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it is a choose-your-own-adventure game with a focus on surviving a party where spies try to incapacitate each other.

the first choice is "do you want a drink" which if you answer "yes" you pass out and lose, answering "no" will have the asker being amused, then explaining the rules. then the voice in your ear starts.

the voice in your ear then remarks that "i see you've remembered the cardinal rule, always mix your own drinks" and is the one who gives you all your choices throughout the story.

another choice is to make a knockout dart out of a toothpick, and another is to choose to clean up chloroform which results in you having a chloroform rag.

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there are multiple endings and i only got the stalemate ending before i forgot what it is called.

Just noticed I’m now getting song and artist info when I’m streaming Sirius XM. I thjnk the display is also more detailed when streaming from Apple Music, but I’m not certain. Apple Music streams now show the song title, artist name, and album name and album art.

Not sure if it’s a SiriusXM change or an Alexa one, but I’m loving the update.

Amazon needs to release an oversized smart calendar similar to Hearth but natively integrated with Alexa. The Echo Show 15" is no where near large enough and the display is not even close to deal. It's far too small to display the whole month at once for at-a-glance quick reference.

I believe Hearth can connect with Google Calendar but then you need Alexa to bridge via Google (to the best of my understanding). I want something totally built-in and seamless that just works without extra steps. Currently, there is Skylight, Hearth, DAKBoard, and Cozyla so consumer interest is definately there and none of these work GREAT with Alexa.

It could have so many cool features. You know they already track everywhere we go on account of the cell phone in our pockets. Might as well put that to good use and let it use that information to analyze your routines and make automatic suggestions to put on your calendar.

Auto reminders for upcoming major and minor holidays, like Valentines day at 14 days, 7 days, and then 1 day. Automatic "Days until Christmas" countdown starting on November 1st, day after Thanksgiving, December 1st, or a customizable date of your choosing. Birthday reminders that carry over indefinitely year after year.

It would be color-coded by family member or activity. Multiple views (30 day calendar view on an XL screen or weekly/daily agenda, task list sidebar, individual profile view by user). It needs to have just this ONE singular purpose, tracking scheduling and tasks, and be absolutely amazing at it. You would be able to create one-time or recurring calendar appointments by voice, touch screen, text (like hearth), or Alexa app.

It could overflow tasks and appointments to the following day if they didn't get done. There is just a need for a strong visual component and Echo Show falls very short in the calendar department. Amazon, please release a jumbo AI Smart Calendar! I will buy it and pay lots of money.

And yes, I realize this sub is not Amazon customer service, I am just sending this idea out into the void.
Sincerely,
An Alexa Fangirl :)

Hello!

As the title says, I bought a Show 10 a few days ago and I have been trying various custom routines to no avail to stop seeing the motion detection in PIP and full screen instead.
'show front door in full screen' doesn't work, she didn't understand 'show front door maximised' either and when I try and add the doorbell itself to the action (Ring Battery Doorbell Plus) it says that the doorbell isn't supported.
I did search both here and the Ring subreddit but they were all at least a couple of years old and didn't seem to have a working solution

Thanks in advance for any help!

I've found some dialogue online that states Echo Show 15 cannot control groups, however it certainly used to work up until a month or so ago! Is there a fix for this? Scenario:

In our kitchen I have 3 floating shelves with Govee LED strips separately embedded in each shelf, so 3 separate smart devices. I've always had all 3 lights added in the app, then created a group called "Floating Shelves", so I could just say "Alexa, turn on floating shelves", and all 3 would turn on, or off for that matter. Doesn't work from the SHOW anymore, which is the closest Echo to these shelves. Instead, I need to walk into the living room with my Echo in there and make the request, and it works just fine.

Also for what it's worth, the Show 15 won't even turn them on individually, as I have them named "floating shelf one" and two, and three. I used to use numbers, but have been editing it just to see if it would work better, but doesn't matter.

I've even completely removed the group and lights from the Alexa app, deleted from the Govee app, re-added to Govee, re-added to Alexa app, built group again, and nothing.

Right now it says it's 49 degrees F. Said a similar temp yesterday morning.

It is actually 63, similar yesterday morning, and hasn't been as low as 49 in about a month.

"Ask Big Sky for the weather" gives more accurate numbers.

