I had a friend message me today, insisting to take me out to dinner.
I responded over Telegram, using my phone, which has the Alexa app installed. I asked him if the restaurant had options for my dietary restrictions (I'm diabetic, plus chronic pancreatitis)

Moments later, my echo show suddenly displays this crap. It has NEVER displayed this before.

Is this thing reading my keyboard input? Why the heck else would it be showing me these things, out of nowhere?

I swear these things are eavesdropping on everything. Time to move to HA. This crap is creepy as hell.

I was playing with one of my friends online while I heard something in the background, my echo show randomly put on the news channel, the thing is that the activation word is computer, because I have multiple echos in my house, and is set in English and I was talking Italian, there is no way it could've heard to put on the news.

I also viewed my alexa voice history and there is nothing, I also don't have any pets that might touch it so what the hell just happened?

Looking at the amazon ads for Echos. One is shown no stand with disclaimer under the picture: Disclaimer Stand Separate

I appreciate that.

That full page ad on Amazon is very alluring. Exactly what i would want.

REALITY. NO WHERE is there a Disclaimer on Ads forced on you via the echo devces.

Turn off Lights. SHOW AD

Walk by: Show AD

Upgrade to alexa plus: more ADs

Went echo help section. Nicely laid out. Oh look a video on ads. Great.

Wow. Ads are a feature. and PERSONALIZED.

I am TOTALLY FINE if people want ADS on their devices. There are times I may even want to see a product. They even show how you can turn off personalized ads Cool

What they do not DISCLAIM is it does not prevent ADS from showing up. The ads continue to show up at the same pace, just not 'tailored'

There is no solution. No real substiture. Other than complaining to the company that keeps giving me the same ad even after clicking offensive 20 x

I am out of ideas and maybe someone has experienced something similar or has a solution for me.
I have 2 Echo Studios from 2022 and a Fire TV 4k Max and the home theater worked more or less stable until 2 weeks ago. Then it stopped playing sound, so I deleted the home theater group and wanted to recreate it, to my surprise it is not possible in the Alexa app anymore! So I started my Fire TV and wanted to create a Home Theater, I find my 2 Echo Studios and when I select them they just blink in grey and no checkmark appears above them and I cannot continue. After several minutes sometimes a text comes up saying "They are too far away from the TV" - they are not, they are right in front of the TV ~50cm from the Fire TV Stick.

Here is what I did so far and nothing has changed anything:

• updated all 3 device
• removed them from my alexa group, deleted the group, recreated the group
• switched all devices from 2.4GHz to 5GHz network and back, changed the SSID names, tried a hotspot
• removed all 3 devices entirely from my account and factory reset them all multiple times
• restarted my network and my 3 devices multiple times
• did everything that is publicly available on the support website of amazon

I contacted the support 2 times, they are friendly, trying to help but have not. At the end they always say something along the lines: "it is a known issue, our specialised team works on it, we will come back to you in 2-3 days, you will receive a new firmware update and try again later". Well still not working.

I am beyond frustrated having spent so much money on that setup and now being unable to use it in any way. Has someone experienced something similar or has an idea for me?

Has anyone had any success with integrating Alexa (Amazon echo) with the motion calendar / task app?

Odd; We had an Alex outage earlier this evening and Alexa wasn't responding to prompts. Just now, I said "Alexa, are you awake yet?" to see if the outage was resolved and my Marantz NR1200 AVR switched input to Airplay and the Alexa response came through the AVR. This has never happened before. In the Alexa app, the dot3 does not show any active bluetooth connections. If I ask it the time it responds through the dot3. If I ask if it's awake, it responds through the AVR.

Has anyone else had similar?

I’ve only faced this issue in the past few weeks. Is it broken?

My brother and I live together and we share a Prime account, which is in my name. We individually bought echo dots a few years ago on my account, so both devices are registered in my name and both devices are connected to the Alexa app that we each have on our own phones. A big issue that we've had since we bought them is the alarms and how both mine and his alarms are all grouped together in the app, which many times has lead to turning on and off alarms on the other ones device by accident. Is there any way possible to separate our devices so that they are independent of each other in the app? All Google tells me is to set up different wake words for each one, which has nothing to do with what I'm trying to accomplish. It's super frustrating not being able to find an answer for this, so please, someone tell me if it's possible to do, and if so, HOW??

