# Anova Precision Oven Alexa Skill! **URL:** \ **Category:** Anova Precision® Oven\ **Created:** [June 14, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896 "2021-06-14T19:02:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![colewagoner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/colewagoner/32/48_2.png) [@colewagoner](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/colewagoner)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/1 "2021-06-14T19:02:30Z")
# What can you do with it? Here are the voice prompts you can do with your Anova Oven and the Anova Oven Skill. Say "Alexa, " followed by: **Preheat/Cook style command** - Preheat my oven to 350 degrees. - Set my oven to Sous Vide at 125 degrees. - Set my oven to Bake at 325 degrees. - Bake my cookies at 350 degrees in my oven. - Set my oven to Sous Vide mode at 125 degrees. - Air fry my vegetables at 400 degrees in my oven. - Set my oven to dehydrate at 140 degrees. **Modes** - Turn my oven off. - Set my oven to Sous Vide mode. [Alexa will prompt for a temp] - Set my oven to Proof. [Will set to Sous Vide mode, 100% at 85F] - Set my oven to Steam. [Will set to Sous Vide mode, 100% at 212F] - Set my oven to Convection Steam. [Will set to Sous Vide mode, 100% at 212F] - Set my oven to Bake. [Will set to 350F 0% steam.] - Set my oven to Convection Bake. [Will set to 350F 0% steam.] - Set my oven to Broil. [Will set to 450F 0% steam. Top Element] - Set my oven to Dehydrate. [Will set to 137F 0% steam. Bottom Element] **Food Probe / Cook to Core** - Sous Vide my chicken to 145 degrees in my oven. - Bake my pork to 165 degrees in my oven. **Cook with a Timer** - Sous Vide my fish in my oven at 125 degrees for 30 minutes. - Bake my cookies in my oven at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. **Questions You Can Ask** - What is my oven’s temperature? (Oven must be cooking) - What is the temperature of the food in my oven? (Needs the food probe inserted) # **Notes** - The responses Alexa gives are controlled by Amazon. We can’t edit or change these. - If you try cooking with the door open, the skill detects this, and prevents you from starting the cook until the door is closed. - If you try cooking to core with a food probe, but the probe isn’t connected, the skill will ask you to connect the probe. - For these last two notes above please note: There is a current PVT Firmware bug that prevents quick detection of the door closing/opening or probe being inserted/removed. This is known with a fix being worked. Currently it can take up to 5 minutes to detect these event. Or, if you open the app and then try the command again, this forces the oven to update state. ---
**Author:** ![palo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@palo](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/palo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/2 "2021-06-15T04:48:35Z")
Can you ask it to bake @ 350 and then add 50% steam? p ---
**Author:** ![colewagoner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/colewagoner/32/48_2.png) [@colewagoner](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/colewagoner)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/3 "2021-06-15T17:00:21Z")
Unable ---
**Author:** ![palo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@palo](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/palo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/4 "2021-06-15T20:06:01Z")
Can I ask “Air fry my vegetables at 425 degrees in my oven”? p ---
**Author:** ![colewagoner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/colewagoner/32/48_2.png) [@colewagoner](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/colewagoner)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/5 "2021-06-15T21:03:15Z")
You can! ---
**Author:** ![Spenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Spenm](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Spenm)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/6 "2021-06-17T08:51:05Z")
How do I add this skill to Alexa? ---
**Author:** ![prettygreenparrot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/prettygreenparrot/32/7274_2.png) [@prettygreenparrot](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/prettygreenparrot)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/7 "2021-06-17T17:21:09Z")
I thought it would be as easy as Alexa app\>more\>skills, search for ‘Anova’, add skill. But I don’t see an Anova skill in my results. U.K.-based so unsure if the Anova skill is regionally available. There is a ‘home connect oven’ skill but it seems more general. ---
**Author:** ![Spenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Spenm](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Spenm)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/8 "2021-06-17T19:12:44Z")
UK -based here too ---
**Author:** ![tonydav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@tonydav](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/tonydav)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/9 "2022-01-06T23:40:44Z")
Me too. Search on anova oven, anova etc and no skill ☹ ---
**Author:** ![tonydav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@tonydav](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/tonydav)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/10 "2022-01-06T23:42:23Z")
@colewagoner thanks for this post on how to use Alexa with your APO. You missed one thing though - how to add the skill to Alexa! Can you please advise. I’m not the only one on here asking this. Would be great to be able to do this. ---
**Author:** ![edswall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@edswall](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/edswall)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/11 "2023-09-02T17:06:16Z")
This doesn’t work: "What is the temperature of the food in my oven? ". I get the oven temperature instead. Yes, the probe is connected. Yes, it shows in the app. ---
**Author:** ![Jetsetter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/jetsetter/32/8010_2.png) [@Jetsetter](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Jetsetter)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/12 "2023-10-16T13:57:10Z")
Has the Alexa skill stopped working for anyone else? My oven is connected to my app properly and the Alexa skill is enabled and the Alexa discovered the oven, however any command to Alexa returns “Hmm…Anova Precision Oven is not responding.” This used to work flawlessly, now not at all. ---
**Author:** ![SteverinoLA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/steverinola/32/7650_2.png) [@SteverinoLA](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/SteverinoLA)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/13 "2023-10-16T18:27:47Z")
Yes, same for me. Hasn’t been working in over a week or more. Thanks, Steve ---
**Author:** ![Jetsetter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/jetsetter/32/8010_2.png) [@Jetsetter](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Jetsetter)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/14 "2023-10-16T18:45:39Z")
I reached out to Anova support this morning and they said that they just pushed out new firmware 2.1.7 and asked me to try that. Which I did and doesn’t fix the issue. ---
**Author:** ![SteverinoLA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/steverinola/32/7650_2.png) [@SteverinoLA](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/SteverinoLA)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/15 "2023-10-16T19:18:04Z")
Crap, this is super frustrating. I use Alexa always to set the oven. The announcements still work, mostly but I need to skill to work as well. ---
**Author:** ![MrGus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@MrGus](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/MrGus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/anova-precision-oven-alexa-skill/28896/16 "2023-10-16T20:38:47Z")
🤣 🤣 🤣 i’m still waiting for a kindle app, let alone alexa skill for the original sous vide precision cooker, count yourself lucky, I had to buy myself a new phone only to find the app connectivity was excrement (dual band modem as it runs on 2.5 ghz signal) …what i’d have given to have it at all let alone gone for a week. (been running it manually ever since with the app as a temp reference point) If only your short term frustration were mine.