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Per my earlier posts, I tried just asking Amazon to play "ambient sounds ocean" and it played it, but a different recording. I like the ebb and flow of the waves, but this one was one continuous roar of a wave. I ended up telling Alexa "off."
Last night I went back to asking for ambient noise and let her go through her list of sounds. It was so long. Then I asked her to play ocean waves sounds and she went into a spiel about Prime members getting more options in music. I didn't want to hear about it and kept telling it to stop. Eventually I got some continuous ocean sounds. |
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Maybe this is what Alexa was trying to tell me last night when I just wanted the ocean sounds and go to sleep. |
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Check out the Media Deals thread every now and then for deals and announcements about non-book media (music, video, gaming, etc). Alexa can be quite the chatterbox and it does get irritating after awhile. |
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Thank you, Tubemonkey.
I looked at it in the Amazon site and selected an album. I couldn't find a way to play it until I pressed shuffle, and even then I wasn't sure which song was playing. I usually don't shuffle albums. Oh, well. Maybe I should only call out albums to Alexa. I would like this to work and cancel my Apple music. I'm not using the Apple music as much as I thought I would and have had it most of this year. |
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I got an email from Amazon.can about it.
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I can use Apple music instead since I have Apple music free with my cell phone plan (and not limited to a year). |
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Over the last couple days, I'd give Alexa commands that we use regularly, like "kitchen off," and rather than beeping (she's in brief mode) and turning off the kitchen lights as normal, she'll say "It's off," and do nothing. I'm about to dig into the activity to see if she's hearing something different than I'm saying, or if she has just taken up outright lying and willful disobedience.
Neither would surprise me at this point. |
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I get that a lot. Mostly with different skill interaction, though. In those cases, I'm assuming she passed on the request to proper skill, and doesn't give a fig if the external action provided by the skill did its part or not.
On the other side of the coin... it's always sort of annoyed me that she still says "OK" whenever I ask her to turn something on that's already on--open a garage door that's already open. I'd prefer her to call out my senior moment and say something to the effect of "That light's already on, dummy". ![]() |
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That's why I use the dashboard of the mobile app for my Home Assistant (home automation) server for most status info. I can see at a glance whether lights are on or off, or garage doors are open or closed.
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I've found even my Hubitat dashboard status info is sometime out of sync, but more to the point, I want to use Alexa's voice control, not my hand held device. If I wanted to use my hands, I could use a light switch like a neanderthal. |
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![]() But in my defense, I too don't want to use a light switch to turn lights on/off. I use my voice. I just mainly use my eyes to check the status of things, rather than use my voice and get lied to by a device. ![]() Last edited by DiapDealer; 11-03-2022 at 02:55 PM. |
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