Personal Alert ⨁ Network
There are 2 parts to setting up Ask My Buddy. Enable and Link Accounts in the Alexa companion or Google Home application. Registering, and Adding or Editing Contacts at the AskMyBuddy.net website. If you need any help please send email to support@askmybuddy.net
Registration may also be completed within the Alexa application, but it may be easier to do so at our website, www.AskMyBuddy.net. In your internet browser, go to www.askmybuddy.net Click on the Register menu item (if you are on a mobile device, tap on the 3 lines in the upper left corner). Enter your information using your desired email and a new password, then press Register button. You should then be on the Login screen, but if not, click on the Login menu item (if you are on a mobile device, tap on the 3 lines in the upper left corner). Enter the login information that you used when you registered (email and password) then press Login button. Once logged in you will be at the Settings page. Enter any additional information, then press Save Changes
In your internet browser, go to www.askmybuddy.net Click on the Login menu item (if you are on a mobile device, tap on the 3 lines in the upper left corner). Enter the login information that you used when you registered (email and password) then press Login button. Once logged in you will be at the Settings page. Enter any additional information, then press Save Changes Select menu item Contacts from the menu at the top (mobile device, tap the 3 lines in the upper left corner) Fill in each field for a contact then click the Save Changes button at the bottom. Always press Save Changes after each new contact is entered. If there are any errors you will see them in the blue title bar area.
Once complete you are ready to use Ask My Buddy. Talk to you Alexa device and say, 'Alexa, Ask My Buddy to Alert Bob' (instead of Bob use the first name of the contact you added). Alexa will alert that person and let you know that she did.
To alert only one contact say: Alexa Ask My Buddy to Alert {yourContactFirstName}
If Ask My Buddy is having difficulty with a specific contact name, Alexa may not be hearing the name, or Alexa is spelling what she hears differently than how it is entered in your Contacts list. For example, your contact may be Kristie, but Alexa spells it Christy. We do try to accommodate similar sounding names, but there are always some that do not quite match up. In the Alexa application, on the Home page, you should see a 'card' that states what Alexa heard, and what Alexa passed to Ask My Buddy. Please say 'Alexa, Ask My Buddy to alert xxxxx, then please look to see what word Alexa heard and how she spells it. Try asking Alexa how to spell the names of your contacts, so you can see what Alexa hears. Say, 'Alexa, how do you spell xxxxx?' Then change the spelling in your contact list to be the same. That way, Alexa will always get it right. Don’t worry, your contacts will not see how you spelled their name. Visit our https://www.youtube.com/askmybuddy for a video discussing contact name spelling and how to look at the cards in the Alexa application. Ask My Buddy is a free service that leverages the Alexa Voice and Google Home Voice Platforms to connect a user to their Personal Alert Network using only their voice. Ask My Buddy is not a substitute for 911, but rather an additional tool offering the security of knowing help is just a shout away. 'Alexa, Ask My Buddy to Send Help'