Regular readers may have gathered by now that I’m very lazy, and love finding ways to automate tasks I can’t avoid. One way I do this is through Alexa Routines, on Amazon’s Echo smart speakers.
You’ll find Routines in the Alexa app on your phone – tap More, select Routines, then click the Plus button. Routines work with a trigger (‘When this happens’, 1 in our screenshot below), which tells it to run, followed by an action 2, which is what actually happens.
The most common trigger is your voice: type the word you want Alexa to listen for (if you choose ‘goodbye’, for example, saying ‘Alexa, goodbye’ would start the routine). You can then pick the actions, which can be controlling smart devices (such as turning off lights), getting…
