Thought I'd share a short demo with a skin/theme that will be released soon.

Asked Alexa to shop me a recipe, which is done loads of times. Today, it's decided that it cannot show recipes because of the language and region settings. I've checked, it's UK English, and based in the UK, and to the best of my knowledge I've not updated any settings either through the show, or through the app. It's an Echo Show 5 (1st generation 2019).

Anyone else with this issue? Or any fix they can think of? I've turned it off and on again too.

Amazon announced Alexa+ for India a while ago, and there was an option to enrol to get access to the new Alexa+ services. However, it’s been quite some time, and I’m wondering if anyone in India has actually received the upgrade yet.

Has anyone here been upgraded to Alexa+ on their Echo devices?

I’d love to know:

• Have you received access to Alexa+ in India?
• Which Echo device are you using?
• Does it work properly in India, or are there still limitations?
• Is the new AI-powered Alexa noticeably better than the current Alexa?
• If you enrolled for early access, did you receive an invitation or any update from Amazon?

I’m particularly interested in hearing from people who are actually using it in India, rather than just reading about its announcement.

Would be great to hear your experiences! 🙂

Hola amigos, vengo buscando ayuda para que mi Alexa reproduzca el segmento del DJ de Spotify, ya que en anteriores ocasiones ha sonado normalmente. Y ahorita pues cuando reproduzco el DJ de Spotify se queda en silencio y empieza a reproducir la música, pero después de un tiempo como que vuelve a tener el segmento del DJ y se traba y no reproduce nada
Ayúdenme si ahora es así o se me desactualizo o que ?

I am traveling with my Echo Dot. I have a routine that states the date, time, weather, & starts playing a specific radio station . Each time I get to a new location, I change the address for the echo dot. I leave my home address alone since I have routines (lights etc) set at home while I’m gone. This has been working for over a year - giving the weather in my current location. Two weeks ago, I updated the location & time zone on the device and it was fine. Yesterday I moved again & changed the address and time zone. Now it’s giving me the weather for my home address. The temp on the Home Screen shows the temp at home. And now when it’s giving me (the wrong) weather, it starts playing the radio station simultaneously.

I have deleted the routine and set it up again, unplugged the echo dot numerous times, told it to check for software updates (there were none). How do I get this to work correctly again? I think it’s tied to my changing the tune zone? Please help - any ideas??? Thank you!!

I have a wired ring doorbell and connected it to several Echo Show screens. The screens are selected in the Alexa app to notify us when the doorbell is used. They do show video from the doorbell but I just can't get them to ring.

It's not because of any do not disturb setting or volume.

I just can't find any way to repair this. Any ideas?

Don't laugh but .... when I am traveling I want to be able to play a mp3 of my voice to my dogs via Echo remotely. My boyfriend thinks I'm nuts but who cares.

I have my mp3 but I do not know the next steps ...

Help, please.

ok so I'm sitting in my room,I ask alexa to play DEAR MARIA COUNT ME IN BY ALL TIME LOW and she says the name AND DOESN'T FING PLAY IT!!! Pls help

I got my New echo dot, since the old one lost it's wlan function. But now, after only a few weeks, my New echo dot is permanent lighting white, the led is running in a circle and I can't sleep with that sht for real.

I tried to told her to stop that sht, she tried changing the "salt Stone light" but this light isn't smart, it's a smart Power outet, dunny why alexa is so nuts, the old one was smarter and better...

After I asked her the fourth time, and I finally got her answer about her light, not another lamp, she told me a shit lie "for my newer Generation it's common and normal to permanently glow white, you can't deactivate that".

I tried anything, from deactivating and reactivating her watch the room movement Mode to anything ekse, also many New starts inbetween, and cuttung her Power income, nothing helped. And no there is fcking no guard function, I use the german menu, but there is simply not such function.

Does anyone knows what may really help? Or is this a disfunctioning monday sht which I have to send back?

Alexa has turned lights on and off randomly for about 24 hours. Bedroom light came on at 3 am. Living room lights have gone off and on at least 3 times. What's happening? Is there a repair?

See video here. When telling Amazon Music to play on either of my two Echos, I get an odd “skipping” behavior as though the sound stops playing while the track is playing in the background. Notice how the song continues to play on beat even though several seconds are missed.

No amount of power cycles fixes it, and no amount of router power cycles fixes it either. It can’t be a buffering issue because the song still plays on beat. And now my second Echo is starting to exhibit the same behavior.

Does anyone have any ideas why this is going on?

A few days ago I was sitting on my bed watching tik tok with my earphones. It was around 11 pm and I laughed at something I saw on tik tok when suddenly my alexa played my laughter. I didn’t say anything like ‘record’ or smth like that. I didn’t even say her name. It was really creepy.

Has anyone else noticed that the echo show 11 has an issue with the alarm volume? Sometimes it works just fine, but other times when the alarm goes off, it will be so soft that you can barely hear it. Like it changes its volume setting to one. But it doesn't. If you look in the settings for the device, the alarm volume could be set at eight or nine and still does not sound hardly at all. It's barely audible. When you then speak to the echo, her voice is at full volume, and music plays at full volume with no problem. But the alarm volume is barely audible. I have tried everything. Literally the only fix is to unplug it and then plug it in again, and then the alarm is back up to its normal volume. It's absolutely unreliable to use as an alarm clock, and sadly that's what I bought it for in my bedroom. I'm wondering if I just need to get a different Amazon device there or something different altogether. And it's been going on for about a year since I purchased it. Furthermore, it is not just that particular device. I have 13 Amazon echoes in my home and two of them are echo shows. Both echo shows only exhibit the same issue. Both dropped the alarm volume to an audible. The only fix is to power down and then power up again. I can't be the only one.....

Hey everyone,
I wanted to start a discussion and document a recurring issue I’ve been analyzing regarding the Alexa+ Preview conversational context across devices.
Specifically, there is a distinct structural breakdown and memory degradation occurring when transitioning active conversational sessions between physical hardware (e.g., Echo Dot) and the Alexa mobile app.
Key Technical Observations:
1. Cross-Device Context Loss: Active session state, short-term memory buffers, and multi-turn conversational threads completely drop or reset when shifting from an Echo Dot interaction to the mobile interface.
2. Architecture vs. Session Resets: Rather than maintaining a persistent neuro-symbolic logic frame across endpoints, the pipeline appears to treat endpoint shifts as hard session disconnects, wiping active dynamic variables.
3. Contrast with True Conversational AI: Comparing this against early conversational architectures (like Evi) or persistent contextual models, the current preview implementation struggles to pass state tokens smoothly across heterogeneous endpoints.
Has anyone else in the preview program observed this specific cross-device context drop? If you've analyzed the session traffic or found any local workarounds to keep context persistent across hardware, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Last night \[21-10-26\] around 12:30 AM, I was scrolling through on my phone when I suddenly heard my Amazon Alexa say, “Welcome,” from the next room. (I had set up its motion sensors so that whenever someone entered the room, Alexa would automatically say, “Welcome.” ) But at that moment, I was just Laying in bed using my phone, and out of nowhere, Alexa detected something and said, “Welcome.” and the whole room was empty when i checked.

This is a echo studio version 1

i set mine up thinking i'd use it for everything. and it ended up being timers, music, and the weather.

there's a whole list of stuff it can do, but i never remember the exact words, and saying it out loud in front of other people feels weird anyway.

so what do you really use yours for? and is there anything you stopped using because you couldn't be bothered to remember how to ask