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But I cannot create a routine or change its time with my voice.

I can say "Alexa, set my alarm tomorrow at 7 in the morning". I wish I could say "Alexa, open my curtains at 6:45 in the morning tomorroe" instead of having to go to my cellphone and use the clunky Alexa app.

It just seems like a wasted opportunity for a routine. I'm sure a lot more things would be available if Amazon let developers use more features.

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Seems like it'd get unwieldy fast. Would need an efficient interface for listing and editing registered tasks, or you might get stuck with a couple of hundred tasks of the type 'Alexa, say fart fart fart at three/four/five in the morning' if a kid ever where to pass through the house.

>Seems like it'd get unwieldy fast.

We're not asking to construct a complex schedule via voice command, the app is sufficient for that. Sometimes you just want your curtains opened at 6:45 tomorrow because something is happening and you just thought of it. That's would actually be convenient.

This works for me. I just said "turn my office lights on at 6:45 pm" and it did just fine.

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