If you have an Amazon speaker Echo, you already know that you can ask a lot of things that will make your life easier. From knowing the weather that he does, to putting on music. But to get into the festive atmosphere, we suggest a few things Alexa can do for you this Christmas. As you will see, some are quite funny, others are curious and others are really useful.
Things to ask Alexa to do this Christmas
Alexa can be very useful when you don't want to get off the couch, which is what you actually bought it for.
Ask him to light your Christmas tree
Well yes, you can start knowing how to light your christmas tree with alexa.
As we already explained to you, With a smart plug, you can turn your Christmas tree into smart. This way, just by asking Alexa to turn it on and off, you will control it without lifting a finger.
But this is only the beginning, you can also:
Ask Alexa to play Christmas music
Just by saying, "Alexa, sing me a Christmas carol," She's starting to look like Mariah Carey, which has already come out of its cryogenic chamber, like every Christmas.
And if you are a fan of Christmas music, you can install the free skill radio santa claus and listen to it whenever you want.
For that, just say: “Alexa, open Radio Santa Claus”.
Ask Alexa for information about Santa Claus and the Three Wise Men
This is a Christmas skill from your Amazon speaker Echo ideal for the little ones and you will see that it has configured several options.
For example with saying: "Alexa, where is Santa Claus?" or “Alexa, how old is Santa Claus?” will give you that information about Santa Claus.
In fact, you can even talk to him. Try the "Alexa, I want to talk to Santa" command to do this.
And if you are more of the Three Kings, no problem. It can also give you advice with the command: “Alexa, what can I leave for the Three Wise Men”.
Ask Alexa to give you a Christmas recipe
She's not going to make you Christmas Eve dinner, but at least she can help you with it.
With the command: "Alexa, give me a Christmas recipe", your favorite assistant will instruct you in some ideal dishes for these parties.
And if you want to be more professional, you can install some skills gastronomic. the one of Cookpad is ideal and with a huge variety of dishes to make you look like a chef.
Ask Alexa to entertain you this Christmas
For example, with a movie. Alexa is getting smarter and now, saying a mythical phrase from a movie, he will put it on you. Just the phrase, you don't need the title.
This may fail sometimes, but here are 2 examples you can say to get me to play a holiday-friendly movie for you:
- If you say, "Alexa, keep the change, you filthy creep," she'll recognize that you're not insulting her and play the movie for you. Home alone. You will probably be quite confused by that because, in reality, you were probably trying to insult her.
- If you say: "Alexa, let's save Santa", it will start playing rescuing santa.
Ask him to serve you karaoke
And if this New Year's Eve the cava rises, things are encouraged and you have something with a screen connected to Alexa (such as an Amazon Echo Show speaker or a USB stick Fire TV on television) you can turn it into a karaoke.
The only thing is that, as the default music service in the Alexa app you will need to have set up Amazon Music.
In this case, when you ask it to play music, the lyrics of the song will appear on the screen and it will light up to the rhythm of the music.
If it does not appear at first (or you do not want the letters superimposed), you can click on the "Letters" button that you can see in the on-screen controls.
Other commands you can ask Alexa
In addition to all the requests and tasks that we have told you about, these are many other Christmas commands with which you can also interact with Alexa. Ask him and be surprised with his answers:
- "Alexa, do you believe in Santa/Father Christmas?"
- "Alexa, do you believe in the Three Wise Men?"
- "Alexa, what do you want for Christmas?"
- "Alexa, what are you doing on New Years?"
- “Alexa open the advent calendar”
- "Alexa sing your new Christmas song"
- "Alexa, what's the best Christmas movie?"
- "Alexa, what's the worst Christmas movie?"
- "Alexa, what are the names of Santa's reindeer?"
- "Alexa, how many calories are in a Christmas powder?"
As you can see, you can ask Alexa a lot of things this holiday season and make the most of it.