The voice assistant wars have intensified in recent months, in a way we haven’t seen in years. Google and Amazon carried out this confrontation under Apple’s eyes, but it took OpenAI to intervene to allow the use of ChatGPT by voice for the sector to be shaken.
So much that Google even started replacing its assistant with Gemini, but only in certain countries. Overall, testing suggests that it is much better than the previous proposal, but it still has some shortcomings. Amazon has also made progress in this regard, including integrating AI into Alexa, although in a much more controlled manner and still only in certain markets.
Alexa was launched in 2014, and arrived in Europe in 2018. During these years it has improved, both at the hardware level, with recurring launches of new speakers and screens, and at the software level, especially with great integration with other brands. In 2018, Amazon bought Ring, a security company, and since then it has been possible to integrate home monitoring from Alexa home automation control.
Activation of voice alarm
One of the most useful functions is the be able to ask Alexa if the alarm is armed or not. With a simple question like “Alexa, is Ring on or off?” », the assistant will respond whether the alarm is armed or not. But the best function is the one that allows you to activate and especially deactivate the alarm.
With the command “Alexa, arm Ring”, the alarm will switch to Home mode. If we say “Alexa, activate Ring in Away Mode”, this mode will be activated. If we say “Alexa, turn off Ring”, the system will ask you to say the alarm PIN code out loud to turn it off. Of course, it should be said as a four-digit number, that is, if the PIN code is 2876, it should say two thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, not two, eight, seven, six.
Power deactivate the voice alarm you must configure an option in the settings of the Alexa application. You need to go to the Devices section and there select the device called Ring. When you enter the setup, you need to enable the option called “Enable Disarm” in the voice command section.
