21 hidden tasks and commands Alexa can do for you this Christmas

If you have an Amazon Echo speaker, you already know that you can ask for a lot of things that will make your life easier. From knowing the weather, to putting music on you. But to get into the festive mood, we suggest a few things that Alexa can do for you this Christmas . As you will see, some are quite funny, others are curious and others are really useful.

Things to ask Alexa to do this Christmas

Alexa can be very useful when you don’t want to get off the couch, which is what you actually bought it for.

Ask him to light your Christmas tree

Well yes, you can start by knowing how to light your Christmas tree with Alexa.

As we already explained, with a smart plug, you can turn your Christmas tree into a smart one . In this way, just by asking Alexa to turn it on and off, you will control it without lifting a finger.

But this is only the beginning, you can also:

Ask Alexa to play Christmas music

Just by saying, “Alexa, sing me a Christmas carol,” she’ll start to look like Mariah Carey , who has already emerged from her cryogenic chamber, just like every Christmas.

And if you are a fan of Christmas music, you can install the Radio Santa Claus skill for free and listen to it whenever you want.

To do that, simply say: “Alexa, open Radio Santa Claus.”

Ask Alexa for information about Santa Claus and the Magi

This is a Christmas skill of your Amazon Echo speaker ideal for the little ones and you will see that it has several options configured.

For example by saying: “Alexa, where is Santa Claus?” or “Alexa, how old is Santa Claus?” will give you that information about Santa Claus.

In fact, you can even talk to him . Try the command “Alexa, I want to talk to Santa” to do it.

And if you are more of the Magi, no problem. He can also give you advice with the command: “Alexa, what can I leave the Magi”.

Ask Alexa for a Christmas recipe

She’s not going to make you dinner on Christmas Eve, but at least she can help you with it.

With the command: “Alexa, give me a Christmas recipe”, your favorite assistant will instruct you in some ideal dishes for the holidays .

And if you want to be more professional, you can install some gastronomic skills. The Cookpad is ideal and with a huge variety of dishes to make you look like a chef.

Ask Alexa to entertain you this Christmas

For example, with a movie. Alexa is getting smarter and now, saying a mythical phrase from a movie, she will put it on you . Just the phrase, you don’t need the title.

This may go wrong sometimes, but here are 2 examples you can say to get you to put on a holiday movie:

If you say, “Alexa, keep the change, you filthy vermin,” she will acknowledge that you are not insulting her and will play the Home Alone movie for you . You’re probably getting pretty confused by that because you were actually trying to insult her.
If you say, “Alexa, let’s save Santa,” it will start playing Saving Santa .

Ask him to serve you karaoke

And if this New Year’s Eve the cava rises, things come to life and you have something with a screen connected to Alexa (like an Amazon Echo Show speaker or a Fire TV stick on the television) you can turn it into karaoke .

The only thing is that, as the default music service in the Alexa app, you will have to have configured Amazon Music .

In that case, when you ask it to play music, the lyrics of the song will appear on the screen and it will light up to the rhythm of the music.

If it doesn’t appear first (or you don’t want the letters overprinted), you can click on the “Letters” button that you will see in the on-screen controls.

Other commands you can ask Alexa

In addition to all the requests and tasks that we have told you, these are many other Christmas commands with which you can also interact with Alexa. Ask him and be surprised by his answers: