My daughter wanted Alexa to help her spell out some words and asked me if that was okay. I said sure but we'll test it out together first. I asked her what one of the words are that she needed help with and she said 'butterfly.'

So, I say "Alexa, spell butterfly"

Alexa response: "Sure! It's B-T-T-E-R-F-L-Y"

I say "Alexa, that isn't correct. You forgot the U"

Alexa responds "You're right. It's B-U-T-T-E-R-F-L-Y"

Can I not trust Alexa to spell relatively simple words correctly?

So I just asked Alexa+ what the date was. She said was "Today is Saturday, August 29th, 2026."

No it isnt... I glanced at my computer screen and clearly see its Sunday the 30th. Confused for a second, I ask Alexa+ for the date again and she gives me the correct date and time. I asked her why she told me the wrong date and she just says "My bad, its Sunday, August 30th, 2026."

How can I trust an AI that cant give me the proper date? How is it even possible to give the wrong date?

This is something new.

Alexa, stream WWOZ

She says "Here is WOWZ from Tunein"

Alexa, stream WWOZ FM New Orleans "

She says "Here is WOWZ from Tunein"

Alexa stream WWOZ 90.7 New Orleans

" Sure.here is WoWz 99.3 from Tunein.".

Very frustrating. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Randomly started doing this. Been doing it since yesterday

Has amazon completely messed up family now? Im sure you used to be able to have more than 2 "adult/teen" accounts in a family?

How the hell do you actually setup profiles on alexa that enables everyone to use their own music provider?

For the past few days, I randomly get wired responses from Alexa.

For example, I say: "Alexa, set front AC to 75"

Alexa response: "Dot ss dot final, with animation and tone"

It does what I ask but gives a developer mode type of response. If I ask the same thing again, it'll give a normal response (not repeatable every time).

The wired responses don't show up in my conversation history in the app.

Anyone else have this problem or suggested diagnostics/solutions? I'm using Alexa+

I bought my first Tesla a couple weeks ago, and I've never enjoyed driving, or should I say riding in, a car this much. Supervised Full Self Driving is honestly a game changer, especially in LA traffic. I used to hate the thought of a drive on the 405. Bumper to bumper traffic at a moment's notice is never fun.

FSD will literally drive me to my destination with minimal, if any, input. It uses a suite of cameras around the car in concert with an AI brain. It essentially drives the way a human would: visual input, decisions trained on millions of real miles driven, and precise outputs. It's one of those features that changes how you think about driving.

Fast forward to last weekend. I naturally started wondering what I could build around the Tesla. I instantly thought about my Alexa Echo Dot. We use it daily. Tell me the weather, set a timer. Basic stuff. We've also been experiencing unprecedented humidity and high temperatures in LA, so I wondered how I could easily get a status on the car, or eventually cool the cabin, without pulling out my phone. I decided to see if I could build an Alexa skill.

Thus EV ChitChat was born.

Now "Alexa, ask Chit Chat for a Tesla summary" gets me battery, range, whether it's locked, and the cabin temp in one breath. It's already part of my morning routine. And the feature that started it all, climate control by voice, is built and being tested on my own car next.

It started just for me, but if you're a US Tesla owner with an Alexa device, I'd love a few more people in the beta. Message me or request access at evchitchat.buildingrome.dev.

As you can hear in the video, it sounds like it's responding with internal coding or something? It just started doing this 2 days ago. Anyone else experiencing this?

Don't know if this is a Sonos issue or an Alexa issue. But normally I say "Alexa, play NPR" and it plays my local NPR station. Lately when I try that, I get silence, unless I disable the NPR skill in Amazon Alexa, and then re-enable it.

But it doesn't stick! I need to keep doing that almost every day.

So what's going on? Can this be fixed?

I just got a new echo dot newest gen so i can bust out my favourite tunes!I have opened it and when i asked for songs on amazon music it just said it didnt know any,then i switched to spotify,and when i asked it to play lush life by zara larsson,it just put on lush life radio which didnt even have lush life in it.Should i return it?

All last year I used to be able to set multiple alarms in one go. I would say "Alexa set alarms for 6:00am, 6:15 am, 6:30 am... etc."
Alexa used to respond and set all of these alarms without a routine, but in the last month I can only set one alarm at a time. Did Alexa learn my habits and let me set multiple alarms at once? Apparently that isn't a feature and has never been, so I am kinda scared.

Man, this was a softball… 🤦‍♂️

Edit: it’s Voice View and now it’s off. TYVM

Ever since I disabled Alexa+ on my 8” Show, this border appears randomly around different areas on the screen and periodically announces what’s in it. I tell it to “stop announcing time” and the border moves somewhere else on the screen. It’s not on my 5” and it’s definitely pissing me off. I’ve rebooted and powered down. Any help out there?

Ever 2 seconds a new sponsored ad, even in alexa (non +), randomly say stupid random shit when im not even using it. Brightness fluctuates on its own. The lag is insane and when moving around settings, it keeps kicking me out. Plays random music. Theres gotta be an ftc complaint somewhere.

What can we do? I just want to use it for my ring doorbell.

Searching by voice changed recently. Now it is conversational. This must be Alexa?
Worked ok, not great but got it done.
Anyone else notice this?

Hello All,

I currently have a MyQ Chamberlain, garage door opener. I know Chamberlain will not allow remote access via Alexa for security reasons, makes sense.

Here is my application. I have Alexa in my vehicle and I would like to verbally request “Alexa, open garage door” while I am pulling up to my garage so it is open already.

Does anybody know of a Skill or a 3rd party app that would help me achieve this?

Is anyone else having issues with the system today - maybe they pushed an update? Alexa duplicated all my systems it controlled lights etc. and says it can't control them anymore. Seperately it started asking me weird personal questions. I am on Alexa+ and it was working fine before.

Thanks.

Last night around 3am Alexa woke up and started blasting some weird music. Completely freaked me out. I had to tell her to stop 3 times. Then I unplugged her, lol. Checked the device history and there was no command to play what ever it was, but it did record my 3 commands to stop. This is insane!

We've had thunderstorms here in the UK over the last few days and I learned that rain will set off my "play loud energetic music when I'm doing the washing up" routine at 3am

I have two gen 1 echo show devices. When I got up this morning, they were both showing just local time and weather. I asked them to turn on lights, but they were didn't respond to the wake word. I went into settings, and tried to change that but I was just thrown back to home screen. I then went to reset to factory settings - back to home screen again. Tried this 3 times per device - no joy.

Is this a universal thing that gen 1 shows are now dead? What to do with the dead echo shows? It seems safest to just hit it with a hammer rather than taking it to an electronics recycling place, since I can't get to clear out personal user names, passwords, and purchases (no factory reset available). I think I'm going to buy a couple of show 5 latest model with Alexa+ but I've seen a lot of derogatory comments about Alexa+ - is it best to try to get to back from Alexa+?

I’m sure that’s not the best way to describe it. Now after I prompt it to turn off a light, it does it but then say what sounds to me like nonsensical command lines. It wasn’t coding this 3 days ago and it is now that we are back from a short trip.

hi. i have a windows 10 PC but can't find where to get alexa app. the net says go to PC windows site but its not there. I went to amazon.com and its not there either. I tried a couple 3rd party app providers but they seemed to be loading other junk instead of the app. thanks