r/amazonecho

Can I install linux on it? To host some things like vaultwarden etc. I'm not familiar with the way androids work. Claude says it can't take it.

I am currently running lineage OS on it

Tentei usar para fazer meu filho dormir e diz que não está mais disponível...

Mine not working since last 2 days . Blue light comes up as expected with wake word, but everything else afterwards doesnt and blue light keeps spinning up.

Looks like most others are facing this issue as per this subReddit.

I don't know if anyone else has this trouble. In my house, I have two echo dots, one on my brothers room and one in my room, we have two smart switches, lights and recently, fire tvs, but I have this trouble since I started the configuration, I made one group for his room and one group for mine, I set everything up, My Alexa, switch, light and tv are on my group, and same with my brother's room, but when I say "Alexa, turn on the fan"(Smart switch) It turns my brother's fan, I fix it changing the names, but it has happened with every device. I thought that it wasn't gonna happen with the fire stick but it did happen, I couldn't fix it even changing the name, I'm tired, I wanna know if it's a common problem and if someone could fix it. The main reason to have groups it's not to say the complete name of the device and it doesn't work. I can answer any question about the devices or configuration. Appreciate the help

A couple months ago I had an old Echo Dot fail, not able to communicate via wifi anymore. Just refused.

Now I have an old Gen 1 Echo doing the exact same thing.

They connect to the wifi just fine, but when you ask them something, they won't answer, blue light just spins.

Meanwhile I have one of the new Dots sitting in another room connected to the exact same wifi that works fine.

Has anyone else experienced this?

is it better than bluetooth speaker at this price range, tribet stormbox 2 available at this price my main preference is to watch movies mainly which is better this is the first am buying an echo

Down detector shows something is up, but I figured I’d post here to both get confirmation and to let others know who might come here seeking same.

I have one of the very first gen amazon alexas, I use it mainly just for music and my alarm it works really well for this so never seen the need to upgrade. But I mention all this to note that this first gen 100% does not support Alexa+ therefore its definitely not that, fixed a similar issue by deleting some routines recently so first place I looked not that. But today its just a massive delay if I ask the alexa what time is it, it might just get stuck and not answer or theres a 30 second delay before answering, is anyone else getting this today? Is it slow servers or something?

Does the Echo Spot have Thread support? I don't need a Thread Border Router, I am looking for a device to extend my Thread mesh.

I feel there are only two good names computer and Alexa (Echo is decent btw) so I feel that we need to add Jarvis and System

Hi, you guys. I´m from Portugal and since last night Alexa it's not working properly, routines don't show up, my shopping list don't show up, I can't login again in my phone, all sort of errors. My echo is still working properly. I find it strange because I don't find anyone complaining at all

Edit 02.07.26: seems to be fixed by Amazon

Voice understanding of Alexa is horrible now. Also long latencies in answering

Can't open my shutters anymore by voice command, because the command is not understood anymore.

Echo Studio works fine. So the problem is with Amazon.

I talked to Amazon Customer Service for Alexa and explained the problem, also referring to Reddit. You should do the same to get traction on this topic.

They will come back to me in the next 2 days

BR, Ypo

I have two Echo Taps that started acting up yesterday. My Echo and Dot is acting normally. However, the Taps will respond to their wake word (blue light glows) but not react normally. Usually there is no response after about 5 seconds except for a beep. Occasionally it will respond to my request to tell me the time, but after a significant delay. I have actually gotten it to play my Flash Briefing, but only once out of about 20 tries. Of course I've restarted them multiple times, but didn't want to reset because of the issues with the app.

Since this hit both of my Taps the same day, I'm wondering if it is impacting anyone else?

My 1st gen Echo Plus has suddenly developed a strange fault after working flawlessly for about 11 years.

It still hears the wake word every time. I say "Alexa", the blue light comes on and even shows the direction my voice is coming from, so it clearly knows I'm speaking.

The problem is that after waking, it completely ignores everything I say. I can give any command and it never responds. It doesn't say "Sorry, I didn't catch that" or complain about the internet. It just sits there listening for a few seconds before timing out.

I've already tried:

- Rebooting by unplugging it.

- Checking the Wi-Fi connection.

- Speaking from different distances and directions.

The odd part is that the directional blue light follows my voice after the wake word, so the microphones don't appear to have failed.

Has anyone seen this before? Is this likely to be a hardware failure, microphone array issue, or something else? It literally started doing this two days ago after years of flawless operation.

EDIT- It’s the echo show 5

I am really excited. I bought a couple of smart plugs also and I feel like I’ve been missing out. Tell me all the other awesome things that Alexa echo 5 can do! TIA 😊

I never used one before
It will be my first alexa ever( even tho I don’t have any smart home devices)
On my country it is on big sale now
echo dot 5th gen = 24$
Echo spot 2024 = 44.5$
So what do you think?
I am confused cuz i saw a lot of bad reviews all over the sub and Ads problem that maybe will be in echo spot soon
And weird voices at night …etc

I just bought a brand new Echo dot max on prime week, and it will only connect to my phone if I connect directly through the Alexa app. If I try to connect directly from the bluetooth menu on my phone, it just continuously says is can't connect. It also unpairs itself from my phone every time I disconnect from bluetooth so I have to repair every single time I want to use the speaker. This is absolutely maddening. I have a 1st Gen tower and a 3rd Gen echo dot and have never once had this issue. Does anyone know how to fix this or do I need to just return it because that would suck.