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Room awareness enhancement: add popular device types such as Fan, Air Conditioner, Set-top-box and let users change device type
Room awareness enhancement: add popular device types such as Fan, Air Conditioner, Set-top-box and let users change device type to their favorite. Now Alexa app allows changing device type between Light and Switch for some smart plug devices. But it would be great if for any device, users can define it as light, fan, air conditioner or set-top-box... and the room awareness feature will help simplify voice command. Users just can say: turn on the air conditioner, turn on the fan...
This device-type-changing feature will be very powerful when an infrared/RF universal remote control like Broadlink is connected to alexa.…95 votes -
Allow developers to respond to reviews for their Alexa skills
Reviews are one of the major ways people will decide to use your skills. It is also where developers get a lot of feedback or questions regarding their skills. Whilst you can respond to these reviews on the amazon website, it is not visible within the Alexa App for others to see.
Please allow developers to be able to respond to reviews within the Alexa app. It will provide an easy way to answer any questions and will allow new potential users to see responses by the developer that might otherwise deter them from trying the skill.
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Widget to run routines
Have widgets to trigger custom or pre-made routines
Instead of saying "Alexa, turn on my lamp" and waking up my roommate, just tap a widget on my phone's home screen (or on Alexa's app home screen) to run this routine.
This to be a shortcut to open Alexa's app > menu > Routines > Run
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Enable opening of browser bookmarks on Echo Show by voice
Being able to launch a bookmark on the Echo Show browsers by voice would bring a whole new functionality to voice interactions on the Echo Show device.
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Ability to add Skill instruction in routines
When building routines, would be good to have an option to add a skill instruction and choose to run it as part of a routine.
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Allow hiding sensitive information in Alexa App History
Allow hiding sensitive information such as PIN codes in the Alexa App history. Capital One is doing this in their skill. Please enable other developers to do this.
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Create widget to access alexa lists
Would like to widget on home screen to access lists
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Allow skills to change volume on device
Enable a skill to adjust the volume
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When Alexa app will be officially available in Switzerland?
When Alexa will be officially available in switzerland?
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Setting up routines and reminders through an API
Allow development of custom app with feature compatibility with Alexa Companion App. This can be done through exposing functionality like setting up reminders, routines, address book, calling and messaging through either avs-SDK or expose server APIs.
This will be particularly useful in Alexa for Business settings.
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Be able to group routines by room.
Because routines are a way to control multiple things at once, they are used pretty frequently. When too many routines are created, the list gets disorganized and a little chaotic. Why not have the ability to group your routines by the rooms they control?
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Remove devices when disabling an alexa smart home skill
When a user disable a smart home skill the devices connected to that skill are remain visible inside the Alexa app.
The user cannot control them:
- in the app under each device the misleading error "server is unresponsive" is showed under each device.
- if controlling via voice the user receives the response: "the skill linked with X is not enabled, please enable the skill to control this device".still having the devices showed up is confusing for the user. That has to manually remove all the devices linked to the removed skill manually.
So my request is to…
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10 votes
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Stop music from the app
I want to be able to stop music (or a skill) from the Alexa App.
Example use case:
- Baby is sleeping, fell asleep to music on the Echo, I don't want to have to open the door and wake the baby up to stop the Echo
- I play music from the Echo upstairs and leave it playing, and I don't want to have to go upstairs to turn it off10 votes -
Take a picture with Alexa Echo Show
Hi!
I would like to know if there's any possibility to take a picture with the Alexa Echo Show with my skill. Basically I want to make a facial validation and show some content depending on the user :)
I'm currently using NodeJS for this purpose.
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create and control configurable subgroups for selective device control
Create configurable sub groups within groups to allow users to control a set of devices based on type to better manage large numbers of devices.
This improves user experience for managing devices in groups (rooms) and groups within rooms. Currently Alexa organises switches and lights separately but you cannot ask alexa to turn off only lights in a room as part of that subgroup
I cannot ask alexa to turn off 'lounge room lights' without it turning off the switches in the same room/group.
If we can create and submit commands to devices as part of sub groups, we can…
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Allow skill developers access to the Flex Motion sensor
Currently you can not create a skill that can be triggered by activity detected by the motion sensor add-on the Amazon Flex supports. Please add this capability and then provide hooks in the AWS SDK to support it.
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let skills send text notifications to the alexa app for users who have opted in
Similar to the mobile app store - let skills send updates on the alexa app to users who have enabled the skill and agreed to receive notifications from that skill. Would help so much with feature updates and retention and imo is not very intrusive. users can always opt out.
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Ukrainian language voice
Ukrainian language voice support
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24 hour time on echo dot. The whole world uses this. Including many in the US. I,be seen many, many complaints about this on Amazon Forums
Please add the ability to use 24 hour time. Both in how the user expresses time AND how Alexa expresses time. The ability to change date format would be great.
6 votes
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