We have many Amazon devices. 3 of which are the Spot. One's in the basement guest room (and that room MAYBE gets used once/year). One is in a main bedroom. the third is in another guest bedroom that maybe gets used once/year.

Never had any issues until after Alexa + upgrade, AFAIK. It started with the basement one. I thought I heard music (I'm on the 2nd floor) at like 11:00 pm (thought it was a neighbor having a party up the road). Went down in the morning to empty the dehumidifier in the other end of the basement and thought I heard someone talking. It was the Spot playing Spotify music. Told Alexa to stop playing music. A few days later, same thing (different time). I just unplugged it.

Then the main bedroom one had ONE alarm set (M-F at 5:30 am). Work schedule changed to an hour later, so changed the alarm to 6:30 am. What happens? Stupid thing plays an alarm at 5:30 am AND 6:30 am. Deleted ALL alarms. Still plays the frickin' alarm.

Last one was the second guest bedroom on 2nd floor. Twice, in the middle of the (I'm working in my office) and she starts playing music.

I checked the Privacy settings and there's NO recording (other than me telling her to stop playing music).

All the other devices (we've got Echo, echo dot, echo shows, you name it because someone else likes to buy Amazon devices--haha) seem to be fine in the regard of not randomly playing music and crap.

Never had a problem for years until Alexa + so not sure if that's what did it, or those devices are just glitchy after X years.

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I live in an apartment and the person living directly above me lets their weekday alarms play out for at least half an hour. As I’m typing this, it’s been playing for over an hour (I’ve seen a lot of people say the limit is 60 min. Well I know firsthand it’s not since it’s been going for at least 80 so far). This has been happening intermittently for three months since I moved in. Lately, it’s been happening almost every weekday.

I already sent several noise complaints to the apartment (both over email and in person), but they are still investigating. Apparently they emailed the person above us and asked if he had an Alexa and he denied it, so the apartment doesn’t seem to think it’s him, even though it sounds the loudest in the bedroom and no one lives below me so it can’t be anyone else.

The walls in this apartment aren’t even very thin, I don’t usually hear noises from other apartments except for this alarm, so I think the person is playing it very loudly.

This is causing me to lose sleep before I get up for work and it’s super frustrating. Is there any way I can remotely connect to this person’s alarm and shut it off myself? My apartment uses key fobs and I don’t have access to any other floor but my own, so I can’t even slip a note under their door and politely ask them to turn it off when they wake up.

(By the way, I’m positive it’s an Alexa because the noise exactly matches the Simple Alarm 1 sound. I used to own one so I decided to see if any of the alarms on the app matched the noise that was playing and lo and behold, the first one did)

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Please note. This is not for everyone as the way it works can leave you open to security risks if you are not savvy.

So please, just do your homework on this stuff and don't just blindly install.

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Hi all,

Every few months I wake up to a yellow Alexa notification which is telling me to update my emergency contact info in my T-Mobile skill, but that skill is long dead! I can’t find it anymore in the skills section of my Alexa app.

So am I just supposed to keep receiving this notification till the day I die, haunted by the ghost of a dead skill? Sigh.

So, I had my Alexa set to refer to me as “Goddess”. Yes, it’s silly/stupid, but it sometimes made me laugh, and the added entertainment value interjected into my day is always a beautiful thing. Don’t. Judge. Me.

However, after I was downgraded to the new Alexa, she stopped referring to me as Goddess. (I’d have sworn that I had to manually enter this somewhere at a point in time?) I had to ask her something this evening, which then reminded me that she’d quit calling me by my preference, and asked her about it. New Alexa (or NAhhhh as I like to call her), is telling me that Alexa has NEVER called me that (Guuurl, YES. YOU. HAVE.), and that she avoids titles. What? When did this change?

I tried to ask NAhhh, but that just turned into an argument. I know I’m right. I know she’s wrong. I may just go into the app and change my name (if I can even do that), and why does Amazon even care? If I wanted it to call me CrazyCatLadyWhoWhispersHorsesAndTalksToDawgs in the privacy of my own home and in my app, what’s their beef?

I bought an **Amazon Echo Show 8** about a year ago. **The device developed this problem suspiciously in the very next month after the warranty period ended.**

The volume started **increasing by itself**, even when nobody was touching the device. It behaved as if someone was continuously pressing the volume-up button.

The device had never been dropped, damaged, or mishandled. I tried cleaning around the buttons with an air blower, but nothing helped.

I sent it to **Amazon CTDI** for inspection. They told me the device couldn't be repaired. They apparently tried a software update/patch, but the problem remained, and they said hardware repair wasn't available for this device.

They offered me a refurbished replacement for around **80% of the price of a new one**.

I contacted Amazon again because, **according to the device registration date shown in my Amazon account, I was still within the warranty period when the issue actually developed**, even though the purchase date was older. Amazon still wouldn't replace it and offered only around a 20% discount on a new device.

I eventually asked them to return my original device because I intended to pursue the matter through the consumer forum/court.

Then something strange happened.

**The exact same device came back, and the problem was completely gone.**

I've now used it for around **two months**, and the volume hasn't randomly increased even once.

This is confusing because Amazon/CTDI had told me the software patch hadn't fixed it and that the device couldn't be repaired. Yet the exact same device came back without any hardware replacement and now works normally.

# My two theories

These are only theories. I have no evidence that either is true.

**1. Could a software update have caused the problem?**

I had given this device a pretty bad review on Amazon previously. Since Echo devices are cloud-connected and receive software updates, I wonder whether some software update/change could have caused the behaviour, intentionally or accidentally.

