Amazon Echo

[Zoon]

Things are getting a bit ridiculous now.

Got the ring doorbell to change the hue lights to green when someone rings the doorbell and then back to normal again after 5 seconds.

I'm finding more and more daft projects as each day passes.

[geeks]

Andehh said:

Northbloke said:

I've got a conflict between my 2 new gadgets!

Alexa is doing everything for me so I don't have to get off the sofa but my new Fitbit is telling me to get off my backside and walk around everywhere.

What is a man to do?

Buy watch winder, plug into smart socket, put fitbit on watch winder, tell Alexia to wind your watch for you & sit there reaping the sweet sweet technological harmony?

love it

[JumboBeef]

JumboBeef said:

Can anyone here get it to play The Corrs? I can't...

Can someone try this please? Or is it just me?

[RDM]

JumboBeef said:

JumboBeef said:

Can anyone here get it to play The Corrs? I can't...

Can someone try this please? Or is it just me?

Would be fun if you owned a Tesla dealership in Glasgow.

Alexa..start the Corrs

Mayhem!

[Digitalize]

Got my Alexa setup with my Harmony and Hue now, using a mixture of Yonomi and Hue to control them with Alexa.

Other than that I haven't found a huge amount else to do with it but I'm sure I'll get there slowly. Will look in to IFTTT at some point too.

Wish there was some different ways to say things, not being able to say 'Alexa set Living Room to Film' is a bit annoying, having to say 'Alexa turn on Film in Living Room'.

[furtive]

JumboBeef said:

JumboBeef said:

Can anyone here get it to play The Corrs? I can't...

Can someone try this please? Or is it just me?

Nope I can't get it to play The Corrs. I assume it has some sort of good taste filter built in

[joshleb]

JumboBeef said:

JumboBeef said:

Can anyone here get it to play The Corrs? I can't...

Can someone try this please? Or is it just me?

I keep wanting to listen to The XX on spotify, so I ask her to "Play the XX on Spotify"
She comes back playing The Geek x Vrv

Never heard of them, but they must be getting quite a few plays out of me by mistake!

[bristolracer]

Anyone else having a problem with "Alexa snooze" on the alarm? she always witters on about some daily update rather than shutting up for 10 minutes.

[Northbloke]

JumboBeef said:

Can someone try this please? Or is it just me?

Alexa play the Corrs...worked first time... shuffling songs by The Corrs..."What can I do?" by the Corrs.

No I don't have an Irish accent.

[ajprice]

bristolracer said:

Anyone else having a problem with "Alexa snooze" on the alarm? she always witters on about some daily update rather than shutting up for 10 minutes.

Hearing snooze as news?

[Baron Greenback]

bristolracer said:

Anyone else having a problem with "Alexa snooze" on the alarm? she always witters on about some daily update rather than shutting up for 10 minutes.

wish you could wake up to a particular music track!

[bristolracer]

ajprice said:

bristolracer said:

Anyone else having a problem with "Alexa snooze" on the alarm? she always witters on about some daily update rather than shutting up for 10 minutes.

Hearing snooze as news?

Ill have to put my teeth in then!

[GetCarter]

I think it's more it than you. Mine still wakes up and mutters nonsense when it hears the LEXUS ad.

Alexa, Shut the fk up works

[JumboBeef]

Northbloke said:

Alexa play the Corrs...worked first time... shuffling songs by The Corrs..."What can I do?" by the Corrs.

No I don't have an Irish accent.

I just tried it in Northern and that didnt work for me

[ajprice]

Just tried mine and it played The Corrs, it's ok though, I told it to stop as soon as I could .

[Shaw Tarse]

QVC selling Echo at the moment, had to switch mine off as she keeps responding to them

[jonnyb]

Shaw Tarse said:

QVC selling Echo at the moment, had to switch mine off as she keeps responding to them

Thanks for that, just bought one off them.
Might as well save the fiver!

[essayer]

Just got an email - Plex skills have been added

Off to try it out

https://www.plex.tv/alexa/

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/11500032...

Edited by essayer on Thursday 2nd February 18:21

[dxg]

essayer said:

Just got an email - Plex skills have been added

Off to try it out

https://www.plex.tv/alexa/

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/11500032...

Edited by essayer on Thursday 2nd February 18:21

Can you let us know if it is yet another feature that needs a plus pass, please?

[essayer]

dxg said:

Can you let us know if it is yet another feature that needs a plus pass, please?

Doesn't look like it

Annoyingly, you can't set a Chromecast as one of the player defaults, only Android players etc.