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Title: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: musicteacher30 on December 06, 2016, 04:01:00 am
Hi everyone,

A bit of advice please. My friend in Spain would like to get an Amazon Echo for his wife for Christmas. He has asked me to bring one over when I visit him next week. However, I do have some concerns over whether it will work in Spain. Probably a silly question...! Will they be able to use it fully in Spain if bought here in the UK? He is struggling to get one over there which makes me think that's because they cant be used there...?!
Any help would be great.
Thanks!  :)
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: bromsman on December 07, 2016, 04:01:53 am
If your friend has a UK Amazon account I don't see why it should not work but it may want to tell UK time and weather you may have to say "Alexa what's the time in Spain" Alexa whats the weather in Spain". A bit like we had to do when we had Echo's in the UK working on US Amazon before UK release.
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: dankeohane on December 07, 2016, 11:36:56 am
I have a uk echo working here in spain. You can set the postcode to gibraltar to get the correct time-zone. Everything seems to work ok
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: DParker on December 07, 2016, 12:10:37 pm
If you get it working please post here about it, including what music you've been able to get it to play.  That way I can finally say, "Well, I've never been to Spain, but I kinda' like the music."
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: jacpam on December 16, 2016, 06:00:12 am
Yes, I can confirm that the Echo works fine here in Spain and I am grateful to dankeohane for the suggestion to set the location to the Gibraltar post code so now at least my calendar entries appear at the correct time!   I am involved with the local computer club here in Spain and yesterday we had a presentation comparing responses from Google Assistant, Cortana and my Echo - unfortunately our Apple colleague was not able to attend to demonstrate Siri.   It was interesting and amusing.   To make the most of the Echo I personally consider that it is worthwhile subscribing to Amazon UK Prime. 
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: dyt on December 28, 2016, 11:09:34 am
All works perfect in Spain less the amazon prime music, not available here yet (If you have a prime spanish account), the amazon cloud works perfect.
for get the weather you need to add your city's name
Since now I used a germeany address get the time (same time as here), now i'll try with a Gibraltar address
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: renadunne on January 02, 2017, 05:54:30 am
Yes, I can confirm that the Echo works fine here in Spain and I am grateful to dankeohane for the suggestion to set the location to the Gibraltar post code so now at least my calendar entries appear at the correct time!   I am involved with the local computer club here in Spain and yesterday we had a presentation comparing responses from Google Assistant, Cortana and my Echo - unfortunately our Apple colleague was not able to attend to demonstrate Siri.   It was interesting and amusing.   To make the most of the Echo I personally consider that it is worthwhile subscribing to Amazon UK Prime.
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: renadunne on January 02, 2017, 05:58:32 am
I've changed my address to Gibraltar and I still cannot download the Alexa app here in Spain.  I've also tried using a VPN from the UK, still no luck.  Can anyone give me detailed point by point instructions on how to get my Echo working please?  I'm losing my rag here!
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: Jerome on January 04, 2017, 05:25:34 pm
I've changed my address to Gibraltar and I still cannot download the Alexa app here in Spain.  I've also tried using a VPN from the UK, still no luck.  Can anyone give me detailed point by point instructions on how to get my Echo working please?  I'm losing my rag here!
What do you mean by "the Alexa app" ?
I live in France and I configured my Echo (bought on Amazon UK) on an Amazon US account, all through http://alexa.amazon.com/ on my desktop (using Chrome)
You can now easily set the timezone (http://www.echotalk.org/index.php/topic,1369.0.html) outside the US.
Thanks to my VPN, I was able to create accounts for Pandora and iHeartRadio and linked both to the Echo.
(you have dirty cheap VPN offers here (https://digitaloffers.windowscentral.com/collections/lifetime-deals))
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: oldfart on January 25, 2017, 04:07:24 pm
I bought the Dit in the UK, live in Tenerife.
The dot works, but doesn't know anything about my location.
I get music from my premium Spotify account - that works ok.
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: Nikko1965 on February 03, 2017, 06:08:55 am
Just to add my tuppence to the pot, I bought a UK Echo via Amazon and used it in Spain. I set the postcode to Gibraltar so the weather would be similar to where I was (Southern Spain is pretty much all the same) but unfortunately AccuWeather would never tell me the weather in Gibraltar - "not available at this time". So Plan B was to just ask Alexa straight up for the weather in my area of Spain. Simple enough. However, this is where you hit the next issue whereby how the Spanish pronounce the name of the town and how Alexa converts it into a request delivered via less than musical English pronunciation does not compute. I tried about ten towns in an increasing radius until I found one Alexa, AccuWeather and I could agree on. Once again, the same weather but at least I get to hear it.

