Alexa,  Home Automation

Manage Alarms On Amazon Echo

One of those fun things that Alexa can do is set alarms for you. I usually sleep around 4 or 5 hours a night, so no amount of alarms is enough to roust me out of bed. Therefore, adding Alexa on my Amazon Echo to the extensive list of alarms I have around my house is welcome. Let’s look at some things you can tell Alexa to do for ya’, when it comes to alarms. First, let’s set an alarm for noon:

“Alexa, set an alarm for noon tomorrow.”

Alexa will then repeat back the alarm she just configured. Now, let’s setup a repeating alarm for every Tuesday morning at 6am:

“Alexa, set an alarm for every Tuesday at 6am.”

Now, let’s check a list of all the alarms running on your Amazon Echo account:

“Alexa, list my alarms.”

If an alarm for tomorrow is at 11am, we can then delete it using:

“Alexa, delete the 11am alarm for tomorrow”

To snooze an alarm, just say:

“Snooze”

You can also ask about what alarms you have for a given day. So that alarm we set for Tuesday…

“What alarms do I have for Tuesday?”

Or to ask about which ones that repeat:

“What repeating alarms do I have?”

Alexa then lists your repeating alarms.

To delete an alarm, change the sound, or set the volume, use either the Alexa app or use http://alexa.amazon.com and click on Timers & Alarms. Then click on “Manage alarm volume and default sound”.

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Let’s say we wanted to explore alarms. click on Alarm and then (as seen) click on the alarm you’d like to hear a sample.

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You can also configure timers. So if you’re cooking some salmon, you might say:

“Alexa, set a timer for 20 minutes”

You can also use the web interface or app to pause, cancel, or stop timers.