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might want to check out https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/ask-overviews/deprecated-features.html#shopping-lists  just scroll up and down and see all the changes where features are being taken away, not added.   
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Unable to link accounts. Your Alexa app needs an update
« Last post by jwlv on June 01, 2024, 12:15:17 am »
I was changing some skills in my Alexa app, disabling and enabling some of the skills I had.
When enabling a particular skill, I was prompted to link my account. This is normal. But every time I tried, I get a message "Unable to link accounts. Your Alexa app needs an update."  For three weeks I couldn't get it to work. At first, I thought it was the skill that was the problem. So I waited to see if the skill would be fixed. Then I thought maybe it's the Alexa app. So I waited for the Alexa app to get an update. Finally I found out that it wasn't the skill or the Alexa app. In a Reddit and a Github post, I read that Amazon changed the way it links accounts and broke some skills. And according to the posts, the only way to fix it is to delete the Alexa app from your phone and reinstall. I did just that, but the problem still persisted. I figured out a different fix that actually worked for me. I logged into my Amazon account with a desktop computer and enabled the skill I wanted from the computer. And then linking my account to the skill worked as expected from the computer. To enable a skill from your computer, just go to https://www.amazon.com/alexa-skills/b?ie=UTF8&node=13727921011 and search for the skill. And then you can enable the skill and link your account. I don't know what's going on with Amazon and their Alexa team. But things seem to be falling apart there.
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Re: Echo show playing issues
« Last post by renegade600 on May 30, 2024, 01:58:43 pm »
there should be a skill installed in the alexa app.   try disable then enable it again.   other than that, there is not much you can do about it since it sounds like the problem is at their end.   
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Re: Radio Station on 2 Echo DOTs
« Last post by nikkimac72 on May 29, 2024, 08:33:39 am »
I have the same issue in the 'group' I created with them being out of sync by just a few seconds. It is annoying when I'm in a spot in the house and get it from both directions.  My group is just called Upstairs and always has been but the out of sync has always been an issue.  :-(
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Echo show playing issues
« Last post by nikkimac72 on May 29, 2024, 08:23:34 am »
I have an Echo Show.  The past few weeks, I will ask it to play a certain morning show.  It will pay the ads then no sound however it shows it is playing as it shows a Stop/Pause for it on the screen but again, no sound. Can hear the ads fine as well when I asked it to play music from SiriusXM it came right now.   I have unplugged it but still does it.
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Is there a way to trigger a routine when a specific device connects to my home WiFi?

I'm looking to trigger a different alarm routine whenever my GF sleeps over so she doesn't want to kill me getting woke at 4am..  I'd like to trigger her alarm routine automatically when her phone 'ie MAC address' connects to my WiFi

Clearly I consistently forget
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Re: Ring my phone/contacts on Alexa
« Last post by jwlv on May 21, 2024, 10:02:30 am »
Some time ago, Amazon limited Alexa phone calls to 10 contacts. It used to be unlimited.

See this page from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GHKNDEFH7JCKX4DB#:~:text=As%20you%20make%20phone%20calls,%2Dto%2DPhone%20contacts%20list.

When your Alexa-to-Phone Contacts list is full
Use the Alexa app to add, remove, or update Alexa-to-Phone contacts.

Open the Alexa app.
Select More, then Settings.
Select Communication.
Select Manage Contacts.
Select Alexa-to-Phone Contacts.
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Ring my phone/contacts on Alexa
« Last post by Hovawart on May 17, 2024, 08:36:57 pm »
I can no longer use Ring My Phone, because it only lists contacts I don't want on Alexa anymore, and not my own contact. I can neither edit nor remove any other contacts. Although I appear in my own list of contacts on Alexa, it does not see me.
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Re: Radio Station on 2 Echo DOTs
« Last post by ukr2@yahoo.com on April 26, 2024, 05:16:29 pm »
OK,  I changed the name from"Both" to "Both Devices" and now it Works.
Maybe Group names have to be more than 4 characters.

SOLVED.
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Radio Station on 2 Echo DOTs
« Last post by ukr2@yahoo.com on April 26, 2024, 03:58:12 pm »
I can play the Radio Station separately on 2 DOTs, but they are out of synch.
So I created a Group with the 2 DOTs and Named the Group "Kitchen and Bathroom" and it works.
Then I renamed the Group to "Both", but now it won't work.
Renamed it back to "Kitchen and Bathroom" and it works.
WHY???  Is "Both" a do-not-use name?
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