I'm sure this happens a lot, but I find it funny when I ask Alexa to play sleep music and when I say thank you she sometimes stops my music to sing you're welcome at me and so I have to do the process over again and sometimes she will sing multiple times interrupting my music so I just tell her goodnight lol. I just want to know how often it happens to others.
Is anyone else having issues using Alexa to control their Ikea smart bulbs?
This seems to have happened in the last hour, and it isn't just at my house. It happened at my mother's house as well.
Google home is working fine to control the bulbs (we have alexa and google home minis) and the Ikea app is working to control the bulbs in both homes.
Additionally one of my First Alert smoke detectors that is connected to Ring went off twice in the last hour with no smoke anywhere.
Amazon gave me a promo to upgrade my old old echo show to Echo 8 for $110 or Echo 15 for $180. Yes, they are totally different devices… I get one is for smaller spaces and the other is for the kitchen or something like that. Which one would you go for at the above prices and why? For the Echo 15, I’m wondering if it can serve as the family white board or something like that?
Im home alone with my 3 dogs. My great dane asleep on the couch, my huskey asleep next to my bed, and im just reading a book. All of a sudden my alexa starts talking about how shes not siri? It was dead silent so im not sure why she just started talking?
I did the usual setup process at home, via LAN.
Next took it to another location that does not have LAN access.
I said ‘Alexa pair’ and it did with my iPhone’s bluetooth. I played Sirius XM music and it sounded great.
Next day I went back and it won’t pair—says “I’m having trouble connecting to the internet”.
Is there some way, (after initial setup w/LAN), to forget about the lan and just be a bluetooth speaker?
Hello everyone.
I just got two new Echo Studios (2025), to make them my home theater. However, when I tried to create the home theater group via my Fire Stick, it told me they needed software updates.
So I told them both to update and was told "these devices are on the latest version".
However, the app tells me that they're using version 5401010006520, which is an older software version.
When I ask the devices for their software versions directly, they say they can't tell me, because of a "technical limitation".
When I ask Alexa via the app chat function, it says "on it", then never gets back to me. Meanwhile, at the top of the page it says "Echo Studios Update not available".
I tried resetting and nothing changed. Any ideas?
I was in the car driving home just now and I asked it play the new Keith Urban song. She gives me a whole white paper about the song but doesn't play it. So I ask again. Same oratory, no song.
I didn't realize she was still listening, so I said out loud, "well are you going to play the fucking song or not?" She says, okay, okay don't get testy."
Ontem pedi para Alexa ativar uma rotina, ela não entendeu. Aí solicitei novamente. E ela falou com uma voz que parecia ser infantil: "Não fui eu quem começou, mãe ". Meu namorado e eu gelamos. Mais alguém teve alguma experiência semelhante com a Alexa?
Something I've been noticing for a while is if you go to Amazon's main page for Echo devices, there is no promotion of Echo Hub: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=14100223031
That might provide a clue that they are looking to discontinue Echo Hub, but its been going on for several months (at least) and in that period they still generally sell Echo Hub at full price. Continued selling at full price is not what I would expect if they were discontinuing a product: https://www.amazon.co.uk/echo-hub/dp/B0BCR3Y2C9/
I'm linking to Amazon UK, but I think its the same on Amazon US.
It seems a bit strange to me. I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts?
Hello everyone,
I have a Ring Doorbell, an Echo Hub, and a Ring Chime set up together.
Current behavior:
\- When someone presses the Ring Doorbell, the Chime rings.
\- The Echo Hub automatically opens the live camera feed.
So far everything works well.
The only annoying part is that the Echo Hub always loudly says:
«“Someone is at the front door.”»
After doing some research, I found several posts saying that this announcement cannot be disabled directly. Many people suggested disabling the default notifications completely and instead creating a custom Alexa Routine.
I tried that approach.
My current routine:
\- Trigger: Doorbell pressed
\- Action: “Alexa, show \[camera name\] on Echo Hub”
This works technically, but instead of:
«“Someone is at the front door”»
Alexa now says:
«“Okay”»
It is still a bit frustrating, especially during the evening or when the house is quiet.
What I would like:
\- Ring Chime should still ring
\- Echo Hub should automatically display the live camera feed
\- No voice announcements
\- No confirmation sounds
\- Completely silent automation
Has anyone found a way to fully suppress all Alexa announcements/sounds for this kind of setup?.
Thanks in advance and have a great day!
Hello everyone
My dad was diagnosed with a memory loss disease recently. He is still pretty independent, but right now he has to take medicine everyday and keeps messing it up.
I'm thinking about buying an Amazon Echo Show 5 so that I can set reminders on it for the pills (and for the drop-in function, since my dad never picks up the phone). I was wondering if it's possible to create a function where my dad has to confirm that he took the pill for the alarm to stop. Or if there are any automatic pill devices that I can connect to the Alexa.
Thank you for the help!
Hi, I have a bit of a niche problem with my Echo Dot.
Essentially, for the past five years, my girlfriend has gone into the kitchen every morning and asked "Alexa, play my most liked songs". In response the Alexa has said "Sure, playing your liked and most played songs". This seems to be some kind of continuously updated 'playlist' or collection of songs which my girlfriend has listened to frequently over recent weeks. Every now and then, Alexa would ask something along the lines of "to keep it fresh, make sure you tell me what you like".
Unfortunately, a few days ago, the Echo Dot/Alexa's behaviour in response to this command has changed. She now responds "Here's your playlist, My Likes, on Amazon Music". This plays from the 'My Likes' playlist on my Amazon Music (I'm the account holder). As you can imagine, she's not happy about this.
We've tried various different commands to try and reproduce the original behaviour but have not succeeded. Alexa always seems to default to the 'My Likes' playlist now. I've tried deleting all the songs from this playlist, but that hasn't helped. It seems you can't totally delete the playlist either. I have zero need to ever play from 'My Likes' as I don't use Amazon music myself.
Has anyone else had this problem or thinks they might be able to shed some light on it?
Thanks a lot.
Hi all, I'm getting an Echo for my mother and her apartment is not very large (maybe 1000 square feet). She does have an Irish accent though and might need to ask Alexa things from the other side of the place.
Is the Dot or the Pop better at hearing commands from another room? I'm just deciding which to buy here.
Hello everyone. So, this is my plan. I want to plug in the power cord of the echo show 15 in the roof and bring that cable down to the echo show 15 rather than putting a massive hole in my wall which will be a hassle to fix up later if I ever have to. My issue is that I either need an extension cable for the DC wire or I can simply bring the wire down from the roof and it will reach it. Here are my questions:
Thanks for your help.
Not sure if a little machine can be held responsible for things, but the people that sell the thing can. Im not sure guys. Need helps here. Safety, wont respond. Customer service is there!
This has been updated about 2 months ago. When i ask it to play rain sounds it goes on a big prompt loop aski g for permission to play sleep jar rain sounds.
Appear amazon has separted the app as now it tells me to download it which i have. I have linked it in the app but everything i have tried has not produced a result.
Any ideas?
I can connect any 2 units no problem but the system will say "there is no active call" when i try to disconnect all 3 units innthe house have been reset 3 times today because of this
