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Alexa - what do you use yours for?

(87 Posts)
Ladyleftfieldlover Sat 14-Jun-25 18:36:57

I asked her what time my local Waitrose closed earlier this afternoon.

kittylester Sat 14-Jun-25 18:36:17

I forgot - the grandchildren ask it to fart. This isn't compulsory!

BlueBelle Sat 14-Jun-25 18:33:44

Never had one can I carry on living without one ?

LadyGracie Sat 14-Jun-25 18:29:23

Timers, shopping lists, recipes, reminders, photo albums, lots of music choices.

My GD asks ours random questions and always gets answers.

Calendargirl Sat 14-Jun-25 18:00:17

I don’t (use it).

Am I missing out? Probably.

Grandmabatty Sat 14-Jun-25 17:45:52

I do 'The Question of the Day' grandmadinosaur. It's free although I'm always being asked to do Jeopardy or the Song Quiz which I just say no to

Charleygirl5 Sat 14-Jun-25 17:38:18

I am partially sighted so I use it as a timer and a daily alarm clock.

The weather, the news and free music. I have three, and I couldn't live without them.

Grandmadinosaur Sat 14-Jun-25 17:38:12

kittylester

We have them in most rooms and used them loads.

We play the radio and playlists
Use it as a timer
Ask it random information
The weather forecast etc.

A couple of them are Alexa Shows so we have rolling pictures on display.

Same for us. We also use it for “ of the day “ when gs comes ie joke of the day,dinosaur of the day etc. Facts from Santa etc at Christmas time.

I wasn’t aware of quizzes Grandmabatty I’ll have to check that one out.

LOUISA1523 Sat 14-Jun-25 15:09:45

A timer for cooking
Playlists
Weather forecast
Happy birthday

kittylester Sat 14-Jun-25 14:25:10

We have them in most rooms and used them loads.

We play the radio and playlists
Use it as a timer
Ask it random information
The weather forecast etc.

A couple of them are Alexa Shows so we have rolling pictures on display.

Grandmabatty Sat 14-Jun-25 14:24:15

I do quizzes on it, use it as a timer and set my light to come on and go off automatically. I also listen to music

Luckygirl3 Sat 14-Jun-25 14:18:38

I have just acquired and Echo Dot and it is mostly functioning as a better speaker for music from spotify. And it will play The Archers when I ask.

Tell me what I can do with it please! - what do you find the most useful things?