Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1060
Hey there, Teri here it is Wednesday and this is your flash briefing for today.
Today I want to talk about some fun you can have with your custom routines.
As you may know, a routine is a single command that you can say to Alexa, or for that matter, it can be time to just happen automatically at a certain time and then Alexa, carries out a number of commands.
But the interesting thing is, you could also use this feature to create a custom command for one particular action and I’ll give you an example and it’s really fun.
So my daughter’s really into Harry Potter books right now and there’s this spell in Harry Potter Lumos and that turns their wand, essentially into a flashlight.
So we thought, hey, this would be kind of cool, she’s got some LED lights up around her room, that if she could say to Alexa, “Alexa, Lumos” that her lights in her room would turn on.
setting up routines to do different things with their lights based on different Harry Potter spells
And we did that and the way you do that is you simply go into your Alexa app to set up a routine.
You go into the app, you click on the More button icon in the bottom, you click on routines and then you click on the plus button.
Then you’re going to click on Enter Routine Name, give it a name and then when this happens, you click on that and you choose voice.
And you type in that custom command that you want to use to control whatever action.
And then you go to the next step and you add that action and really, this is cool, because now you can control just about any action you can think of with just about any custom command that you can think of.
And so now my daughter’s having fun, setting up routines to do different things with their lights based on different Harry Potter spells and it’s a lot of fun.
So try that out, I would love to hear if you’ve got any really creative ideas of things that you can do with this, because I’m sure you have lots and lots of ideas, and it’d be fun to share them with the community.
So there you go, have fun with that one and I will talk to you again tomorrow.
Other Useful Resources
- List of Voice Assistant Commands
- Alexa-Enabled and Controlled Devices in Canada
- Teri Fisher on Twitter
- Alexa in Canada on Twitter
- Alexa in Canada on Instagram
- Alexa in Canada Community Group on Facebook
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- Shopping on Amazon.ca
- Create a Flash Briefing Tutorial – Free Tutorial to Create your own Flash Briefing
- Flash Briefing Formula – Your Complete Premium Step-By-Step Course to Launch a Successful Flash Briefing that Gets Found and Grows Your Brand
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