echo is already set up.
- Make sure your Echo device is energized.
- Make sure there’s a stable Wi-Fi network which could access to Amazon server.
- Follow the Alexa App guider to set up Echo with Alexa **Fig 01
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Link Smartlife-SmartHome account to Echo
- Tap “Skills” in the hamburger menu, then search “Smartlife-SmartHome “. Select “Smartlife-SmartHome” and tap “ENABLE” to enable the Skill. **(Fig.02)
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- You will be redirected to the account link page. Type in your Smart Life account and password, don’t forget to select the country/region where your account belongs to. Then tap “Link Now” to link your Smartlife-SmartHome account. The country/region, the account, and the password must match with the exact content in Step 2.2 when you registered the account. When “Alexa has been successfully linked with Smart Life” shows up, tap K on the top left corner. **(Fig.03)
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Control your smart devices through Echo
Discover devices
Echo needs to discover your smart devices before it controls them. You can say
“Alexa, discover devices” to Echo. Echo will discover devices which have
already been added in the Smart Life app.
You can also tap “DISCOVER” to discover the smart devices. Discovered devices
will be shown in the list. (Fig.04)
Note: every time you change the device’s name on Smart Life app, Echo must re-discover before you control them.
VOICE COMMAND FUNCTION| Example
If the device name is “HOME PAC”| Note
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TURN ON| “Alexa, turn on
TURN OFF| “Alexa, turn off
SET MODE| “Alexa, set
SET MODE| “Alexa, set
SET TEMP.| “Alexa, set the
You can also set up groups in Alexa app. Tap “CREATE GROUP”, give your group a name like “my smart lights”, select devices to add them in this group, then tap “SAVE”. ( Fig. 05 )
Now you can control your devices by group. Try saying “Alexa, turn on my Air conditioner”, all the Air conditioner are turned on!