r/alexa

I have several routines that incorporate 2 TV’s, PowerView window shades and Hue lights. The routines have been running perfectly for over a year. For the last week the Hue component has been failing. Lights turn on and off but not as defined in the routine. The shades and TV’s perform as defined. Has anyone else had issues with Hue lights lately?

At some point in the last week, my Home Screen got bombarded with ads and crap I don’t want. I’ve tried to edit it, but you can’t remove the bloat.

I used to enjoy walking down stairs and having it turn on to show me the weather forecast for the day. Now, it shows me several ads and a tiny little current temp. I’ve tried several times to get it back how it used to be, but you can’t remove it and only display the weather.

I don’t like the direction this is headed. Can anyone recommend an alternative device?

A few weeks ago, my husband programmed our Alexa to respond to simple commands with the phrases “cool beans” or “easy Peezy lemon squeezy”. Now, every time we give her a phrase, she responds with ALL of these one right after another. Unfortunately, she is not responding to our request to stop using those phrases, and I can’t figure out how to undo it in the app. Can anyone help?

I *had* Alexa+ enabled. It's currently 10:28AM CST and 5:24PM in Rome, Italy. When I had asked for the time, She answered it was 11:24pm. Since most of my work interactions are in Europe, I know that it is afternoon/early evening there so I was pretty stunned. When I questioned Alexa+ the answer was given that I was right and it's actually an hour earlier than previously stated. With Alexa+ disabled, the time reported back for Rome, Italy is now correct.

I just put on a song to play at volume 10 and my speaker is shot. Crackles and distorted now.

I'm partially deaf and need a loud very clear speaker. I've always had the Gen 3 because it is loud and clear.

Are there any other really loud speakers or do I need to hunt for more gen 3?

I have to Echo 2s in my house and both of them have super weird LED ring behavior for a few weeks now. When I start talking to them the LED ring shines brighter in the opposite direction, then it turns off but Alexa apparently still listens.

it genuinely feels like Amazon is only vibecoding the whole Alexa things now and everything breaks and gets worse by the day.

Hi,

Hoping for some help here. we have a family Spotify account where everyone has their own account registered. We also have Alexa set up to recognize each family member. This is a daily issue: when I am playing Spotify on my phone or in my car and someone at home plays Spotify (even from their Alexa and Spotify account) it will stop my Spotify from playing. Please help!

Suddenly our Alexa Plus won't give basic distances between most cities. She'll do Los Angelas to New York, but any non-general knowledge ones (like say, Olympia to Spokane) and she says "She's not able to look up real time travel distances yet". This used to work. Anyone else seeing this? I asked her why she could do the New York to LA one and she says she can give "general distances".

I have a number of Echo Dots around my house. All of them just reset at 2am EDT (GMT-4).

I assume it’s an Amazon screw-up, since trying to login to the Alexa app is just a recursive loop (email->pass->2FA->repeat). Particularly fun since all my devices are yelling about WiFi setup every so often, in the middle of the night.

Did anyone else experience this?

im getting sick of my shows being interrupted with your House of Dragons advertisement. it’s not funny having my alexa device hear your ad on my TV then change my fire tv to house of dragons, very uncool

Is anyone else experiencing a delay in response time from new Alexa + ?

Even simple requests like ‘set timer’ or ‘what’s the time’ seem to take a beat or two longer for a response versus the previous version.

Enough of a pause that I’ve repeated the question only to have the response start midway through the repeated question

I am installing alexa in my home and most things work fine. I do have some problems with my two smart plugs.

I can turn them on and off without any problem but when i turn them on alexa keeps saying the device is not answering even though the plugs turn on immediately.

There is no problem with other alexa stuff like leds or smart bulbs only the smart plugs have this, so i doubt it's the internet connection since everything is in the same wifi.

It's kind of annoying and i tried reinstalling them but it still happens.

Is this a bug? Can i stop alexa from saying they're unresponsive somehow?

Thanks in advance.

I have 2 different Alexas in my home. They are different models. One model looks like a pop can (taller and a cylinder) while the other one is a shorter, flatter version. I'm not sure which is the newer one, but I suspect it "could be" the taller of the two. I've had both for quite a while and really don't remember which order I bought them in.

The taller of the two, when I ask it what time it is, can tell me, "It's 8:03 am".

The shorter, flat version (this morning) has started saying, "I can't tell you that" in a higher pitched voice. When I ask that one "Why can't you tell me what time it is?" the response is then, "It's 8:03 am" in the normal, lower voice.

I have told that Alexa to revert back to Alexa, and NOT use Alexa plus, but it responds that I do NOT have it "upgraded" (downgraded in my opinion) to Alexa plus.

If I ask that one what the weather is, it can tell me in its normal Alexa voice.

What is going on with that Alexa all of a sudden? It just started this BS this morning.

I have walked between the two rooms multiple times this morning, and am getting the same results.. the taller Alexa uses the regular voice and can always tell me the time.. the short flat one uses a high pitch voice and says, "I can't tell you that!" but if I ask, "Why can't you tell me the time?" then it reverts back to the original Alexa voice and tells me the time.

I'm getting ready to look for my hammer and take one of these things out of action. The one that survives will be ME and the tall one that can still tell me the time.

Is it possible for my kid to video call family members who don’t have Amazon devices? I can’t figure this out. Any help is welcome

Ever since they updated Alexa it's been acting weird but it now lies about the limits of its capabilities like chat gpt will do.

I asked if alexa could set a chime instead of an alarm which it enthusiastically said it could do instead of an alarm. When the time hit though the normal alarm went off. I asked why and it said it didn't actually have a chime and that it should have explained itself better that it's a just a gentler sounding alarm.

It is the normal alarm.

It goes on to say it set a "gentler alarm" if I would like. I gave the okay and to set it for 1 minute from now. One minute later the same alarm at the same volume went off that I've heard since I bought it.

Really strange that it would do this and clear what ever ai mode they're now using in these devices isn't working.

Bought x3 Alexa, Echo Spot, Echo Dot Max & Echo Show 11

Gave commands perfect as described in app and be like.

Alexa lights on -

7 out of 10 "Sorry you need a smart device........"

Alexa Music on -

7 out of 10 "Music requested is available on Amazon.... Do you want a free Trial"

100% sure all setting are correct.

All apps for lights and for music in place.

Is this only me or this is a know thing with Alexa?

This is not only my voice but all of us in the family.

Like.. today will be sunny with a high of 20c degrees and a low of 12c degrees, oh and there is a massive tornado coming in about 5 minutes lol soz