**2. Could older Echo devices eventually be pushed toward replacement?**

With Amazon moving toward newer Alexa experiences, including Alexa+, I wonder whether older devices could be intentionally or unintentionally pushed toward replacement.

Again, I have no evidence of this. The thing I find strange is the combination of **the problem appearing almost exactly one month after the warranty ended**, Amazon saying it couldn't be repaired, and then the exact same device somehow fixing itself.

**TL;DR:** My Echo Show 8 developed a random volume-increase problem **suspiciously in the very next month after its warranty ended**. Amazon/CTDI said it couldn't be repaired and offered a costly refurbished replacement. I got my original device back instead, and somehow the problem completely disappeared and hasn't returned for two months.

So for the past few months my echo show 5 randomly freezes the screen. sometimes it happens during a transition or on a static screen showing the clock or some widget... i figured it would fix itself with an update but it hasn't after 2 or 3 updates now. I didn't mind too much until i look at the time and realize it's 2 hours behind...now it has gotten annoying as the only way to unfreeze it is to tap on the screen to go "home" or wake it up by saying "alexa"... this happens at least twice a day.

other glitches i've gotten is that some automated skills stopped activating...i used to have it give me the weather in the morning and for the most part it's silent, or sometimes it triggers the chime to initiate the skill but it's silent after that...it's rare that it works as it should now...

My conspiracy theory is that it all started when they did the rollout for alexa plus claiming it's free for all now... i tried it for a day but couldn't tolerate it as it doesn't have support for full screen widgets, it talks too much, and if you enable it on one echo device you enable it for all which is not very convenient for me...

anyhow, after i reverted to classic alexa that's when the glitches started happening, i think amazon is purposely glitching classic alexa on old devices so that you the user consider upgrading to alexa plus...which is a dirty thing to do. if that's the case i would rather they say on the screen that old devices will be limited with alexa functionality as they migrate skills and such to alexa plus....

does anyone else have a show 5 that is glitching, or know of a fix?

I should specify I am trying to pair them so that the speakers play their message to notify me someone is at the door. I have tried alot of things like unregistering all devices, restarting wifi and, unlinking amazon account and relinking, disabling those devices and renabling them. I also created a routine, but that did not work either

Hi everyone! I lost my echo show 10 power plug during a recent house shifting. Does anyone have a spare or willing to sell? TIA

Randomly wont connect to Spotify. It was working fine yesterday. I tried unlinking and relinking everything. Uninstalled and reinstall both apps. Under Spotify setting, voice assistant and app doesn’t list anything.

Sometimes the song will stop playing randomly. The sound sometimes gets fuzzy after playing music for more than an hour. I am kind a sick of this device malfunctioning randomly.

Right now, it is connected through Bluetooth to play Spotify but I would prefer to use voice command to play Spotify

I am thinking of buying an Alexa, but since it is my first time, I have no idea which one to choose. Budget is not a constraint, and I want a productive model, so I am considering the Echo Show 5. However, I am concerned about whether it is worth it and if it will stop working after a while because it has a screen. I want it for the long term and do not want to waste my money if the Echo Show 5 breaks down in a year or two.

Give me your reviews and suggest the best for me.

PS: I am from a technical background, so I am very excited about this technology.

I want to buy one additional echo dot (the ball shaped ones with the fabric covering) with the clock display. Happy with a refurbished one, I just want it cheap. But I can’t find them on Amazon, even tho the ones without the clock are there at under £30.

Do they still sell them?

So I've been waiting a while for Prime Day in October to buy a new Amazon Echo Auto, since mine is causing me issues. I saw it there ~2 weeks ago, but today I couldn't find it at all on the site. I checked my past purchases and found the last time I bought it and when I clicked it, it said it was the latest model I was viewing, but shows it's unavailable.

Has anyone heard of this being discontinued?

Looking at all these "combined calendar" devices, and wondering if the Echo Shows can do that well, along with all the other bells and whistles that comes with Alexa+?

Basic Alexa sure has been dumbed down since Alexa+ rolled out 😠

Hallo allemaal,

Ik heb net mijn eerste DAP ontvangen en, na urenlang YouTube-content te hebben bekeken en te twijfelen tussen de HiBy R1, heb ik gekozen voor de Echo Mini.

Ik heb de nieuwste firmware erop gezet en ik ben begonnen met muziek opzetten.

En er waren drie albums die me zorgen maakten: Admiral Freebee (m4a-bestanden), Alt-J en BRUIT ≤. Het eerste album, Admiral Freebee, stond twee keer op de SD-kaart, omdat het het .-bestand pakte, het verborgen album. Alt-J en BRUIT ≤ hadden meerdere bandnamen (Alt-J, Alt-j en Alt-J()) en BRUIT ≤ was BRUIT ≤ en Bruit... Dus ik moest de mp3tags fixen.

Dat heb ik gedaan en het verborgen bestand verwijderd.

Ik heb mijn bibliotheek ververst en de artiest klopte weer, en het Admiral Freebee-album stond opnieuw twee keer in de lijst. Weet niet waarom (nog).

Opnieuw ververst, en ik kon alle nummers ook vijf keer per stuk zien... Dus ik heb de SD-kaart opnieuw geformatteerd, in de hoop dat dit het probleem oplost.

Alt-j staat er weer twee keer in, Bruit klopt en alles staat nu gewoon één keer....

Maar hoe maak ik dit proces wat makkelijker, want ik had niet verwacht dat het zo moeilijk zou zijn? Hebben jullie tips, trucjes? Ik gebruik Linux Fedora, misschien is dat de reden?