breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Dec 15, 2020 3:16:15 GMT
One of our living room lamps is hooked up to a smart plug, DH insisted... I have no problem moving my arm to turn on the lamp. Asking Alexa to turn the lamp on wasn't working Sunday so I unplugged it, plugged the lamp into the wall and turned the light on. There isn't a ceiling light in the room and it's December, I need to be able to see...
DH insisted that plug needs to have a smart plug because it will turn itself off at night (aka the kids might forget and leave it on) and plugged it back in. This morning the lamp won't turn on again. So DH has been arguing with Alexa all day, and my lamp is still not working. At one point he said "Alexa what's your status?" and her answer was "I'm single, thanks for asking."
The other day I told Alexa she was fired, and she told me I should call the fire department.
I think our Alexa is going senile... what about yours?
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StephDRebel
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Post by StephDRebel on Dec 15, 2020 3:36:29 GMT
Mine has kind of lost her mind lately too actually. I will sit in the living room and she won't hear me but the one in the bedroom in the back of the house will. She acts like she can't understand me at all and DH ends up having to repeat everything I say. He says it's my accent, but that is impossible because I don't have one and she used to listen to me. I swear the boys set her to aggravate me when moved out.
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Post by mom on Dec 15, 2020 3:38:26 GMT
Mine has kind of lost her mind lately too actually. I will sit in the living room and she won't hear me but the one in the bedroom in the back of the house will. She acts like she can't understand me at all and DH ends up having to repeat everything I say. He says it's my accent, but that is impossible because I don't have one and she used to listen to me. I swear the boys set her to aggravate me when moved out. This is happening to us a lot lately. She used to be able to understand me. Now? She acts like I am speaking an unknown foreign language on basic commands. |
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ModChick
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Post by ModChick on Dec 15, 2020 3:49:42 GMT
Mine has kind of lost her mind lately too actually. I will sit in the living room and she won't hear me but the one in the bedroom in the back of the house will. She acts like she can't understand me at all and DH ends up having to repeat everything I say. He says it's my accent, but that is impossible because I don't have one and she used to listen to me. I swear the boys set her to aggravate me when moved out. This is happening to us a lot lately. She used to be able to understand me. Now? She acts like I am speaking an unknown foreign language on basic commands. Haha Alexa is like that for my husband, yet understands me perfectly. We are BFFs ❤️😂 |
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Post by Skellinton on Dec 15, 2020 3:56:25 GMT
I couldn’t find my phone the other day so I asked Echo to call it. She asked “Should I call from Skellinton or Husband.” I told her husband. She said, “I can’t call from Husband. Should I call from Skellinton?” I told her yes. She then told me she couldn’t call from Skellinton and asked if she should call from Husband. I told her yes and we completed this routine one more time before I told her she was dead to me.  |
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Post by Just Beth on Dec 15, 2020 4:04:21 GMT
My Alexa can find every smart plug and WeMo light switch. Except one, my bedroom overhead light. Which is the one we use the most. I swear she is trying to make me bonkers.
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Post by smasonnc on Dec 15, 2020 4:44:06 GMT
Mine’s behaving badly, too, and the new Smart Things app is absolutely useless so I don’t know if it’s actually her fault.
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katybee
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Post by katybee on Dec 15, 2020 4:47:48 GMT
I mean, mine acts like a petulant teenager, so I’m gonna say yeah...
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samantha25
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Post by samantha25 on Dec 15, 2020 4:51:49 GMT
My Alexa can find every smart plug and WeMo light switch. Except one, my bedroom overhead light. Which is the one we use the most. I swear she is trying to make me bonkers. Pretty funny! Do you need to have the switch turned on/activated? What does that mysterious switch that never turns anything on actually do?, but when something is plugged in, then in your head you say... Wow, that's what that switch was for!....lol |
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theshyone
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Post by theshyone on Dec 15, 2020 5:19:47 GMT
Mine sang me the abc song completely unprompted. I was watching an action movie so it couldn’t have been that. My daughters name is way to close to Alexa so we reset for Echo, yet at times she reverts to Alexa.
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Post by Sanibel on Dec 15, 2020 5:42:22 GMT
I got mad at Alexa yesterday and called her a bitch. She had the audacity to ask me if I could prove it! 🤣🤣
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craftykitten
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Post by craftykitten on Dec 15, 2020 8:15:17 GMT
We have a Google hub not an Alexa, and it also will only recognise DHs voice not mine. So frustrating!
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Post by malibou on Dec 15, 2020 10:12:28 GMT
Mines become overly polite like a kid angling for a Nintendo Switch.
I asked her to play Holiday Classics and she answered, Anything for you.
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Post by bianca42 on Dec 15, 2020 14:24:57 GMT
Mine sang me the abc song completely unprompted. I was watching an action movie so it couldn’t have been that. My daughters name is way to close to Alexa so we reset for Echo, yet at times she reverts to Alexa. My dog is Lexi and my son is Alex....so she often responds when I'm yelling at the dog or my kid. |
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Post by catck on Dec 15, 2020 14:36:09 GMT
Omg so happy I’m not the only Pea to have Alexa problems! I listen to the same radio station every day through Alexa and sometimes she tells me she will play the last radio station I listened to and it’s one I’ve never ever heard of let alone listened to!! I’m sure she just messes with me.
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JustTricia
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Post by JustTricia on Dec 15, 2020 14:49:50 GMT
Mine sang me the abc song completely unprompted. I was watching an action movie so it couldn’t have been that. My daughters name is way to close to Alexa so we reset for Echo, yet at times she reverts to Alexa. My dog is Lexi and my son is Alex....so she often responds when I'm yelling at the dog or my kid. You can change the name she answers to in the app. I know you can change it to Echo and Computer, not sure what else. I’ve done that because I have two Dots close to each other and they were both answering me. To the OP, it sounds more like the issue could be with the plug. Or have you tried to turn it on or off using the app instead of asking Alexa to do it? |
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Post by karenlou on Dec 15, 2020 14:52:33 GMT
Mine works very seldom....when it works it is good...However doesn't work more than works
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Post by yodutchess on Dec 15, 2020 15:48:29 GMT
My Google Hub doesn’t listen to me and I think it is my voice too. It listens to DH and DS just fine.
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Post by hop2 on Dec 15, 2020 19:23:24 GMT
I don’t have Alexa but my smart plugs all had to be reloaded last week for no reason. 🤷♀️ After deleting and reloading the app they all work fine again.
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Post by papersilly on Dec 15, 2020 19:31:10 GMT
i have the same trouble with my arm so now the nightstand lights are on smart plugs. a few weeks ago, the Alexa app was on the fritz. DH's smart plug wasn't responding to Alexa. we must have set it up a dozen times but his light still wouldn't go on during the routine we set up. our only fix for it was to set the routine for DH's lamp on his amazon account and not mine. now it works perfectly but it's just so weird that alexa can't handle the same routine on one account. oh, and she's been a little wonky with information requests lately. amazon needs to look into that.
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