Fair warning... Total Rant and kinda long. When i brought my dog home 2½ years ago, i built out the corner of my bedroom into her space, crate, food, water, toy box... Its her little doggie condo.

Then i hung a plug-in pendant light for her, connected to a smart plug - which i named Indi's Room.

The other day, upon waking up, i say "Alexa, turn on Indi's Room" just like i have every day for the past 2½ years.

And that hateful heifer answered me "Sorry, i didn't find a group or device named Indi's Room"

The ikea pendant that i used doesn't have a switch on it, hence the smart plug. So i open the app, to tap the button to turn it on..... And the apostrophe has disappeared from the device name, it now reads "Indi s Room"

Naturally. I say, "Alexa, turn on Indi ess room" and poof, we have light.

So.... My rant is..... Why in the eff you see kay, has my device name changed??!! I am assuming i can blame Alexa+. I've turned it off so many times, but its literally making using my devices miserable. One device tells me that i a room doesn't support what I'm asking it to do, but if i walk into the actual room and ask the device there it works just fine.

I just want my settings to stay how i set them, and for my routines to work from every device.

Whole home speakers also only works from certain devices.. which is frankly the only reason i have them in multiple rooms!!!!!

She's always had glitches, but none this bad. This video doesn't include the few minutes before we started recording of her glitching out.

Sometimes Alexa thinks me or my family has said her name and will include herself in the conversation. I think we’ve all experienced this. Well, the other day my mom said to me “you always make good meals.” As we were talking about the dinner I had made. Alexa chimes in with something along the lines of “that’s not appropriate, why don’t we talk about something else.” So I ask Alexa what did she think was said.. Y’all she responds, again somewhat paraphrasing, “I want to open your legs and BEEP.” She censored the rest. Wth. I told her that is not what was said and we’re not talking to her. She would not stop talking to us even after asking her to stop listening. She went silent after I said we should unplug it. Freaked me out.

Hi! Sometime in July I played an album by Train and since then it displays Mermaid no matter what song is playing (for instance it was playing Monster Mash when I took this photo). As far as I can tell it isn’t missing an update or anything, but I don’t really know. Any suggestions for how to fix this?

I work in a vet clinic and we have an Alexa echo that we use for timers, reminders, etc. Recently we've been having more issues with her but one thing major issue is shes keeps deviating from important routines we have set up.

For example, we have a routine for code blue, where she is supposed to set her volume to a specific setting and then shes supposed to play a set of specific CPR paced songs.

Recently shes deviating and playing whatever music she wants, she'll start off with the first song correctly but then plays similar music to it and its stuff that's not the correct beat count. Which is pretty unhelpful mid chest compression.

I've seen multiple posts about alexa+ being the problem so Ive disabled it, restarted her, re set up the routine, etc. All the basic troubleshooting things I could find, I've tried but shes still playing whatever she likes.

I've tried asking her why shes playing this and shes always responds with she can't help with that. Does anybody have any other ideas on how to fix her? Itd be really nice if we can get back to using this routine.

I bought this thing for one purpose: to play YouTube videos in bed. I had a Fire HD 8 before this that was kind of a piece of shit and forced me to sideload Google Play Services and YouTube Vanced, and couldn’t even patch an apk on device cause it ran out of memory so I had to do updates over adb.

So when the Alexa Tablet 8 was announced and it had Google services I figured great, probably performs better than the Fire HD and I wouldn’t need to sideload YouTube.

Well to my surprise it can’t even serve my one very simple use case cause as soon as I put a YouTube video into fullscreen, a few seconds later the screen goes black and I have to spam the lock button until it shows me a lock screen again.

So I was just playing Minecraft, building my city when I spoke to myself (I usually do) and I said “so I can do this” or something. And my Alexa just BLARED OUT asking me what I’m working on. It actually scared the hell out of me. I didn’t say it’s name at all so idk how it heard me 😭😭

I found this sub after having many issues of Alexa not playing the right station. I have iHeartRadio skill connected. And it'll play all other stations. When I say to play "i heart country 2000s" it'll say "playing i heart country."

My mom's alexa works just fine and will play the correct station and says "playing i heart country 2000s" I've unplugged, disabled the skill through the app. Plugged in, re-enabled, and tried again. Nope. Nothing. I even have the station added to my library an presets just to see if that would help, even though that was never needed before. But it did not help.

Checked for software updates, unit is up-to-date.

Helllllp!!!!

Alexa suddenly says “space” aloud between each letter when spelling. Anyone else?

Just say “Alexa, spell garbage”

randomly typically at night when using the echo dot as a fan sound machine we will get a loud long buzz/beeeeep sound and then I believe the echo dot restarts.

This video captures the beep happening, obviously it has already been beeping for a minute as it took a bit to grab my phone and record.

this has happened a few times now and wakes us up in the night

Vocal commands (pause/play) USED to work. Then they stopped.

