Curtains up on a techy tale of triumph and typos!
Picture this: Our hero, a devoted son, has been crafting Alexa routines for *years* to keep his mom’s Echo Show 15 humming happily in her assisted living home. A noble quest! Armed with subscriptions galore and YouTube TV installed on both Mom’s device and his own for *beta testing* (ooh, fancy!), he’s ready to conquer the airwaves. The mission? To make CBS (or any network) spring to life with a simple voice command. Easy, right? *Spoiler alert: It’s not.*
At home, our hero barks, “Alexa, tune CBS on YouTube TV!” and *boom*—the screen obeys like a well-trained puppy. Every. Single. Time. But when he tries to bottle this magic into a *routine* to auto-play *Let’s Make a Deal* at 10:00 a.m. for Mom’s daily dose of game show glitz? *Crickets.* The Echo Show just sits there, probably sipping digital coffee, ignoring his carefully scripted commands.
Undeterred, our hero experiments like a mad scientist:
- “Open YouTube TV and tune to CBS!” *Nope.*
- Splitting the command into steps: “Open YouTube TV. Wait 5 seconds. Tune CBS.” *Still nada.*
- Every variation, every tweak, every desperate plea to the Alexa gods. *Zilch.*
But then—*cue dramatic music*—a *fat-fingered fumble* changes everything. In a moment of keyboard chaos, he types:
**“Oprnn YouTube TV and tune CBS”**
And—*hold the phone*—it WORKS. Every. Dang. Time. This glorious typo, this “oprnn” nonsense, is the golden key to Mom’s morning CBS fix. The Echo Show is now a loyal servant, dutifully delivering game shows on schedule. Hallelujah!
But here’s the million-dollar question, folks: *What in the name of Bezos is Alexa thinking “oprnn” means?* Is it a secret code? A cosmic glitch? A word from an alien dialect only Echo devices understand? Our hero is stumped, and he’s turning to the internet for answers.
Want to peek at the full routine and join the detective work? [Check it out here]
(https://www.mylovedones.place/ex1/B).
So, tech sleuths, can you crack the case of the mysterious “oprnn”? Drop your theories below, and let’s solve this comedy of errors together!
*Curtains down. Applause.*