Hello everyone, thanks for tuning in again. Well we're going to go through
Alexa and the routines associated with that in your echo series of devices.
Let's get right into it I'm going to show you everything about routines right after this.
Okay well let's get started we're gonna head into the Alexa
application here. Now, we're gonna go up to the top left and go to the menu and we're
gonna head down to the word routines now if you don't see routines there your app
is too old. Go and update. We're gonna click create routine right up at the top
in the middle and then we're gonna choose when this happens now at this
point you have two choices you can either trigger this routine when you say
something specific or at a scheduled time. For right now, I'm going to use when
you say something and I'm just going to use "Good Morning," here.
So when I say "Alexa, Good Morning" we're going to add an action. Now I get five
different choices. I can have Alexa respond to me so she's going to say
something related to good morning here and of course I'm going to pick the
funniest one. We're going to go ahead and hit add and then you can continue to
add actions here so I'm going to go into the smart home section. We are going to
control a device, and I can pick through all my different devices in the app. So
I'm going to choose my table lamp now I have all the controls related to that
lamp I can increase or decrease the brightness and if I want I could
actually turn it right off. So, I'm going to add another action and you can see
that you can go ahead you can add multiple devices so I'm going to actually take my
child's light that he has as a nightlight, and I'm going to turn that
off. Now, the next thing I'm going to do here is I'm going to include the weather.
I'm also going to include the traffic, and then I'm going to include
the news. Now keep in mind you know when we're talking about the weather, the news,
and traffic, we are actually talking about things that you've set up in your app in
the past so...you know your flash briefing, you have your traffic (which is your
commute to work) so you have to set your work location. You also for your weather
have set where your echo device is at the moment. So if you haven't set all
those things up I'm going to put a video up in the top right right now so you can go
ahead and watch kind of the initial setup video.
So continuing on. Now that I've added all these actions, if I wanted to, I could
choose either of the two Alexa-enabled devices that I have in my home, or I can
just choose whenever I say "Good Morning: I want the device I speak to to respond.
So you actually get to choose what you want to respond to you and that will be
important as we get more and more of these voice assistants in our home.
I'm just going to go ahead click create and my routine is ready to go.
So if I wanted to, I could create more. I'm going to show you how to do that
based on a scheduled time. And this is kind of replacing some of those
other hubs or other devices like a Samsung SmartThings Hub. You're able to
trigger a routine with all your smart devices at whatever time you want so
I've set 11:59 pm. I can choose everyday, weekdays, weekends, or a specific day if I
want. Now, I'm choosing every day at 11:59 PM, and I'm going to choose an action. So you
know this is obviously when I want all the lights off in my home so I'm going
to choose all Philips Hue lights. Set them all to zero brightness and then I'm just going to hit
next. Now I'm going to click create and we're all done that as well. So every day
at 11:59 PM, all my lights are going to turn off in my home. All right, when I first
did this video, there were no music options in the routines. It's recently been added so I want to
show you this really quickly. When I go to add an action now you can see that
music has been added to the list. So I'm going to go into there and what you type in
is exactly what you want to play so I'm going to type in Sonic 102.9. Now, I'm going to
have to select my music provider and these are only ones that you can pick
from that you've already connected to Alexa. I'm going to use TuneIn and I'm going to
play Sonic 102.9. I'm going to hit add, and you can do a preview. So I'm going to try
that out before I go forward.
So you could hear it there in the background. Now that I've previewed
it and Ihave the right name in, I can go ahead and click "Add." So now it's the
last action in my routine and of course with any routine you can drag the
actions up or down based on these little dots here. The six little dots. So if I
would like the music to start before something else, I can go ahead and do
that. Of course I want the music to start at the end of this routine because
there's a lot of back and forth from my Echo or my Echo Plus or whatever device
I'm playing this on. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to hit back, and now
you can seethat's in my routine. So let's go ahead, let's do a demo and please keep in
mind this demo doesn't have the music in it. You'll have to just trust me that the music is
starting at the end of that routine.
Alexa, Good Morning.
What's up early-bird? Time to get that worm.
Currently in Ardrossan, it's minus 9
degrees Celsius with clear skies. Tonight, you can expect cold temperatures with
the low of minus 16 degrees. At the moment traffic on your commute looks
good. The fastest route takes about 44 minutes. From CBC News Edmonton
I'm Scott Stevenson with an Alberta news update. An off-duty... Alright well
there you go you should be fully ready to go here with your routines on the
Alexa app or within your Echo series of devices. The one thing I noticed here is
essentially a replacement of something like a Samsung smartthings hub, so it
seems as we get deeper and deeper into the automation associated
with these echo devices (especially when we talk about the echo
plus having a ZigBee hub in it) really what you're talking about is the
elimination of other hub styles or other types of devices. So anyways, thanks
everyone for watching we'll see you next time