Echo & Alexa Forums
General Category => Echo Technical Support => Topic started by: bladeshark on October 05, 2015, 05:07:41 pm
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I have an Echo at work in my office. My WiFi in the office requires a username and password login daily so that wasn't working out. I picked up a portable hotspot from AT&T and got the echo to connect. Sweet!
The issue I'm having is that I turn the hotspot off at night when I go home and then bring it up the next morning. Unfortunately I have to go through the setup each day to get it to connect again. Is there a command to just get it to try connecting again? Something like "Alexa, connect to wifi"? I assume it probably tried many times overnight and then just quit.
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I think that if you turn off and on (unplug) the Echo, it'll reconnect to whatever Wifi that it was connected to previously.
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Thanks for the reply, I'll try that in the morning. I'm really hoping for a solution to just trigger the reconnect via audible commands or button pressing sequence.
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When the echo times out to its wifi, it will turn (purple i think) and refuse to do anything usefull until next hard reboot. I don't think there is any way to fix this. You either have to leave the hotspot next to the echo 24/7 or reboot it every time.
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Yep, I unplugged and replugged the power this morning and it connected to the wifi right away. Thanks for the info.
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Since you turn off the Hotspot router every night, and I assume that you turn off your computer at the same time, maybe you can put everything including the Echo on a power strip that you can turn on/off with a single switch.
By the way, are you able to see how much data your Echo is using per day from you AT&T hotspot bill?
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That's a good idea. I'll put it on the power strip. The on/off switch is nice instead of unplugging and replugging.
The hotspot doesn't tell me how much each each device used. Too bad, that would be good to know. I can tell how much of my plan is used used by looking at the running total but that's it.