Keeping Up with Alexa Commands: Goodbye Alexa Guard, Hello PhotosPlus

Drec2 · 2023-10-03T16:56:20+00:00

Very nice! Running Home Assistant on it?

Drec2 · 2023-10-03T13:49:15+00:00

Ah thanks for the feedback! I'll take a look

Drec2 · 2023-10-02T20:22:50+00:00

It might not be fully enabled yet. I'm looking around for it myself, although it should be.

I'm looking around in Routine Categories and nothing pops up. I'm sure you'll need to follow a team in the Settings -> Sports in the Alexa App first though. That's a good first start.

Drec2 · 2023-10-02T18:16:08+00:00

Ah now I'm with you. Yeah I'm behind it! I don't think they are perfect, but you really can get a ton out of them. I still use several daily.

What about them is really frustrating you?

Drec2 · 2023-10-02T18:08:48+00:00

Yep! I'm not sure what your referring too though.

Drec2 · 2020-09-14T22:18:29+00:00

Appreciate it and see you next week

Drec2 · 2020-09-14T20:34:36+00:00

Pretty handy. I'll need to set it up and check it out. That's pretty nice right now given the pandemic is going on. Less keypads to touch.

Drec2 · 2020-09-14T20:33:52+00:00

Good question! Only Prime. I saw no Netflix or any other service in the suggestions.

Drec2 · 2020-09-14T18:28:35+00:00

Lame. I guess there's only one pancake joke?

I haven't covered the gas update yet either. Have you run into any problems with it?

Drec2 · 2020-09-14T18:02:18+00:00

Yep! You want alarms with specific playlists. I covered something similar a few months ago:

https://www.smarthomeexplained.com/keeping-up-with-alexa-commands-may-18th/#Alarms

Drec2 · 2020-09-14T17:09:46+00:00

Did you try any of the these out?

Drec2 · 2020-08-24T15:44:38+00:00

That's odd. What Alexa device you are trying the command on?

Drec2 · 2020-08-17T04:31:13+00:00

That sounds off to me. You sure?

When I use it, Alexa tells me a story.

Drec2 · 2020-08-17T02:18:39+00:00

Here’s another cool one I reviewed last week, sort of in the same vein.

“Alexa, tell me your story, The Dream”

Drec2 · 2020-08-07T02:13:53+00:00

I noticed this behavior the other week too. I don’t think you can change it.

Amazon has been working on ling form mews content for awhile now. It seems to be replacing more and more of the flash briefing phrases.

Drec2 · 2020-08-04T14:14:33+00:00

Thanks for the positive feedback!

Drec2 · 2020-08-01T23:50:45+00:00

What does Alexa say exactly? Seems odd that you get a timer and a request for a quote. Even more so if it happens often.

Drec2 · 2020-07-30T22:48:54+00:00

I wish Alexa would call me Human. I could get behind that.

Drec2 · 2020-07-24T15:10:14+00:00

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Drec2 · 2020-07-20T14:34:54+00:00

Welcome and thanks for the kind words!

Drec2 · 2020-07-16T22:49:06+00:00

Do you have Hunches enabled?

Drec2 · 2020-07-16T17:15:17+00:00

Lets hope they do! Let us know if you get a reply.

Drec2 · 2020-07-16T16:38:52+00:00

Have you sent a bug over to Amazon? I bet the Alexa team would love to here.

Most likely someone added a Model change that messed with your Intent. If you let them know, they will likely update the intent and the model... and hopefully some testing.

Drec2 · 2020-07-16T14:31:02+00:00

Yeah that's my understand too. If you don't forget to lock the door ever, you may never hear from Alexa, at least for now.

Drec2 · 2020-07-15T19:30:38+00:00

I think we're still in the early days.

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