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Announcing Amazon Alexa skills for eero!

Hey eero community!

The Amazon Alexa skillset for eero is now available! This means you can now control several features of eero with your voice.

Here is a breakdown of the current skills:

This is just the beginning. We'd love to hear what other types of commands the eero community would love to see in the future! Jump into the discussion and let us know what types of skills you'd love to see from eero and Alexa!

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36 replies

    • Richard1864
    • 8 yrs agoFri, November 25, 2016 at 12:08 AM UTC
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    Reboot for all the Eeros and individual Eeros would be nice. Sleep mode for the Eeros too; I.e., when not used for a set period of time the Eeros go into sleep mode and wake up on demand. 

    • ravedog
    • 8 yrs agoFri, November 25, 2016 at 11:35 AM UTC
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    Paired up Eero to Alexa using skills and code. It's enabled. No matter what command I try with Alexa (using your chart of commands) - it doesn't understand the word eero. Any ideas? (running 2.0.0 eero and 1.30 iOS app)

    • Richard1864
    • 8 yrs agoFri, November 25, 2016 at 1:33 PM UTC
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    Disable and then re-enable the Eero skill. Try voice training Alexa by going to Settings>Voice Training in the Alexa app. Unplugging Alexa for 60 seconds may also help. 

    • eero Community Manager
    • Jeff_C
    • 8 yrs agoMon, November 28, 2016 at 9:40 PM UTC
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    Hey  ravedog — Did taking the steps provided by Richard1864 resolve your issue? If not, could you provide us with a screenshot of what Alexa is identifying you as saying when you attempt to use the skillset?

    • Skeeter
    • 8 yrs agoFri, December 2, 2016 at 8:44 PM UTC
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    Just enabled the feature and tried it on my Echo and it works like champ!  Pretty cool

    • ravedog
    • 8 yrs agoSat, December 3, 2016 at 7:33 AM UTC
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    Richard1864 sorry for the delay. I disabled the skill and set it up again and it works! Most of the channel Mande are geared towards profiles so I look forward to more commands to be added in the future (like speed testing or diagnostics). Thanks for the help!

    • Richard1864
    • 8 yrs agoSat, December 3, 2016 at 1:19 PM UTC
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    ravedog I'm glad it worked for ya! It will be fun to see what else Eero will add to the Alexa skill for us!

    • Skeeter
    • 8 yrs agoMon, December 5, 2016 at 2:42 PM UTC
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    I would agree with ravedog as it would be great to be able to say "Alexa, ask eero what is my current internet speed?"

      • Cabbagetoe
      • 7 yrs agoThu, March 15, 2018 at 4:59 PM UTC
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      Skeeter I'm not sure I see the use in this as mine has NEVER been accurate.  I've had a gigabit ethernet connection for well over 6 months.  Speed testing from every site EXCEPT the eero app always garners upwards of 800.  On the eero app, never above 100.

      • Skeeter
      • 7 yrs agoThu, March 15, 2018 at 9:14 PM UTC
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      Cabbagetoe Well I wish I had that problem with 1GB internet but us folks in Upstate NY are stuck at 60 or 100mbs so the speed test works just fine! 😉

    • Richard1864
    • 8 yrs agoMon, December 5, 2016 at 5:55 PM UTC
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    Or Alexa, have Eero run a Network Health Check

    • Richard1864
    • 8 yrs agoMon, December 5, 2016 at 5:55 PM UTC
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    Or Alexa, have Eero run a Network Health Check

    • eero Community Manager
    • Jeff_C
    • 8 yrs agoMon, December 5, 2016 at 6:23 PM UTC
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    Thanks for the suggestions! Keep them coming!

    • rhalibur
    • 8 yrs agoTue, December 27, 2016 at 8:41 PM UTC
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    It would be nice to be able to enable / disable guest network

    • WhiskerBiscuit
    • 8 yrs agoMon, January 16, 2017 at 7:29 PM UTC
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    It would be nice if Alexa understood eero

    • eero Community Manager
    • Jeff_C
    • 8 yrs agoWed, January 18, 2017 at 10:49 PM UTC
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    WhiskerBiscuit —

    If you open the Alexa app, could you share what Alexa is hearing you say instead of eero?

    • PhoenixRevived
    • 7 yrs agoThu, November 30, 2017 at 2:24 AM UTC
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    How about "tell eero to run speedtest"

    • YetAnotherUserName
    • 7 yrs agoThu, November 30, 2017 at 7:07 PM UTC
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    Is this still the list of all that alexa/eero can do?  Would be useful to be able to get more information out of the system. 

      • eero Community Manager
      • Jeff_C
      • 7 yrs agoThu, November 30, 2017 at 7:08 PM UTC
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      YetAnotherUserName Thanks for reaching out. Yes, this is still the current skillset. Are there any other specific skills you'd be looking for? Happy to pass that feedback along.

      • YetAnotherUserName
      • 7 yrs agoSat, December 2, 2017 at 2:17 AM UTC
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      Jeff C. Alexa, ask eero how close I am to my monthly cap

    • beady
    • 7 yrs agoSat, January 27, 2018 at 3:45 PM UTC
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    If I tell eero to enable a paused profile have it tell me I need to use the app.  

    • beady
    • 7 yrs agoSat, January 27, 2018 at 3:50 PM UTC
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    Detect when no one is home.  You could do this by registering family member phones into a group.  When no phone from that group is detected you could send a message to Alexa to run a specific Smart Home skill (Goodbye for example.)  Detect when someone returns and tell Alexa to run a specific Smart Home skill (IamBack for example.)  

    • mwahle
    • 7 yrs agoTue, February 13, 2018 at 1:02 AM UTC
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    I second these ideas: speed test, monthly usage, enable/disable guest network.

    My own wish would be to be able to enable/disable UPnP. I would also like to be able to ask for current status (enabled/disabled) of guest network, and for UPnP which ports are open.

    • constank
    • 5 yrs agoSun, August 4, 2019 at 12:29 PM UTC
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    Not enabled yet for Canada? Please allow us to use this skill as well. 

    • sacrophyte
    • 4 yrs agoTue, June 2, 2020 at 4:29 PM UTC
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    This thread is a bit old; what has been done about the suggestions listed here? How can users enhance the skill on their own (diy)?

    Content aside

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