Wake up with BBC radio! Routines are a great way to fit BBC content in with your daily activities. Wake up at the same time each day to your favourite radio station, catch up with the news at lunchtime, or hear the latest episode of your favourite podcast when you say a specific phrase.
Ready-made routines to try
Tune in to different parts of ‘The Scott Mills Breakfast Show’ by adding these routines…
- 6:30am You're a faithful, here from the very beginning of the show! [add this routine]
- 7:30am Wake up for the Easiest Quiz on the radio... play along in bed! [add this routine]
If radio 4 is more your thing, add this routine
- 6:00am Play Radio 4’s Today programme every weekday [add this routine]
You can customise each of the the routines when you add the routine. Make mornings work for you.
How to use these routines...
Step 1- On a mobile phone, tap ‘add this routine’. On any other device, click ‘add this routine’ and then use your phones camera to scan the QR code that appears on screen.
Step 2 - The Alexa app will open. Tap the ‘View Routine’ button.
Step 3 - Confirm the actions when prompted
Step 4 - Customise it, if you want to
Step 5 - Select the device from which you want Alexa to respond, then tap the ‘Save’ button.
More information on Alexa routines can be found on the Amazon help site.
How to set up your own BBC routines
Step 1 - Open the Amazon Alexa app on your device
Step 2 - Tap ‘More’ button in the bottom navigation bar
Step 3 - Tap the ‘routines’ button on the page
Step 4 - Tap the ‘plus’ button on the page
Step 5 - Create a name for your routine
Step 6 - Tap ‘Add an event’ (When do you want Alexa to do the routine) the trigger can be a time, or something you say, for example choose the event type ‘Schedule’, then tap ‘At time’ & set the time to ‘8:00am’
Step 7 - Then tap ‘Add an action’ (What do you want Alexa to do when the event it performed) choose the action type ‘Customised’ & type in what BBC Sounds content you want to hear like “Play Radio 2”, "Play BBC News," or "Play All Day Chill Mix"
Step 8 - When you are finished tap the ‘save’ button.
Note: When you make event and action selections, extra settings may appear, such as conditions for when actions can happen, device choice for running the routine & Other optional settings.
When you’ve set up your BBC routine, why not share it with someone? Open the routine, tap the three dots in the top-right corner and follow the steps to share.
