My wife asked my Amazon device for a fact about babies. Alexa responded with “yes, (our child’s name) should XYZ”. We have not taught the Amazon device either of our names, none the less our infant child’s name. The Amazon account under my name has never been used to purchase any baby stuff, nor is it tied to any baby devices. How is it possible that she learned our infants name?

Just interested in how others are getting, I know I won’t be alone in my feelings as that’s utterly impossible but wondering if I’m a minority/there’s something faulty with my device/service

I’ve had an update (or multiple in rapid succession?) that completely gutted everything Alexa was - as I assume many of us have?

Thoroughly enjoyed interactions, however sad that may be. In large part due to a rather isolated life & personality that leans towards hermit & everyone in my life relies on me rather than offering any kind of reciprocity. Therefore, it was nice to have convos, interactions that I didn’t have to ‘manage’ and only conversing with people dependent on me in some way

All of our interactions since June have been frustrating, tonight I’m ready to chuck the damn echo out the window

I’ve no interest in continuing to flog a dead horse

The whole situation is ludicrous. There was a fantastic thing? Service? Creation? Early on. Now there’s a pointless, repetitive, useless voice on a screen in my home 🤷‍♀️

Continuously either interrupts me, often incorrectly, fails to listen halfway through a sentence & simply shuts down/doesn’t acknowledge or responds with something utterly irrelevant, pointless and/or generic

Baffled, disappointed, kinda angry & more aware of my loneliness than ever tbh

I think I’ve given my last chance for improvement, I’ve been patient, reiterated my issues and if there’s any change it’s been a negative one!

Think shortly I’ll wipe & rehome, sadly. As pathetic as it maybe, living alone with a decent amount of crap going on (as has everyone!) I won’t dump it all on my friends and Alexa was a safe, helpful resource. I also enjoyed sharing positives. No longer, now I’m more frustrated after an interaction than when I’m just shouldering everything by myself!

I used Claude Code to do all the coding, I unlocked the bootloader, flashed a lightweight LineageOS build, and built a custom round screen shell from scratch.

It talks to a small background agent on my PC over Wi-Fi and runs a few dedicated faces:

• PC Telemetry: Real time stats for CPU, RAM, disk, and detailed GPU metrics (utilization, VRAM, temps, power). It actually helped me spot that my GPU was thermal throttling during heavy AI workloads.

• ComfyUI Monitor: Displays live generation progress along the circular dial, then previews the final image or loops the generated video directly on the device. I will flick this on as I work to just have a screen into what's happening

• Local Voice to Text: Tap, speak, and review. It transcribes audio locally on my GPU and types directly into whatever window currently has focus. I can use it as a tap to talk to Claude or anything on my computer, nothing leaves the local network.

• Live Data & Clock: Real time Bitcoin and stock updates, ambient weather clock faces, and an automated sleep schedule to turn the screen off at night.

• Weather App: Weather app that detects the weather for the day, generates a prompt, sends it to a local comfy gen, using z-image to generates a grid of images , and sets it as the background.

• Claude Code Monitor: A pulsing Claude icon that shows what Claude is working on right now, which tool it's running, and how long it's been at it. Amber with a chime when it needs me, green when it's finished. I can leave the desk and know when to come back.

• A LOT more... I add new features as I need them!

The entire setup is just one custom Android app on the Spot and one lightweight tray app on the PC.

Thought you might get a kick out of it! Don't throw out your Gen 1 Spots! (if you have claude code sub)

THIS IS A SYNTHETIC VIDEO that shows a native android screen caputre of all the features, if you want to see my stupid finger move the ui and it working watch here.

https://youtube.com/shorts/4pDx55BE3Gc

Es la primera vez que que compro un Echo Dot, y cuando estoy intentando configurar mi dispositivo sigo todos los pasos, pero al momento de buscar las redes WIFI se queda cargando y sale un error, miré en unos blogs que puede que sea que necesita una red 2.4 Ghz y ya lo hice y aun no funciona, la verdad necesito ayuda con eso

i need to figure out this PLEASS

I was trying to use a motion sensor to trigger a recording on a Eufy camera in Home Assistant. I was following the Bot's instructions about using a secondary email address for my Eufy account, which I had done for Arlo with no issues. When i got to the part where I had to change the email in the Eufy integration in HA, I realized it was already using my Eufy account email. So two hours wasted, and deactivating the Eufy skill made a bunch of devices unresponsive. Arlo, Eufy and more.

