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Amazon Device on Nighthawk?
On my Nightwawk App device manager I am seeing a device called AMAZON-OA2BO8803. We have no Amazon device (that I know of). Does anyone know what this device is? I have disabled wifi to it which h...
Using the link that you provided, the manufacturer is Amazon Technologies. And, I just realized what the device is ....an Alexa/Echo Dot. I now feel like an idiot. Thank you all for your replies and help with this.
Log in through your web browser. there you'd be able to get its mac address as well as its IP address.
You can use the mac address to compare what the attached devices shows versus what a checker shows.
For example: https://www.ipchecktool.com/tool/macfinder
You could also compare the IP address that's assigned to it to your devices on your network. Just to see if its just mis-identifying your device
Using the link that you provided, the manufacturer is Amazon Technologies. And, I just realized what the device is ....an Alexa/Echo Dot. I now feel like an idiot. Thank you all for your replies and help with this.
eitherway, glad to hear you figured it out!
molaver wrote:
I now feel like an idiot.
Don't be silly. (I nearly said "don't be an idiot".) The real idiots are people who don't bother to ask questions to find out what is going on.
We have all learned something from this. Like where to go to deal with MAC addresses. I have usually gone to a utility on my PC. Now I know better.
All you have to do know is shout at your Alexa device and see if it understand your question. Me, I can't get my Orbi Voice to place nicely with Alexa. Good job I didn't pay for it.
