[App] Amazon Alexa – Show Mode for Lenovo
Amazon Alexa – Show Mode for Lenovo lets you access “Show Mode”, a full screen experience where Alexa can show music, video, news, alarms, calendars, timers, reminders, weather, and much more.
Whether you are holding your Smart Tab tablet or place it in the Bluetooth-enabled Smart Dock, you can use Alexa to control your tablet with just your voice.
Amazon Alexa – Show Mode for Lenovo is designed for use with Lenovo’s Smart Tab with Amazon Alexa. For the best experience, please update your Default Voice Assistant to “Amazon Alexa Show Mode for Lenovo” via the tablet’s settings.
Amazon Alexa user reviews :
Updated Review! I’m using it on a Lenovo Smart Tab P10 with the Smart Dock. There were many glitches with the app and then an update became stuck in a loop. An extremely nice and helpful Amazon Alexa tech worked with me and referred the case to an engineer. I left the tab off overnight. Next day I restarted and it went through the update and Alexa set up again and now works great. There are still some limited settings, but I really was impressed with the fast response.
The original version of the app works reasonably well for me, but once the app updates, it starts crashing every few minutes when docked. I rolled it back as I have found advised online, and it worked fine, until, of course, it auto updated. So not I’ve got the tablet set to manual updates and will just update other apps manually occasionally. Kind of a pain, but I like the device otherwise. Hope the developers get a more stable update out there.
Got this on a Lenovo Smart Tab bundle and the tablet (P10) itself is excellent. However as a long time Alexa user, I find the Alexa software on this tablet is sadly limited. From little things like being able to change the wake word, to getting reliable connections with my Arlo cameras, to having communication features like joining groups and drop-in, a software update is needed to make this a real, as described bundle.
The app is promising, but has some significant flaws. For one thing, it disconnects and reconnects to the Bluetooth in the dock periodically, which is annoying. Then it is separate from the main Alexa app, meaning it behaves differently and some things Alexa does, this app doesn’t. Plus it makes no sense that it’s required to have location enabled to pair to the base THAT IT IS DOCKED IN. Everything just seems harder to do than it seems it should. Like I said… Promising, but not quite there.
Most of features work great; however all of the video apps cause show mode to crash. I tried with both Ring and Wyze, and both had the same result. This is the main reason I wanted a product with show mode so its disappointing. It is also only playing music from Amazon Music rather than spotify like all my others are setnup to do. Hopefully just growing pains of a brand new product. If this is fixed, it’ll be great.
It’s ok – got around the Bluetooth disconnects. If you enable developer mode and use Bluetooth 1.5 it helps. Disconnects still happen, but much less frequently. Don’t know why Lenovo can’t do like everyone else and just keep it connected while in range. Other than that, it’s an ok tablet. Not very fast. But not super slow either
This update does not work. after receiving the update my show mode stopped working and the Bluetooth will not stay connected. All of my calendar, news and events that are saved in the home cards setting will not show on the screen. I have asked Amazon about this and they have not addressed this is not has Google.
Needs work. Have all the toggles turned on to display trending topics, upcoming events etc. but it shows none of that instead sticking to a generic background with a generic tip at the bottom. These settings are totally ignored. I am able to set a custom background from my Amazon Photos… until the tablet is powered off or rebooted when it “forgets” this setting and reverts back to the default backgrounds again.
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