Asking Alexa to set a timer through my Amazon Echo Show is straightforward enough.
“Alexa set timer.” “Alexa set timer for 35 minutes”. When you the time is up, Alexa sets an alarm sound and you say “Alexa stop” and its all over with.
However I do a lot of work where I need to assign time to various projects. Normally I would use the stopwatch on my phone to do that for me, but I decided to try Alexa.
“Alex start stopwatch”, all good. However I could never figure out a way to stop the stopwatch so I went back to using my phone. If I asked Alexa to stop the stopwatch, Alexa just told me how long the stopwatch had been running for. So infuriating.
However thanks to the guys at Livewire. I know have it all sorted.
To start the stopwatch, you have three command options:
- “Alexa, start stopwatch.”
- “Alexa, open stopwatch.”
- “Alexa, ask stopwatch.”
Use any of the above commands to check the stopwatch at any point.
To pause the stop watch and then resume it again.
- “Alexa, ask stopwatch to pause.”
- “Alexa, ask stopwatch to resume.”
Now the command that I found so elusive.
- Alexa, ask the stopwatch to delete.
Alexa will then state the “Stopwatch ended at, and in my case it was 89 days 1 hour, 13 minutes and 6 seconds”. My life has now been transformed.