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Sometimes you just want to learn how to do something, and you want some good instructions for how to do it. Enter the WikiHow skill, which will give you video walkthroughs on how to do pretty much anything.

All you have to do is say something like, "Alexa, ask WikiHow how to tie my shoes" and you're off to the races. Netflix is on offer on the Show range, offering you the opportunity to watch popular TV shows and big budget movies like Project Power, The Irishman and Red Notice - on a 5, 8 or inch screen - just as the director intended. Security camera feeds also work with a lot of other smart home brands too. Still useful for screening time-wasting callers, though.

A bustling skill with everything from recipes to advice on getting stains out of your soft furnishings, you can say things like, "Alexa, ask Good Housekeeping what I should make for dinner tonight.

The screen helps with recipes, making it one of the better, well, housekeeping skills available. You can get your fix of trivia with multiple quiz skills. You can try saying " Alexa, open Brain Training - Odd One Out " for a host of visual challenges, which get trickier the longer the game goes on.

It can also be used by up to 4 players. If that's not enough, say " Alexa, enable Quick Fire Quiz ", which will fire trivia questions. There's loads to watch and do — and certainly a great alternative to attempting to watch serious TV on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

Exceptionally highly rated, Escape the Room is a clue-based challenge where you have to get out of a locked room within the time limit. The latest update means you can access hints. There are five levels to choose from, each ranging in difficulty. Start in the Jail Cell which is easiest ironically and make your way up to the car, which is hardest.

Go figure, and say: "Alexa, enable Escape The Room " to try it out. The Amazon-owned gaming streaming service obviously has a visual Alexa skill, which will help you follow your favourite players.

You can link your accounts from within Twitch to be notified when one of your followed players logs on. Users will get clues on screen and see the questions, which makes it just a little easier to play than carefully listening to Alexa. One of the most-used examples of why Alexa benefits from a screen is cooking — you can ask for a recipe and have it displayed in front of you. Echo Show users can also now get a complimentary one-year subscription to Food Network Kitchen, which adds.

That's because it's built out of video clips that will give you a great video briefing of the top news of the day. All you have to do to get started is say "Alexa, what's my Flash Briefing" Just make sure Reuters TV is set up to be a part of your flash briefing in the companion Alexa app.

One of our favourite skills for normal Echos, the Ambient Visuals range offers relaxing vibes with some HD visuals as part of the package. Just say "Alexa play Ambient Visuals [name of effect]" to get started. The popular app game, but now with voice; it's actually far better suited to Alexa than it is to the app. You can shout out the names of the logos, rather than battling to spell company names correctly, ask for hints you get three per game or just pass.

The Amazon Echo Show is still an amazing device, nonetheless, and we totally suggest looking into one of your family and friends are Alexa-connected. Thanks for reading this article, I hope you found it useful.

Please subscribe to my YouTube channel for all the latest smart home tips, tricks and updates. Also be sure to check out the 13 smart home products that I most recommend to people. I open Firefox I navigate to Discord. I guess Discord cannot run on the version of Firefox running on my Echo Show 5? Can you go to Firefox, click Settings and then About? So do I understand correctly that the third-party apps all will also only provide some sort of presence info and other mildly interesting stuff like that, but the real cool thing — a MS Teams video chat on a device that follows me Echo 10 is still unavailable?

Is that correct or do I miss anything? What a downside. The real cool thing video chat, as you say unfortunately is still unavailable yes. Our son is out of the country and can all video call using WiFi. He bought us the Show What are our video calling options using our Show? This can then call your Echo Show It looks like Signal supports mainly mobile devices, e.

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Table of Contents hide. Echo Show 5 device booklet and power plug. Echo Show 8 front — powered on. Echo Show top camera button. Echo Show menu with video and communicate options. Echo Show camera lens. Echo Show audio port at bottom. The Amazon alexa app in the Apple app store.

Echo Show screen during call setup. Alexa app settings drop down menu. Alexa app settings including communication tab. Alexa dashboard including Drop In feature. Echo Show example video call output. Alexa call output when Echo Show camera is off. Alexa app — Skype calling with Alexa. Drop In allows your friends with Echo Spots to contact you unsolicited, and is a fun but kind of creepy way to check in on your kids, or annoy your roommate.

Select the menu icon, then Settings, the name of Echo Spot and Communications. Monica Chin is a writer at The Verge, covering computers. Previously, she was a staff writer for Tom's Guide, covering artificial intelligence and the internet of things.

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