I’m thinking about mac address emulation, i.e., temporarily emulate the MAC address of the Echo device with a more amenable device, and do the poral login. Esimated time to stumble your way through it: 10 minutes. You’ll probably need to put your Dot into setup mode mulitple times. Then you have it (the Dot) search for available WiFi networks. Pay special attention to whether or not your setup device is connected to the Dot’s WiFi (amazon-dkd or something like that) or not. Maybe my tip helped, maybe not.Īs I do not have the straight recipe, you have to be willing to try different things. It was about 10 minutes of stumbling, but then it did work in the end. Since I’m supposed to be the expert I had the opportunity to try my own technique at another hotel. I’m not sure it will always work, but at least it did work once! But if you did things in the wrong order go to your WiFi settings and “forget” the hotel’s WiFi – it may have the same effect. So I’d say the upshot is to configure the Echo Dot first before setting up your phone to use the hotel’s WiFi. In other words I stumbled my way through it. At some point you get asked which WiFi to connect to, and you get redirected to the captive portal, where you put in the information. Then I went through the Device Setup in the Alexa App on my phone. So I “forgot” the hotel’s SSID (WiFi) on my phone. What I realized, though, is that it might help to start clean. I could not manage to finish the Echo Dot configuration under those conditions last week, though I tried many times over, including manual setup. Then you get around to setting up your Echo device.
Normally you go to your room after checking in, and you perhaps set your phone to use their WiFi after dutifully logging in to the portal page. That’s what makes it so hard for dumb devices like the Echo Dot to get past that page. So it is technically not part of the WiFi information. The detailsĪ hotel will typically offer Internet, but through a “ captive portal.” This means, technically, the password they provide you at the front desk is not the SSID password, but a password to their portal’s web site. Finally I thought of something that broke me out of the discover device loop, so I wanted to share that. But then you are foiled by the setup process until you finally give up after trying to discover it as a new device numerous times. You like to query your Echo Dot for basic information and you’d like to take it with you and work in your hotel room so you can get the local weather, etc.
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