Alexa Not Responding, Any Other Issues Of Alexa With Alexa Community

  Amazon’s Alexa has become a must to have device in a house. The voice command feature that it came up with has certainly evolved the whole smart technology market. My children really enjoy giving commands to Alexa and changing the thermostat temperatures according to their need. But, once I got to have an issue with Alexa and it stopped responding to the voice commands. I really got irritated but I had to fix this for using it further and so I researched on various forums and websites to get a well-researched answer. So, why is Alexa not responding to voice commands? There could be several reasons for Alexa not responding to voice commands but the most common of them are disabled Alexa privacy and microphone button is OFF. However, there are several other reasons and therefore several other ways to fix “not responding to voice problem”. Let dive in deeper and know each and every way to fix this problem ourselves. Some basic troubleshooting tips The below tips are the precautiona...

 E arlier this year Apple and Amazon collaborated to bring Apple Music to Amazon's Echo range of smart speakers. And now, the two companies have collaborated once again to bring podcasts from Apple's Podcasts to Amazon's Echo range of smart speakers.Sometimes Echo Do not respond To our voice In a blog post, Amazon announced that now Alexa users will be able to listen to more than 800,000 podcasts through Apple Podcasts on their Alexa-enabled devices. Not only that, if Alexa users like their Apple ID with their Amazon account in their Alexa apps they will also be able to pick up the podcasts from right where they left them on the Apple Podcasts app or their Alexa-enabled smart speakers. This in turn would allow them to hear a podcast that they were listening on their iPhone while communting on their smart speaker when they return home. Prior to this Apple's Podcasts were available on its HomePods, which was also one of the selling points of the device. Now, Apple is sl...

  This topic provides an overview of the steps that you take to set up your gadget and use the Alexa Gadgets interfaces. Preparation Before you set up your gadget, review the  hardware requirements . Steps To set up your gadget, go through the following steps: Create an Amazon developer account  – If you don't already have an Amazon developer account, go to the  developer portal  and click  Sign In  to create a free account. Register your gadget  – Follow the instructions in  Register a Gadget   to register your gadget with the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) using the  developer portal . Set up Bluetooth  – Set up your gadget with the parameters that are required to connect to an Echo device over Bluetooth. For more information, see  Gadget Settings for Classic Bluetooth . Use the Alexa Gadgets interfaces  – At this point, your gadget should be able to receive directives from and send events to Alexa through an Amazon Echo...