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Amazon Echo Alexa question?

mima — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:18:01 GMT

If I set an alarm, can I get her to say what the reminder is for? I can't figure out how to do that. If she can't, I think she needs to learn. I wonder if Amazon is taking suggestions on how to make her do what we want.

In other words, here is what I want her to do. Maybe I'm not asking correctly.

Alexa, tomorrow at 4:00 PM remind me to call Sue.

Alexa, on February 25th at 3:00 PM remind me to pay my monthly sales tax for my store.

Alexa, tomorrow at 10:00 AM remind me to make a delivery.

I would love to use her in my business to remind me to do things on my calendar. I need more than the alarm going off. I need her to tell me what needs to be done. That would be great.

Or how about birthdays?

Alexa, Remind me on June 9th at 10:00 AM to call Mom and tell her Happy Birthday.

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

gardenman — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:28:56 GMT

The alarm will go off, but it won't tell you what it's for. Amazon is taking all kinds of suggestions on features to add (and this is a common one.) To send feedback go to your Echo app and from the home menu click on "General Feedback" and a form will pop up where you can send them any suggestions you have. They were very responsive in the early days of the Echo will callbacks coming within minutes of any suggestion being offered. They want to know what Echo users want and they're pretty good at adding new features. Drop them a note and they'll take it under advisement.

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

mima — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:31:25 GMT

Thanks Gardenman. I will give them this suggestion ""again"". They might listen if enough ask.

Alexa would be a great assistant at work if she could do this. Thanks!

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

Jordan2 — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:39:49 GMT

I actually stumped Alexa. I asked her how many points is an English muffin on the Weight Watchers program (I already knew, was just testing her) and she couldn't find an answer for me.

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

mima — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:35:31 GMT

I told her she was pretty and she said it was sweet of my to say so. LOL I also asked her if she had a boyfriend and she said she didn't have those kind of relationships. LOL

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

mima — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 20:37:30 GMT

I have one more thing to say about the alarm issue. The sound is not alarming enough! It is too soothing. Make sense? It is not noticeable enough for me. Anyone else think that? I have it turned up as loud as it will go and it just blends with the tv. I need something with a high pitched sound.

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

Kachina624 — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 01:25:59 GMT

Mima, Did you know you can turn the volume on the alarm up? I agree it needs to be more attention-getting.

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

mima — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:00:51 GMT

On 3/5/2015 Kachina624 said: Mima, Did you know you can turn the volume on the alarm up? I agree it needs to be more attention-getting.

I try to remember to say volume 10 before setting alarm. It just doesn't seem that "alarming". LOL

Thank you Kachina.

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

lovescats — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:16:54 GMT

Maybe you could turn up the volume from the app. If I put the alarm at 10 I think it would be like a police siren.

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

mima — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:32:27 GMT

On 3/6/2015 lovescats said:
Maybe you could turn up the volume from the app. If I put the alarm at 10 I think it would be like a police siren.

I'll try that. Thanks.

Edit: There is no way to turn up the alarm volume in the app that I could see.

Thanks anyway.

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

Campion — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:37:55 GMT

As far as I know, you can do a to-do list that shows up on your Kindle, and you can set an alarm, but you can't do a reminder.

I would very much like the reminder read out to me in the morning. I think a feature to read back a to-do list of the day would be GREAT.

We can suggest it--as mentioned earlier in the thread, they are looking for improvements.

I love the Echo--when I'm wakeful but don't want to stare at the clock and focus my (unaided) eyes on the clock, I can just ask Alexa what time it is. And the temperature. Brrrr. Pull up the covers and go back to sleep. Until SPRING....

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

lovescats — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:02:26 GMT

On 3/6/2015 mima said:
On 3/6/2015 lovescats said:
Maybe you could turn up the volume from the app. If I put the alarm at 10 I think it would be like a police siren.

I'll try that. Thanks.

Edit: There is no way to turn up the alarm volume in the app that I could see.

Thanks anyway.

I think then the alarm must default back to the sound level you have when you are playing something last. Like if i'm listening to the radio at 5 then I can't have an alarm come on for volume 10. But that's a good suggestion for amazon.

