Yes. HOTEL CALIFORNIA was paying when l got up to make coffee.
My house was perfectly quiet. No one was awake.
We are having the same problem repeatedly. I checked the activity log - and the only activity is telling Alexa to turn off at 3:00 am (varied around 15 minutes of that time). There is no bluetooth connected to it. There are no other devices connected.
The best thing is just to contact Amazon support.
You can start from the Alexa App, Choose the āMoreā Icon, and help and feedback will be the last entry on that next page.
1 Like
My Alexa has been doing this a lot lately. It would randomly play music at night. The weird part is that it would play songs I listened to earlier, but on a different device. For example, my mother was listening to Dierks entley downstairs, but at midnight in my room, It would start to play. Then what happened next really scared me. A song that nobody has played in months started randomly playing but it sounded really demonic and low pitched, and thats when I unplugged that Alexa and it has not been on since.
I had the issue this morning while I was watching tv. I heard music playing randomly and it freaked me out.
I have an echo at my house and one at my parentās house and I realized my mother asked hers to play music, but it somehow started playing on mine. So weird!!
I recently had the same issue. Randomly playing music when the house was silent. I stopped it and 2 minutes later a different song came on. I checked Bluetooth devises and nothing was connected. I checked history and the only thing showing was me saying stop.
I managed to fix it. I figured out it was using Spotify to play music and I donāt use Spotify. I went to skills and searched Spotify then disabled it.
Not had a problem since.
The same thing has happened to me. We have three Alexas in our house and three times at 3 am music goes off, but only in one of my little sisterās room. The first two times it was an explicit rap song, and the last one was some type of sog from Aerosmith I thin, none of which we listen to. Everyone was asleep when it happened and there was no noise that would have set it off. The weird thing is, it starts really quiet, and then the volume just gets louder and louder until itās blasting through the entire house. Really freaky and trying to find an explanation. My sister snores, so we all thought at first that her snoring may have sounded like the command word and it started playing, but it has happened three times. The other creepy thing is, now every night I wake up at 3 am for no reason, and one night (when everyone was asleep and the lights were turned off) my hallway and kitchen light was flickering on and off. I also hear weird breathing in and out sounds of a deep-voiced person, and sometimes even footsteps or abnormal creaks. Donāt know if this is related or my house is just haunted, or is there a real explanation for this. I would really love to know.
I have 2 devices in my house and the 2nd gen dot fired up in the middle of the night several nights in a row. I reached out to Amazon and they had me do a factory reset on it. That did not fix the problem. Last night I unplugged my 2nd gen dot hoping to sleep all night. I woke to my 4th gen dot playing music at 4:00am. Each time the units fire up the play stations I have never and would never play. I thought of a solution, smart plugs. They are to be delivered tomorrow.
I share my prime membership with my parents, and as a result, I can see the Amazon devices at their house when I look in Alexa, but I donāt see their smart devices they have control over. However, recently my father has been speaking commands to control devices in his āofficeā with his Echo Show and it has been controlling my āofficeā instead! Weāve tried factory reseting his Show and that seemed to immediately resolve the issue, but then the problem came back later. Iām hoping Amazon will fix this in an update. But I just wanted to share this story as a possible cause for why Alexa could be performing unwanted actions.
I have noticed that when I come home after driving the car, my bedroom Echo dot (it is ONLY ever this Alexa device that is affected) is playing some random album I have never heard of and have certainly not chosen. I have spoken extensively to both Spotify and Amazon on this subject (deregistering/reregistering Alexa dot, clearing the Spotify cache, forcing Stop on the Spotify app and numerous other attempts to stop this happening). Tonight, hours after returning home, my Dot started playing by itself on the bedroom Echo dot (kids music this time!!). It also plays at a louder volume than I have the dot set to! I have logged out of all Spotify apps and changed my password - all to no avail! I would appear I am not the only one to suffer this phenomenon. I am concerned that if I go away for a prolonged period, my poor neighbour will have random music blaring through the wall at all hours and my electricity bill will be sky-high! Any suggestions of how to fix this (Spotify and Amazon have both failed), please let me know! Thanks!
You should check if Hunches is enabled in Alexa. It could be creating Routines in Alexa that turn on the music. If it isā¦ disable Hunches and remove any Alexa Routines that were created.
if it is not hunchesā¦ do you have other family members connected to Alexa?
1 Like
There WAS a routine i did not set! It was for upbeat music at 5pm on the bedroon dot! I can only guess that Alexa had randomly asked if id like her to set this up, and the grandchildren said Yes! I found it in Routines by chance last night.
I have never seen āHunchesā, but will search for it and ensure it is iff! Thank you for your help
2 Likes
Same problem, only it plays ESPN sports radio. Every day, tho I havenāt made a note of what time, I assume itās the same time each day.
I called Amz support and got to an Alexa support specialist, and she was stumped. Turned on Screen Sharing in the app at her request. She couldnāt find any Routine, or Alarm, or anything that would cause it. The only thing she did was associate that radio station with the Alexa app on the iPhone, so it wouldnāt play on the Echo. Not what I wanted!
In the iPhone app, there is a floating ācardā (not sure if thatās the word) for ESPN Radio, covering a good part of the screen real estate, and it canāt be moved, nor deleted. The support rep didnāt seem to know anything, asked me if I could drag it or swipe, and no, would not drag in any of the 4 directions.
I hate ESPN and all sports radio, once quit a job because a co-worked played sports radio all day. I will throw this Echo in the trash if I canāt make it stop, not worth the aggravation.
I guess I have to wait until tomorrow to see if the Echo really has stopped playing the radio.
1 Like