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Cotty said:
Well that's odd my Dot has always given me weather reports in Celsius but my new Echo gives them in Fahrenheit. I though they would sync and give the same readings. However both are reporting thats its bd cold tonight.
I had this as well. You have to change the settings in the smartphone appRuss35 said:
Spoke to soon. It now seems to want to play a foreign radio station when I ask for 'TalkRadio'. It was working fine last night and until about 5mins ago.
I had this issue with Radio X, as there's a station with the same name overseas. If you try asking for TalkRadio UK, you should get the one you're afterDon't have young kids anymore but this skill is quite cool:
https://www.alexaskillstore.com/Short-Bedtime-Stor...
"Alexa tell bedtime story to Debbie"
Personalised story with your child's name in it.
Very short story though.
https://www.alexaskillstore.com/Short-Bedtime-Stor...
"Alexa tell bedtime story to Debbie"
Personalised story with your child's name in it.
Very short story though.
Ste1987 said:
Russ35 said:
Spoke to soon. It now seems to want to play a foreign radio station when I ask for 'TalkRadio'. It was working fine last night and until about 5mins ago.
I had this issue with Radio X, as there's a station with the same name overseas. If you try asking for TalkRadio UK, you should get the one you're afterSo I've enabled RadioPlayer and that seems to work ok with 'Ask radioplayer to play TalkRadio'
Anyone looked at installing a Dot in their car and a hotspot from their phone?
Edited by Russ35 on Thursday 1st December 22:49
It does the traffic as well if you set your commute up first in the App. "Alexa traffic".
Some useful links:
https://www.alexaskillstore.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display....
As things are being added at quite a pace I've signed up for the weekly newsletter as well (not sure where!) with hints, tips and new stuff. Pretty good.
Some useful links:
https://www.alexaskillstore.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display....
As things are being added at quite a pace I've signed up for the weekly newsletter as well (not sure where!) with hints, tips and new stuff. Pretty good.
Just bought an Echo for the kitchen and a Dot for the living room. Also just recieved a Phillips Hue starter pack with a trio of colour bulbs and I've a Bluetooth sound bar on order. Had our boiler serviced Wed, turns out it's knackered so will be getting a new one and having smart controls added at the same time. Getting into this smart home stuff. Wonder how far you can go with it.
I think home automation is an awesome thing but I can't help but feel the con is that we buy Echos, smartlights, smart thermostats and after a year or two the software is no longer supported and you have to keep buying new hardware e.g. the Echo is compatible with Philips Hub v2 but not v1 - you end up in a constant cycle of playing catch up.
RaymondVanDerDon said:
I think home automation is an awesome thing but I can't help but feel the con is that we buy Echos, smartlights, smart thermostats and after a year or two the software is no longer supported and you have to keep buying new hardware e.g. the Echo is compatible with Philips Hub v2 but not v1 - you end up in a constant cycle of playing catch up.
Bingo ! But you mustn't spread that thought about
We absolutely must keep chucking stuff away so we can buy more stuff
Buy more stuff
Need more stuff
Ooh look at us we are carbon neutral but you consumers keep putting our products in the landfill
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