What Can You Do with Alexa Routines?

Routines are short cuts for Alexa, saving you time by grouping together actions so you don’t have to ask for each one individually. You can have up to 200 routines on your account at a time.

For example, say "Start my day" to have Alexa turn on your compatible smart lights and tell you the weather forecast.

You can kick off Routines in a number of ways including voice commands like saying "Good morning," a specific time of day, ultrasound motion detection, or when an alarm goes off.

Routines can contain one or multiple actions, such as:

  • Start an Alexa skill
  • Get briefings or traffic reports from Alexa
  • Make a call
  • Turn on compatible Fire TV devices
  • Arm connected home security systems
  • Play music
  • Adjust dimmable lights
  • Turn on or off smart home devices
  • Turn on compatible smart home devices based on your home’s indoor temperature (with Echo Dot 5th Generation and Echo Pop)