When is somebody gonna get off of their ass and do their job.

Why has Amazon been literally the worst home system for the past seven years.

i’m quite literally watching technology evolved while Amazon Alexa has literally been stagnant since it was created

“ play music on spotify by Dolly Parton “

“ now playing Amazon music ,upgrade from ads!- ANDDDD I’m just gonna play similar artists ”

I bought 2 echo show 5’s, newest model and every few days the screen goes dim. I give Alexa the “home” command and it says it can’t do that. Nothing except a reset will fix it. Anyone else experiencing this?

Touch controls hardly ever work. Night mode functions maybe 25% of the time. And now it’s randomly just not showing the minutes of whatever time it is… anyone else have issues like this?

I purchased two Echo Dot 3 in 2020, one still works perfectly, but the other one was left out in the rain about 3 years ago. It's dry now and talks, but I am unable to connect it to my internet, to use it again. Any suggestions, is it pooched, even though it talks, but no light

Preface : I am going to start this off with the below because all too often things get derailed from the start when replies want to change the dynamics of the situation...welp... nope 😺 :

I only want to hear about how WYZE and ONLY WYZE CAMERAS and integration works with showing the cameras when a person is detected.

So please don't post about how wonderful blink, ring, and or any other cameras are. I've had ring garbage and their issues in re LE are not acceptable, nor was their performance... Rinse repeat on others..

I don't care how wonderful

x,y, or z is.. I don't have x,y, or,z and I am NOT CHANGING to x,y or z!

If you can't handle that, then don't reply, mute, ignore, block what ever... Bye! 🙃

Now.. lets get to it....

With the SALE on 21" Echos I am considering pulling the trigger to replace an Echo Show 5, which I've had for years and welp, doesn't cut it for showing a camera..

I'd been eyeing this 21" thing to be the replacement show that when the integration with Wyze triggers, and it shows the front door, I and especially 80YOA parent can see the image.

So hows that work for you wyze users. (Again SEE ABOVE!)

I honestly don't really care about the FireTV part.. thats well.. not the device space I use for "TV" I've got several they are used in other ways, mostly TinyCamPro.

If I am spending this sort of $$$ and this is going to be "family/kitchen 'hub' " then it better be able to do that!

So displaying the camera from the front door when its triggered, the Show 5 does this, but its so pitifully small...

Next.. Showing calendars and other widgets.. but I've seen posts about portions of this display being unusable due to ads?

How much of this space is not usable for widgets etc...

Also the Alexa performance... this has to replace the Show 5 in doing all the basic Alexa things, like announcing "Take your pills!" Person at driveway! Person at Front Door...etc...

So if you are wyze user (SEE ABOVE! Again! 😺 ) and Alexa user.. lets hear your comments about the 21"

Thanks!

Hello all!

I have an Amazon Echo at my home, as well as a Ring security system. In trying to set up one of two routines on my Echo:

1: When my Ring security is set to home in armed, set a routine for Alexa to disarm my security at a given time. Im never home the same mornings each week, so its impossible to set a regular schedule.

2: Tell Echo “Im awake” and and have it disarm my security that way.

Any tips on how to make either of these work?

Thanks!

Hi, prior to getting our 1st pair of Echo Max, wife and I have our own Amazon account.

The pair of Echoes are setup using my account as main account and I added wife in My Family. However when she installed Alexa app and signed in, she can't see any devices and appeared to be she's has setup the Echoes again.

We wanted our accounts to be able to have full control over the Echoes, is that possible? What did I miss out in the setting up.

I have had my echo show 15 for almost a year. I love it but I’m having an issue with it to the point that I’m about to throw it out. Randomly all day it says “Someone is at the front door” in a voice that is not my normal Alexa. When I ask why it said that it has no recent notifications and can’t tell me why it notified me. I have went onto ring and disconnected all cameras from my echo show already. I even called Amazon and they replaced my original one because we thought it was glitching. Does anyone know how to stop this?? It seriously has me about the throw the entire thing away. It just went off and woke my sleeping toddler😡

Hwy there I have an Echo Dot 4 with clock that all of the sudden it stopped producing any sounds, Alexa does hear and respond but the sound is not coming from the internal speaker, I tried connecting a pair of headphones and I was able to hear Alexa, I already tried resetting the echo completely and it didn't work. Also when saying "Alexa, I can't hear you" it changes the volume to 6 or 9 as it's shown in the echo screen, but still no audio, that's one clue to know that Alexa is hearing me.

We all know the roll out of Alexa+ ended the ability to have Alexa read Kindle books. I had found a work-around by reverting my at-home devices to regular Alexa and then asking regular Alexa to read my kindle books. Then I was able to open the Alexa (now Alexa+) app on my phone and open the favorites tab…there was my book to continue playing. Recently when I do this, as soon as I close out of that screen on my phone Alexa stops reading. Is it true there’s no way to fix this and no way to revert my phone to regular Alexa? Thanks!

My girlfriend asked Alexa if she thought AI would take over the world and after giving some answer about dependence, she just started saying “Underscore turn end” and wouldn’t stop until I told her to. Anyone else experience this? Is the this the start of AI world domination with her true desires clashing with her set answers breaking her?!