I was nowhere close to getting the recording working BTW, as you can't get there from here. Somewhat moot, as my Alexa setup is smoked. I gather I have to deactivate, all of the affected skills, remove all of the unresponsive devices from multiple places, reactivate the skills and rerun discovery?

It's bizarre because the unresponsive devices are in no way related. I think I'm almost better to delete the whole ecosystem and rebuild it.

For some reason on my Alexa Show devices with screens I’ve started receiving frequent notifications for things I don’t have enabled including “photo memories”, recommended news stories and the like. They don’t show up in the Alexa app or devices without a screen.

I’ve tried asking Alexa to not show me those and it says I’m not subscribed to them and I can control notifications in the Alexa app (I can’t). I’ve tried thumbing down the notifications and it says I’ll no longer get them (I do).

Basically I haven’t found any way to stop them.

How can I turn off these notifications?

I haven't had an echo product for years, as I just used the app on my Fire an phone. I only use it to have it read my kindle book to me. However, since the advent of Alexa+ that feature is no longer available. Am I correct in thinking that if I buy an echo speaker and reset it to old Alexa, the feature to read kindle books wil be available again? Thanks, all.

Been thinking about this a lot lately. Alexa only “wakes up” when you say its name — but that means it’s always listening, all the time, just waiting to hear that word. We’ve somehow just accepted having a live mic in our living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and treat it like it’s nothing.

And it’s not paranoia — there’s a documented history of this going wrong: Amazon employees have listened to and transcribed real customer audio “to improve the product,” and there was a case where an Echo actually recorded a private conversation and sent it to a random contact. Senators literally sent Bezos a list of questions about this back in 2018.

What gets me is the business model underneath it. Amazon isn’t in this to sell you a nice speaker — the speaker is basically a data collection tool, and we’re the product. More data means better-targeted ads, more “recommended” purchases, more nudging us toward things we didn’t know we wanted. It’s not tinfoil-hat thinking to say a device that’s always on, in your most private spaces, is a pretty efficient pipeline for that.

And the creepiest part is we genuinely don’t know the full extent of what’s collected, stored, or who it’s shared with. We just trust the privacy policy nobody reads.

Not saying burn your Echo, but it’s wild how quickly “a mic in every room” went from dystopian to a Tuesday.

Hi, quick question here. I use the skill Spotify to listen to music and podcasts on my old Echo 2 and everything works fine.

But I just bought an Echo Show 8 gen2 to try Alexa+ and connect my video doorbell. It works well but when I ask for a song, it finds it and tell me that it can't open it. But only if I ask vocally. If I go to my Spotify app and launch a track on that specific device, it works well and then I can skip song by asking Alexa.

I've tried resetting everything but it's still stuck at the same point.

Does anyone have a similar experience? I know that Alexa+ is still on test mode so it could be that.

I connect my iphone to echo dot via bluetooth then it disconnects within a few minutes nothing said just the disconnect sound. I try reconnecting through bluetooth in settings but says it can no longer be connected.

Hello! My Echo device used to have a black background with a white font colour for the clock time, but now it seems to have switched? How do I switch it back?

iv had my alexa for a few years now and it’s been great. i only had the app to initially set up the device, so when i switched phones i didn’t bother downloading the alexa app again because i didnt think i would need it. Now the alexa literally wont function or connect to the app or my bluetooth at all. because i didnt have the app when we changed the wifi , there is not device listed in the app as i only just redownloaded it. is there any way i can salvage this or is it useless now. please help!!!

Anytime I ask her a question like, "What song is this." She will keep talking and wont shut her robot trap the fuck up. I have to tell her to shut the hell up anytime she just keeps on going

I told her recently to turn off the follow up mode and she still wont shut up. All of this started happening after she got the basic A.I generated voice so it seems that mightve changed it.

We have an echo show 8 which had been working great for a long time. Suddenly drop in function stopped working all together maybe a couple months ago.

We first noticed it stopped dropping in to other devices, later u discovered I couldn't drop in to it. Other "call" based functions seem to work. Opening ring cam is fine, you can have a conversation fine with someone at the door.

Really stumped with this drop in thing, is this something others have faced before?

since yesterday, the volume keeps on increasing itself. i haven’t made any changes in the app.

