How to create an Alexa Routine on your Amazon Echo smart speaker - The Verge

With Alexa Routines, you can have Amazon’s digital assistant complete multiple tasks at once so you can talk to it less. In this step-by-step guide, we show you how to set up Alexa Routines using your Amazon Echo smart speakers and smart displays.

If you’ve got an Echo smart speaker sitting on your kitchen counter and all you’ve used it for so far is to set an egg timer, play some music, and maybe enjoy the occasional “pull my finger” joke, you’re missing out.

Alexa, the virtual assistant built into Echo devices and other speakers (and a thermostat), is a powerful tool, one that can help your household run more smoothly, remind you to take out the trash, and attempt to entertain you — among many other things. All you need to do is set up a few Routines, and Amazon’s digital butler will take care of things for you.

An Alexa Routine is a shortcut for all the things — or “actions” — Alexa can do. A Routine can perform one or multiple actions, from playing your favorite Spotify playlist at the same time each day to running a complicated Good Morning Routine that kicks off a cacophony of actions.

My Good Morning Routine gradually brightens the lights in my entire house, opens the shades, adjusts the thermostat, tells me the weather, traffic on the school run, and my calendar for the day, and turns the kettle on. It also starts my favorite radio station on every speaker in the house.

A Routine can be triggered by speaking to your Echo smart speaker, or it can run at a set time of day or even when your dog barks.

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A Routine can be triggered to run in several ways: say “Alexa, Good Morning” to your Echo Show to trigger a Good Morning Routine or have it set to go off every morning at 8AM or when you dismiss your alarm on your Echo Dot with clock.

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