Getting started with the Amazon Echo Inspire Energy

She's smart, resourceful, and roughly the same size as two Campbell's soup cans stacked on top of one another. Her name's Alexa, and unless you've been hiding under a technology-averse rock for the past several months, you've probably heard of her. The Amazon Echo packs a technological maze of wires, motherboards, speakers, and LED's into a 9 x 3 cylindrical frame. It's impressively accurate voice recognition technology is the perfect key to tie your smart home together (for a detailed teardown of an Echo, check out this article from I Fix It) Here at Inspire Energy, we've road tested the Amazon Echo since early April of this year. Here are three important set-ups you'll want to nail on your first day of ownership so that you can get the most out of Alexa right from the get go.