Hey all. Me and my family are currently setting up for Christmas. We frequently use the playlist "Christmas Classics", and we have every year. But as of recent, I've noticed a few songs that I've never heard before. These songs sound like they were recorded in the 1920's, and stick out like a sore thumb compared to the rest. After asking Alexa who the artist is that made the song, she gives the name of some random SoundCloud user. It started with that one song at first, but slowly the "Classics" playlist has been overrun with this plague of newly generated slop.

I guess my question is 1: has anyone else had this problem? And 2: how would i go about fixing this problem and letting some team know? Is there even anyway for any team at Amazon to start cracking down on these? Thanks all.

Is anyone else having issues with Alexa communicating with Sengled lightbulbs today? Have tried troubleshooting, reinstalling, and rebooting my internet and still nothing.

Hey guys,

I used ipv4 only till now but had to turn on ipv6 for matter support because I have a new echo dot Max.

Now I wanted to add the new dot to groups and set up as speaker and it does not work. When I enter a group and want to choose speakers all Amazon devices are greyed out due to network error.

The do react to voice normally though and are also accessible in the app...

I am at my wits end does anybody have an idea?

My daughter was listening to music on Spotify through one of our Alexa's and asked it to restart the song to which it responded "Restarting songs is only available with Amazon music unlimited". What?? So I tried and got the same response.

Why would such a simple and basic feature be moved behind a paywall?

Hi everyone

Device: LG 55UQ8000PSB (55-inch LG UHD Smart TV)

Issue: Alexa detects my TV as a speaker instead of a TV. LG ThinQ works correctly, and I can turn the TV on and off through the LG ThinQ app, but Alexa does not recognize it as a compatible TV device.

I've tried unlinking and relinking the accounts several times, including through the Alexa app on the TV, but the issue persists.

Has anyone experienced this issue or found a solution?

So for months now I've watched as my Echo devices have slowly gotten dumber. From playing music at random instead of running a routine, or giving the wrong time, or telling me "it's a warm an breezy 52 degrees" when it's clearly 100 degrees outside.

Today I asked it to spell dissuade.

"D-I-S-S-U-A-D"

Me: I don't think that's right...

"D-I-S-S-U-A-D"

Me: I just checked on my phone, you are missing the E at the end.

"Looks like I dropped the “e” twice in a row—my bad. I’ll make sure to hit the right notes next time."

God damn this software is so bad.

I used to be able to go to alexa chat, say show my my shopping list or view my shopping list and she would show me an actual list. There was one item per line. I would send the list to Samsung notes or a text msg and print it out on a 3"x5" piece of note paper.

Now, no matter what I do, she gives me the list in paragraph form, with items separated by commas. I can ask her to send the list to my phone and it shows up in the alexa app "history" but it won't open. The second one even looks like it may be in list form but when I click on either of them, they just loop me back to the conversation page with no list.

Is it just me or is this the new normal? Does anyone have a workaround SHORT of using yet another app just for my shopping list? I have alexa everywhere and don't want to have to do the "alexa, tell *another app* to add bacon to my shopping list". Ideas?

This happened once before and someone suggested to change my location in the alexa app to the UK (I think, my memory sucks which is why I'm here to ask if anyone knows how to do that. It has something to do with Alexa+) If anyone knows I'd appreciate the help.

I did find the instructions to change the location to trick Alexa but I can't find those menus now.

change the alexa app>setting>device setting>this device to english UK

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?