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While an Amazon Echo Show provides a great deal of useful information to you, it may be overwhelming to your loved one. In this article, I’ll suggest some best practices for keeping your loved one informed while reducing confusion.
You can also use the Amazon Fire TV Cube to project an Alexa Call onto a big screen TV.
How to set your parent up to be able to have video calling on a big screen TV, using Alexa Calling and the Fire TV Cube.
Alexa Routines are small pieces of software that you can easily create, and which can make an Echo active rather than passive.
In other words, instead of requiring your parent to initiate an interaction with Alexa, you can automatically trigger an interaction in response to some predetermined stimulus — for example, a motion, a time of day, or a spoken phrase of your choice.
On December 18, 2020, Amazon released an Alexa Group calling feature that allows up to seven (7) callers to be on the same Alexa call. Here is how to set it up and use it.
I have created an Alexa skill called “My Clock” that is designed to help people with dementia who suffer from time “confusion”. And also to help caregivers who get exhausted from answering repeated questions about “what time is it”?
I found I needed different solutions, depending on exactly what problem the older adult in question had.
Below, I describe three solutions — starting with a simple voice command to set the TV to a specific program; and escalating to special pre-programmed buttons that can be positioned near the TV and which, when pressed, automatically start the desired program.
I created a solution that uses red and green lights to let you know if the toilet seat is up or down.
Enabling Alexa Calling on his Fire TV cube will pause his TV show.
Here are two solutions (plus detailed “how to” instructions).