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Originally Posted by OtinG
Anyone with a Show 5 and another Echo device (preferably one without a screen) notice something similar to this?
- Echo Plus 2 set up with "Echo" as wake word.
- Echo Show 5 set up with "Alexa" as wake word.
Speaking to my Echo Plus 2 a few feet away I said, "Echo, ask Brown Noise to loop."
(This is a command to have the Brown Noise skill play until stopped.)
The Echo Plus 2 runs the Brown Noise skill.
However, the Echo Show 5, which was showing the clock in its Home screen displays a visual screen for the Brown Noise skill. It doesn't play the sounds, the sounds are being played on the Echo Plus 2, but the Show 5 has taken it upon itself to display that the Brown Noise skill is playing on another device.
Speaking to my Echo Show 5 a few feet away I said, "Alexa, Home!"
The Echo Show 5 returns to the clock on the Home screen and stays there until morning.
I'm not sure if this is by design, are just another flaky annoyance with the Echo Show 5 Home screen. The Echo Show 5 constantly wants to leave the Home screen. It is as though it is looking for any reason to do that. It will flicker off momentarily every few minutes like it is going to show another useless Tip, but then flickers back on to the Home screen. It is a quick flickering, but annoying and noticeable. I do have ALL notifications turned off, but the Show 5 seems to go looking for something to notify me about anyway. |
One correction, in the above issue I was asking my Echo Plus 2 to run the Brown Noise skill but it was actually playing the skill on my Echo Show 5.
Issue resolved. After I realized the skill was playing on the Echo Show 5, I did more research and discovered the reason was because both devices were in a Group named “Living Room.” Apparently the Echo Show 5 was being used as the “preferred speaker” for that Group. I had not setup a “preferred speaker” for that Group, and I didn’t even know there was such a thing. Long story short, I did not want a preferred speaker for the Living Room group, so I simply removed the Echo Show 5 from the group and now whenever I ask the Echo Plus 2 to play something or run a skill it does so on the Echo Plus 2 rather than running it on another device. So problem resolved.
Although I’m glad there is a way to set a “preferred speaker” for a Group, I really don’t have a reason to do so. It was much easier for me in this case to place those two devices in different groups.