Personal assistants have become very common in many homes due to their great utility. One of the best known is the Amazon Echo family, which is a smart speaker that uses the Alexa system and uses voice recognition to answer everything we ask. In fact, Alexa has different voice commands. That is why it is a very comfortable device that provides its users with many advantages . September has already started and with it, many people return to work and, therefore, to the routine. However, many people telecommute from home and can use Alexa to make their return to work easier.
Therefore, we bring you a series of things that you can ask Alexa to do to make your return to work easier.
Know about the weather, traffic jams or set an alarm
It is also possible that you do not telecommute and have to move to the office. It is important to know the weather the day after to be prepared and prepare more or less warm clothes or, if it is going to rain, have an umbrella handy.
Thanks to Alexa, you can ask for the weather forecast for the next day (or even the entire week) and you can be aware of the weather at all times, being able to divide it even into time bands.
If you want to regulate the temperature of the room where you are working, the skill “Alexa, set the temperature to X degrees” will regulate the temperature according to our wishes. With the skill “Alexa, turn on the light in the room” we can also illuminate our space without having to get up from our seat.
Even if we have children and want to see it remotely, the skill “Alexa, show me the camera in the child’s room” will allow us to see what our son or daughter is doing without moving.
Mornings are also a time of rush hour where many cars can accumulate when going to work. Surely you wouldn’t want to find yourself in a traffic jam when you go to your office, so you can ask Alexa if there is going to be a traffic jam or not and it will even tell you the time in advance with which you should leave the house to avoid running into a traffic jam. .
There are many people who get up very early to start their workday. Maybe you did not know that, if they have a device with Alexa, you can set an alarm at the time you want to wake you up.
Play music, reminders, routines …
There are many people who need music to start working as it helps them focus better. That is why we can ask Alexa to put our favorite radio station or a song. We can even use some of its skills such as “Alexa, open rain sounds” or “Alexa, open sea sounds” if we want to hear those kinds of melodies in particular.
It may be that we cannot detach ourselves from our work center at home and we have to turn on an appliance . With the skill “Alexa, open electricity price” we can start saving on the bill after the new electricity price. And if we want to know if any web page is operational, the skill Is it online? allows us to know at any time if a web portal is working.
Depending on our job we may need to make a rule of three . Instead of calculating it ourselves, we can ask Alexa to do it using the “Alexa, open rule of three” skill.
You may be so busy that you don’t even have time to check your e-mail, since an important mail could arrive and you will not find out. However, you can ask Alexa how many emails you have received and she will tell you without problems.
In addition, Alexa has a very useful function such as reminders . If you have to do something at a distant date, you can set a reminder on a specific day and time so that when that time comes, Alexa will remind you.
You can also set up a routine . With this function, just by saying the keywords, your workplace will adapt to how you have configured it. For example, you can say “Alexa, I’m going to work” and you have previously configured everything so that when you say that, the light on your desk turns on and music starts playing to start your workday in the best way.
Finally, you can also make video calls with Alexa, something very common with teleworking and in this era in which we find ourselves. However, not all Amazon Echo devices have a camera for making video calls. Even so, we can make calls thanks to its speaker and microphone.
