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📖 User Guide · iOS & Android

MediRemind

MediRemind reminds you when it's time to take your medication — on your phone and, optionally, announced aloud on your smart speakers. It can also track your stock and adjust alerts for the weather. Here's how to set it up.

MediRemind supports, but does not replace, your medical routine. Always follow your healthcare provider's guidance.

Before you start

1. Add your medications
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Add a medication

Enter its name, dosage (e.g. 500mg) and the times of day to take it.

2

Set the schedule

Choose the days/frequency. MediRemind checks every minute and reminds you when a dose is due.

2. Turn on phone reminders
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Allow notifications

Tap Allow when prompted so MediRemind can alert you on your phone.

Phone reminders work on their own — the smart-speaker steps below are optional extras, and they take a few more steps to set up.
3. Speak reminders on a Google Home / Nest (optional)
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Link your Google account

In MediRemind, open Smart Devices → Settings and tap “Link Google Account”. Sign in with the same Google account that owns your Google Home/Nest speakers, and grant every permission it asks for.

It has to be the account your speakers are set up under in the Google Home app — a different Google account won't be able to see or talk to them.
2

Choose which speaker speaks

Go to the All Devices tab, find your Google Home/Nest device, and turn the “Use for alerts” switch ON.

3

Test it

Tap the 🔔 bell icon (top right) or “Announce” on a device card — you should hear the reminder out loud.

Google announcements travel via Google's cloud, so your phone and speaker don't need to be on the same Wi-Fi. If you see “Google account not linked” or “Authorization expired”, unlink and re-link the account from the Settings tab.
4. Speak reminders on an Amazon Echo / Alexa (optional)
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Link your Amazon account

In MediRemind, open Smart Devices and tap to connect Amazon / Alexa. Sign in with Amazon and grant the permissions.

2

Enable the MediRemind skill in the Alexa app

Open the Amazon Alexa app on your phone → More → Skills & Games → search “MediRemind” → tap Enable To Use, and link your account if prompted.

This is the step most people miss: the skill must be enabled inside the Alexa app itself. Linking your account in MediRemind alone is not enough.
3

Turn Alexa alerts on in MediRemind

Back in MediRemind, switch Alexa alerts ON and tap send a test event to confirm the link is working.

4

Create an Alexa Routine to announce it

In the Alexa app → More → Routines → +. For “When this happens” pick the MediRemind trigger, then “Add action” → “Alexa Says”, choose your Echo device(s) and tap Save.

Without this Routine, Alexa receives the reminder silently — the Routine is what actually makes your Echo speak it aloud.
5. Track your stock
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Record your inventory

Enter how many doses you have. MediRemind counts down as doses fall due and warns you when you're running low, so you can reorder in time.

6. Weather-aware alerts (optional)
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Enable weather alerts

Get extra reminders or advice when the weather could affect your medication (for example heat or strong sun).

FAQ & troubleshooting

I tapped Announce/Test but nothing was spoken.

Google Home: check you linked the account that owns the speakers and that the device's “Use for alerts” is on. Alexa: check the MediRemind skill is enabled in the Alexa app AND that you've created a Routine with an “Alexa Says” action on the right Echo.

Do my phone and speakers need to be on the same Wi-Fi?

For Google announcements, no — they go through Google's cloud once your account is linked. Plain phone reminders don't need any speakers at all.

Why is Alexa more fiddly than Google?

Alexa only speaks through a Routine you create, so there's an extra step: link Amazon → enable the MediRemind skill in the Alexa app → build a Routine with an “Alexa Says” action. Once it's set up, it runs automatically.

Is my health data private?

Your medication data stays on your device. When you use smart-speaker announcements, only the short reminder wording is sent through your own linked Google/Amazon account to your speakers.

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