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

mima — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:46:45 GMT

On 3/6/2015 lovescats said:
On 3/6/2015 mima said:
On 3/6/2015 lovescats said:
Maybe you could turn up the volume from the app. If I put the alarm at 10 I think it would be like a police siren.

I'll try that. Thanks.

Edit: There is no way to turn up the alarm volume in the app that I could see.

Thanks anyway.

I think then the alarm must default back to the sound level you have when you are playing something last. Like if i'm listening to the radio at 5 then I can't have an alarm come on for volume 10. But that's a good suggestion for amazon.

Yes it would. Thanks!

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

gardenman — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 00:47:11 GMT

I believe the alarm volume and music volume are separate. (I could be wrong about that though.) You can set the alarm volume by going to Settings and then pan down to ""Sounds"" on the Echo App. (""Sounds"" is under ""Metric Measurements"" in the ""Settings"" menu. It's pretty easy to overlook it there.)

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

mima — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 02:37:58 GMT

On 3/6/2015 gardenman said:
I believe the alarm volume and music volume are separate. (I could be wrong about that though.) You can set the alarm volume by going to Settings and then pan down to ""Sounds"" on the Echo App. (""Sounds"" is under ""Metric Measurements"" in the ""Settings"" menu. It's pretty easy to overlook it there.)

I'm totally lost. There is no ""sounds"" under settings. There is also no Metric Measurements anywhere. I'm looking on my echo app. I'm trying...

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

lovescats — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 03:30:14 GMT

On 3/6/2015 mima said:
On 3/6/2015 gardenman said:
I believe the alarm volume and music volume are separate. (I could be wrong about that though.) You can set the alarm volume by going to Settings and then pan down to ""Sounds"" on the Echo App. (""Sounds"" is under ""Metric Measurements"" in the ""Settings"" menu. It's pretty easy to overlook it there.)

I'm totally lost. There is no ""sounds"" under settings. There is also no Metric Measurements anywhere. I'm looking on my echo app. I'm trying...

ok I go to settings then the first line is lovecats' echo select that then select sounds then it goes to alarm and timer volume

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

gardenman — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 15:00:05 GMT

Sorry about that, but as lovescats said I left out a step. The Sounds settings are under "Your Echo" where "Your" is whatever name you gave your Echo.

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

mima — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 15:00:57 GMT

On 3/6/2015 lovescats said:
On 3/6/2015 mima said:
On 3/6/2015 gardenman said:
I believe the alarm volume and music volume are separate. (I could be wrong about that though.) You can set the alarm volume by going to Settings and then pan down to "Sounds" on the Echo App. ("Sounds" is under "Metric Measurements" in the "Settings" menu. It's pretty easy to overlook it there.)

I'm totally lost. There is no "sounds" under settings. There is also no Metric Measurements anywhere. I'm looking on my echo app. I'm trying...

ok I go to settings then the first line is lovecats' echo select that then select sounds then it goes to alarm and timer volume

Thank you! I found it. Mine was not turned up. Gosh, everytime I was setting the alarm, I was saying volume 10 first. I guess that doesn't do any good. Glad I'm not going deaf. LOL

I haven't tried it out yet because DH is sleeping. I'm sure it will work for me now.

Thanks again!

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

gardenman — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:36:35 GMT

What better way to test an alarm than on a sleeping husband? Or are you one of those ""let sleeping husbands lie"" types?

Re: Amazon Echo Alexa question?

mima — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 21:02:48 GMT

On 3/7/2015 gardenman said:
What better way to test an alarm than on a sleeping husband? Or are you one of those "let sleeping husbands lie" types?

LOL! I was nice and waited for him to leave to test it out. Let me tell you, it is LOUD now! Wow!

On another note....Call me crazy! I wanted an Echo for my store really bad and I know I will be waiting forever. I tried to get one in DH name, and no invite yet. I have to constantly remember to do things and set alarms and this would be so useful, plus a great conversation piece for customers. I would also like to play music softly in the background. I snagged one today on Ebay at the inflated price of $187.50 with free shipping and no tax. I think it is well worth that price, even though the seller is making money. If I ever get the other invite, I'll still buy it for $99 and either use it in the bedroom or sell that one. I'm excited. I should get it by next Saturday or before.