{"id":1266,"date":"2020-11-05T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T18:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2020-11-05T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T18:12:00","slug":"amazon-alexa-announce-feature-how-to-exclude-a-device-from-an-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/amazon-alexa-announce-feature-how-to-exclude-a-device-from-an-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Alexa – Announce Feature (How to exclude a device from an announcement)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This took a few minutes to figure out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basically you are making a standard timed announcement…but FIRST you need to set the Do Not Disturb flag to the Amazon Echo device (or devices) that you want to ignore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this example, I want to set up a bedtime alert for each kid. Before 10pm it’s perfectly fine to make an announcement on every device, but once 10pm rolls around, I want to make sure that my wife’s sleep isn’t disrupted in the bedroom. This means removing our Echo from the Announce listing…except that it’s not really an option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So first, I set the Do Not Disturb flag for the Amazon FireStick TV and Amazon Echo that are in the master bedroom for a duration of 1 minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I have it play the required announcement. Confirmed, nothing plays in the master bedroom for 1 minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the 1 minute is up…I can send any required notifications to all devices as normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This took a few minutes to figure out. Basically you are making a standard timed announcement…but FIRST you need to set the Do Not Disturb flag to the Amazon Echo device (or devices) that you want to ignore. In this example, I want to set up a bedtime alert for each kid. Before 10pm it’s … Continue reading Amazon Alexa – Announce Feature (How to exclude a device from an announcement)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91],"tags":[99,100,101],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-alexa","tag-alexa","tag-announce","tag-do-no-disturb","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8DcKP-kq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/io.bainwerx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}