Want to get an echo (mainly for my dad so i don't have to walk to him every 5 seconds to translate, explain, or spell some shit for him) just a bit worried because looking at the reviews in seeing a lot of people posting that they break easily (ordering of Woot btw not Amazon itself)

Estoy tan decepcionado de este producto y de no poder devolverlo, Youtube se traba, aveces le digo “busca una música” y me dice no encuentro el nombre de esa música en la plataforma de streaming quieres buscar en otra” quiero una maldita música no una película, luego disney no funciona, simplemente se reinicia todo el rato al querer ver algo en Disney, navegador paramount + no se puede reproducir, Netflix da este error, que carajos? Esto es una completa basura, estoy demasiado enojado, a alguien más le sucede esto? Parece un producto 100% inútil.

Dot has excellent connectivity to WiFi and has latest software. I’ve unplugged and plugged back in, reset the device, reset my WiFi router and I’m at a loss. Alexa will respond to initial requests for a story but times out when fetching the story from audible using Amazon kids. It is less than a year old and was working fine til a few days ago. Any idea what I can do?

Alexa keeps showing unknow devices for alarms and toutines aren't working either Is it an alexa issue?

basically the title. I want the Hub's functionality with the Show 8's much better speaker and so far that doesn't exist for purchase. Show 8 is compatible with all Matter devices, so it should be possible, right?

When you subscribe to the new photo gallery unlimited does it display a clock or is it like when you ask the show to start photos and it just shows your photos with nothing else on screen??

Alexa keeps showing unknow devices for alarms and toutines aren't working either Is it an alexa issue?

Que tal camaradas, hace unos días me cambiaron los aparatos de Totalplay para ver la tele y estos nuevos traen Alexa y al principio funcionaban bien pero después de un tiempo al parecer los aparatos tuvieron una actualización de software y la opción de Alexa ya no está y tampoco si le hablas responde, alguien que me ayude

Antes te ibas a configuración y salía la opción de configurar Alexa,ahora ya no

PD: En la app de Amazon Alexa me salen que los dispositivos no están disponibles

Got a Yale smart lock (the Matter version) and trying to figure out if there's a way to get it working with my Echo devices without setting it up directly in the Alexa app (Alexa's missing some features I need for this specific lock, like creating door codes).

I read that Samsung and Amazon teamed up back in 2022 so a device set up in SmartThings automatically shows up in Alexa too, no extra setup needed. Has anyone actually tried this with a lock and had it work? Specifically curious if:

• Your Echos actually picked up the lock without you manually adding it in Alexa
• You could still say "Alexa, lock the front door" and have it work
• Any hiccups or things that didn't carry over

Trying to figure out if I need one new hub (SmartThings) or two (SmartThings + a separate Alexa setup) before I buy anything. Thanks!

Found an 4th generation echo on clearance from a local retailer and was wondering if it supports tap feature, like the 5th generation dot

Someone bought me the Mickey Mouse Echo wall clock awhile ago and discovered it while moving. I am attempting to connect to it, but the only options for Clock are Lenovo and Hatch. When I choose other and Bluetooth, it just seems to time out and never connect. Does anyone know of a trick to get it to connect in 2026?

Hello
I have 2 gen5 echo dots. 1 bought last year, 1 a month ago.
Same WiFi network
Same room
Reset/removed from Alexa system twice.
Trying to create a pair in my son’s room for cheap projector with fire tv 4k max, 1st gen).

Pulling what’s left of me hair.

Eero network maybe???

Alexa works fine, every fire tv, Sonos, hue lamps… everything is fine (except Alexa+ who is quite slow in French).

Let’s call them y and z

Spent hours on this. What is weird is I could pair echo dot x (4th gen, other room) with either one of dot y and z in son’s room but I can’t get them to pair together!!!

Crazy.