Amazon Alexa Now Arriving On New GM Vehicles
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The Amazon Alexa digital assistant technology is now arriving on new GM vehicles, offering up a host of convenient voice recognition commands for new vehicle owners. GM vehicle brands offering the feature include Buick, Chevrolet, GMC, and Cadillac. The feature is built-in for many new GM vehicles, and requires the respective on-board internet connection package. The in-vehicle apps capability must be included as well.
Amazon Alexa offers voice recognition for numerous infotainment capabilities. These include voice commands for audio streaming services, such as SiriusXM, Spotify, Pandora, and Amazon Music. What’s more, owners can use Amazon Alexa to place an online order, or track an existing order, as well as add something to a shopping list without taking their eyes off the road. Further functions include placing phone calls, checking the weather, and finding nearby gas stations.
For those with the right set up at home, Amazon Alexa will also allow users to issue a variety of smart home commands, such as opening the garage door, turning on the lights, or adjusting the thermostat.
General Motors recently published a video documenting Amazon Alexa capabilities as equipped on the new Chevrolet Blazer. Stay tuned for that to post soon.
As we covered previously, Amazon Alexa will also be offered retroactively on 2018 model year and newer cars, trucks, and crossovers with compatible infotainment systems. For those owners interested in adding this feature to their vehicle infotainment system, we’ll cover how to get it in a future post.
GM Authority was the first to report the integration of Amazon Alexa with new GM vehicles back in May of 2019, at which time we learned that the new Buick Encore GX would offer the virtual assistance feature. The addition of Amazon Alexa on new GM Vehicles is the latest in a number of tie-ins between the automaker and Amazon, which previously included in-car delivery via Amazon Key.
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Yes you do. Once you download the Alexa app and are all set up, a notification will pop up right after you’re set up to inform/remind you that you must have the On Star Data plan in order for Alexa to work.
I too got the same error. After reading all the comments I started to play around with my users settings and I realized something interesting. When I first installed and set up Alexa it was done as a guest user. And it work well for some time and then it stop responding once I created my personal profile, but I took me time to figure that out. I created my personal user profile to go with my key set, and then realized that Alexa would only work with my guest user but not my personal. I tried installing and uninstalling Alexa on both my personal and guest and tried all sorts of permutations in regards to order, but it didn’t make a difference. So I now have my personal user profile which won’t connect with Alexa, but once I get in the car I manually change the user by clicking on the user option in the screen and I switch to guest and Alexa is all good to go. It’s kind of lame it had to be this way for me but I found a way to make it work, hopefully GMC soon comes out with an update to fix this bug, but meanwhile hope this helps.
I was also able to install it on a Guest profile and use it fine. Ince I switch back to my profile, it has the error.
Only works on guest account for me. My profile gets a CLI-101 error…..needs a bug fix asap GM as you should have caught this simple error.
Turn on Bluetooth on phone
Turn on chevy engine and chevy Bluetooth
Connect phone to chevy car
Download alexa app in chevy
Make sure you have mychevtolet app installed on phone
Leave app alone in car
On your phone goto Amazon alexa app
Find skills on phone alexa app
In skills search for mychevrolet
Click enable
Enter code from screen in car amazon.com/us/code
It will prompt you for amaxon username pwd
It will prompt you for mychevrolet user pad
Once confirmed you might have to renter code if if if you need to goto settings on car radio security privacy and enable smazon slexa
To fix cl1-101
Turn on Bluetooth on phone
Turn on chevy engine and chevy Bluetooth
Connect phone to chevy car
Download alexa app in chevy
Make sure you have mychevtolet app installed on phone
Leave app alone in car
On your phone goto Amazon alexa app
Find skills on phone alexa app
In skills search for mychevrolet
Click enable
Enter code from screen in car amazon.com/us/code
It will prompt you for amaxon username pwd
It will prompt you for mychevrolet user pad
Once confirmed you might have to renter code if if if you need to goto settings on car radio security privacy and enable smazon slexa
Mychevrolet skill has no connection to the Alexa built-in app. They are 2 separate things. Mychevrolet skill is connected to your OnStar account and it’s used for lock, unlock & start (telematics functions) while Alexa built-in app (infotainment functions) links to Amazon account- not OnStar account. Thanks for the time to write it up though.
Is Alexa available on all 2020 Infotainment 3 systems? I have the system without satellite and do not see it.
No- only the medium and high radios, which are the versions with the app shop.
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