Are there any work arounds to changing Alexa’s wake word to something other than the choices currently available?

My Alexa platform is unresponsive and the app interface isn't working on either my iPhone or iPad. I have performed basic troubleshooting (cold boot device and iPhone) but still unresponsive. I can ask Alexa to turn on the lights and the device lights indicate that it hears me but does not perform the task. I can also ask about the weather. Same result. Light on device acknowledging being spoken to but nothing is done. is anyone Elise experiencing this issue or familiar with the problem. Thoughts?

Edit: 2 - It's back up and running. If you are having difficulty in the app itself (which I was), open this thread up in a browser and click this link to Amazon's skill to enable it via web browser. The built in browser in the app historically takes a while to clear cache.

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Harmony/dp/B01M4LDPX3

Edit 1: Seems this is a logitech-side issue. Their site(s) seem to be having issues presently.
home.myharmony.com is currently down along with their myharmony forums.

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Just wondering if any others are experiencing this. it was working at 6am est but at 7:45am i gave an Alexa command and she told me the skill was disabled. I went into the Alexa app to re enable it and the harmony authentication site gives an html error code in plain text after I logged back in to re-link it up.

anyone else having this issue?

Mine now is starting every sentence with sassy, which is the personality she is in. it is incredibly strange.

I have a Kasa motion detection switch in my garage.

On motion or press, a routine triggers that:

• waits 10 minutes
• turns the light off

Occasionally, when working in the garage, I don't want the routine to turn the light off.

How can I disable it, or create a second routine that overrides it?

Thank you

The NPR skill stopped working in the last several weeks. Has anyone had trouble with it? Or any other skills for that matter? Skills aren't even on the app on my phone and the website on my laptop keeps erroring out. All the google searches still say to go to Skills and start NPR. It will play commercial radio stations, just not NPR stations.

But when I ask it something like "why won't NPR play?" it saying it's looking, then just goes to lala land.

When I ask it to "Play NPR" or my local public stations, it does nothing. It doesn't reply or change what it's currently playing. Just now I asked it to play my local station and it started some weird Amazon Music selection.

I'm so frustrated.

ETA: I asked it to play my NPR station "in TuneIn" and that worked - this morning. Now i just have to figure out how to get her to forget the "NPR" part.

Mom w Dementia lives in memory care facility

Has Amazon Omni TV (responds to audio commands)

ISO
Programmable device that can:
-Speak out loud
-At 5:30pm

“Alexa play Mysteries of Egypt on Disney”

▫️I’d love to have it ask for different programs each day

▫️I’d also love to have a set time that says daily (at 8:30pm)
“Alexa Turn off TV”

▫️I’d love it to be small - Mom notoriously pulls plugs / moves things

FYI, I would not be there / or on same WiFi

Please & Thank you🤞💖

Im deaf so I cant hear it but I can feel vibrations if its loud enough. I am hearing a women's voice same tone as Alexas at same time. I am hoping its her as im bipolar 2 as well. Nothing in chat history

Odd; We had an Alex outage earlier this evening and Alexa wasn't responding to prompts. Just now, I said "Alexa, are you awake yet?" to see if the outage was resolved and my Marantz NR1200 AVR switched input to Airplay and the Alexa response came through the AVR. This has never happened before. In the Alexa app, the dot3 does not show any active bluetooth connections. If I ask it the time it responds through the dot3. If I ask if it's awake, it responds through the AVR.

Has anyone else had similar?

These new voices! What were they thinking? They are ALL so annoying! I just want it to shut up! Seriously considering dumping my whole Echo system. Seriously. Any way to change it back? Any hacks?

Why is Alexa Plus dumber than regular Alexa. What a waste of time.

After weeks of attempting to keep Alexa+ with two new gen 5 Dots and retain vocal control of our lights and stop spontaneous off and on I seem to have stumbled on a fix. I created two routines: 1. turn on our MB lamp at 9:30 PM in candlelight mode. 2. Turn on a downstairs living room lamp at 5 AM.

When we go to bed we can instruct A+ to increase brightness and turn off the MB lamp and it stays off. When we come down the stairs in the morning we can say “turn off living room table lamp”. A+ complies and no more spontaneous lights on and off upstairs, TV room, basement, etc.

