Alexa Skills - Developer Voice And Vote
Welcome to the Alexa Skills Feature Request site! This site enables Alexa Skills Developers to request and vote on features you’d like to see in the developer toolset and services for Alexa.
To keep this site purpose-driven and actionable, we moderate requests. Here’s some guidance on how to create great feature requests that can be evaluated by our development teams. For conversation, dialogue or help, you should visit our Alexa forums. We appreciate your input.
-Alexa Skills team
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factory reset
I would like Alexa to be able to perform factory reset on voice command. Manual interface is obvious but cannot be done every time customer support asks us to perform this. Also we would want some basic settings or info to be back after reset as we do not want to spend time in settings all other things again from scratch
1 vote -
Voice command to update software for a particular device
I would like Alexa to update the software of a device or appliance with voice command. Pressing button for some period of time or doing other HW actions manually can be avoided
1 vote -
language inclusive Home Skill tutorials
The Smart Home Skill tutorial is thorough. However, it includes large amounts of Python code for the individual to copy and paste into their program. For someone looking to write a program in Java or any other language this isn't very helpful.
1 vote -
Do not remove device from routine
Do not remove a device from a routine if it fails to access the device. If I have a lamp turned off and run a routine that tries to turn it on or off, Alexa deletes the device from the routine.
1 vote -
String input as basic setting in alexa skill
As a developer I would like to have the possibility to ask users for some string input to personalize a skill dependent on the string input.
String input can be e.g. a link to some feed (iCal, RSS, Atom whatever) or any other user input which is not related to any account somewhere.By this, generic skills could be built to wrap any content.
In my special case, I would use it to enter a domain name which then corresponds to an communication / information app which doesn't need account creation and authentification (which helps a lot when dealing with…
1 vote -
Automated DJ
Allow users to enable “DJ Mode” that while streaming music adds cross fades to songs and occasionally has Alexa announce songs with factoids about the music or artist. I miss traditional radio but like listening to more than the same 40 songs. What I miss are the DJs.
1 vote -
Alerts for HOH users
I am hard of hearing and would like to allow a speaker group to audibly ring loudly when my phone rings as well as turn off or on a smart light. On a side note, an Alexa doorbell should be a thing. Use the “button” technology to create a smaller, water resistant, model that can be affixed in a door bell location and allow users to create routines for it just like the current “button.” This would allow users not only to create a custom chime that plays on all their devices but also allow for automated turning on of…
1 vote -
Bluetooth to speaker groups
I currently have a turntable hooked up to my sound system via Bluetooth to one of my Echo devices. I would like to be able to play the audio from my turntable on a speaker group, currently it plays just on the one Echo. This feature would also allow a user to play audio from a connected phone, tv, tablet, or computer on multiple Echos at once.
1 vote -
Allow in-session account linking
A user should be able to link their account mid-session and not be forced to exit the skill to get the benefits of a linked account.
1 vote -
Allow Alexa app users to reorder/rearrange items in their lists
Not being able to order items in a shopping list makes it a painful experience to use the list while out shopping.
You continually have to scroll up and down your list to check whether the aisle you're in at the supermarket is one that contains something on your list.
Or sometimes you have a large shopping list, but only need to grab a few things - but without being able to move these higher priority items to the top of the list there's not way to indicate this.
Giving users the ability to reorder their list items would improve…
5 votes -
Ability to show a card on a confirmation
I would like to be able to show a card when the user is confirming an intent. It would be more explicit and, well, confirmatory, to be able to put text on the screen as in addition to the voice prompt, even it it was simply showing the text that matches the prompt that'd be something, but ideally a customizable card...
1 vote -
Support 12 hour time format for SSML 'time' interpretations
Right now, if you have an AMAZON.Time slot, for example, and you have read back that slot value in a confirmation, even if you use a say-as interpret-as "time", the readout will be in military / 24 hour time rather than 12 hour time which is what most people would use conversationally.
For example, if I say "One thirty PM" in a slot, the playback in the confirmation will be "Thirteen Thirty".
2 votes -
Custom fields in calendar
I’d like to be able to add an Owner field to Alexa input calendar events so I can identify which family member is the owner of an appointment. That way, anybody can enter their events in the family calendar from Alexa and we identify to whom the event is for.
1 vote -
Custom Task Analytics in Skill Metrics
See more detailed information about custom tasks in the skill metrics interface. At moment I can only see the engagement of all tasks, but it would be awesome to filter it by the task identifier and campaign parameter (a2z_ref).
2 votes -
Proactive Notification for Public Safety messages
Especially in CA, PSPS has become very important.
1 vote -
Make built in APL components to be more flexible
My use case requires image lists in APL but with some custom styling to match branding. It would be great if I could override some of the styles in an AlexaImageList component to get the benefit of all the existing responsive behaviour and at the same time, apply required colors
2 votes -
Actionable based notifications
Alexa - I’ve noticed it’s 10 o’clock and the house alarm is not set, would you like me to set it for you?
User - Yes (sets alarm)
User - No (does nothing)1 vote -
Read ALL the language settings of the mobile!
I have in my mobile set the following languages in THIS order:
- Hungarian
- German
- EnglishThe Alexa App however does not check this! Just the default system language Hungarian. So. Because this language is not supported, English will be set for the app. Why? It should take the first applicable, and this is German (living in Austria). Please fix this!
1 vote -
Bring multi-room support to Ecobee 5 Smart Thermostat.
Ecobee thermostats include echo (alexa) functionality for many of the feature set including the ability to play music. However it cannot be added to a speaker group in the Alexa app. Ecobee development, has posted this is due to limitations from Amazon.
Please work with Ecobee to add this functionality.
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An advanced web editor for routines
My idea has two parts:
1. Add a web editor for routines also on alexa.amazon.* that works like android/iOS app editor
2. Add also an "advanced mode" where you can directly write code and, maybe, add more complex logic, variables ecc...1 vote
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