More and more houses decide to include smart speakers like the entire Amazon Echo family. Teams that help us in our day to day in many functions until panic ensues. What does that yellow light mean? Alexa, do you want to tell me something? Today we explain why you Amazon Echo has a yellow light (and other colors) what does it mean and how can you remove it.
What is an Amazon Echo?
Some clueless may have reached this article without knowing too much what these devices are or, if they all have those same lights that indicate certain details of the device.
Without going into too much detail or functionality, the Amazon Echo are the company's smart speakers. Thanks to including the intelligent assistant Alexa, we can request different actions so that they provide us with certain information or that they act directly with equipment such as smart lights, Smart TV and many others.
Within the amazon echo family we can find several types of product:
- Amazon Echo Dot
- Amazon Echo
- Amazon Echo Plus
- Amazon Echo Show
- Amazon Echo Spot
- Amazon EchoFlex
- Amazon Echo Auto: that allows us to bring the possibilities of a smart speaker from the company to our car.
- Amazon Fire TV Cube: Although it's really designed as a Fire TV, this one incorporates all the capabilities of an Amazon smart speaker.
If you want to know any of these devices in more depth, you can take a look at the videos that we dedicate to them on our YouTube channel. From what it is like to live with the ecosystem at home or the analysis of some of them:
As we told you, this is the entire Echo family. Each one of them has several models within its catalog and is intended for a different type of use or user. But what they all have in common, which is what concerns us in this article, is that they have the LED that lights up in different ways depending on what you want to tell us.
What does the yellow / green / red light on my Amazon Echo mean?
Having said all of the above, let's get to the really interesting thing about this article, what do those colored lights that we see in our Amazon smart speakers mean?
As you can imagine, these LED lights are messages that the speaker launches for any information that he needs to convey to us. So let's go color by color to identify them correctly.
Yellow light on Amazon Echo
If we see that our speaker shows a yellow strip that flashes slowly every few seconds, it means that Alexa has a pending message or notification to tell us. This signal will appear, for example, whenever a package that we have ordered from Amazon will arrive on that day.
So if you want to remove it, just say something like "Alexa, read my pending notifications" or "Alexa, what messages do I have?"
Red light on Amazon Echo
In the case of the red stripe, which can be something more conspicuous or inspire an issue, it is something totally different from this. If we see that the LED of our equipment is in this color, it means that the microphone is muted and that, therefore, Alexa will not be able to hear us. In case you have a device with a camera, it also means that the video will not be transmitted either.
To solve this, it is as simple as pressing the speaker's mute button again. This is located on the body of the device and is in the shape of a circle with a line through it.
Cyan/blue light on Amazon Echo
Few presentations will need this light since, if we use the Echo in our day to day, we will be tired of seeing it. But what you may not know is that it has two "positions" that mean different things.
For example, the light blue light flash followed by the dark blue color occurs when Alexa is listening to us. We will see this whenever we invoke it with the command that we have configured. At the end of the request and its subsequent response, it will disappear.
However, a wider cyan stripe that scrolls endlessly from a dark blue farm will be seen when the computer is booting up. If it is the first time that we do it and it needs configuration, after this animation the orange light will follow.
Orange light on Amazon Echo
Simple. The speaker is in setup mode and ready to be linked to your Amazon account. You just have to connect it to the internet and follow the steps given by the Alexa app for this light to disappear.
Green light on Amazon Echo
If suddenly a flashing green light appears on our speaker, in a few seconds we will discover what it is. This indicates that a call is coming to our device. However, if the call is in progress this green light will scroll instead of blinking.
The LED light will turn off at the end of the call.
Purple light on Amazon Echo
In case you didn't know, these Amazon smart devices have a do not disturb mode, which can be accessed simply by saying the command “Alexa, turn on do not disturb mode”. That is to say, at the moment that you execute said command, no other notification will be able to reach the device to avoid sounds or distractions.
When activated, we can see a purple light that blinks slowly on the equipment. And, if we want to remove said mode, it will be as simple as asking the wizard.
White light on Amazon Echo
Finally, we can also get a white LED on the Echo. Although this quickly reveals its use. As we increase or decrease the volume of the speaker, this LED will be shown occupying a greater or lesser part of the band in the equipment.
These are all the LED light codes that we can see on our Amazon speaker and, also, how we can "remove" them. We hope we helped you figure out what Alexa wanted to convey to you and that you don't have to worry about what it could mean.