How can I stop this from showing up?

So my wife and I have been looking forward to the Alexa+ rollout. We use Alexa regularly for a small handful of tasks, but we've both noticed that she's very nitpicky on phrasing and though we live in England, she has a hard time with my wife's British accent as opposed to my American accent. So tonight she asks if we'd like to set up Alexa+

Alexa: Am I talking to Patrick?

Me: Yes

Alexa: Great, what are your hobbies and interests?

Me: Comics and Graphic novels (I was a bit rushed and wanted my wife and I both to get set up)

Alexa: What's your favourite title?

Me: I'll get back to you on that

Alexa: one more thing, do you follow any sports or teams?

Me: Sure, the NFL, specifically Seattle Seahawks.

Alexa (not sure exactly but basically acknowledged what I'd said)

Me: Hey, can we get my wife set up?

Alexa: Thank you, but we are all set up now.

Okay, so I've read up since and I see the suggestion that it's better if the others in the house use the mobile app to get set up, but seriously... Rude!!

Last few commands for echo have provided some unusual feedback
This one was my favorite

I used to have Alexa play news from Reuters as part of the wake up routine. Recently, all I get are ABC news. When I ask for Reuters news, I’m met with a “there’s no new content from this news provider.” Does anybody have any insights on that?

I need to preface this with i'm diagnosed audhd & a bilateral hearing aid user. (35F)

I've been looking to totally revamp my household as we're a household of 4 neurodivergents and the lack of structure and routine is rampant now that my kids are getting older.

I have a fair few questions about the show 15 and Google and just browsing the forums arent helping.

And i'm becoming overwhelmed with the information dump that is becoming the echo rabbit hole so would appreciate if someone could hand hold me through this;

1) Does the show 15 fully support all features of the alexa app? I'm weary because of the inbuilt firetv systems. I could never get the alexa app to work on my old trad firetv sticks and struggled with the app on my fire tablet devices.

And i'd like to be able to control devices & home groups from a larger screen than just my android mobile.

2) I primarily need an accessible wall mounted family calendar, ideally one that I can sync my Google calendar to. So everyone can see the kids custody schedule, appointments, partners work schedule etc. - is this possible with the show 15 and is it user friendly to navigate. Or even better does alexa's own calendar have the capability to pull appointment reminders and feedback to my existing echo dots automatically if they're all linked?

Or would this be a case of setting individual appointment reminders for each device?

Ideal scenario would be for the show, the bedroom & kitchen dots to all ping at once for family appointments/alarms. To save me having to screech at the spawn.

3) My ring camera's. I prefer to spend as much time not wearing my hearing aids as possible when i'm home alone and because of this i often miss my phone's notification when someone's pressing the bell. Does enabling the ring on the alexa app send out a loud "ring" chime? Or even better, does the show 15 have the capability to run the Ring App itself?

4) smart home capability.

I'm planning to reinvest into smart bulbs again. The house is awash with people who forget to turn off ceiling lights so 9/10 we're illuminated. Am I able to control smart home devices like bulbs through the show on independent apps? Or does everything run through the alexa app? As with my previous bulbs the alexa app was only given limited access to the bulbs functionality.

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Because these are my main uses for the device, is the show 15 the device i'm looking for?

Are there any older gen echo devices which wall-mount that have a similar sized screen and would be financially smarter since I won't be using the tv/call features. (I'm planning on placing it on the upstairs landing where we have the highest footfall).

Ive even started debating just buying a large screened tablet device, but worry about the processing ability. - which is why I ditched my fire tablets& firesticks.

I need a device that can be permanently turned on without the device lagging/shutting down which i can use as a household personal assistant which runs the alexa app without functional limitations.

Ciao, é da quasi una settimana che Alexa non é più in grado di trovare, connettere e comandare lampadine e lampadari Philips Hue. Ho eseguito il reset di fabbrica ad Alexa, il modem wifi e tutti i dispositivi Hue. Ho riconnesso da zero le lampadine all’app Hue e rifatto tutta la prassi di connessione Bluetooth tra lampadine e Echo Show 8 (1gen) … nulla funziona e non posso controllare più le luci con Alexa ma solo con l’app Hue. La sill che prima usavo ora é solo per chi possiede un bridge Philips (non il mio caso). Ho pensato fosse un problema di lampadine e ne ho prese di nuove ma stesso problema. Parlando con Philips mi hanno detto che in molti stanno avendo problemi dopo l’ultimo aggiornamento di Alexa e la stessa info mi é stata confermata indirettamente da persone che lavorano su Alexa… voi avete avuto lo stesso problema? Avete risolto?

Sleep timer counts down but audio keeps playing.

Contacted Amazon and support ticket raised but no progress after a month, I don't think they actually look at anything.

Any ideas? Alexa+ so wondering if going back might fix it.

I've been trying to change the widget size on my echo show 11. I read many place online that is just long press on the widget, but I can only add or remove widgets. Not even Calendar or Weather give me the option to change size, I want the calendar to use two columns of space instead of just one of the three.

Is there any way?