# Setting an alarm with AmazonEchoControl binding

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/setting-an-alarm-with-amazonechocontrol-binding/107849>\
**Category:** Bindings\
**Created:** [November 7, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/setting-an-alarm-with-amazonechocontrol-binding/107849 "2020-11-07T18:16:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ceedee](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@ceedee](https://community.openhab.org/u/ceedee)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/setting-an-alarm-with-amazonechocontrol-binding/107849/1 "2020-11-07T18:16:33Z")

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Is there any chance to set the nextAlarm with AmazonEchoControl? I’ve tried

```auto
Echo_NextAlarm.sendCommand(now.plusMinutes(10).toString)

```

The items gets updated, but on the next polling of the Echo state from network, it resets to the previous value.

Best regards,  
cd\_

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**Author:** ![anon63824877](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@anon63824877](https://community.openhab.org/u/anon63824877)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/setting-an-alarm-with-amazonechocontrol-binding/107849/2 "2020-12-12T21:06:38Z")

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You can see in the docs ([Amazon Echo Control - Bindings | openHAB](https://www.openhab.org/addons/bindings/amazonechocontrol/)) that the nextAlarm channel only is a Read Channel. Writing to it doesn’t do anything