Rivian has not exposed the built-in garage door opening function to Alexa. However, if you already have an Alexa-enabled garage door opener like the MyQ then you can use Alexa in your Rivian to open your door through that opener.
That happens to me all the time with Google Maps too, at least when looking up an address and doing a street view - I frequently get a view from the alley. I think the Mapbox data as well as the Google data uses the center of the property and chooses the closest road to the center as your viewpoint. Google routing does a fair job of correcting for that and routing you to the actual street where the address is, while Mapbox doesn't. I also see this when routing to parks etc. where Mapbox will route you to the road point that comes nearest the center (and sometimes doesn't know about the roads inside the park), while Google Maps seems to use the address of the entrance for routing.
Curious. Just for fun I asked my R1T: "Alexa, directions to San Diego International Airport Car Rental Center" and it found the address at 3355 Admiral Boland Way. It then told me I might not have enough charge to reach my destination 1100 miles away ...
This is not a "workaround" for anything. This is an awesome new feature that lets me share waypoints from my phone or my other trip planning apps with my vehicle. My passenger can search for nearby restaurants, read reviews, then send the chosen waypoint to the nav system. I hope Rivian continues down this path and makes it easy to share entire routes and trips including intermediate waypoints with associated text via GPX files. It also could be more general, to allow sharing addresses or waypoints from a wider variety of apps, but I think it's a great step in the right direction and is something I've asked Rivian for several times in the past.
Wow that's crazy. So only my car has some old outdated maps? lol. I tried speaking it, typing it, and wouldn't work. I'm going to try it again now, maybe it's been updated with the latest software update.
Alexa is used as a voice interface to the navigation system. Alexa is not finding addresses or routing or anything like that, it is just doing the speech recognition and passing that data into the underlying navigation system. It would be interesting to know whether Alexa was just not understanding what you said, which would be a problem with Alexa, or whether the underlying navigation (Mapbox) doesn't have the correct data. It's also worth noting that the Rivian skill which passes the data from Alexa to the navigation system probably only understands if things are phrased in a way it expects. I know "Alexa, directions to ..." works, as well as "Alexa, navigate to ...".
I don't have a clue, but there must be a reason why some people have no luck with Alexa while it seems to work fine for others. Are you using "Try Alexa" or are you using it when signed into your Amazon account? I wouldn't be surprised if being signed in (like I am) results in better/more functionality. I know if you're signed in it will integrate with all your Alexa settings and preferences on your account, which helps a lot in getting Alexa to respond like you want.
I'm signed in, but it's not Alexa but more an issue with the maps itself. Alexa can't navigate to it because my maps don't even show that as a possible route/destination. Even if you type in that name, it doesn't show up. I tried a lot of variations to find the rental place and it just doesn't exist on the maps.
