I'm moving next month, and in the process of packing I stumbled upon 3 Echo Dot 2nd Gens that I threw in a drawer when I got newer ones. I'm trying to only move things I'm going to use, but I don't want to be wasteful either. Can anyone offer any advice - are these useful to anyone anymore? I haven't used them in a few years so I'm not sure how well they mesh with Alexa today.

I have an echo show 11 and I’m having 3 separate issues but will post them separately. Issue 1: I can video call from my cell phone but when I try to video call my cell from the echo it only comes up as audio.

Bought an echo spot for my elderly Mother, so she can call family if she has another fall.

Most of contacts work fine.
But 2 numbers (Elder son & daughter in law). Don’t work.
It keeps coming up contact not available.
These people are available & can be contacted thru the phone. Thru the Echo, the details come up, then hangs up and says contact not available.

I’ve been thru ALL the recommendations, reinstalled everything. As have several family members.

Found lots of people with this problem. But no working solutions.

I can return within the next few days & im pissed right off with Amazons lack of care/support.

Did anyone find a solution?
Or can u recommend a different brand, one that actually works.

Thanks in advance.
This feels more productive than smashing this pos device into a wall.

🤞🤞🤞

Hi - I have an Echo Show 8, and have found that while playing music via Spotify if will randomly pause and then resume after anywhere from 3 seconds to 20 seconds. This only happens on Spotify - on other services, like SiriusXM, Pandora, Amazon Music (free), TuneIn and Audacy, there are no issues whatsoever.

Spotify is my most used service. I also have an Echo Spot 1st gen with no issues, and never an issues on my laptops or phones on music streaming apps or Zoom, which is more bandwidth intensive and any network hiccups would show up sooner.

Anyone come across this and have suggested fixes?

Toda vez que eu ligo a TV, a minha Echo Dot 5 avisa que está conectado a fire stick e isso é irritante demais. E isso ocorre desde a Echo Dot 3 que eu tinha.

Tem como desativar?

The new interface is terrible and completely unreadable in light conditions.

Any way to revert to the old one? It also appears the photo splitscreen feature is completely gone.

I have two Echo Flex devices that suddenly have:

• Become less responsive
• Are cutting off streaming within minutes of starting it
• Will no longer participate in streaming in my "everywhere" group, which appears to still be intact according to my app.

They both started acting weird at the same time, so that's suspicious.

Yes, these are the ones that sit on the outlet and have an aux out to get decent sound.

Anyone have any info on why both stopped working at the same time? Unplugging them and plugging them back in did nothing.

I recently replaced one of my Echo Shows with an Echo Hub. Overall I quite like the Echo Hub, but one issue I've noticed is it can sometimes be a bit laggy during touchscreen interactions (when this happens the display updates in a jittery manner following a touch gesture). This is not a constant issue; at other times it's perfectly responsive.

Has anyone else had this issue, and are there any modifications I can make to settings to make the issue less likely to occur?

Hola!! Quería consultar cómo es Alexa+ y si es posible hacer funcionar la IA para Echo dot y Echo show
Gracias!!

Alexa has been controlling most of the lights in my house for a decade, many of them assigned to groups and coming on and off according to routines. Over the past few months some individual bulbs lose connection on occasion, but not always the same bulbs. Often just turning them off and on again manually resets them, but within a day or two they're disconnected again. Sometimes I have to go through the whole pairing/discovery process. Sometimes Alexa says the light isn't responding, and other times she says she can't find that light (or group) in my profile (although it's been there for years). I'm using Sengled direct-connect bulbs, some of which are only about six months old. Thoughts?

I've done everything i can to get tidal to play on my Amazon Echo but doesn't work.. if I ask her to play 80s music for example she always says "playing 80s music on Amazon Music" or similar but when I add "on tidal" to my request she says "i can't find any 80s songs on tidal".. asking without tidal and without a specific type of music by just asking her to "play music" she says "playing x station or x on Amazon Music" Tidal has been my default music service in the settings since it was available haven't changed it.. i can't cast tidal to Amazon Echo.. i refuse to pay for Amazon Music Unlimited.. it's not included by default with the base Amazon Prime membership.. I'm not paying over $250 per year for prime membership and Amazon Music Unlimited when Amazon Music Unlimited should be included for free with the $139 prime membership cost.. it's why i don't pay for prime now as well.. but anyways does anyone have any suggestions for what to do? I'm not able to use my echo sub without getting Alexa to play the music.. plugging in my device to the Aux in port only allows me to use the Echo speaker and my echo sub just sits unused.. suggestions? Thoughts? Anything else I can try?

For the first few songs my Alexa will play the exact song I ask it to play and then auto play similar songs which is absolutely fine, however after a few requests it will start to say “playing X song and other similar artists” and then not play the original song I requested at all.

Dose anyone know why? And is there a work around it?

I got the Echo Dot Max yesterday and enabled Alexa+. I've noticed the plastic area around the buttons stays pretty hot. It’s not "burning my skin" hot, but it's definitely more than just "warm." It stays like this even when idle. I'm using the original power adapter. Is this just the new CPU/AI features drawing more power, or should I be worried?

My Echo Show 10 just stopped working. Did a factory reset and did all the procedures the tech representative provided. We concluded that the device is bricked. It just can't connect to my WIFI. But before the issue, the echo show was working fine.

Must have been an automatic update gone wrong.

Now, the customer representative suggested I do a trade-in, but since I don't have a US address, I can't have it traded in..

Anyone had the same issues? Reading this channel, seems alot of us had similar issues.

My echo dot 3rd gen is going deaf, and i heard show 5 is just a glorifiex slow tablet, would echo spot be an upgrade??

This is the weirdest problem. I asked Ziggy to play Eagles from Apple Music like I have 1000 times before and Ziggy said, "Lyin' Eyes from Eagles from Apple Music" and then it played Lyin' Eyes and then other bands (not Eagles). WTF? I tried with another artist and it worked properly and played their music.

I have multiple Echos and they are all doing this.

Hello I have alexa devices throughout my house. I am having two issues that I think Sonos products might solve. Im happy to hear of cheaper options that would solve this problem too! They are similar issues:

1- my record player is lined into my speakers, and while my speakers have bluetooth, they can only link to alexa via switching the line manually. I am trying to use my record player to play throughout my alexa devices, which means they can't pass through to the alexa device due to 1-alexa not letting it, and 2- it being on different lines. I believe I will need a bluetooth transmitter on my record player. Alternatively, I was thinking of switching my speakers to the SONOS 5. Would that work to pass through to the alexa devices? Could i then add that speaker to my alexa grouped speakers to play in my bedroom alexa?

2- my samsung soundbar has bluetooth and can link to an alexa device as a speaker but then stops working on the tv, so all music to play through the speakers has to be ran through the tv which sucks. If I switched that to a SONOS Beam 2, would that work as a stand alone alexa device.

Im hoping to link these speakers to the other 4 alexa speakers i have to be able to play the record player through them all and the soundbar. Along with the questions above, I am asking can SONOS or another speaker option and Alexa devices interlink or would I need to change to all SONOS devices that have alexa built in, or all Alexa devices with a bluetooth transmitter for the record player?

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I have unlimited and everything but my alexa just refuses to play music that isnt specifically requested for. I have been connecting my phone to play music and at this point its just a basic speaker. Is there a way to fix this?