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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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What witty or helpful things do use alexa for?
Mine announces snack time so I don't get asked for snacks every 5 mins.
I've also set mine to remind when it's tidy up time, time to brush teeth etc. And more recently when I get asked how to spell something I say go ask alexa.
My personal favourite is the reminder to put the bins out.
So what have you got?
And what pranks have you played on others with their alexa and amazon orders? |
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I used to have a “put the kids to bed” command
It turned off the tv, Xbox. Turned all the bedside lights
Then told each child the school things they needed and finally after twenty mins starting reading the youngest a story.
Was brilliant for nearly three weeks and they loved it!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I used to have a “put the kids to bed” command
It turned off the tv, Xbox. Turned all the bedside lights
Then told each child the school things they needed and finally after twenty mins starting reading the youngest a story.
Was brilliant for nearly three weeks and they loved it!
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Three weeks? Dam that lasted a while. |
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The best one I ever saw was a workmate and what he did with his while we were at work on nights.
So he had a couple of them at home and could control them from his phone at work, his brother was his lodger and had his girlfriend staying over with him so at roughly 3am, he got them all to scream at full volume!!!
The ensuing phone call from his brother was put on loudspeaker and is still talked about now 2 years later.....apoplectic doesn't quite cover how nuts he went hahhaahaaa |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"The best one I ever saw was a workmate and what he did with his while we were at work on nights.
So he had a couple of them at home and could control them from his phone at work, his brother was his lodger and had his girlfriend staying over with him so at roughly 3am, he got them all to scream at full volume!!!
The ensuing phone call from his brother was put on loudspeaker and is still talked about now 2 years later.....apoplectic doesn't quite cover how nuts he went hahhaahaaa"
Oh that's evil!! But I bet it was funny to listen to. |
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"The best one I ever saw was a workmate and what he did with his while we were at work on nights.
So he had a couple of them at home and could control them from his phone at work, his brother was his lodger and had his girlfriend staying over with him so at roughly 3am, he got them all to scream at full volume!!!
The ensuing phone call from his brother was put on loudspeaker and is still talked about now 2 years later.....apoplectic doesn't quite cover how nuts he went hahhaahaaa
Oh that's evil!! But I bet it was funny to listen to. "
It was brilliant and far from a one off...did you know you can also get them to sound exactly like a smoke alarm too  |
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Newest useful thing I discovered is the shopping list. At any stage, say Alexa, add flour ( or whatever you've run out of ) to the shopping list. When you are doing your shopping, say , Alexa, what is on the shopping list. She will recite whatever items you asked her to |
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We have a few useful ones, like the lights in the bedroom are all synced so we can switch the lights off without getting out of bed. It is really great in the winter no one has to freeze to switch the lights off. Also if there is an issue like one of the dogs having a seizure during the night we can get to the dog as the lights come on, no faffing. We also have her play who let the dogs out when it is time for wee wees, for the 6 dogs. We have off to work, which switches on the longest ever classical playist for them.
We love playing quizes on ours. Trying to get her to swear is great fun.
Also find her so useful for spelling, timers, stupid questions that you think of during the day. When is high tide is a really common question.
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We've got four of them in the house now, but they just get used for radio/music streaming.
I set up some WiFi plugs but can never remember what they are called, same with the lights. It's quicker and simpler to just flick a switch than to shout out "Alexa, turn off lounge light"....
"Alexa, turn off living room light"...
Ah, bollocks, I'll do it m'self |
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Have four in the house, set timer for cooking , but mainly use it to play music, set all up as a home group so all 4 turn on . Set up to turn heat on too |
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After putting up with that thing for a few years id never have it.
First off it wasnt mine, I was staying with a couple whilst repairing 2 propertys.
It interfered when you didnt want it to do. ( told it to shut up more than anything )
They liked it but I didnt |
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"After putting up with that thing for a few years id never have it.
First off it wasnt mine, I was staying with a couple whilst repairing 2 propertys.
It interfered when you didnt want it to do. ( told it to shut up more than anything )
They liked it but I didnt "
Must admit I do tell alexa to stop or shut up more than anyone else in my household.
But it is useful for playing music especially if you know the name of the songs you like but can't spell yet. |
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"But it is useful for playing music especially if you know the name of the songs you like but can't spell yet. "
I can find a song more by its lyrics
Have plenty of favorates to play so find bluetooth speakers far better.
Enough so id been asked to list the songs I had on phone and laptop as they wanted them. |
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"We've got four of them in the house now, but they just get used for radio/music streaming.
I set up some WiFi plugs but can never remember what they are called, same with the lights. It's quicker and simpler to just flick a switch than to shout out "Alexa, turn off lounge light"....
"Alexa, turn off living room light"...
Ah, bollocks, I'll do it m'self"
Handy if you're disabled though. My mate from wheelchair basketball has his house wired up to Alexa and it's made his life a thousand times easier. Brilliant for things like that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We have 4 in the house mainly used for music and great for telling kids dinner is ready
Do you have 1 per kid?! 
