Echo & Alexa Forums
General Category => Amazon Echo Discussion => Topic started by: rcolpo on December 22, 2019, 04:35:20 am
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Is it possible for Alexa to take the initiative of saying "good morning" / "good night", and call a person of trust if there is no reply? For the elderlies who live alone.
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nope, you don't want to scare the elderly to death with a voice popping out of no where without warning. as far as I know, alexa needs some sort of interaction before it can do anything.
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You'll probably be better off getting a cheap Wyzcam (about $25) to keep an eye on your elderly parents. It has 2-way audio.
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No you are not able to do this. Alexa ‘listens’ for a wake word and then starts processing commands. I wanted to do the same for my father and the work round I used is to set up an Alexa routine called ‘Alexa, good morning’. Which contains the following commands: to say ‘good morning’ back; then to say what the day, date and time are; then to say what the weather is; and finally to send me a notification on my phone to say that dad is awake.
All I had to do was tell dad to say ‘Alexa, good morning’ first thing each morning and subsequently to check my phone each day for the resulting notification. He is a creature of habit so I expect a notification before my coffee break! I think the threat of me ‘dropping in’ if he forgets is enough to make sure he remembers!
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I see the option to have it sent to my phone, but is it possible to have it sent to another herons's phone? I have an elderly friend who has his own account but I want to be able to make sure he is OK. This sounds like it would be great if it could send a message/email to my phone from his Alexa on his account.