I am confused too…as they ARE the same…I put them right next to each other and looked the same…one worked, but one didn’t…weird…
There is a way to do that with a control macro…you would set up that macro to change to goodbye mode, and then set a time (1 min is the minimum). You can also tell Ask Alexa to “run MacoName in 2 min” to override what you put into the macro.
Make sense?
Mmichaelahess … Well you can always plug each Dot into a smart switch module or outlet and command Alexa on the other one to shut down the power to the first dot. 
(you could even have it turn it back on, I don’t think it would resume playing).
Yep and works. Now to figure out how to have her announce the alarm is armed when a door opens 
Without a voice command? You can query her but she will never respond to external triggers outside of voice.
Hmmm, I am determined to prove you wrong!!! 
With or without CoRE…
Let me know if you can make that happen (and don’t hack it like @N8XD :))
Maybe you could do something like this outside of Ask Alexa and use a different smartapp like LANnouncer, BigTalker?
Awwwwwh! Mine isn’t hacked. I just use VLC Thing to trick alexa into saying and doing stuff!
Ok…well, maybe it’s hacked.
I actually do something like that dalec, I put headphones on the Dot’s and and have external microphones plus a VLC thing (connected through a mixer) that talks through the headphones to get Alexa to do stuff or say stuff through the house and backyard speakers.
I have an iPhone and no android devices in the house. I hate the idea of buying more stuff to make things work.
Yeah but then once this beast becomes self aware, Alexa will try to setup a Last Destination scenario when I tell her to kill one of her children…
Well if you ask Alexa if she’s part of Skynet, she tells you not to worry… I trust her.
Yeah, yeah, definitely, nothing bad could ever happen, right? RIGHT?
I hear your pain about not having an app for your platform… Geez, even when there is an app, I have a Windows Phone and I am feeling the pain right here in ST across the huge differences of iOS, Android ST mobile app to Windows Phone. 
Hey I like this! I am switching SmartThings to Skynet as my new invocation name!
"Alexa, tell Skynet to . . . " I’m going to be a big hit with my Terminator buddies. 
Nice…That will definitely give you the illusion of being in control.
Feedback Request - So I have 5 ceiling fans that I would like to control through Alexa. Previously I had this set-up with 3 virtual momentary button tiles (Den Fan Low, Den Fan Medium & Den Fan High) that I would trigger from Alexa and then have RM set the level appropriately. I could do something similar with 3 voice macros and then have CoRE set the level appropriately. But this can get a little crazy with having 15 voice macros just for my fans. And what I would really like to be able to do is say something like this:
Alexa, tell SmartThings to set Den Fan to Low
I’m wondering what others may have done. Thanks in advance for the ideas and information.
I included my ceiling fan in the dimmers section:
And then in the setting section, I set the low, medium, and high level for dimmers:
Now, I just say:
Alexa, tell home to set the ceiling fan to medium.
It works great. No macros needed! You only need a macro if you want to control a group of devices
I knew there had to be a better approach, thanks Jason!
Is it possible to set fan speed based on temp readings for your situation? I have all my fans on one speed, medium, they turn on if there is motion and temp is over 75. We never need high speed so it works great. But I don’t see why multiple levels couldn’t be done based on temp. I prefer automation over even telling Alexa what to do.
I think you’d be better off using CoRE.
CoRE is all about automation.
AskAlexa is all about having control of the automation