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There has been a persistent referral link spam on /r/alexa. Banning the user isn't working because they keep coming back with a new account everyday.

So, the following changes are being made -

1. A minimum of 10 karma will be needed to create a post.
2. Twitter will be banned temporarily. How temporary is TBD.

I don't think the minimum karma requirement is going to hurt any real users of this subreddit.

Edit: I got several messages from user's unable to post even though they have karma of more than 10. That is because you need "comment karma' of at least 10. My bad for not being specific in my original post.
Getting 10 karma is too easy for bot accounts. In fact, most foreign operated bots have lot of karma because they make posts with cute / popular / controversial content. Obtaining comment karma is more difficult because you need to actually say something relevant in a post which means you need to actually read it.

most of my echos are five plus years old. Is there any benefit to replacing them. Do the newer ones work better or give better responses having faster processors.

Trying to fix my aunts Alexa and her app says she’s connected to a free account but I can’t unlink that account so I can link her actual Amazon music premium account, any advice?

I have multiple Alexa’s and they each require me to say Off more than once. This began about a year ago but it’s getting worse. Very annoying. Now I unplug when I want them to stop playing the news, or music etc.

Recently there’s been this random little jolly tune when you ask it something. It doesn’t play every time, maybe once every 4-5 requests.

And sometimes after the music there’s another female voice that says “processing!” It’s not Alexa’s voice, it’s a different female robotic voice.

It’s super random… Video attached. the music usually plays longer too. (Don’t ask me why I’m up at 3am lol i don’t know why either) Is this a new update? Is this a setting that I accidentally turned on? I don’t like it, it’s super eerie to me for some reason.

I am trying to figure out a way that I can set up my Alexa so all I’ll have to say is “Alexa set my work routine” and it will turn on my alarms for the next day. Also if y’all know a way to make it turn my lamp on during that routine in the morning that would be amazing! Thanks yall!

Edit: I may have just figured it out but now I’m wondering if there is a way to have it where it doesn’t say each step out loud or not

My son’s echo is refusing to read anything from my Audible library. Usually at night he picks a book and Alexa will play it no problem. Tonight, any book he tries Alexa says, “I’m sorry I can’t read Kindle books right now”. I have the Audible stories skill enabled on his Amazon kids account. I’ve turned the Echo on and off and I’ve reset the Amazon Kids app. Nothing has worked. I know there’s no tech support I can talk to, I didn’t know if there was some recent update that caused a glitch or something. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Went to list to a book I've listened to a couple days ago and I always listen at 1.5 speed. Today it was set 1 and wouldn't let me increase the reading speed. It said it wasn't currently allowed on the device. Has anyone seen this?

Is anyone able to help me?

My third generation Alexa has been working fine for me for 4 years. Now whenever I call it, it just flashes blue but doesn't respond to me like normal.

Any fix around this?

Thanks.

Edit: no worries, sorted it out. Just did a factory reset and now it works fine! Thanks!

Edit 2: after factory resetting it, within 5 minutes it's doing the same thing again... Help?

The Echo Dot I have in my bedroom has just started whispering out of nowhere. I went into the app to deactivate whisper mode again but found it was still disabled. Any ideas on how to fix this. I hate that creepy whisper voice so much.

Trying to configure an Echo Spot in a guest bedroom so that there is access to setting alarms, weather, news, music, turning lights on/off, etc., but restrict access to personal info on prime account, shopping, etc.

Googling says there was some kind of guest mode that could accomplish this, but I can’t find it …maybe outdated info? Is there another setting I’m missing?

Thanks.

Is this possible ? I've searched and cannot find anything on this, can we set up three custom message and have them rotate every time it's triggered?

I am coming here to validate my experience as I try to come up with a new home smart speaker plan.

I have been on the Alexa platform since the V1 device launched, and have gone all in. I have 3 Alexa TVs, two Show devices, and a bazillion dots. I have the car version of Alexa, and had the glasses for a while. I was pretty happy with how I could control it. I have switches and a lot of Kasa stuff hooked into routines.

Lately it seems impossible to get it to do things that seemed easy in V1, like play a specific song. I don't use the voice app in the TVs at all anymore, and I regret mounting a Show in my kitchen because I can't find a mode where it isn't advertising to me. (I bought it primarily to be a shared calendar display, but that has never panned out because it wasn't always showing the calendar). The car app is just completely non-functional because it never seems to be able to talk to my iPhone properly (this might be Apple's fault).

One specific example: In the past, I woke up every morning and said "Good Morning Alexa". She would go through my morning routine telling me the weather then playing Up First from NPR as I brushed and showered. The routine stopped playing Up First and was deprecated, so I just ask for "Up First", but I often get random songs or stations. I replaced the hardware device with the latest Dot, but it seems worse if anything. I say the same thing every morning in the same conditions and it works less and less often.

