Amazon Echo - UK Release

paul211b

Mine still out with Yodel courier so don't expect it to arrive today.  Hopefully by Christmas if I am lucky.

BriD

Doesn't work on my phone.... worked perfectly on my PC though.

Zaichik

Where did you find the option to do it on your PC? Is it in Manage devices and content on the Amazon site?

BriD

Only been playing with mine for an hour but found some weirdness.

1) Going in to the traffic settings to set a destination for traffic reports.. it moans about it not being a UK address despite it being filled by their autocomplete

2) The IFTTT 'trigger' doesn't work. Alexa just says "Sorry, something went wrong".

3) I can't for the life of me work out to change the colour of a Hue bulb. Ask her to turn a bulb on and she does, except only to the last colour. Which is normally fine, but in our house the lights go purple at 8.40 to tell the kids to put their damn shoes on. Ah well... teething issues I guess.

Zaichik

I've just tried linking my Spotify account on my PC and it goes to the same page as on my phone with a 404 error!

Naaktgeboren

Bit of an update, changed the wake command to Amazon and it picks it up every time, even from a different room.... I wonder how one is supposed to pronounce Alexa, maybe an American accent.

Kingster IOM

Mines arrived and ok so far.

However I have a Wemo smart plug and can't find anyway of linking it to Alexa. There doesn't appear to be a skill for it yet it definitely has Wemo on the Amazon page.

Anyone else managed to get Wemo working.

Also to the person who couldn't get it working on two devices.  It is working fine on my android tablet and phone. Only did the setup once on the tablet .

LDJ

What did you change it to? Be honest!

Naaktgeboren

Only 3 choices available, Amazon, Echo or Alexa... went for Amazon.

Wish it could be custom though, not keen on Amazon!!

DroidSkin

3 choices and you went for Amazon?