Jeff Bezos HATES Music! Some Funny Echo Song Requests – New Video

YouTube thumbnail showing me holding an Amazon Echo and the text Play DEPRESSING Adele music

Conspiracy theory: Jeff Bezos HATES music! Check out these (rude) song requests, and what Amazon Echo plays in response. Video Transcript Hello, I’m Tristan. I think I’ve uncovered a conspiracy theory. Jeff Bezos hates music. There, I said it! What am I talking about? Well, just listen to some of these song requests. Basically Amazon … Read more

How To Best Clean The Ring Solar Panel

A marketing image of the Ring Solar Panel

You need to keep your ring solar panel clean in order for it to be able to generate enough electricity to power your devices. A solar panel that’s covered in grime and debris can quickly start to lose its ability to generate electricity. However, what’s the best way to clean a solar panel? The best … Read more

Having A Dedicated Wi-Fi Network For Your Smart Home Tech

BT Smart Hub 2 showing connected 5 Ghz WiFi devices

Smart home devices are all about making our lives easier, but they could actually be making things more challenging by creating some problems with your home’s WiFi network. Your smart devices could be hoovering up bandwidth and creating cybersecurity problems without you even knowing it. This is why it’s so important to create a dedicated … Read more

Make YouTube Kid-Safe On The Amazon Echo Show (A Simple Tutorial Guide) – New Video

YouTube thumbnail showing me doing thumbs up sign with YouTube Kids enabled on an Amazon Echo Show

The Echo Show is a great touchscreen-enabled product from Amazon, but it also makes it a little bit too easy for children to freely surf YouTube – potentially accessing inappropriate videos. Therefore I went looking for makes on how to child-proof the YouTube installed on the Echo Show, and this video covers everything you need … Read more

Fixing Amazon Echo ‘Device Doesn’t Support That’ Errors

Groups in the Alexa app

Our Amazon Echos no doubt do a lot of awesome things. Sometimes, however, they don’t always work as they should. Error messages happen, and while sometimes they’re valid – sometimes they aren’t. Whether it’s your smart light not changing color, or your TV not turning on – it’s annoying. You ask Alexa to do something, … Read more

How To Make Your Amazon Echo’s Door Chime Louder

A new Echo Dot (sandstone color) in setup mode with an orange ring going around it.

Amazon Echo’s are great little devices, right? They play our music, give us traffic updates, and even introduce us to new recipes. If you have video doorbells, they can even let you know when someone is at the door. Of course, this feature is only useful if you can actually hear the doorbell notification. Sometimes … Read more

Your Ring Doorbell Button Has Cracked?! Is This An Easy Fix?

A partially cracked Ring Doorbell Pro button

So your Ring Doorbell Pro has a cracked button? This might just seem like an aesthetic problem, but that crack is only going to get bigger and it will eventually let water into your Ring Doorbell which spells disaster. The good news is that this is actually fairly easy to fix. The Ring Doorbell Pro … Read more

Are Your Ring Motion Schedules Not Working? Here’s What To Do

A screenshot of a motion schedule from the Ring app

If you own Ring smart home cameras, you know that one of their most attractive features is customizability. You have the ability to configure your cameras to work the way you want them to. One such option is the ability to create motion schedules.  These are convenient because you can cater them to when you … Read more

How To Disable YouTube & Enable YouTube Kids On Echo Shows

Removing the YouTube bookmark on an Amazon Echo Show device

The touchscreen-enabled Amazon Echos (the Echo Shows) are really useful devices, giving easy access to smart home management, playing music – and YouTube. You can just say “Alexa, open YouTube” and you have instant access to over a billion videos. Awesome. Unless, of course, you sometimes put YouTube on for your children – and they … Read more

Your Amazon Echo Show Has A Solid Orange Bar? How To Fix This

An Echo Show 8 with an orange line showing a connection error

It’s always tough when a new error light pops up on your favorite device. However, it gets even tougher when there is conflicting information about how to fix the problem. Let’s settle once and for all how you can fix the orange bar on an Amazon Echo Show. The solid orange bar on your Amazon … Read more