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To vote in person in the UK Parliamentary Election on 4th July 2024, you will need to show photo ID at the polling station.
As part of our ongoing commitment to delivering new and useful digital services, we have launched a new feature on Amazon’s Alexa platform.
Getting started with Argyll and Bute Council’s Smart speaker Assistant on Amazon Alexa.
In 2020 Argyll and Bute Council introduced its Alexa Smart speaker Assistant for checking what day to put your bins out and over 1400 customers have activated it on their devices.
We have updated the council’s smart assistant ‘skill’ on Amazon’s Alexa platform and so it is now able to remind you when it is your bin day, without you having to ask. We will be adding other council related information and features to the service over the next year. The information below tells you how to access these services.
Due to a recent upgrade to our Alexa voice skill, some existing uses may find that they need to disable and then re-enable the skill in order to get it to work. Instructions on how to do this can be found on Amazon's website
These new features are in addition to the bin lookup service we already provide. We hope you will find them useful and you can continue to look up your bin collection day through this website.
Amazon Alexa
What You Need to Access this Service
You will need:
How to Set Up Alexa on Your phone or tablet (if you do not already have an Alexa device)
Add the Argyll and Bute council ‘skill’ to your Alexa Device
You can add the skill through the Amazon website, or in the Alexa App
In the Alexa App
Click on the ‘browse skills’ button.
Search for ‘Argyll and Bute Council’, the skill should be the first result.
Click enable and follow any on screen instructions
On the Amazon website
Visit the Amazon website and sign in with your Amazon Account.
And Search for ‘Argyll and Bute Council’
Click on the ‘enable’ button. This will add the skill to all your amazon devices that are associated with your amazon account.
Start the skill