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  • HarryT93
    HarryT93 Posts: 66 Forumite
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    It goes off everytime he tells Alexa to play a song cause it thinks hes talking to it what can I do? Anyone else?
    Yeah same here, no idea how to get it to work
  • you have to change the wake word. Ours is Echo and it worked then
  • smaisey
    smaisey Posts: 984 Forumite
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    I managed to get it to work manually through the app on my phone and getting it to play on the Echo 8
  • samfa
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    3. The promotion starts at 00:00 on 8th May 2024 and has been extended by one month (from the previous closing date of 8th June 2024) to now close at 23:59 on 20th July 2024 (UK time) (the "Promotion Period"). Any entries received outside of the promotion period will be void.
  • Comping_Rich
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    samfa said:
    3. The promotion starts at 00:00 on 8th May 2024 and has been extended by one month (from the previous closing date of 8th June 2024) to now close at 23:59 on 20th July 2024 (UK time) (the "Promotion Period"). Any entries received outside of the promotion period will be void.

    Thank you for posting this, I have just updated the date on the thread.

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  • Comping_Rich
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    The closing date has been extended again 

    The promotion starts at 00:00 on 8th May 2024 and has been further extended, from previous closing dates of 8th June 2024 and 20th July 2024, to now close at 23:59 on 19th August 2024 



    Posting is a privilege, not a right. This is a privately-owned site. Posting is a privilege, not a right. Any inappropriate posts or any issues that take up a disproportionate amount of resources or make it a worse place to be will be stopped at our discretion - with or without explanation. No one pays to use this site; when there are issues, we pay to resolve them. Sometimes we need to prioritise spending money on the site, other issues or better resources.
    Please be nice to all MoneySavers. That’s the forum motto. Remember, the prime aim is to help provide info and resources. If you don’t like someone, their situation, their question or feel they’re intruding on ‘your board’ then please bite the bullet and think of the bigger issue. A Guardian article once "doffed its cap" to this forum as being the one place where consumers can collect together and fight back. Our job is to help keep it that way.

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    Rafflecopter = RC | Gleam = GL | LinkedIn = LI | TikTok = TT | YouTube = YT

    Pinterest = PIN | Twitch = TWH | Discord = DIS | Viral Sweep = VS | Sweep Widget = SW

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