I have routines set to time. ie. 30 min before sunset my lights turn from cool to warm. However, if I turn off my lights before leaving the apartment, this routine will turn the lights back on 30 min before sunset.

Is there any way to create a routine so that when I am not home (location based?), my time based routines are automatically disabled? Many nights I am not home on short notice and don't want to have to disable multiple routines manually everytime.

Open to all suggestions!

Every single time I tell it to play ANY song from before 2000s it will play the same recommended song after and it’s completely ruined that song for me because I’m so sick of it. At this point I don’t say Alexa play a specific song for me because hearing the recommended song after pisses me off.

I don’t want to completely turn off recommended songs I just want it to stop suggesting the same song every single time

I'm listening to music on Amazon Music on my Dot and Alexa keeps interrupting my music to say random tips about shopping lists and shopping carts. How do I disable this?

Alexa told me my light bulbs were unresponsive, so I removed them from the Alexa app and now I’m trying to re-pair them and it says they can’t be discovered. I tried to put them in pairing mode by turning them on and off 5 times and it didn’t work.

I have the latest Fire Cube, and two Echo Studios set up using a hoe theater. For a while now I always see a 1 by my notifications, but when I open them there’s nothing there. It hasn’t bugged me, but I suspect now whatever ghost notification is happening keeps turning off my sound.

I’ve turned off all notifications on both my fire cube and the fire tv itself. But anytime I watch something, every 10-15 minutes I can expect audio to be cut off for 5 seconds.

Has anyone experienced this and found a fix?

I was wondering if anyone else has this problem

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Sometimes, when I ask Alexa something, she doesn't immediately respond

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When I ask her to repeat, she'll say okay, I'll repeat, and then repeat what it was I was trying to get her to say in the first place.

Does this happen to anyone else?.

I asked my alexa as a joke “alexa how do i die” and she started telling me the chemical properties of bleach, how much will hurt you & the effects of drinking it… LOL

We are looking at maybe not having prime after this year. I've had it for 12 years, but Amazon just keeps getting worse, so looking at not continuing to pay for prime. I have 3 Alexas, what will happen? Will they continue to work? I mean, ill still have an Amazon account, just not pay for prime.

Hello! I bought the Swan Smart kettle but when I ask Alexa to turn the kettle on it will only do so if I ask it. If anyone else asks Alexa says ‘I would if I could but I can’t’. Part of the reason I bought it was for my elderly parents but it’s not much good if it won’t listen to them 🙈

I’m a bit of an Alexa novice so appreciate any advice!

Hello sound engineers, today I would like to share a dissenting opinion with you. During the last Black Friday sale of the Echo Dot 4 (which was quite some time ago), I acquired an Echo 4. I already had an Echo 3, which I found to have quite poor sound quality. However, with the Echo 4, the spatial sound convinced me to reconsider my opinion about a mono sound system. There is some truly wonderful and incredible technology in the Echo Dot 4, and this is not any sort of mkt brand from Amazon. I was genuinely impressed with the quality. I practically work all day on the computer, which is why I use a Bluetooth sound adapter and have the Alexa Echo 4 playing lo-fi music as background music throughout the day. Sometimes I listen to playlists as well. But now, onto the reason for this post: the Echo 5 had been released in Europe and the USA, but not in Brazil where I live. So, I managed to purchase one from a traveler to test out the version 5. Initially, when I compared them side by side, the Echo 5 had a brighter sound. The Echo 5's marketing claimed that the bass was up to 40% better, and there is indeed a difference. However, for some reason, after spending one month with the Echo 4 and another month with the Echo 5, alternating between them for four months, I reached the following conclusion: the Echo 4 is superior to the Echo 5 in the following aspect: if you want background music, something that won't distract you while you're on a call, programming, or doing anything else that requires the use of your ears, the sound of the Echo 5 ends up being too bright, drawing too much attention. So, I ended up giving the Echo 5 as a gift and keeping the Echo 4. Also, I find it absurd how the Echo 3 has a much superior microphone system compared to its older siblings.
But has anyone else had this kind of experience? Is it possible that it's related to my musical preference?
If I have a dream in life? To meet the man who developed the speaker of the Alexa Echo Dot 4. And maybe even to punch the man who programmed Alexa to be deaf and say she doesn't know things.

