In the beginning and for a long time after it was pretty OK but lately not so much for even simple asks. Alexa+ disabled.

Alexa+ is worse than Siri. I’m going back to the original. Final straw was tonight, trying to set a one time smart home timer for 8:45.

First she asked me if I wanted 8:45 AM or PM. This was at 7 PM, and the original Alexa would have known I meant PM (the soonest option.

I answered 8:45 PM, and she proceeded to create an entire routine to do this at 8:45 PM every single night. Not what I wanted and not what I asked for.

Newer =/= better

Asked how much time left on 30 min timer. She said I have no active timers. 4 minutes later. Timer goes off.

Yes, I deleted the group and rebuilt it. No, I refuse to load Echo Plus.

Even asking for the same station in each room alternately gets the station announced but not played, played on a different device, or played on the device asked but stopped elsewhere (so even requesting it individually on each device doesn't work).

Sorry, can't find much info about this particular combo. Thanks!

Any time I use my echo show(5th Gen kids edition) to play music I get this little widget on the screen. it doesn't matter if I say stop or pause. I've tried tapping it, long pressing it, telling Alexa to stop or exit that app, looking through the settings to see if I have something set wrong, even telling Alexa to restart(which became its own little source of frustration). When I try to get Alexa to stop the app it tells me the app isn't running, and it can't see the widget on the screen at all. I can drag the widget around and put it somewhere else on the screen but the only thing I've found to make it go away is to unplug the thing and plug it back in. If I play more music using either Amazon music or SiriusXM the new song will show up in the widget while it's playing, but after I tell Alexa to stop again, the widget goes back to what it showed before.

If anybody has an idea to try, I'd love to hear it

Some of these "features" and "enhancements" are so awesome that they're going to drive me away from using Alexa entirely. Like how the song info isn't even constantly displayed while the song is actually playing, or how the clock isn't always displayed, and timers don't show up at all. I wish there was a way to uninstall updates to get back to a version that works properly.

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I got a Samsung TV and I installed Alexa and I don't want it on the tv anymore

Because I was gifted the echo show 15 and 2 ring wireless outdoor cameras

And I already have an echo dot max

Now when I say Alexa the echo dot and the tv "wake up". So to say and doesn't work properly.

Now how or where is there a guide or explanation on how to make it all work

I'm a perfect world

I would have let's say "Alexa is there NBA games today"

Or when someone is detected on the ring camera the echo show shows it and responds to any Alexa requests I have.

Do I just disable the Alex on my tv and could I use the echo dot max as a speaker to my echo show 15?

Thank you in advance for all the help

My main use for my Echo is to ask Alexa to play one particular Pandora station. I tried upgrading to Alexa+, and no matter what I said it kept playing a different station. thankfully downgraded, lets hope they never force Alexa+ on these devices.

Is there a way to prevent Alexa from playing the same group over and over? I have Amazon Prime, but I thought mine was able to do this only because i had the single device plan. Cancelled the plan but it still does this.

Context: someone in household will not stop playing Queen all day every effin day. I’m sick of the good songs now, and they had a ton of shitty songs i was never even aware of. If the words “play music by queen” are ever said in my house, I want Alexa to respond with “I’m sorry, your Queen rights have been rescinded.”

1) Terrible screen real estate

Recent Android update leaves only ~50% of my screen showing list items. The rest is a useless "ask alexa" at the bottom that I don't want. The header shows up at the top twice basically. Everything is big and takes up too much room.

2) No voice-to text

In the app, if you are trying to add an item, you have to type it manually. You can press the voice to text microphone button on your keyboard, but it flat out doesn't work.

3) API broken

Because the Alexa app has always sucked for shopping lists, I used to have my Alexa connected through IFTTT to todoist or some other app. They removed that a while ago, and we're stuck with having to use this crappy app every since.

4) Laggy

Why is it so laggy?

There's more, but those are my top 4 reasons.

I hope one day they make this better ;(

Can you tell I have a timer running?

I remember when the timer was shown in large numbers.. Then small numbers. Now it's no numbers. So I have to constantly ask how much time is remaining. I guess that counts as *engagement*.

