Really love it. Thanks so much Jeff!

Got an email about my 10+ year old 5+ Yr prime account being put on hold for "unusual activity" whatever the hell that is, I've done nothing differently over these years and never done anything shady on this site, spent multiple 10s of K here and just a week ago spent several 100 on Xmas gifts! oh and they cancelled all the orders I'm waiting to arrive now too..

Anyway the second I get this email all 4 of my houses alexas say at once it's singing out remotely and needs to restart, immediately shuts down, turns back on and my Alexas are fully factory reset. I cannot control any of my lights, heaters, outlets, fans, and much more now due to this as I use my Alexa voice commands for absolutely everything.

Absolutely blown away they can do this, makes me realise how reliant I am on this, I am going to seriously re think amazon and Alexa going forward, 99% sure I'll be removing all alexas and swapping to Google at the very least.

Anyway I'm just venting here, but Holy shit.

The Alexa app on my Android phone must have gotten updated automatically by the Google Play Store, because I no longer can find my activity log of commands I've given my Echo. (I'm not sure I remember correctly that "activity log" is what it's called.) Has it been moved around so that eludes me, or maybe even eliminated? I can't even remember how I used to get to it — I just went in there and looked around, and it was easy to find, but now it seems to be gone.

We bought a refurbished 2019 kindle fire as a tablet in our kitchen. Works great, except it can't hear. We are standing inches in front and an Alexa from another room picks up and the tablet won't. I switched it's wake word to Amazon, but it still doesn't hear well or will activate for 3 seconds and stops. Any suggestions? Is it faulty?

Can anyone help? We are sneakily trying to get our non analogue time telling children to bed half an hour earlier but they are constantly asking Alexa the time - is there a way other than unplugging the Alexa’s that I can block Alexa with responding with the time? Is it sneaky? Yes. Our children are LAC so we have to choose our battles and this is the easiest option for us! Any help welcome!

Asking For A Video. (FTR. I'm Not Matt Rose)

So I have multiple Alexa devices (Echoes) and my friend has too. Are there games we could play against each other using our Alexa devices?

Trying to think what we can do besides just calling each other.

Hi. Looking for an easy functional way to track 5 separate habits/taks on a daily basis.

I downloaded some Habit Trackers and am having issues making them work for 5 habits.

I want the path of least resistance, once sentence only (not "open habit tracker"... and then etc). Do any decent habit tacker installable skills work well?

If not, anything that i could make work and then fill in my phone tracker later? Maybe use the list feature?

RESOLVED I’m about to smash my Echo Shows because somehow ads are appearing again, and I can’t find all the (apparently many) places to disable this AGAIN.

Long story short my mom is old and refuses to get a smart phone. I gave her one of my Google Assistant devices years ago and added her as a device on my account so she was able to stream music using my Spotify account using voice prompts. When it worked things were great.

Two issues:

1. Her playing a song would hijack my Spotify activity and if I played a song it would then hijack it back to my local device.

2. Occasionally the device would lose sync between my Google Home account and her device and it felt like a nightmare trying to troubleshoot issues with her over the phone. I have an iPhone so I’m not super in-tune with the Android/Google ecosystem.

If she had her own Spotify account or whatever music service she chooses, would it be possible to use Alexa to play music without her having a smart phone or computer?

I’d help her setup an account for herself on my computer, but I would like the device to be tethered to her own account so that she can play songs whenever she chooses.

I see the Echo is nearly half off so I ordered one and can return it if this is not an option.

Thanks

I think I’m finally going to give up on our Wyze bulbs. They are constantly disconnecting from Alexa. I can still turn them on from the Wyze app, but not through Alexa at all. I used to have Philips Hue bulbs, but they use the bridge and I had a couple of the bridges die, so I gave up on those. Can someone recommend something actually reliable?

Echo responds to voices on TV so often I'm pretty much ready to unplug it all, at least 2-3 times per episode of any show.

Is there no way to require a wake word before Echo attempts to help?

Hi! I have an Echo Show 8 and just got a 5. I have turned the reminders on to announce everywhere. And say things to Alexa like “announce on all devices” or “remind US” which others have reported fixed their issues. Sadly it didn’t fix it for me. My announcements are all set to all devices. Any idea?

Hello, I would like for my echo to play music on my surround sound via blue tooth thru an amplifier. I am able to connect. However, all voice goes totally he stereo system. What I would like to happen is for the normal functions - ie hey Alexa what is the weather to stay on the Echo and simply stream the music. Is this possible?