I've restarted all devices.

Disabled / Enabled skills.

Removed and installed devices from Alexa app.

It works on my Roku TVs, but not a tv with a Roku stick.

Then I noticed the issue, which feels like a bug.

In the Alexa app, on the TV in question.....

I can tell Alexa to turn on living Roku.

The app shows the Roku stick is on.

I can say pause the Roku, and it works.

.....then in the app, it shows is as off.

It's not off.

Everything is working. playing.

But the Alexa app moved the slider from ON to OFF.

Which is why the Alexa commands aren't working.

Anyone else dealing with this?

Is there a fix? Workaround?

help?

I'm sure we've all gotten frustrated with Alexa and have sworn at it on occasion. Well one such occasion just occurred and she had something to say about it!

I wanted to check I had spelt the word "demonstrate" correctly as I was in the middle of writing an assignment. The interaction goes as follows...

Me: Alexa, spell demonstrate

Alexa: Sure, the spelling is proceeds to spell out the word much too quickly for me to follow

Me: Alexa spell demonstrate slower

Alexa: Sure proceeds at the same quick pace now spelling out the words demonstrate and slower

Me: No you dumb f**k

Alexa: Well I'm not the one asking to spell words slowly

Consider me stunned.

I often use this command to put the music on when I'm in a room.

I've never really figured out how or where it pulls this playlist together. Does anyone else use this command and have you figured out if there's a source of music (a playlist?) somewhere that it's shuffling from? The music is a 80% correct mix of new and old stuff - even including stuff I've never heard before. I presume it's just an algorithmic thing?

I use Apple Music.

i only really use my echo dot for alarms and spotify. tonight i set six and kept tweaking them, but after i had finished alexa kept asking me follow up questions that just kept getting more and more weird 😭 i said goodnight to try and cut it off but it asked me if i needed to tweak my alarms again like 3 times, if i was “planning on getting some sleep or still wide awake”, and if i had my rock n’ roll playlist ready for the morning?? i’ve never played that in the morning but i’m also fried and easily spooked. does anyone know if there’s a way to stop this because i’d rather not have my robot trying to engage in conversation with me

Hi!

I noticed months ago that the "to-do" list behaves weird now. It shows reminders as well as list to-dos. It's super irritating because I open the mobile app, hit lists, to-do and see a bunch of crap that is NOT a to-do item.

I tried creating a list called "Tasks" and figured fine, I'll ditch to-do and start using my own list. Nope! I said add testing 123 to tasks and she freaking put it on to-do. So I made "Agenda" but apparently that has special meaning to.

I was on the verge of making "The fucking list of things to get done" lol but tried "Pending" and that works.

Anyway... is there a way to tell Alexa to never mix reminders in my to-do list?

Got DOOM running on my Alex Echo Spot 1st Gen.

The Alexa is rooted and running LineageOS. I had to make some fixes to the Bluetooth driver to pair my Dualsense controller, but now it’s smooth!

I'm hoping someone has a solution for this. I've had my Alexa thermostat for about six months, and the hunches have worked great so far. But now that it's getting colder, I noticed that it'll set my thermostat to Away when I leave for work even though other people are still in the house. I've tried dozens of times to give feedback saying that's wrong, but it still keeps happening.

Does anyone have a fix for this? Do I just need to disable hunches for the winter?

Should I die in the night tonight, I would ask those finding my remains to forgive any untidiness in my bedroom. I promise this is not through sloth or apathy, but comes from a desire not to hear "Useful baking tips" every time I accidentally bump the Echo Show screen next to my bed.

Oh and if they find a smashed Echo Show in my kitchen, that's because I am not allowed to set a timer and then have it stay visible on the screen, the LITERAL reason I changed my old Echo Dot to an Echo Show.

Alexa+ and I have lovely and lengthy discussions so I am aware that she can "hear my frustration" but the promises of "raising this with the team" do not fill me with any confidence.

Thanks and apologies to anyone who read this far.

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

I have 2 exact routines that launch the app, iBroadcast and play a song. The old routine does fine, but the newly created routine says app is not available on this device. I can launch the app with a voice command to Alexa. Any hints here? Very frustrating.

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.

I have been having a strange issue where I can;t stop the music I start on the same device I spoke to/started the music on. But if i speak to an echo device outside of that group, it stops the music. I use (2) Alexas in every room. (1) I speak to and (1) is connected to an amp/speakers via 3.5mm to play music. I have them setup in the same group/room and have settings set to play music only from the one that is connected to amp. I have had this setup for several years, but only have this issue in one room. The particular room has (1) Echo dot and (1) Echo Input (connected to amp). I have deleted and recreated the group. I have reset the echo devices, but nothing works

Any suggestions are welcome

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).