Only 2 but you never know which room their in  "
Haha you've basically got a Tannoy system going on in your house |
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We have 4 in our house- 1 main one in our kitchen/diner area and a dot in 3 bedrooms.
We use it mainly for music but it's announce feature is handy for getting the kids to come downstairs for tea etc.
On the run up to Christmas asking it how many sleeps till Christmas gets a nice little Santa message too |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I used to have a “put the kids to bed” command
It turned off the tv, Xbox. Turned all the bedside lights
Then told each child the school things they needed and finally after twenty mins starting reading the youngest a story.
Was brilliant for nearly three weeks and they loved it!
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For me, that's brilliant excerpt the bedtime story. That's such a precious time of the day, I couldn't hand it over to a machine. |
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By *innMan
over a year ago
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When I am Skyping with friends (face time or teams) if the person leaves the room I ask Alex a to play Thin lizzy loud 
“guess who just got back today, them wild boys that have been away, haven’t changed, not got much to say......... the boys are back in town!” |
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By *itzimadCouple
over a year ago
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"Newest useful thing I discovered is the shopping list. At any stage, say Alexa, add flour ( or whatever you've run out of ) to the shopping list. When you are doing your shopping, say , Alexa, what is on the shopping list. She will recite whatever items you asked her to "
if you have the app on your phone you can do it in the supermarket
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By *itzimadCouple
over a year ago
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"Can Alexa be used just using the internet of the mobile phone?
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yes but it will lose connection when you leave the housemost of what alexa can do can be done on your phone using google and a bluetooth speaker
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By *B69Woman
over a year ago
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"We have 4 in the house mainly used for music and great for telling kids dinner is ready
Do you have 1 per kid?!
Only 2 but you never know which room their in
Haha you've basically got a Tannoy system going on in your house "
Saves me shouting or going up the stairs so win win |
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"We have 4 in the house mainly used for music and great for telling kids dinner is ready
Do you have 1 per kid?!
Only 2 but you never know which room their in
Haha you've basically got a Tannoy system going on in your house
Saves me shouting or going up the stairs so win win"
Lol we use ours for exactly the same reason- I hate shouting upstairs. |
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"We have 4 in the house mainly used for music and great for telling kids dinner is ready
Do you have 1 per kid?!
Only 2 but you never know which room their in
Haha you've basically got a Tannoy system going on in your house
Saves me shouting or going up the stairs so win win
Lol we use ours for exactly the same reason- I hate shouting upstairs."
We WhatsApp each other between up and downstairs  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Brother controls his from his phone when he is at work and g.friend is at home. For weeks randomly he would make creaking noises and broken glass sound. This went on for weeks he had to come clean when she was convinced house was haunted and was moving out lol |
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Girlfriend set up her Spotify on my Alexa and given the year of working from my bedroom, one day while she was out she set her music off and scared the bejesus out of me!
At the start she would also love to set random reminders for when she was away. Things like how lucky I am to have her, and others in that vein.
On a serious note, uncle lives by himself and a good thing I managed to do last year was set up Alexa across his house with smart bulbs to make life a little bit easier for him, given he's older and not as mobile now. Been a boon being able to drop in every so often to make sure he's okay. It's a feature I wish I had taken advantage of by setting up for my gran before she passed but oh well. |
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"Tell alexa to say....
Boris Johnson carrot 100 in Welsh.
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Wow, I expected something rude but I guess I wasn't Quite prepared for it. How does one even discover something like this?!
On another note, another great feature of Alexa is asking for ambient music to play. Was a boon the week before an important interview when as luck would have it, the neighbours decided to host shouting matches and parties well into the night |
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"Will never have the “spy in your home” products in ours.
We prefer our privacy thank you."
In all honesty though, even if you didn't have a smart speaker, be it Google or Amazon or whatever, the fact you'd likely have your smartphone nearby and the proliferation of connected devices, there really just isn't getting around this "spy" scare. At this point it's practically swimming against the tide. |
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"Will never have the “spy in your home” products in ours.
We prefer our privacy thank you.
In all honesty though, even if you didn't have a smart speaker, be it Google or Amazon or whatever, the fact you'd likely have your smartphone nearby and the proliferation of connected devices, there really just isn't getting around this "spy" scare. At this point it's practically swimming against the tide. "
Yes but by inviting it into your homes, you can't really argue when it comes on top at a later date. |
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"Will never have the “spy in your home” products in ours.
We prefer our privacy thank you.
In all honesty though, even if you didn't have a smart speaker, be it Google or Amazon or whatever, the fact you'd likely have your smartphone nearby and the proliferation of connected devices, there really just isn't getting around this "spy" scare. At this point it's practically swimming against the tide.
Yes but by inviting it into your homes, you can't really argue when it comes on top at a later date."
I can tell you that many disabled people are very grateful for them and have made life a great deal easier and more independent.
You're being tracked by your smartphone (if you have one), via the IP address on your computer (you must have either phone or computer to be posting here) and via your debit card transactions, your in-car navigation system (that's a basic feature on most modern cars). Etc. |
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Iv just done that. 
