Amazon Echo

[Richyboy]

I thought if your on prime, your first one is £100.

[Baron Greenback]

Bit of Google expired
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/amazon-echo-99-99-...

[21TonyK]

Anyone know if multiple dots (I different rooms) can act locally to them?

Example. Dot in the lounge, I'm in the lounge and say "alexa, lights". The lounge lights come on. Do the same in the kitchen and the kitchen lights come on.

Then the clever bit. Say "Alexa, lights" again and they switch off.

Simple quick commands, not explicit instructions.

[AClownsPocket]

21TonyK said:

Anyone know if multiple dots (I different rooms) can act locally to them?

Example. Dot in the lounge, I'm in the lounge and say "alexa, lights". The lounge lights come on. Do the same in the kitchen and the kitchen lights come on.

Then the clever bit. Say "Alexa, lights" again and they switch off.

Simple quick commands, not explicit instructions.

Dont think they can yet, but its not hard to set it up to say 'Turn off lounge lights'. Then any of the Echo's knows which ones you want off.

[Cotty]

21TonyK said:

Anyone know if multiple dots (I different rooms) can act locally to them?

Example. Dot in the lounge, I'm in the lounge and say "alexa, lights". The lounge lights come on. Do the same in the kitchen and the kitchen lights come on.

Then the clever bit. Say "Alexa, lights" again and they switch off.

Simple quick commands, not explicit instructions.

I don't think they have a proximity sensor to things like wifi plugs etc, but they know which alexa you are near by your voice. So if you had one in every room and asked it to play a song it would only play on the one where it heard your voice.

You could name your lounge lights "lounge" but you would still need to tell alexa what you wanted it to do i.e. "alexa, lounge on" "alexa, lounge off", likewise with kitchen lights named kitchen

[Richyboy]

Is there anything I should be weary of giving an echo to someone that is on my account?

Just lock the purchases? If it's stolen, de-register it? Anything else?

[21TonyK]

Anyone playing with the Alexa Skills Kit?

[ascayman]

Can you name the timers does anyone know?

Cooking a roast yesterday and set a number of timers, keeping track of which is which was a pain.

[menguin]

Will these work anywhere - I live in Malta and am thinking of getting one when I'm back for Christmas.

[fullbeem]

menguin said:

Will these work anywhere - I live in Malta and am thinking of getting one when I'm back for Christmas.

Don't see why not. Just need an internet connection. Maybe not China or North Korea then.

[Cotty]

fullbeem said:

Don't see why not. Just need an internet connection. Maybe not China or North Korea then.

"Alexa fire missile at ......" yeah can't see that working.

[Ste1987]

ascayman said:

Can you name the timers does anyone know?

Cooking a roast yesterday and set a number of timers, keeping track of which is which was a pain.

Don't think you can. Just write it all down which timer is which and for how long?

[ascayman]

Ste1987 said:

ascayman said:

Can you name the timers does anyone know?

Cooking a roast yesterday and set a number of timers, keeping track of which is which was a pain.

Don't think you can. Just write it all down which timer is which and for how long?

If im having to write it down its defeating the object. I may as well just do that anyway or set a timer on my phone.

I would have thought it'd be an easy fix. 'Alexa set a timer for chicken in 1hr 30 mins', 'alexa set 2nd timer for turning the potatoes in 20 mins' etc etc

[Ste1987]

ascayman said:

Ste1987 said:

ascayman said:

Can you name the timers does anyone know?

Cooking a roast yesterday and set a number of timers, keeping track of which is which was a pain.

Don't think you can. Just write it all down which timer is which and for how long?

If im having to write it down its defeating the object. I may as well just do that anyway or set a timer on my phone.

I would have thought it'd be an easy fix. 'Alexa set a timer for chicken in 1hr 30 mins', 'alexa set 2nd timer for turning the potatoes in 20 mins' etc etc

They're always updating Alexa, maybe leave some feedback on their Facebook page?

[dmsims]

Ste1987 said:

ascayman said:

Ste1987 said:

ascayman said:

Can you name the timers does anyone know?

Cooking a roast yesterday and set a number of timers, keeping track of which is which was a pain.

Don't think you can. Just write it all down which timer is which and for how long?

If im having to write it down its defeating the object. I may as well just do that anyway or set a timer on my phone.

I would have thought it'd be an easy fix. 'Alexa set a timer for chicken in 1hr 30 mins', 'alexa set 2nd timer for turning the potatoes in 20 mins' etc etc

They're always updating Alexa, maybe leave some feedback on their Facebook page?

or just look at the clock

[dxg]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

Ste1987 said:

ascayman said:

Can you name the timers does anyone know?

Cooking a roast yesterday and set a number of timers, keeping track of which is which was a pain.

Don't think you can. Just write it all down which timer is which and for how long?

fking Brilliant

Alexa, how much left on my timers?

Should work - unless you're setting up a whole lot of timers all really close to each other, it should be possible to keep track of the sequence of events and follow it that way..

[Quattromaster]

Guys, notice that Echo will control your heating, but all the wifi thermostats I'm looking at are for gas heating, any good suggestions for one for oil heating.

[PRTVR]

Quattromaster said:

Guys, notice that Echo will control your heating, but all the wifi thermostats I'm looking at are for gas heating, any good suggestions for one for oil heating.

Hive I think works with anything, so long as you have a timer for it, I don't have a Echo but have read it works with Hive.

[51mes]

21TonyK said:

Anyone playing with the Alexa Skills Kit?

Started playing with flask-ask - did a few of their demo's got the memory game working and made a few tweaks. I was going to try to do some basic home automation - lights, plugs that sort of thing.

Then I found out it natively supports the WeMo interfaces so will discover those and Phillips Hue devices on you local LAN, saves messing with all the lambda code or local webserver stuff exposed to t'interweb - and even more gets you going on the home automation piece without having to worry about Oauth etc... I'm using a raspberry Pi to host all of the code.

I now have the fauxmo python modules (presenting a WeMO gateway) running, converted it to python 3. and have got it driving the IP control stacks on my LG TV and Marantz Amp to mute and turn them off... I've an IR blaster coming to enable turn on functionality on the PI - via LIRC. My next step however is to drive some 433Mhz plugs (energenie) via a Pi GPIO module and LIRC to allow me to turn them on/off.


It's great fun...

S.

Edited by 51mes on Monday 12th December 22:46

[gadgetmac]

I have absolutely no idea what you just said.

And I know Wordperfect 5.1