Saturday Oct 11 '25

Daily updates provided on WhatsApp to the group "Mom"

(when the cell towers go down, WhatsApp will still be working)

CRIME-A-NET-LY!... As Dad used to say (is that a word?)

Well after getting the Jellyfin Alexa routines to ork perfect at my place I applied them to Mom's Alexa account... NOPE! Epic failure. I went in there this (Friday) morning, sat down and fixed the VPN (thank you Michael) and triggered one of the routines to Open Jellyfin app and do all the moves to open a LIVE TV network.

• Power On Amazon Cube

• Navigate Home

• Open Jellyfin

• move right

• move right

• choose

• move down

• move down

• move right

• move right

• choose

Every "move right" returned a complaint from Alexa. The move downs worked. ugh  So I tried "go right:.....they worked. So for mom's four LIVE TV Netorks (ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS) I had to go though them all changing the "move" to "go".  AND .... I forgot my readers....UGH! Anyway she is now working. The only thing I can guess is her TV is a different brand than mine. Who knows. Lesson Learned!

So now her Weekdays are set and in place and I also have her Sunday Steelers game set. It is now nearly midnight Friday and I must get her normal Saturdays / Sundays programmed. With the link Aunt Bonnie sent me, I will try to set up all day football games!

Also I moved her Echo Show to the opposite wall, so now when in a video call you see her TV as well as her. Hope this works out better. BUT I had to deal with Lakeview's PLUG rules and in order to plug in the show I had to remove the floor lamp which I set in her bathroom for now. Maybe Rick can take it home next time he is out there.