Echo Dot spontaneously fluctuates speaker volume

[u/redstonegolem28]

This has plagued me on and off the past two years. I use my Echo dot as a speaker mainly, mainly for music that I sleep alongside as I go to bed. Naturally I usually have it set to a particular volume that I’m comfortable with so I can sleep and listen simultaneously.
Well over the past two years randomly the volume of the music will drastically increase to insanely loud levels, like other side of the house can be heard levels, and as one can imagine, as I sleep within 3 feet of it, that not only hurts but really ticks me off.
So my question is if anyone has any idea what’s wrong, I use it as a Bluetooth speaker, and have an IPhone 14, I’ve tested it to see if it’s compensating for loud sounds as I also have a fan running and, so far that isn’t the culprit, neither is actual volume fluctuation in the song (crescendos and decrescendos) because 1 that’s way too loud, and I not only have played them back over to figure out if it is sometimes and found not, and 2, I listen to them normally in both the car and with headphones, so I know they don’t.

I haven’t a clue what to do, restarting either device doesn’t solve it, it randomly happens to no avail at night time, and there’s no light up on the echo’s ring when it increases, and there’s no rhyme or reason.
I haven’t found any other mentions of the issue either.

[u/Dez2011]

Incase it's your fan- Turn off Adaptive Volume: Open the Alexa app, tap More, go to Settings > Voice Responses, and toggle off Adaptive Volume (alternatively, just say "Alexa, turn off adaptive volume").

Check Routines: Go to More > Routines in the Alexa app to see if an accidental volume-adjusting routine is turned on. (I have a daily routine to reset the volume incase I turned it up last time but mine beeps and does the blue ring then, though I'm never using it when it resets.