I just got an Echo Show 5 and linked my Kasa account to be able to view my TP-Link camera and the Echo keeps telling me the camera is not responding. I got it to work a few times by unplugging and plugging back in the echo and also by re-linking but now I can't get it to work at all. The camera feed works just fine in the Kasa app but is refusing to cooperate with Alexa.

Both apps are updated and firmware is updated on the devices as well.

Does anyone know what the first 6 notifications are? Because I clicked one by mistake, and it asked me for position access. I gave it to the device because I want to know local news, weather etc., but what was this notification that opened it for me?

It seemed like something to use the Echo Dot when I'm not home. Could it be possible that this functionality asks for position?

Basically, I want to know what was the notification that I clicked, and that was removed because I clicked it.

Only thing I know is that it asked for my position.

1. can I set up Alexa on echo spot so that it speaks Hindi but displays English. I want date and time to stay in English.

2. can I set up music to play at a certain time using routines without getting a subscription? I just want prayers at a certain time but it starts cycling through random stuff even if I make a playlist.

About two months ago, something weird started occurring: when I would hand wash dishes in my kitchen in the evening, I would hear music music starting to play on my old, original Echo that I now keep in my bedroom. Even though this would occur at random times, I checked to see if some kind of alarm was set (there were none.) My sister and I share an Amazon household and we can see each other’s devices so I thought she was trying to play music but calling the wrong device (she was not.) I began to think someone was hacking into my Echo so I changed passwords and detached and reattached the device to my network hoping that would do the trick (it did not.) I was going crazy trying to figure out what was starting the music.

Then, the other night, I was cleaning up my routines and I spotted it—“Cook dinner with music”. I had completely forgotten that back in the summer, Alexa suggested this routine where she would play music (James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, etc.) when my kitchen Echo Dot heard running water between 5:00 and 7:00 pm. I had thought it was a cute idea but I don’t know why the music outlet was set to my bedroom Echo. But in the summer until late fall, my evening dish washing habit is later, after 7:00 pm.

So the music mystery is solved and the culprit was big dummy me for forgetting about agreeing to subscribe to a routine. I still think it’s a cute idea so I’ve directed the music to my tinny kitchen Echo Dot. Just need to figure out how to get it to play 80s music.

Our Alexa won't stop increasing it's volume whenever there are background noises, like a hairdryer or if we are cooking in the kitchen etc. I've already turned adaptive volume off in the settings and it keeps doing it. It's really annoying because it's blasting music almost at full volume. If you guys have any tips on how to turn this off or is it a bug with an update, I'd greatly appreciate your answers. Thanks in advance.

I am hoping I can use the smart hub indoor so when someone presses the Arlo doorbell, I can activate the camera to see it on the smart hub directly. Is that possible?

I just spent 15 minutes trying to get Alexa to play the 10th anniversary version of Les Miserables but she played everything under the sun except that version! I was screaming at the damn dot even though i knew it was stupid on my part! 😡

I have the ekyro opener and it works fine, but I also want Alexa to announce when the door opens closes, which is something this opener can't do.

Do I need to get a different one, or do I have to one those smart door sensors?

Just wondering if anyone knows of the reason for the Amazon Smart Plug to be unavailable for approx 6+ months?

I purchased one back in August, and have been keeping an eye to be ready for Prime Day and Black Friday deals but it’s just not available to buy.

I have a weird habit of asking my Alexa device odd questions. The other day I asked it, "What is the square root of cheesecake?" and she answered, "The square root of cheesecake is 11.66". I wasn't expecting this. Can anyone explain how it came to this conclusion?

This is so annoying, tell me if I made a mistake:

I did these 4 routines :

If SWITCH is turned ON, PLUG turns ON If SWITCH is turned OFF, PLUG turns OFF If PLUG is turned ON, SWITCH turns ON If PLUG is turned OFF, SWITCH turns OFF

Most of the time when it is turned OFF or ON from the switch, they just both start blinking between 3 and 10 times.

It’s 2 lights that I always want ON together.

I’m looking for some speakers (preferably a soundbar and then maybe 2 other smaller speakers that can go around my bedroom) that when I ask Alexa ‘play -insert song here-‘ they will all start playing it. If that’s possible. I would very much appreciate some suggestions, my budget is around £300. Thank you in advance! I have an Amazon echo second gen but will be willing to upgrade if needed.

Is there a way to do this because changing my thermostat in one tap would be amazing

Thanks for your help!

I've done all the things. Wifi check, reset each dot, reinstalled app, deregistered, even account address update, and still the eternal loop on all 6 echo devices. Help.