Dr. Dot the date, five minutes, good emotion. For everyone who's simply dotty about an accent. Hello you, Dr.
Dot listeners. This is David Ward from across the pond. Just bringing you another cool thing you can do on your Amazon Echo. One of the things that I completely not noticed, it's not getting on me on the settings, connected with reminders.
So reminders, you might recall very simple ways that you can set a reminder for a date, a time, and it goes off as a little jingle, and you can even have a name associated with it, you know, like take medication, take the trash out, different things like that. There's even repeating reminders like every Tuesday or every weekday or every weekend, you can do these sort of things. But typically, typically, you would set a reminder, it only goes off on one device, the device that you set it on. And in fact, that is the default out of the box experience that has been with the echoes, well, for all time and memorial.
But today, we're gonna take a look real quick in a demo where there's a different way of doing it so that you can perhaps never miss that reminder again. All right, so let me give you a real quick demonstration here. I got an echo sitting here on my desk and I have one out in the living room and my door to my studio is open here. So let's give this a test.
Alexa, set a reminder for stones in the oven. When should I remind you? Eight seconds. Okay, I'll remind you in eight seconds.
Okay, now I probably would usually use a timer for that, but you get the idea, medication reminder or something like that. Usually we go off on just that one device, but notice. David, here is your reminders. Scones in the oven.
Salton, yeah. David, here is your reminders. Scones in the oven. Alexa, stop.
So you might have noticed right out of the gate that there is this like weird echo effect. And the cause of that is that announcement from the reminders went off on all the echoes throughout my house, from the bedroom, the living room, the kitchen and even here in the office, which we're recording from. So with our little studio here. So very, very cool.
So where will you find this new setting to change the default behavior in case you wanted something more like this? When you go into the A-Lady app, you go to the bottom right corner, more button, you tap on that. Next screen, you're gonna tap on settings about halfway down the screen. And on the next page, there is a lot, a lot of settings, but you're gonna scroll down to the second or third page and you're gonna go to, well, Brinders.
That's pretty simple. Tap on reminders. And then you're gonna meet with a smorgasbord of settings. And a lot of these are really cool, but since this demo is just on this one particular thing that I didn't know was in here, and this is actually how I found it existed now, is you go down about halfway down the page and it allows you to set where the reminder comes out on what audio group and how it is announced.
Now by default, if you tap on that, it will slide out a menu and say at the very top, only announce on the device which the reminder was set to. So that's pretty normal. That's the run of the middle setting. But below that, you have the option to select different audio groups, assuming you've set up audio groups for your echoes if you have multiple echoes throughout your house and you'd like to have music play on all of them, or maybe the ones just in the living room or the ones just downstairs, you can create different types of audio groups.
Well, you can select an audio group you have there. In my case, I have one called party time. That's why I called it. And that lists pretty much all the echoes across my house.
But there's also another setting in there that says everywhere. Now I think that just does all the echoes that are probably in range of each other presently in your account, wherever the one is that you set it up. Now the reason I say that, and I don't know that for certain, is typically audio groups are locked to echoes that are within Bluetooth range of each other, because for the music playback feature work properly, they synchronize using Bluetooth. So I'm assuming that's the same in this case with the way that everywhere tag is used, but I could be wrong.
I haven't had a chance to test it yet. Now I ultimately found this just a tad bit annoying. I thought I really like it, but you may want to customize it because having them all go off at the same time for me is a little overwhelming since they're all about, only like seven, eight, 10, 15 feet apart from each other in different rooms. It's a little much, but I think this could be really, really super if you live in a long single floor house, maybe you, and you could set a, the beauty is you can customize it, set an audio group that's an echo over there on the far end of the building, and then went over here on the other side of the building.
And that way, no matter where you are, which room or in between, hopefully you would hear it. Also, I think you've lived on a multi-story house, maybe with a basement, a level that's at ground level and then upstairs, you could maybe set it so an echo on each floor, it's part of an audio group, not all of them, just maybe one on each floor, so no matter what floor of the building you're in, you would hopefully hear it. And so I think some tweaking and customization, you could probably make this just the way you want it. All right, well, there's a lot of other features there in the reminders, but I'm not gonna touch on those because we try to keep this short and sweet, but if you'd like to find out more about me, you're welcome to look me up, David Ward at the new vision program at Goodwill at goodwillvalleys.com slash new vision, all lowercase and no spaces.
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