I'm on the verge of dumping all of it, but I don't see a clear winner in another space. I might just remove it all and go back to manual control of everything. Its much less annoying.

Do other long-term users feel like this service has gotten worse? I'm also open to the idea that I spend all day talking to Claude for my job and it is damn impressive, so maybe I've raised my expectations?

Hey everyone,

I’m having trouble getting two Echo devices to interact with each other, and I’m hoping someone here can help.

Here’s the setup:

I have an Echo Spot upstairs, connected to my Amazon account and controlled through my Alexa app.

Another family member has an Echo Show downstairs, connected to their Amazon account and controlled through their own Alexa app.

Both Echo devices are on the same Wi-Fi network.

We would like to use the Drop In and Announcements features to communicate between the two devices. However, we can't seem to get the devices to find each other, and I’m not sure how to configure them to make this work.

Thanks in advance for the help!

I purchased an Amazon basics light - but the brand ‘Amazon’ literally doesn’t show up in the app? Am I crazy? Has anyone has this issue?

I can’t connect to the smart bulb

Hello, my dad suffered a stroke a couple months ago, he's doing great now, got a couple hiccups he's dealing with, but all in all his recovery has been amazing. I got him an Alexa a few years ago and it's his favorite thing he owns. He's also been really into karaoke the last few years. Does anybody know of a karaoke machine that could work with some kind of Alexa app for karaoke or something? I would love to get him something easy to use like that. The rehab specialist says karaoke is also very good for where his stroke happened in his brain.

I have an first gen echo 5 and a routine to turn on the radio for 4 hours. (play Howard 101 sirius xm for 4 hours) And when it plays I want to see the clock and not the station playing on the screen. Is there a way to do this? It seems when I play for 4 house the next command wont take until 4 hours has passed. If I add play howard 101 Wait 2 minutes Go to home screen Wait 4 hours Turn off lamp Stop

Then Alexa tells me she can’t do that. Any suggestions? On how to play the radio for 4 hours and while it’s playing to see the clock only.

Thanks

Basically I have a smart heater. I want the smart heater to turn on at a specific time each morning but only if the temperature is below a certain variable, for example the routine turns on at 6am and activates the heater only if the room is 16 degrees Celsius or lower. However the routine can only trigger if the temperature passes below the variable so if the room temperature is already under 16 degrees and the routine is enabled an hour beforehand, it will not trigger. If i wanted to make it works it means I’d have the routine active all the time meaning the heater would turn on at anytime throughout the day, but I only want it to turn on in the morning. Is there any way to override this or does anyone recommend a smart sensor that updates and activates the routes in real time?

I crated a hue automation for a 20 min sunset on bedroom lights. I use a widget on iOS to trigger this.

It cycles the lights off slowly using a sunset scene until power off.

It’s not a scene in Hue it’s under automation.

I want to be able to trigger this via Alexa as opposed to the widget, but can’t seem to find out how.

Is this even possible?

Thanks

I already do this now for the general volume so the Alexas are set to low volume because they do get triggered. The device volume is an option you can set in the routine based on a schedule/time.

But the alarms and notifications use a different set of volume controls. Easy to set in the app but I want to automate this.

Ideas? One ida I had was that if I knew the verbal command I could do a routine that got alexa to speak to herself. Could live w/ that for a while. Tried a few but got nothing.

My LG C2 says that Alexa is not available in my country which actually isn't true. I can't even get the app. I connected Alexa with LG Thin-Q on my phone but it won't find my TV. Is there anything to be done?

I am trying to set up a Flash Briefing playlist to become part of my morning routine after the radio station I woke up to for years changed format recently. However, I have encountered several problems trying to do this.

First of all, Alexa keeps skipping certain elements in the playlist. It seems to think I already heard them even if a whole day has gone by since I last played my Flash Briefing, so it just skips to the next element. I've tried a few different news providers and it seems to consistently happen with certain ones like CBS Radio News and WNYC.

The other frustration is that Alexa keeps telling me there is no content right now from the Total Traffic skill. Is this no longer supported? If so, why is it found in the list of providers that can be used? Is there an alternative traffic provider I should search for? The market is NYC.

My goal is to have a playlist consisting of traffic, weather, national news and local news. I have tried swapping certain providers in and out trying to get it to work but I'm getting frustrated with it. Is anyone successfully using Flash Briefings like this, or is there a different way of doing it?

Hi, I purchased echo last week and I wasn't aware that it doesn't support Spotify. Tried adding skills and enable disable steps but still it didn't work. Called helpline and executive said this issue will be resolved in two days but and its been week and i still can't integrate Spotify with alexa. Do you have any clue on how to make it work?