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Dear Amazon, please create products that represent upgrades in all aspects, and hire a software engineer who can keep up with your hardware.
my second dream, to have an alexa with a speaker like that, but in the size of 4 or 5 inches instead of 2 inches. (maintaining the same characteristics as the echo dot, being exactly the same product with the only difference being the size and power)

I'm sure we will learn something from each other :)

Unique:
For me it's linked to Spotify
Alexa, Shuffle _ARTIST_NAME_
and it will shuffle the songs

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All of a sudden today my Alexa is no longer sending any notifications of motion at the door, or of the doorbell being pressed. Notifications are on both in the ring app, and in the Alexa app. Also, the Alexa skill to view the front door (on fire stick) and to speak to the front door (on echo dot) are working.

Also, my Bluetooth Hue lamp is also not responding to commands and is now showing as "Server is unavailable" in the Alexa app, despite it working perfectly in the Hue app.

I've tried a power cycle of both my home router and all Alexa devices, but nothing seems to have fixed it.

Any ideas to resolve this?

Is it not possible to share or print the list from there? I have both options on the phone app.

What magic words do I say to see MY air quality information on my echo show?

Everything I ask about either returns weather info, or general (outdoor) AQI information.

It’s got a nice interface in the app, I’d be happy with even just the general AQI summary for each sensor.

I have alerts setup, so I want to be able to bring up which room/area is having the issue when it says my air quality has decreased.

Sorry if this has been covered, I don't know anything about Matter and I see from a search that people are excited about Alexa being able to control Matter devices. That's great. But is Matter required now for connection?

I have a couple of smart bulbs, E Energized brand, that worked fine until a few days ago. Suddenly Alexa doesn't recognize either of them. And when I try to reinstall them, it asks me for a Matter number. When I say I don't have one, it just takes me back to the devices page. So it looks like these bulbs are obsolete now?

I'm controlling through an Echo Dot if it matters. Thanks for any input. Obviously not the end of the world if they aren't supported anymore, but I would love to be able to continue using Alexa with them.

We know that Echoes/Alexa cannot call 911 (at least not without a bluetooth link to your cell phone) due to not being E-911 compliant. It will flat out refuse to make the call. Having a bluetooth link to your cell phone is one possible solution but far from foolproof and highly limited (I'd go as far as to call it an unreliable solution). There is one other method - for a monthly fee the main cellular providers will let you link your echos (via a skill) to make and receive calls as though you were using your cell, and that can call 911. But if you use anything other than the big 3 providers, they don't offer this, plus you're basically paying a monthly fee for something you can do free using the method below.

Now that they've ended support for the Echo Connect (which did allow echo to call 911 via your landline), there is really no other official option to make it work, other than paying for Amazon's service to connect to an operator who then calls 911 for you, which not only costs money but also adds delay.

The discontinuation of the Echo connect left an elderly family member of mine with 6 Dots spread around the house that were no longer able to call 911 in an emergency, which was the entire reason for buying them and the Echo Connect in the first place.

However there is a workaround

1. Contact the non emergency line for your local police (or see if there is an email contact for the 911/emergency services coordinator for your area) and ask them for the standard 10 digit phone number for their emergency dispatch. This should be the number that will send you to the same place that calling 911 does. Larger cities will have their own, smaller may have a county or state number.
2. Ask them if they can program in an address based on a caller ID number. Nearly every one should support this, and usually also have a field for notes where you can give information that is useful for the dispatcher to know. They may need you to fill out a form, but this step is critical as if they can't hear you or you aren't able to talk, they need that address pre-populated, and alexa will NOT send this to them. It also saves critical time by pre-populating the address on their computer. Give them the cell phone number that is associated with your alexa account (it will be in the alexa app, if you haven't added it, it is easy to do). When you call from alexa/echo, it will spoof this number so that's what they'll see (I think it also sends your full name from the app, but not positive, and that isn't critical as you'll give that to them to manually add to their system anyway).
3. In the alexa app, add a contact with the first name Nine One One. Note the numbers 911 will not work, use the words. Last name can be blank. You can of course use some other name like Police or whatever, but 911 seems like the easiest to remember in an emergency, and also you don't want to use "help" or "emergency" as those can conflict with the emergency contact feature of Alexa and end up calling someone else.
4. For the contact number, put the 10 digit number they gave you above. Contact type doesn't matter, you can put mobile, home, or work. Use the full 10 digits even if your area doesn't require area code, since the call isn't actually coming from your area.
5. Once they confirm their database is updated, ask if you can make a test call to make sure everything is working. You'll simply need to say "alexa, call 911". Normally this would result in her saying "I can't call that number" but with this workaround, it will work.

