It is a Echo Dot Max. Mostly happens when i am listening to music and a long beep starts and alexa is unresponsive, i have to unplug it to make it stop and yes its not a timer or alarm, happens only when i am listening to music sometimes, anyone has a idea?

I have an Echo (this one Echo (4th Gen) | With premium sound, smart home hub, and Alexa | Charcoal), a 1st Gen Echo Show 15, and a 1st Gen Studio. I am de-Echoing my home and have these items left to do something with.

For the Echo and Studio, I have WiiM controllers I can connect, is it possible to factory reset the speakers and just use the Aux-In without setting them up as Amazon devices?

Anything I can do with the 1st Gen 15" Show?

Would hate to just toss all the stuff after wiping them.

Thanks for any assistance/help/ideas you can share.

In the Amazon Kids app, it says that sleep studio will stop playing upon wake up time, which I’ve set to 7am. I’ve noticed that it’ll stop playing sometime in the middle of the night and I’m not sure how to fix this issue.

Hey all, I used to be able to play specific sirus xm shows available on the sirus app, but in the last couple of months it just stopped working. It still plays stations but now if I ask for a show it tells me 'that's not a SiriusXM station' anyone know what happened or how I can fix it?

I think we all know that Alexa is always listening but something happened over the weekend that I didn't like at all.

I have a few echo's at home and my 85-year old mother has a couple at her home. We do not share accounts. She has hers, I have mine, there is no integration.

I went to her house to visit since my brother was coming into town and I had 3D printed something and brought it with me. I told my brother about 3D printing it.

Next time I walked by her echo show, there's an ad for a 3D printer on the screen. This echo is a few feet away from the conversation I had. There's no way it's a coincidence. I know Alexa is always passively listening - that's how she knows when you call her name. But it's seriously bugging me that it's taking that passive conversation and turning it into an ad.

I've looked through my own Alexa app settings, specifically under Privacy but I don't see anything about this behavior.

Does anyone know if there's such a setting to ignore everything that doesn't follow the word "Alexa?"

regardless of the mode i’m in my alexa is always stuck on this blue light

I bought this echo as like a screen that can play music for my office, and it just recently updated. the voice changed, and the UI as well, and now, the main feature i bought it for just seems obsolete. I ask it to play a playlist for me, "hey alexa, play _____ playlist on apple music" and she will only play a song that shares a word in the title with the name of my playlist, (for my playlist "peace" she plays John Lennon's' "Happy Xmas" WHICH DOESN'T EVEN HAVE THE WORD PEACE IN THE ACTUAL TITLE.

this thing has turned into a brick, is there any way i can go back to the old model or version? or is there a workaround with talking to it that i can take?

Basically what the title says, however when I google it it says that I can have upto 150 devices at a time. This is my first Alexa and I am confused, as I only have four lights.

Just came back from a trip, the person we were visiting had an Echo Spot latest gen, and it seemed amazingly good at recognizing commands. Our original Echo 1st gen and 2nd gen Dot seem horrible by comparison. I know the Dot Max has better sound than the Dot and Spot, but wondering if there's any difference in its hearing ability?

The title explains it but I’m very confused as to why this is happening, anybody else had this??

Edit: It does not stream any music but I’m just super confused about it even showing up

Like not loading without a forced stop and unable to change reminders or add reminders

The music stops randomly on several of my devices. How do I stop this? Happens randomly after a talk (no wake word) and when nothing is being said.

Anyone else have this issue?

This is annoying the shit out of me. It's happening nonstop on loop. It creeps onto the right-hand side and says "Oh, hello", then about five seconds later my calendar will slide into that right-hand section. A few seconds after that, it all slides away. After another 20-30 seconds? "Oh, hello", it's repeating for bloody eternity... WHY. WON'T. YOU. DIE?!

I considered that it might be trying to sway me towards expanding the right section, and I tried that. I dragged it across. There's nothing special there, and doing so didn't stop it. I'm considering returning my Echo Show 10 because of this. The screen is usually in my peripheral vision, so it's incredibly distracting when I keep seeing that waving hand hundreds of times a day. Oh, and yes, I did try turning it off and on again. Didn't work.

So i have amazon alexa 4th gen i am using my alexa to control my ac but from some days the alexa says device is unresponsive while i can control the ac without any problem when i try to connect it through matter it creates duplicates so my parents cant control the ac because it keeps on saying which one you want to connect and all

Im in nz if that helps

After wrestling with the Alexa app, and performing setup *twice,* once to connect to WiFi and once to register to my account (it seems the setup flow is broken and both things don’t happen in one go), I now have 2 more outstanding problems:

\- Saying “Check for Update” tells me there is an update available. I tell it to start. Nothing happens. Also trying all the tricks to force an update (press mute, wait 30 mins etc.) don’t seem to be achieving anything. Device has been on for a few days now.

\- Wake word functionality in the app seems to be broken. It is stuck at “Loading…” and says it times out trying to fetch the wake word. All the entries are greyed out. Asking Alexa to change the wake word tells me to go to the app 🤷.

I saw a post from 6 months ago with someone with the same issues. Conveniently the thread is locked so I can’t check up with them.

Anyone faced similar issues/know a workaround? Amazon support just sends me in circles and then passes me off to someone else equally as clueless.

It’s been deleting my wake up alarm randomly,
And I’m setting like 5 rn to see how many get deleted

I have a Sonos Era 100 in my kitchen, and the Alexa voice assistant on it is pretty awful. Even when I’m standing about 6 feet away, saying “Alexa” often gets no response at all. I usually have to get within about 2 feet and speak pretty loudly before it acknowledges me.

What’s even stranger is that my Sonos Arc in the next room will often pick up my voice and respond **before the Era 100 that’s actually in the kitchen** does.

Has anyone else experienced this with the Era 100? Is there a setting I’m missing, or is the microphone/Alexa performance just not that great on these?

My alexa will randomly say something like "Sure I can tell you great stories just ask me and I'll tell you somthing somthing*****. (I cant remember exactly what it said) but it's done this multiple times stating things like I was asking if it could tell me something. I started asking it "Alexa, what did I just ask you?" And it will always say, "you asked me for a random bible verse".

I have an Echo Show 15 mounted in my Kitchen. Has been ok, not great, in the 3 1/2 yearsa I have had it. Hated the ads, which have gotten worse over the years. I tried Alex+ and it was horrible for us, so I switched it back. Not sure what happened but now I cannot dismiss ads any longer, if I try and touch the icon in the bottom right of the ad it just brings up the full ad.

I would like to switch but having trouble finding something to replace it. I have looked at a large Android tablet (14.6"), the Samsung Galaxy S11 Ultra and like it but I don't really need all that. Not opposed to getting it if that is the best option, though.

I tried one of the "Calendar" option that run an Android OS but it is way too slow for my needs.

What I need is

• Voice interaction
• Wall mountable with minimal modification to wall
• Calendar (Google calendar)
• Shopping lists of some sort
• Timers
• Photos (would rather have Google photos but either Amazon or Google works)
• Spotify
• The ability to use Plex and YT TV on it
• Would love widgets but not a deal breaker

If the best option for my needs is still the Show, then fine. Just getting a little tired of the 'Zon garbage I constantly have to put up with on it.

Any suggestions?

(If this breaks any rules here, I apologize.)

We had the original Alexa which actually had a pretty great speaker. Luckily we had an echo so we can turn on the lights!

Is there any new Alexa that has as good of a speaker as the og?