I got my wife one for Christmas..lucky lady…

So far we’ve:
-linked it to spotify and use it for choonz
-linked it to Nest (via IFTTT) so when I tell her I’m chilly she turns the heat up
-listened to a few podcasts
-listened to teh radio

I’m actually really impressed – i want another for the bedroom as I like the ability to ask her to play radio stations, then spotify artists/playlists etc. I KNOW A radio could do this, but as an all in one solution/audio player, it’s pretty good.

I’m kind of tempted by phillips hue lights, but most of our house lighting is LED down lighters, so would only really work on bedside lamps etc.

I’m in the process of writing an IFTTT “Alexa, IT’S BUSINESS TIME” trigger..happy to share if any interested parties???

So…anyone else impressed, non-plussed by theirs??

DrP

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Too many ..??

Yep. Complete foreign language to me too. Think I may have to Google it!

Amazon echo!!

Voice recognition speaker tech thingy!

DrP

just say “Alexa, WTF is Alexa”

Business time with your Amazon Echo? Does it have a port for that? Is the wife out on Wednesday nights?

I’ve no idea what you’re in about either, but presume it’s something to do with this..

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AqZcYPEszN8[/video]

When the zombie Apocalypse comes, you lot are going to be toast!

(or when your IoT gets hacked and used against you, and you come home to find your house on fire….)

I thought buying cheap lights off eBay from China was the more traditional STW way to burn your house down?

Well this worked out well…… 😳

DrP

So far we’ve:
-linked it to spotify and use it for choonz
-linked it to Nest (via IFTTT) so when I tell her I’m chilly she turns the heat up
-listened to a few podcasts
-listened to teh radio

You should get a smart phone, they can do that stuff too 🙂

Do you want approval for your techy Polish bride? I’m a bit lost.

I’ve just told SIRI to tell it to STFU.

HTHs.

😆

Ahem 😀 …

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/so-we-just-got-an-amazon-dot

Careful, you can’t be sure who is listening…can you use the wrapper from these hob nobs to make a tin hat?BBC

“Alexa, ask STW if they like you or not”

No! Novelty gadget slapper.

We were bought on too. So far it’s a bit meh.
Sonically it’s awful and it doesn’t work with Airplay or Apple Music so any music use is out, and Alexa sounds posh but Siri is more intelligent.

I started a thread…..

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/amazon-echo-anyone-got-one-and-some-issues

I’m actually really impressed – i want another for the bedroom as I like the ability to ask her to play radio stations, then spotify artists/playlists etc. to talk dirty to her.