After setting up your Echo Show, and you've added a few skills and asked a couple of random trivia questions, you may find yourself staring at the Echo Show's display and asking yourself 'now what?'
There's plenty left to do and discover with the Echo Show, so follow along as we walk through eight tips and tricks.
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Customize Drop In
First and foremost, you'll want to control who can Drop In on you. For those unfamiliar, Drop In is an Echo feature that allows other Echo owners and Alexa app users to start an audio or video call with your Echo device(s) without you needing to answer.
Thankfully, you're in complete control over who can and can't drop in on you.
You need to use the Alexa app on your phone in order to adjust Drop In access.
In the app go to Settings and select the Echo Show from your device list. Next select Drop In. You can choose from On, Only my household or Off.
Only my household does just what it says — allows users within your home to use another Echo device to Drop In on another Echo device.
If you decide to turn on Drop In, you still need to approve which Alexa contacts have access to Drop In at any time. To do that, select the Conversations tab at the bottom of the Alexa app followed by the contact icon at the top of the screen.
Select a contact you want to give Drop In privileges to, then enable Contact can Drop In at anytime.
Set up DND
With calls, messages, and Skill notifications now a thing with the Echo lineup, you can enable Do Not Disturb on your Echo Show with just a few taps.
On the Echo Show, swipe ($143 at Amazon) down from the top of the screen. There's will be an on-demand button to turn DND on or off at will, which is nice. However, you can set a schedule for DND to auto turn on and off.
Swipe down on the Echo SHow's display to reveal the menu. Tap Settings then scroll down and select Do Not Disturb to set up your personal schedule.
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Set a custom background photo
Amazon's default background photos are, well, boring. You can upload a photo of your own directly from your phone through the Alexa app.
When viewing the Settings for your Echo Show, scroll down and tap the blue button labeled Choose A Photo.
Select a photo from your phone's camera roll, crop and upload it. A few seconds later the change will show up on your Echo Show.
Check out more ways to customize the background on your Echo Show or Echo Dot.
Sound controls
On the Echo Show, go to Settings > Sounds. There you can adjust the alarm sound, notification sound (currently only one available), or adjust the start/end request sounds.
Touch instead of talk
When viewing suggestions of news or commands you can give Alexa on one of the home screens, you don't have to use the suggested voice command at the bottom of the screen.
Instead, just tap the screen to open a news story, video, or open a list of suggested commands to try.
Touch can also be used when listening to music to pause, play, or skip songs.
Take pictures!
Tell Alexa to take your picture, and the Echo Show will open a camera app with three different camera options. Tap on an option to select it, or tell Alexa the number of the camera you want to use. Then smile as the camera snaps your pic.
Watch videos
Ask Alexa to search YouTube for your favorite YouTube channel or video name. You can also ask Alexa to show your Prime Video and movie trailers, for example.
At any time while watching a video you can give Alexa voice commands to pause, skip ahead or back by a set amount of time.
Go home, Alexa
Whenever you're in an app (sorry, Skill) you can quickly go back to the home screen with the command 'Alexa, go home.' Alternatively, you can swipe down from the top of the Show's display and tap Home.
If you're listening to music, the music will remain on.
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1) From which location are you trying to set pictures for Screensaver? 2) What is the type of the photos which you are trying to set for Screensaver? 3) Were you able to use all the photos as screensaver earlier? 4) Did you make any changes to the screensaver settings prior to this issue?
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1. 'Libraries/Pictures/MyPictures
3. Yes with prior version of Windows on my old computer
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I would suggest you to move all the pictures present in Mypicture folders to Pictures folder in Libraries set those pictures as screensavers and check of it helps.
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Are you talking about the Public pictures folder. Because the My pictures folder is already in the pictures library.
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Follow the steps given below.
a) Right click on desktop and click on the option Personalize.
b) Click on screensaver at the right hand side bottom.
c) Click on the option Settings on the screen saver settings page.
d) Check the box for ShufflePictures.
Check if you are able to use the photos as the screen saver
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I have done this previously and have last year's vacation pictures rotating as a screensaver. Now I want to change to THIS year's vacation pictures, but following your instructions, I can't find a place to change what I want to rotate. I am on Windows 8.1, and nowhere on your step d do I see any thing saying 'shuffle pictures' either. I have no other tabs to choose from. How do I get last year's vacation pictures off and this year's vacation pictures to rotate as a screensaver? I am using a folder called Corel Photo Album (a very old version---probably 10 years old), which contains lots of albums of downloads. How do I change what album I want to use?
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Hi Lois,
We are sorry for your inconvenience, I understand that you want to set the folder Corel Photo Album as our screen saver.
Follow the below steps and check if it helps.
Right click on Desktop and click on the Personalize.
Click on screensaver at the right hand side bottom.
Under Screen saver select Photo gallery.
Click on the Settings button next to drop down menu.
Select use photos and videos from: and Browse the folder location which you want to set as the Screen saver.
Check the box for Shuffle Contents (To shuffle the pictures on the screen saver).
Click on save button.
Then click on Apply and Ok on Screen saver settings dialog box.
I hope the above information helps you to resolve the issue.
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Thank you for your response. I tried to do all the steps you listed, and they work fine UNTIL I get to #5. There is nothing except different options which to select, which I already have Corel Photo Album selected. Under the settings button (#4) there is no 'shuffle contents' to select, and in fact, there is not much on that screen to select. What my problem is: the screensaver works fine with the Corel Photo Album selected, BUT how do I change what file within Corel that I want to circulate? Somehow I got the one I wanted last summer from the pictures I'd taken then, and they continue to display. BUT, I want THIS summer's vacation pictures to rotate, and I can't find a way in any of the screens I see in order to do this. Am I missing something somewhere, and if so, where?
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I have windows 10 and would like to use my pictures for screen saver
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I like to use JOAN METHEW PICTURE NUMBER 22814312_1125495097717862_N,JPG SHE IN A WHITE BATHING SUIT WITH A AMERICAN FLAG A ROUND HER I HAD IT ONCE BUT IT NO LONGER ON MY SCREEN SAFER.
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Screen savers were created to save very old CRT displays from being damaged by issues like screen burn-in. These days, they are mostly used to personalize the PC or improve its security with additional password protection. In this article, well see how to set your photos as a screen saver in Windows 10.
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In Windows 10, many familiar things are changed once again. The classic Control Panel is going to be replaced with the Settings app and many settings are going to be reduced and eliminated. Many users who installed Windows 10 for the first time are getting confused by the new location of some settings in Windows 10. Windows 10 users are often asking me how to access screen saver options in Windows 10. For reference, see the following article:
In this article, we will use Settings to access screen savers.
To set photos as a screen saver in Windows 10, do the following.
Open Settings.
Go to Personalization - Lock Screen.
On the right, click on the link Screen saver settings.
In the drop down list under Screen saver, select Photos.
You are done.
By default, the Photos screensaver is set to load your images from the This PC Pictures folder. If you have some images there, you can click on the Preview button in the Screen Saver options dialog and see it in action.
It is possible to customize the screen saver slide show speed and the folder which the screen saver will use as your photos collection. Here is how.
Customize Photos screen saver options
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Open the Screen Saver Settings dialog.
Click on the Settings button.
Under Use pictures from:, click on the Browse button. Select the desired folder which stores your images using the folder browser dialog.
You can change the slide show speed using the drop down list. The default value is Medium, but you can change it to Fast or Slow.
The last option allows shuffling images for the slide show.
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