Echo & Alexa Forums
General Category => Echo Technical Support => Topic started by: Fizz71 on February 23, 2018, 08:16:19 am
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I have re-occurring alarms every weekday morning (for work/school). Some weekdays I know I don't need to get up and I just want to turn off the alarm for that one next occurrence. I've tried a bunch of different commands but it always seems to cancel the whole alarm which means I then need to make sure I set it again later!
I just want Alexa to recognize that I only want to skip 1 day, and not cancel the whole thing.
I'm guessing that I'm just using the wrong words.
TIA
--Fizz
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I don't currently use my echo devices for alarms and I'm away from them for me to test it but look under settings. What are the available options for repeats?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=202110510
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You can turn an alarm off temporarily in the Alexa app. I know not as elegant as asking her, and you do have to turn it back on later, but I do this with my spot.
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I've actually complained to Amazon about this, and they (allegedly) have a team working on it.
After only having my Echo Spot a few days, I set a recurring alarm for weekdays. All good so far.
But then as I was having a day off work, I asked Alexa to cancel the alarm for Tuesday. The response was "You don't have an alarm set for Tuesday". Well yes I do. Tuesday is a week day!
When I emailed Amazon, the person who replied agreed that it was an issue, told me that it had been sent off, and that I would get another reply when it was fixed. Needless to say, there was no further reply.
I emailed again and they just said "Oh sometimes things take a bit longer". Since then I've heard nothing.
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Thank you DrWoodr for that tip with the Alexa app. I share the same frustration as many that it seems difficult to just skip one day of a recurring alarm. The odd thing is... I USED to be able to do this using a skip command. I would say "Alexa... skip next 8:15am alarm." and Alexa would reply, "Your next 8:15am alarm is cancelled. Would you like to cancel this alarm for every (insert day)?" and I would say, "No." and Alexa would say "OK." Now when I use the skip command Alexa just cancels the whole recurring series.
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I've actually complained to Amazon about this, and they (allegedly) have a team working on it.
After only having my Echo Spot a few days, I set a recurring alarm for weekdays. All good so far.
But then as I was having a day off work, I asked Alexa to cancel the alarm for Tuesday. The response was "You don't have an alarm set for Tuesday". Well yes I do. Tuesday is a week day!
When I emailed Amazon, the person who replied agreed that it was an issue, told me that it had been sent off, and that I would get another reply when it was fixed. Needless to say, there was no further reply.
I emailed again and they just said "Oh sometimes things take a bit longer". Since then I've heard nothing.
I just swipe my screen from bottom to top. Cancels it and it works again the next time with no problem