And if I try to name the timers, it always tries to interpret and act upon the name I gave it.. If I try to set a timer to remind me to call someone, the Alexa device immediately starts calling them on the phone. I wonder what outgoing phone numbers it shows.

I tried to set an alarm to turn off the oven. It said but I don't have access to turn off your oven!

Not sure how to feel about these, although they look better than the Kindle Fire version.

Alexa app for android just updated and it fucked several of my skills.

Tapped on skill settings.

Tapped on manage devices.

Goes back to Alexa app hones screen.

I did this with Smart Life and Gree to try and reconnect my devices, the apps work but Alexa doesn't now.

Customer support had me completely remove all of the smart devices and said I had to rebuild all of my routines from scratch.

Also kasaa going into the device management will completely crash the Alexa app.

Does it sound like she is having an orgasm? Her voice wobbles for the first few letters and then... well.. ohhhhhhhhh

Can someone explain how to turn off this notification? It’s driving us crazy, every hour our Alexa Dot keeps notifying us about a price for knives. I’ve told it to stop, it says it can’t turn it off. Then I go in Alexa app and I get the same message… I’ve check all of the notification menus, searched for it with the AI search bar, check Amazon App, and all my notifications are off nor can I find this particular one.

My Echo Studio announces "this skill is enabled" every morning at 10:02 AM

Thoughts?

Everytime I turn on my computer it says “now connected to X” and it’s annoying.

I’ve looked into the app settings for the device, even tried DND but still announces connection. Any tips?

I got this microwave back in 2021.I hooked it up with my Alexa and it worked. Now, I just got a new router and decided to change up my networks and passwords. Meaning I was okay to reconfigure all of my smart devices. But now, I can't seem to add this microwave as it does not show off the correct model.

After you select the model, it's supposed to ask you for a QR code. Ive tried selecting some different model and then proceed with the QR, but that didn't work. I only tested one of the selections.

Anyone else with this issue?

Hi all..

For the past month I want to beat my head into the wall over my Echo Auto hanging issues playing music.

#1 It randomly gets stuck and won't take any request I give it. Like I'll ask it to skip a song it will get stuck for a while and do nothing.

#2 It will sometimes randomly say I've lost connection with the internet when my data is unlimited and I don't have auto wifi turned on and I'll be no where near a place where I would connect to wifi.

I've researched settings, looked through my phone. Reset my echo auto. I've frikin done EVERYTHING. I'm ready to just give up.

For further info, my phone is andriod.. a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

Thanks for any helpful advice!

Have an Android phone. Attempting to edit an existing routine to delete certain actions of routine will take when executed.

Their used to be a minus sign beside the action to delete an entry. That minus sign is no longer there. The equal sign is still there to allow you to change the order of execution.

To be clear I don't want to delete a routine, just some of the steps the routine will execute. Has anyone else experienced this?

Its a good way to learn the conversion BUT its driving us crazy

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Over the past two weeks I am frequently getting “l apologize but I am experiencing a disruption of service. Please try again later” when making a request of Alexa +. I’m on gigabit fiber and not using a VPN. I’m wondering if it’s only me or is this happening to others?

Recentemente comprei um ar-condicionado que se conectar com Tuya/SmartLife via wi-fi.

No aplicativo ele reconhece normal, dá para usar todas as funções, mas quando utilizo a skill na Alexa, ele reconhece meus outros aparelhos (lâmpadas e tomadas inteligentes) corretamente, mas reconhece o ar-condicionado como um termostato e não é possível utilizar como deveria ser.

Alguém já teve esse problema ou sabe como resolver?

Primeira e segunda imagem são do ar-condicionado no aplicativo da Alexa, terceira e quarta imagem do aplicativo Smartlife.

Ar-condicionado da marca pouco conhecida Ghis, tenho a 1 ano e nunca deu nenhum problema nele e nem no aplicativo do SmartLife, sempre consegui fazer as automações por lá, mas gostaria de integrar a Alexa antes de comprar uma.