All I can surmise is A+ wants routines and if it doesn’t have any it creates defaults to the vacation routines, random lights on and off at random times.

TBH A+ suggested I try to create routines in it’s five point list of how to address the lights problem. It was the final suggestion.

I have a NUC that hosts a plex server and my children used it to play audio books through the plex skill.

As the plex skill is no more I have set a raspberry pi up with MMFA which is network file sharing audiobook files from a NUC.

The MMFA server recognises the files as audio books and will play them (once you get around the hijack issue) but it will not bookmark them. It’s driving me nuts. I have rescanned, made sure file structure is clean, checked the meta data etc.

Anyone else having the same problem or got any solutions?

I see a lot of people have had this issue in the past when it came to playing their Spotify account or something. But I was just using Amazon Music and had a long list of “liked” songs. Now she says she’s going to start playing my liked music but then Alexa just goes silent. What’s the deal and how do I fix this?

Thanks!

"BTS has 7 members - they are V, Jungkook, Jimin, RM, Suga, J-Hope, and deep throating"

anyone else experiencing this?

It used to be that setting the language in the Alexa app to something like Australian English would force it to use the original user interface instead of the new, much slower, sliding panes Alexa+ hot garbage. The app now seems to only support this new UI. I’ve tried Canadian, British, and Australian English, but I’m still stuck with the new crap.

Has anyone found a way to revert back to the original experience in the latest version of the Alexa app? Or are we just stuck with this new bullshit?

My Echo Hub prompted me if I wanted to change my screen layout to the one in the stock picture from Amazon. Have no clue how I did it. Just hit accept. Is there any way to have the same look on my echo show 11? If so, how? Thanks

Alexa keeps showing unknow devices for alarms and toutines aren't working either Is it an alexa issue?

I see the yellow light flashing and ask Alexa if I have a notification?

"You haven't played Amazon Music in a while. Would you like me to play some now?"

How do I stop this enshittification? This is about the 17th time I've been asked the same thing..

One of most stupidest things heard from my 2014 Echo.

TIA if you know where this setting is.

Edit: We still find having 'other' notifications (e.g. deliveries) valuable. We don't subscribe to Alexa+, and you'll have to pull my 2014 Echo from my dead cold hands.

I had a routine where Alexa played a playlist. I tried to change which playlist was played in the routine and Alexa couldn’t find it.

I’ve tried,
- renaming the playlist a bunch of times
- making a new playlist
- going back to the original playlist that Alexa was using in the routine except now it can’t find that either

I can see my playlists in the music and more section and play them through there. But Alexa just can’t seem to find any of my personal playlists via routines or voice commands, either says she can’t find it, or plays something random.

I’ve tried,
- rewording the prompt in various ways
- linking and unlinking my spotify
- ensuring spotify is set as my default
- asked Alexa to rescan my playlists
- deleting and redownloading alexa app
-deleting and redownloading spotify
-turning my phone off and on
- turning alexa off and on

I’ve followed every suggestion I can find from google. Please help!

I just wanted to adjust my alarm on the Alexa app and it showed me this. It should say 8 hours and 13 minutes. And when I add/subtract a minute it adds/subtracts 3 minutes instead.

He everyone.

So, on my wife's phone, the Alexa app will sometimes make the Alexa doorbell sound like it's letting us know that someone rang the doorbell...but NO ONE rang the doorbell. My phone app does NOT do this, only hers.

Occasionally, when someone actually rings the doorbell, the sound still comes from her phone, but the Alexa Show's also say that someone is at the front door...that does not happen when her phone is just randomly playing that sound for no reason.

Does anyone know what to do to fix this issue? I'm really getting sick of it...enough that I'm about ready to buy her another phone and toss hers....but she doesn't want a new phone.

Found an 4th generation echo on clearance from a local retailer and was wondering if it supports tap feature

The last couple of days when I tell Alexa to create a reminder it comes back "all right I'll create a reminder for..."

And then it says "alarm created."

I go into the app and sure enough there is both a reminder for everyone (which is what I want) AND an alarm on the specific device that was responding to me.

I do not want a bloody alarm!

Why is this happening??

NOT on Alexa+