{"id":53,"date":"2020-05-17T19:40:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T19:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:25:52","slug":"ask-alexa-4-stopwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/17\/ask-alexa-4-stopwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Alexa 4 &#8211; Stopwatch"},"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\">Asking <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Alexa (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3cRCHm4\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa<\/a> to set a timer through my <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2WIY1F7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Amazon Echo Show (opens in a new tab)\">Amazon Echo Show<\/a> is straightforward enough.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Alexa set timer.&#8221;  &#8220;Alexa set timer for 35 minutes&#8221;.  When you the time is up, Alexa sets an alarm sound and you say &#8220;Alexa stop&#8221; and its all over with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/369Ye6Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Alexa (opens in a new tab)\">Alexa<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Alex start stopwatch&#8221;, 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.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However thanks to the guys at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifewire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Livewire<\/a>. I know have it all sorted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To start the stopwatch, you have three command options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Alexa, start stopwatch.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Alexa, open stopwatch.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Alexa, ask stopwatch.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use any of the above commands to check the stopwatch at any point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To pause the stop watch and then resume it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Alexa, ask stopwatch to pause.&#8221;   <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Alexa, ask stopwatch to resume.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the command that I found so elusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> Alexa, ask the stopwatch to delete. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexa will then state the &#8220;Stopwatch ended at, and in my case it was 89 days 1 hour, 13 minutes and 6 seconds&#8221;.  My life has now been transformed. <\/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; Asking Alexa to set a timer through my Amazon Echo Show is straightforward enough. &#8220;Alexa set timer.&#8221; &#8220;Alexa set timer for 35 minutes&#8221;. When you the time is up, Alexa sets an alarm sound and you say &#8220;Alexa &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/17\/ask-alexa-4-stopwatch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ask Alexa 4 &#8211; Stopwatch&#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":[7,2,3,14],"tags":[21,9,28,40,41],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexa","category-amazon","category-echo","category-echo-show","tag-amazon-alexa","tag-echo","tag-echo-show","tag-stopwatch","tag-timer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}