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