Jeannene asked 5 years ago
I’d like to have Alexa time me doing certain events and see how long they take, but I can’t seem to find a function that does that. Basically I want to say “Start stop watch” and “stop stop watch” and have Alexia tell me the time in between. Is this possible?
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Daniel Hill Staff answered 5 years ago
Hi Jeannene,
Great question! I thought there was a stopwatch function built in to Alexa, but there doesn’t seem to be.
However, you can add this using a Skill. Once you enable one of the stopwatch skills, you will be able to time things they way you are asking.
Great question! I thought there was a stopwatch function built in to Alexa, but there doesn’t seem to be.
However, you can add this using a Skill. Once you enable one of the stopwatch skills, you will be able to time things they way you are asking.
I would suggest testing out the Skill called “Stopwatch”, which you can enable here.
Once you have enabled the Skill, you can use the following commands to invoke it:
- “Alexa, open stopwatch” to start the timer
- “Alexa, ask stopwatch” to get the status of the timer
- “Alexa, ask stopwatch to stop” to stop the stopwatch
That should help you accomplish your goal!
-Daniel
Is there a way to stop it by saying simply “stop stopwatch“?
You would think that but no you have to say “Alexa, ask stopwatch to stop” – which is a bit of a mouthful
You could always create an Alexa routine where the trigger is your voice command “[Alexa] stop stopwatch” and the action is the custom Alexa command “Alexa, ask stopwatch to stop”
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