Spotify worked, TuneIn worked, all the other limited services we have outside of the US worked. No point asking about local restaurants though as most of the ones near the house probably aren't registered with the local Ayuntamiento, never mind searchable on Bing.

Cheers,

Nick
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: ximenin on April 27, 2017, 07:51:19 am
Nikko1965, how have you linked your spotify account? Have you used a uk, us, or es amazon account?? Or maybe you've changed your country settings???

Just to add my tuppence to the pot, I bought a UK Echo via Amazon and used it in Spain. I set the postcode to Gibraltar so the weather would be similar to where I was (Southern Spain is pretty much all the same) but unfortunately AccuWeather would never tell me the weather in Gibraltar - "not available at this time". So Plan B was to just ask Alexa straight up for the weather in my area of Spain. Simple enough. However, this is where you hit the next issue whereby how the Spanish pronounce the name of the town and how Alexa converts it into a request delivered via less than musical English pronunciation does not compute. I tried about ten towns in an increasing radius until I found one Alexa, AccuWeather and I could agree on. Once again, the same weather but at least I get to hear it.

Spotify worked, TuneIn worked, all the other limited services we have outside of the US worked. No point asking about local restaurants though as most of the ones near the house probably aren't registered with the local Ayuntamiento, never mind searchable on Bing.

Cheers,

Nick
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: Nikko1965 on May 01, 2017, 05:40:59 am
Ximenin,

The Echo Dot is set to a UK address. I have a UK Amazon account and a required Spotify Premium account and it all worked without making any changes.

Cheers,

Nick
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: divcelt on August 27, 2017, 01:38:30 pm
my problem is the app wont download because in spain, I have uk account but obviously recognising the spain ip address?

Without the app, I cant set it up, as I say my account is set for the uk, does anyone have any more advice please?
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: jamesw on September 01, 2017, 07:58:51 am
You can search for the .apk for the alexa app online.  There are loads of examples available.

Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: LeKeiser on September 30, 2017, 01:14:24 pm
my problem is the app wont download because in spain, I have uk account but obviously recognising the spain ip address?

Without the app, I cant set it up, as I say my account is set for the uk, does anyone have any more advice please?

hello,
The thing is, you can install the APK, but you won't be able to enter your location, because you live in Spain, and it won't recognise your address. I have a Dot and I live in France, I can't enter my address either. When I want to know the weather where I live, I have to ask the nearest city which is Paris. Oh well... :)
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: chrisarvor on October 01, 2017, 07:39:21 am
I live outside the UK and bought an Echo
But it would not work as my amazon account was with amazon .com
Tried everything to get it to work with many hours on the phone

The location service on Echo would not allow me to access music 
Sent it back to uk and my friend with me on Face time spoke to and echo assistant and changed all my setting to Amazon .uk  and started the amazon unlimited music free trial 4 pound a month
All done and tested
Sent back to me in Bulgaria where i live works great

But i wanted it to make calls with handsfree but either the app recognizes i am outside the uk or echo does and
it doesnt work

\i have followed ther instructions but on my app i have no conversation Ballon to contact other Echo users
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: Appletosh on December 11, 2017, 11:47:50 am
Hi
i´m struggeling to find an alexa app for my spanish phone and not sure what to do with an apk ?? if any body could recommend a specific app or talk me through the specific steps i need to do ?? it would be great
thanks in advance
 
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: agoodpub on February 11, 2018, 04:34:21 am
Yes, I can confirm that the Echo works fine here in Spain and I am grateful to dankeohane for the suggestion to set the location to the Gibraltar post code so now at least my calendar entries appear at the correct time!   

I've had my echos set to Gibraltar postcode since I got them last year, but I've now noticed that you can put in a Spanish postcode and it works!  It now gives my local (well a couple of miles away) weather.
Title: Re: Uk bought....will it work in Spain?
Post by: FentonGib on February 25, 2018, 01:08:13 pm
Hi everyone

New here, and new to the Echo. Recently got mine and set them up - all's well (I actually am from Gibraltar and set it up without any problems, and uses my amazon.co.uk account).

However today I set it up for my mum and had problems - it doesn't recognise her Prime membership. Now the thing is that she has Prime membership with amazon.es (for delivery reasons) but we're thinking of using her Prime account to get a family account for music unlimited. Problem is that Alexa simply says she has no music  and suggests a unlimited trial.

Anyone know how I can get her Echo's to register her music library/prime account via amazon.es (I can access this via browser, but not her echo) whilst keeping her location as it is?

I was thinking that if she does get the music unlimited  family plan via es, as it allows 6 accounts that she could always "invite herself" as well as myself - and this would thus give her access via her uk account (as well as to myself)?

Thanks in advance!