Some notes/limitations:

1. If the 10 digit number they give is toll free, you cannot set that number as "emergency contact", for some reason it won't allow toll free numbers for that. So the only command that will work in this case is "alexa, call 911" (or whatever word you chose). If it is a standard number, you should be able to set it as the emergency contact. In that case either "alexa call 911" or "alexa call for help" should connect you to the same place. Or you can keep the emergency contact separate, a neighbor or whatever, up to you. If separate, then "911" will call emergency services, and "help" will call the neighbor/relative/whoever you programmed in. Just remember, in a panic you may not remember this distinction. Generally, simpler is better.
2. Alexa only allows you to have 10 contacts that you can call for free. If you already have 10 contacts, you'll need to delete one. Note every time you tell her to call a number, it adds it to the contacts (until you hit 10, when it won't allow you to call any new numbers until you delete some). As far as I know, having the "nine one one" contact in there will lock it in as one of the 10 and it should not be "bumped out" or overwritten or anything.
3. The call will use the internet to connect to their central phone system, then the call is actually made from there. So your internet must be up for this to work. Having your cable modem, router, and as many echoes as possible on battery backup can help, but there are still some cases where the internet will be down and this won't work.
4. Echoes (especially the newer generations) are very good at picking up commands from a distance, but it may be too far for the dispatcher to hear you well/at all. That's why you want the address in there, as they'll dispatch anyway, even if they can't make out what you're saying.

If you want to test it out, you can simply put a landline or cell phone (not the same cell phone the alexa app has preferably) as the number under the "nine one one" contact, then try it and make sure the caller ID shows what you expect it to and everything is working as expected. Then switch it to the emergency number when you're comfortable that it is working right.

Has anyone ever had it where in the middle of the night Alexa just started randomly reciting the alphabet in William Shatners voice? My girlfriend and I were woken up at about 4:30 AM to this with no tv on or outside noise to trigger it. I also looked at the activity and at no point was anything asked or recorded of this. Just wondering if it’s happened to anyone else.

This song is always either the first or second song on the instrumental lullaby station we have. As of late we cannot skip songs or give it a thumbs down. It keeps saying no music is playing. Help!

Wondering if it’s possible to link one device (an Alexa plug) to two accounts. We both use it but have our own accounts so would be nice if we both had ability to control

Is there any type of device or any type of way I could make my Amazon Alexa Echo Dot play music via both Bluetooth to my Marshall Action ii and to my aux port into my stereos and speakers. I know this can be possible by combining two Echo’s but I currently only own one Echo. If the only solution is to purchase another Echo please let me know.

Hi, Everytime I unplug Alexa Echo Dot and plug it again, Alexa forgets my Wifi network. A “the name wifi network’s name or password changed” message is played.

When I open the configuration tab on my Alexa Mobile app, I don’t see my network. I do see some networks which name starts with the word “fmesh” and are also displayed with good signal. Has anyone else experienced the same issue?

If I open the app with another device while it’s playing on Alexa, it abruptly switches to the media volume of that device.

I don’t want to control the Alexa speaker group with my device buttons. Which device is going to even work or not work with Spotify connect?

I just tried to play a text message using “speak” in iMessage and increased the volume in iMessage and my echos all went to full volume. I don’t like loud noises and it’s a frantic rush to stop the music every time this happens.

Alexa is the active Spotify user. Not my iPhone. My volume buttons shouldn’t affect it unless inside the Alexa or Spotify app. I never know what is going to happen when opening a different device or app.

Hell, Alexa decided it wants to tell me the forecast every day and now one speaker in the speaker group announces it and stays at that volume until I manually adjust it back.

Has anyone figured out a better system? I originally wanted to add the receiver to one of my rooms sound system to a multi-room control group, but sorry, no. I don’t trust Alexa with a 12” subwoofer at 2am

It's getting so annoying trying to play my audible collection I have given up. The device seems to be programmed to annoy with poor understanding. I have two of them, so it is unlikely that it is a physical issue with it. My spouse and I both try, and have been basically forced to listening on my phone. Are others having this experience?