Amazon Alexa and Echo FAQ

Got a new phone and when I signed into my alexa none of my devices or skills are there. Surly I don't have to start from scratch??

My alexa has gone to sh1te lately. Just randomly stops working with things. It doesn't work with any of my ikea stuff and now it has stopped working with my smart life things. . Fed up of it lately to be honest.

jmBuildExt wrote: »

happened me about a year ago re ikea stuff. Everything worked from ikea end and a hack i had for switching on hall lights hooked up to raspberry pi and a sensor worked... so i knew it was alexa/amazon issue.
Anyway i did nothing and it started working again about 2 months ago. Doesnt really help you in any sense - but i feel your pain

Tempted to stick the echo dots up on adverts and try out the google products.

ive issue with alexa auto devices searches, for years been using alexa to control lights in my home philipps hue, a while back family member bought a house and few dozen hue lights and used same amazon account to setup themes etc, so id say few months back alexa automatically searches for new devices and of course finds dozens new, but furthermore it replaces ones in my existing groups, say i have room with 3 hue lights names room 1-2-3, but day later after setting up group deleting all the lights etc, it returns to smth like hue spot 6, spot 2, spot 3.


Now tried it on another family members amazon account in same house to setup new group- and somehow even on their account it pickups random light names and changes group with those lights rendering it useless.


seems very common issue and amazon dont give a fck, as far as search for new devices is rooted into alexa api to run it by default imagine either daily or when phone tablet is charged.


As thought running it on different account it would solve issue but seems persistent which makes no sense, as one group of lights seem to be affected, and no group name change nor deleting devices resolves the issue.


anyone with similar experience or steps to take, as dont really want to hard reset 3 dots in the house, to setup everything from scratch.


and whats even stupid if using hue app or switch i turn on lights alexa wont pickup that yet if saying alexa set room to 40% it will dim the lights , even thou it cant recognize to turn em on,off and wrong ones are assigned :cool:

I suspect on top of running automatic new device discovery it also caches old devices which creates duplicates at first setup, as seems theres a bit of repeated devices that could of resulted in them being saved in cloud and then on top it treats renamed devices as new on top.

oh well i just ****ing give up on amazon its soon will be usefull as a door stops at best, dummer each day. as said issue about having trouble with lights in one room seems every room is affected in house, it still works with one wifi plug adapter for my table lamp but seems to scramble other groups with those stupid auto search for new devices every day- as whats the actual purpose to even have inbuilt function to constantly look for new devices and scramble the groups is beyond my logic, theres a search button when adding new device only thing one needs really.


prob will use Philips remote for lights as still often habit is to reach for switch anyway, then trying to speak to dumb found device and repeating command until it picks it up.


safe bet that future is still secure as functionality goes seems to be downgrading on the so called smart devices really.

Have you looked at IfTTT

https://ifttt.com/

Any reliable Irish news outlets to add to flash briefings? RTE news tends to be DAYS behind!

jogdish wrote: »

Alex play Rte Radio 1
Okay playing 'program name'

Then silence, anyone else?

No seems to work fine for me..

My daughter wants "to play music" for a christmas pressie.
I was considering an Alexa Dot.
With Spotify Family, can she listen to Spotify on the dot with her account, while I listen to my Spotify on the Alexa in the kitchen?
Thanks.

Searching online seems to suggest different alexa accounts are needed (https://community.spotify.com/t5/Premium-for-Family/FAMILY-AND-ECHO-ALEXA/m-p/4884935#M26048). So I guess the question becomes, can you have different alexa accounts on the dot and the echo?

jogdish wrote: »

Alex play Rte Radio 1
Okay playing 'program name'

Then silence, anyone else?

Yeah happened to me. I disconnected the power supply for 5 minutes. Worked fine then.

Hey folks,


I have an open plan area with an echo show in one corner and standard echo in another corner. I can't get them to sync. If I get a 2nd small echo show is it right to say that they can be paired?


Thanks

Davy wrote: »

What are you trying to do with them?

For pairing to play music.


Use the show for camera, album etc

Ok trying to figure this out

Have Alexa in the kitchen and Echo in the front room. I have skills like pause tv and also use it for timers amongst other things. Doors in between the kitchen and front room

However when I say something like set timer for 10 minutes it sets timer on both. Or if I say pause TV one pauses it and other one starts it. So both picking up requests

Trying to locate how to reduce sensitivity of mic but not sure if possible so if
I am in kitchen Alexa will only pick it up and if in front room Echo will only pick it up

Anyone any ideas? First world problems :rolleyes: