If you have a Amazon Echo (Dot or Show) placed on your nightstand, you probably use it as an alarm clock. And it is quite comfortable to get up every morning with the help of a virtual assistant and ask him to give you a summary of the day. If until now you have not used the device as an alarm clock, we are going to show you how to do it and how to choose the sound that will destroy that happiness of being in bed until so many hours.
How to use the Amazon Echo as an alarm clock
Whatever Amazon Echo device you have at home, you can use it as an alarm clock if you create an alarm from the official app. The comfortable thing, and what most users will probably do, is to create the alarm through a voice command. That is, just by saying "Alexa, set an alarm for 9 am”, the assistant will create the appointment for you to wake up the next morning.
The problem with programming this conventional alarm with voice is that it will use a default melody and you won't be able to make some adjustments, so we are going to show you how to customize your wake-up call a little more with all the melodies included in the system. Thus, you can create different alarms according to your needs and program a different sound for each of them, choosing even the smallest parameter you can imagine.
What's more, if for example you have several of these devices at home, including the boys' rooms, You can configure the time at which they will have to get up every morning so they don't get lazy before going to school. Of course, as long as they work under the cloak of your main ID.
All you have to do is go to the Alexa's official app to be able to manage the alarms. Follow the steps below to complete the process:
- Open the Alexa app on your Android or iOS device and tap on the icon in the top left corner to open the dropdown menu.
- In this menu select Reminders and Alarms.
- Now it is possible to set reminders, alarms and timers. In this case we will focus on alarms, so select the tab that indicates it.
- If you have never created an alarm, the list will be empty, so let's create one to find out the details. Click on Add alarm.
- On the next screen you would have to configure all the parameters, starting with the time at which the alarm will sound. The points to configure are the following:
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- alarm time: The time at which we want the warning to sound.
- Device: Do you have several Amazon Echos at home? Here you can select which of all the home will sound the alarm. Are you in the living room and want to set the bedroom alarm? Here you can do it.
- Repeat: This will be where you define if you want the alarm to be punctual or to sound every day of the week. An alarm only for weekends? Single days? Choose what you need.
- Date: If you want the alarm to go off on a specific day, you can choose it here as well. Mark the desired date on the calendar and that's it.
- Sound: This is where we will be able to define the sound that we want the alarm to sound. Unfortunately we will not be able to use custom sounds or music, so we will have to limit ourselves to the list of melodies offered by the devices.
After configuring all these parameters, all you have to do is click on Save to store the alarm created. Your Echo will ring just at the time you have requested and with the chosen sound.
How to wake up with a song, or a radio
Waking up suddenly with a horrible noise that is designed so that we can not stand it and end up getting up is a torture that we can choose to maintain for a long time or not, since there are always more friendly alternatives and, above all, related to our musical tastes (in this case).
Alexa not only offers the possibility to configure those obnoxious bells, but also allows us to configure it so that play a song from top services streaming available. Whether it's Jeff Bezos' own Play Music or Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
To set that alarm to wake us up, you don't have to touch anything on the mobile screen, just go to your smart speaker (an Echo Dot or an Echo Show with a screen) and invoke Alexa with a simple phrase:
- Alexa, wake me up to [song name] by [artist] at [wake-up time].
Alexa will proceed to play it when the time comes configured and prioritizing the streaming platform that you already have linked as the main one with the assistant. So it will not be necessary to name it.
But, what happens if we want the news from this or that radio station to sound instead of a song? There are millions of people who, the first thing they do as soon as they wake up, is listen to the news from a station they have been following for a long time, so we can save ourselves the work of tuning in by creating a routine that will use the service that you have configured by default. Such as Apple Music, TuneIn, etc.
To activate an alarm clock with a radio station you must ask the assistant:
- Alexa, wake me up to [news service/radio network] at [wake-up time].
All of these functions are compatible with the assistants that Amazon makes as well as other devices on the market that also work around Alexa. We leave you two models that can serve you for your day to day to start each day with the best possible information, weather, traffic, schedule or anything you need.
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