All holiday features and Alexa commands for Amazon Echo devices

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Stay Smart and Cozy This Holiday Season with Amazon Echo speaker Also screen Help with seasonal events. Alexa can play your favorite holiday songs, buy last-minute gifts, send holiday cards, and more to brighten up your day. Alexa can even put you in the mood griswold You can turn on all the Christmas lights with just a command (without a city-wide blackout, of course).

These features require very little setup and are very easy to use. Read on to discover fun and entertaining Amazon Echo features. Additionally, you can check out a roundup of all holiday-related Alexa commands below.

Set an Alexa Holiday Lights Routine

Too cold to go outside and unplug all the lights you’ve hung around your porch or fence? Tired of tripping over power strips or digging under trees to find plugs? No problem. Alexa can help organize how you control your holiday lights.

First, you can: automate the lights Instantly turn on/off at specific times using the Alexa app. For example, if you want your lights to turn on only when it’s dark, program them to turn on at sunset and turn off at sunrise. Or you can set a specific time, such as turn on at 6:00 pm and turn off at 7:00 am. Christmas tree When installed in your home, you can even automate your lighting.Please note that you will need smart plug Create a lighting routine.

To set up your light routine, start by setting up your smart plug and connecting your string lights.Then open the Alexa app and select more. Tap routine from the menu. Tap. plus Click the (+) icon to add a new routine.select when this happens. Then select schedule.

Here you will be able to select sunrise Also sunset Or, set a specific time to choose which days you want this routine to run.Tap Next after that add action. select smart home and tap all devices.

From here, select the smart plug connected to your light.Then turn the power switch upon Also off, depending on the schedule you have set.Tap Next after that keep.

You can also enable this pre-made holiday lights routine to have Alexa automatically turn on your lights and play holiday music at sunset.

Buy and Track Gifts Purchased with Alexa

It is an Amazon product. Of course you can also use it for shopping. Echo devices have several features that help make holiday shopping less stressful by researching gift ideas, creating shopping lists, finding discounts, and actually buying gifts with a simple voice command. There is a better way. Start by saying, “Alexa, help me with my holiday shopping” or “Alexa, what’s the best deal?” Make gift giving easy and efficient.expedition The Complete Alexa Shopping Guide To set up and use these features,

Probably my favorite feature is the ability to track packages. If you want to know when Amazon will deliver your gift to your home, you can ask Alexa to track your package. Just say, “Alexa, where’s my luggage?” It will let you know your estimated time of arrival.your echo ring light Also lights yellow when there is parcel notification Arrived or en route.

Play holiday music on Echo speakers

This probably goes without saying, but Echo devices are great at playing holiday music to get you in the festive mood.

Nothing makes wrapping (and unpacking) gifts more exciting than playing your favorite Christmas songs on your Echo device in the background. If you’re an Amazon Prime member, just say “Alexa, play Christmas music” or “Alexa, play Merry Her mix” to hear your favorite hits and Christmas classics . If you’re not a member, you can always connect to your favorite music streaming service through the Alexa app. Or just download the Christmas Radio Skill.

It’s not just Christmas music. People who celebrate Hanukkah can say, “Alexa, play the Hanukkah playlist” to celebrate the Jewish festival.

If you have Echo devices in separate rooms, you can say “Alexa, play anywhere” to play the celebration playlist course around the house on all your devices.

Host a Fire TV Holiday Movie Night

What could be better than gathering the whole family to watch a classic holiday movie? Alexa will help you with a selection of holiday movies. Say “Alexa, show holiday movies” or “Alexa, visit the Fire TV Holiday Hub to browse all the seasonal movies the whole family can enjoy.

If you already have a movie in mind, you can request, “Alexa, search A Charlie Brown Christmas on Fire TV.”

Display holiday photos on your Echo Show

Have an Echo Show? Turn it into a digital photo frame. Whether you have an Echo Show 5 or Echo Show 15, you can use Amazon Photos to showcase all your holiday photos from past Christmas (Amazon Photos is free for Prime members and includes unlimited photos and his provides 5GB of video storage).

Here’s how to view Amazon Photos on your Echo Show:

Start by swiping down from the top of the screen, setting. Tap Clock and photo display > Amazon photoFor Echo Show 5 or Echo Spot you have to choose home & clock > Clock and photo display > Amazon photo.

Then select the photos you want to view by choosing one of the following:

• Upload photos manually
• Photo Albums (displays photos from your selected Amazon Photos collection)
• On this day (pictures on this day from the previous year are displayed)
• Daily Memories (displays an automatic selection of daily photos)

When enabled on your device, you can control your digital frames with voice commands. Just say “Alexa, show me a picture of me” or “Alexa, show me a picture from last winter.”

Send Holiday Greeting Cards with Alexa

Well, Alexa can’t send physical holiday greeting cards, but voice assistants can You can send a digital greeting to other Alexa devices. You need to go to the Alexa Skill Blueprints page and select it. hallmark holiday greetingsYou can then choose the greeting that best suits you and customize it with a personal message or recording. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete your holiday greeting.

When you’re ready to send holiday greetings to your loved ones, share with othersThe recipient must have the skill enabled on their Alexa device. Once set up, just say, “Alexa, open Holiday Greeting.” They will now be able to hear your message. Here’s a guide on how to set up this feature:.

Festive and Seasonal Alexa Skills

Experience holiday magic with games, stories, sounds, and even a phone call with Santa. All of these features and more are available in Alexa Skills. To get the full list of skills to enable, say, “Alexa, what are my holiday skills?” But some of our favorite skills are broken down below.

• “Alexa, call Santa”: Check out Old St. Nick and his trusted friends to hear how they are preparing for their Arctic vacation. Kids will love singing carols with Santa, laughing with the elves, and building a snowman with Blitzen the reindeer.
• “Alexa, turn on ‘Hey Santa'”: Sing, listen, dance and have fun with Santa’s help by changing Alexa’s voice to Santa’s voice .

• “Alexa, open NORAD Truck Santa”: Find out exactly where Santa is in the world and follow him in flight.

• “Alexa, turn Dreidel”: Play this classic game with friends and family. You can spin once or play a multi-turn game. If you forget how to play, Alexa can teach you the rules of the game and the meaning of certain aspects of Dreidel.

See here for a complete list of Amazon Alexa Skills.

Fun holiday commands to ask Alexa

Also try these Alexa holiday commands.

• “Alexa, how many days until Christmas?”
• “Alexa, play Christmas sounds”
• “Alexa, Christmas tree”
• “Alexa, tell me the recipe for holiday cookies.”
• “Alexa, show me the top holiday movies”
• “Alexa, read The Night Before Christmas”
• “Alexa, add apple pie to my shopping list”
• “Alexa, follow Santa”
• “Alexa, tell me the name of Santa’s reindeer.”
• “Alexa, set turkey timer for 5 hours”
• ‘Alexa, ask Santa Claus if I’m naughty or nice’
• “Alexa, tell me a joke about a snowman.”
• “Alexa, can you tell me about Santa’s reindeer?”
• “Alexa, make a gift list”
• “Alexa, buy kids sock stuffers”
• “Alexa, remind me to pick up a white elephant gift today.”
• “Alexa, will it snow at Christmas?”
• “Alexa, wake me up at 7am to jingle bells”
• “Alexa, open Christmas Kindness”
• “Alexa, how many calories in Christmas pudding?”
• “Alexa, tell me a Christmas story”
• “Alexa, what is the best Christmas movie?”
• “Alexa, what do you want for Christmas?”
• “Alexa, tell me when it starts to snow”

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