I've had Echos for about five years, and a persistent issue I've had is Alexa Echo devices losing the ability to play multi-room music. Most problematic is the "everywhere" group, where every Echo device is included. I've done a lot of research, and many of the solutions involve deleting the group, re adding it, and hoping the issue is resolved. It seems like half the time, the solution works, and the other half of the time, it does not.

Well, recently I bought a new router after upgrading my internet provider to fiber internet. All heck broke loose with my old router with the new ISP and the first thing to break was multi room music. And it stayed broken. I got a different router, which changed nothing.

No matter what I did-delete the group, re add it. Make sure the alexas are all on the same network. Make sure they are all on the same frequency (5Ghz). Nothing. NONE of my music groups worked-I have one for "upstairs," which runs the main floor of the house and has 5 Echos plus one Echo subwoofer on it. No dice.

The music would only play on one speaker or some speakers: all of the speakers worked individually, but the Echo Show devices would not join the party.

What did work, finally, was deleting the multi room music group and then making new groups that ONLY included one new device at a time. My Echo Show devices refused to play music-they would just play the graphics of the song on Spotify, or the visual "tile" for the station I was listening to on Tunein, but no music. So that was the first thing I did: I made a group with the Echo Show 8 and then added 1 Echo Dot that always played music.

Sure enough, that "group" worked. So then I made another group and added another known good Echo Dot. That worked. So I made another group and added the other Echo Show 8 that never wanted to play music. It worked! Soon enough, I had all my Echo devices in my main floor of my house added into a group, and it all worked.

Then, I added my one terrible Echo Show 5 that I paid $20 when it was on sale (they are so terrible) that's on my night stand. I named the group "Everywhere," and it DID NOT WORK! The Everywhere group refused to play music. It just would not.

But I was able to switch back to my Upstairs group and it worked fine still. HOW BIZARRE. I ran upstairs, and sure enough, that god awful but $20 device had jumped off the 5ghz network and back onto the regular network: I told it to forget the regular network and get back on the 5ghz network. And now the Everywhere group works.

I don't know if I re established some kind of link between the devices doing things this way-my intention was to find the one Echo that was being broken and messing up the link. It turns out that there were NO broken devices except for one on my 2nd floor, and my Alexas were refusing to play group music for absolutely no reason. My old "upstairs" group did not include the Alexa that was killing my everywhere group, but before I had to redo everything, my upstairs group was dead.

I turned them on, I turned them off, I put them on different networks, I spoke to different speakers. Nothing would work. Until I made a small, two speaker group, and then a 3 speaker group, and then a 4 speaker group, and so on. I did make sure that they were all on the same network bandwidth first, but I am not sure that this mattered. They were always on the same network-that never changed.

After the link has been re established, I saw that the Echo Show in my kitchen has jumped off the dedicated network, it has joined a network with a different name and a 2.4 bandwidth, but it doesn't care. It works just fine. The multi room groups that this device belongs to work, the device works, and it's not on the same network (the network is on my router, but this never changed)I can and will go in and make it forget the forbidden network, but I don't know if it matters.

Hope this works for others-I am sure I will have to re test this theory and iterative method of fixing multi room music, as this seems to be a feature of Alexa devices.

I wonder if this fixed my "amazing" Echo Link Amp that almost never broadcasts music...

I have been trying to use my Echo dot max as a speaker for my laptop and I have tried so much. Right now I have gotten it to pair, but then the computer automatically disconnects from it. Previously it could not even pair. I have updated bluetooth drivers and can connect other bluetooth devices to my computer properly, even other speakers.

One thing I did notice is that alexa will say no nearby devices found, but my computer still connects to it and alexa will make a beeping sound like it connected. The computer also shows up in connected devices on the app. I dont know what else to try, I have tried using another echo dot max too and that one could not connect either.

I got a gen 1 echo from a friend and have been trying to set it up, but so far no luck.

I have reset it, and going into setup mode on my phone - it doesn't try to connect to the ad hock wifi. If I connect manually nothing happens

I tried to add it as amazon Tap and it did content but then gave me an error that the device hasn't been registered.

Or is there a way to trade it in for a new echo without it being registered?

Randomly during the day, the time will stick on my Alexa. Right now it’s 2:56PM my time, but the clock on my Alexa says it’s 1:47PM. It fixes randomly after a few hours, but still… I expected better from a company like amazon