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General Category => Echo Technical Support => Topic started by: SC7639 on November 29, 2017, 04:11:52 am

Title: Can't Get Good Night Routine To Activate
Post by: SC7639 on November 29, 2017, 04:11:52 am
Hi I'm a new echo owner as of yesterday. I've set up a good night Routine to turn off my living room lights but when I say "Alexa, Good night" it didn't active my routine only says "Good Night, sweet dreams". I know the routine do work as my good morning and I'm off routines work fine.
Title: Re: Can't Get Good Night Routine To Activate
Post by: billbudd on November 29, 2017, 10:08:04 am
I tried the same.  I am guessing that "Good Night" is a recognised echo keyword pair so you cannot override it.  I use "Night Night".
Title: Re: Can't Get Good Night Routine To Activate
Post by: tuicemen on November 29, 2017, 10:38:40 am
I use "Go to sleep"  ;)
Title: Re: Can't Get Good Night Routine To Activate
Post by: renegade600 on November 29, 2017, 11:42:35 am
if the routine is set up right, good night will work.  I use it without any issues. 
Title: Re: Can't Get Good Night Routine To Activate
Post by: Drwoodr on November 29, 2017, 11:51:09 am
Same issue here. The odd thing is, if you add a routine in the Alexa app, under "When you say..." one of the examples is "Good Night".
Title: Re: Can't Get Good Night Routine To Activate
Post by: renegade600 on November 29, 2017, 12:32:39 pm
Hi I'm a new echo owner as of yesterday. I've set up a good night Routine to turn off my living room lights but when I say "Alexa, Good night" it didn't active my routine only says "Good Night, sweet dreams". I know the routine do work as my good morning and I'm off routines work fine.

if you just set up the echo.  then wait a day or so for it to get all the latest firmware updates.   routines are still pretty new and any echos manufacture before the release will not have it until updated. 
Title: Re: Can't Get Good Night Routine To Activate
Post by: StevenR on November 29, 2017, 02:43:25 pm
I had the same issue initially (just getting the built-in response when trying to trigger a "Good night" routine), so I checked the history in the Alexa app and found that when I said "good night" it was hearing it as "goodnight". When I changed the phrase for the routine to "Goodnight" to match what was in the history it started working.