{"id":18,"date":"2020-02-17T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T12:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:46:05","slug":"ask-alexa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/17\/ask-alexa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Alexa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> &#8220;<strong><em>As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. this applies to all links on this post.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the great things about devices such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3bN39x9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Echo (opens in a new tab)\">Echo<\/a> is the ability to voice activate actions.  These are the top 5 in our household.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Alexa set timer 30 minutes.<\/li><li> Alexa, how long\u2019s left on my timer? <\/li><li>Alexa cancel timer!<\/li><li>Alexa what are the lastest football scores?<\/li><li>Alexa play Gold radio.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To this we really need to add a 6th action.  &#8220;Alexa screen off&#8221;.  Our main device is an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2SQMgJh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Echo Show (opens in a new tab)\">Echo Show<\/a> is a naughty child called Kelly who is has a habit of turning their screen on without being asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. this applies to all links on this post.&#8221; One of the great things about devices such as the Echo is the ability to voice activate actions. These are the top 5 in our household. Alexa set timer 30 minutes. Alexa, how long\u2019s left on my timer? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/17\/ask-alexa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ask Alexa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,14],"tags":[12,8,10,9,13],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexa","category-amazon","category-echo-show","tag-alexa","tag-amazon","tag-dot","tag-echo","tag-show","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}