This is how you pair your Spectacles to Snapchat if you buy them online — its harder than you think!

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Im sure many of you out there are wondering — how can I get my hands on Snapchat Spectacles?

Well…..the process is a bit more difficult than you might imagine if you don’t buy them directly from the vending machines that have magically appeared in New York, Oklahoma, and California.

Lets say you manage to buy a brand new, unopened pair of Spectacles. In my case, my wonderful and incredibly creative wife Rachel was able to score a pair through a certified reseller on Amazon.

Now you still need to figure out how to make them work.

That part took me about 5 hours.

But because I don’t like to see other people suffer, Il tell you exactly what you need to do.

The holy grail in all this was this article from CNET

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-reset-snap-spectacles/

which explains how to do a hard reset on the glasses.

It turns out that when you buy these from someone else, you have to unpair them from that person’s snapchat account. Of course there is no way of knowing this unless you spend 5 hours trying every conceivable method of pairing — but trust me that’s what happens.

So as CNET so kindly explains you must:

“Press and hold the button for 55 seconds, then release. Within 10 seconds, press the button once more, but don’t hold it. A light sequence will appear on the glasses, with the small dots moving around the LED light and filling up dots as the reset progresses. You may lose footage from Spectacles that hasn’t already been downloaded to Snapchat when you perform a hard reset.”

Easy enough right? Well the thing is, you really do need to use a timer for this thing. Its not like 56 seconds or 57 will work. It has to be exactly 55 — your fingers will get tired. Its very likely you will perform a soft reset a few times by mistake, which is fine. Just keep trying until the dots start moving around the circle very slowly — if it is moving to fast you are doing it wrong.

Good luck!