Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Using Amazon Photo with Echo Show

I setup my Amazon Photo account today so I could change my Echo Show to displaying a photo slide show of my favorite photos. 

I Installed the Desktop and phone apps to upload photos. From www.Amazon.com\Photos.

The Android app you can scan the QR Code to download and install the phone app.


1. Log Into your Amazon Prime Account.

2. Create Albums and upload photos from your Phone or Desktop.

3. The Android up upload all my photos automatically.

4. Manually upload folders with pictures through the Desktop App.

5. Configure Amazon Photo to not upload duplicate photos.


How to setup Amazon Echo Show 5 to display photos:

1. Swipe down from the Top

2. Select Settings

3. Select Home & Clock Settings

4. Select Clock & Photo Display to Customize your photo display appearance

5. Select Photo Display

6. Select Amazon Photos

7. Select Amazon Photo Album or Favorites to Display


Monday, January 2, 2023

New Years Day Holiday

 

Monday January 2nd 2023 is the actual holiday for those who work.  This week has been odd as Christmas and New Years Day both fell on a Sunday.  We went to Callaway Gardens for Christmas Weekend while their we visited the Butterfly House, Bug Discovery and the Fantasy in Lights show.  It was very cold last weekend colder than I could remember it ever being in Georgia. The Cottage we stayed in did not have any heat vents in the kitchen/living room in the center only in the two bedrooms so the bedrooms were hot but the Livingroom was freezing. We kept turning up the thermostat in the Livingroom and it never got warm. We learned the Livingroom thermostat controls the heat in the first bedroom only. They had a fireplace in the Livingroom, however, Jen did not want to use the fireplace as you have to keep one of the bedroom doors open when you have a fire burning. I brought my Roku Stick and plugged it into the HDMI connection on the Livingroom TV so we listened to Christmas songs on YouTube Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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