Help, lent our house to friends daughter over Christmas and Alexa has just shown they were playing the music full volume at 3am

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Friend is seriously ill so her family can’t stay at their house this year so have lent their daughter our house for 4 days as favour.

Just seen on Alexa they’ve been playing full volume rave music at 3am, we live in a terraced house.

DH is stressing, I’m not really about state of house but I am about neighbours. Think I can only take something around when we’re back to apologise about noise.

WWYD?

Quite!

I find this quite ... dystopian, really. I also feel a bit uneasy about Ring doorbells, tbh, after someone told me that theirs picks up people walking past their house.

Yes, surely you need the daughter’s phone number OP and then just communicate with her directly?

Talk to the occupants via the Alexa app ?

Alexia wouldn't notify OP about this so she is spying.

Can you access what Alexa's answer was to the question?
I don't have it to ask for myself, but Im now intrigued to find out!

Kick the chavs out

I've just been digging in my Alexa app and can't find that function?

I can talk to my in-laws Alexa from my phone and we live a couple hours apart. If OP wanted to solve this fictional situation she could

Another Alexa household here and I'm also not aware of the setting where you're notified that music is being played loudly.

OP has gone into device history and actively searched for what the guests are doing/asking - that is spying.

I think if you've let someone stay in your home you have to go on good old trust and you clearly don't trust them so it should have been a no.
Despite their family circumstances, you didn't have to put them up.

Fabulous, it's all OP's fault now. Ridiculous.

Well no but spying on them isn't great is it?

How DARE OP check up on what's happening in her property??

I would think the new neighbours would be pleased she is putting a stop to it sooner rather than later - however she discovered loud music is being played at 3am in her house.

People banging on "Oh you spied" seem to think checking up on things is as bad as antisocial behaviour.

I'm presuming OP can see the transcript of the voice requests to Alexa, and can see stuff like "play drum n bass playlist on Spotify" and "increase volume to 11" all logged at 3am on the voice activity

I’ve got no idea if this is real or not but I could absolutely imagine enabling that sort of notification if you have teens and often work away from home (as an example).

Is this really real?!

You should have gotten their number right from the beginning. How do you allow someone who you don't even speak to or have their number have unfettered access to your house.

I think you should insist that your friend gives you their number at the very least.

That’s what I don’t get. Why you would let someone be in your house without contact details I don’t know.

The thread has evolved from an issue of loud music at 3am onto the ethics of using surveillance technology like Alexa etc This isn't a bad thing as some people have quite strong reservations about just how much and how easy it is for us to enable technology like Alexa, door cams, dash cams etc to invade people's privacy without permission. Many people just accept it as life, but not everyone!
But that's definitely not condoning the behaviour of the guests.

She was doing a favour to a friend who is terminally ill!

Alexa: yes, it's perfectly ok. I won't tell if you don't.
Would you like me to play some suitable music for you?

This sounds like a load of rubbish.

😂

Phone call: “hello Jane, sorry to bother you but Alexa has informed me that you’ve been blasting the music at 3:00 and I’m very upset because my neighbours are quiet people and this is a bit of a problem”.

voila.