Amazon Echo

[Shnozz]

How do you update a Dot or does it do it automatically?

[Sheets Tabuer]

Cotty said:

They are trying to make Alexa sound more human

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-446...

I think they are almost there making it almost like a woman, my Echo doesn't listen to me either.

[Zoon]

Shnozz said:

How do you update a Dot or does it do it automatically?

Automatic

[triple5]

OpulentBob said:

Voice control of home heating is cool. I've got a honeywell lyric, directly supported and it's works really really well.

Yep love the lyric control, does indeed work well.

[tedmus]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Cotty said:

They are trying to make Alexa sound more human

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-446...

I think they are almost there making it almost like a woman, my Echo doesn't listen to me either.

Mine often spouts random ste whilst I'm in another room, uncanny.

[Ste1987]

I've only just discovered I can group Hive lights and turn them on at the same time with Alexa.

[Podie]

Ste1987 said:

I've only just discovered I can group Hive lights and turn them on at the same time with Alexa.

Just wait until she says "I found several devices with that name"...

[ajprice]

A few announcements today, the Echo Show is the long rumoured Echo with a screen, and there is an update for voice calling between Echos and Alexa apps (video calling between Echo Shows, but it's Amazon's own, not Skype or Facetime).

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/9/15592686/alexa-v...

[PixelpeepS3]

ajprice said:

A few announcements today, the Echo Show is the long rumoured Echo with a screen, and there is an update for voice calling between Echos and Alexa apps (video calling between Echo Shows, but it's Amazon's own, not Skype or Facetime).

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/9/15592686/alexa-v...

the gift that keeps on giving

[V8 Animal]

Podie said:

Just wait until she says "I found several devices with that name"...

pain in the arse!!

[tankplanker]

Call the lights something different from the room name, seemed to fix it for me. So living room light 1, 2, 3, etc. and the room group is called lounge.

[smn159]

Just had an email about the Sonos beta for integration with Alexa - signed up

[pmanson]

smn159 said:

Just had an email about the Sonos beta for integration with Alexa - signed up

Same. I've been waiting a while for this!

[smn159]

pmanson said:

smn159 said:

Just had an email about the Sonos beta for integration with Alexa - signed up

Same. I've been waiting a while for this!

This, and the ability to call people with an Echo / Dot by telling Alexa to do it will be game changers (for me anyway!)

[Podie]

Not had the Sonos beta email but that's a major deal in our house!!

[smn159]

Not sure that I'll get on it TBH. They want those who have been active on previous betas. I've been on them but never posted any feedback (or indeed been asked to).

Fingers crossed anyway

[tedmus]

tankplanker said:

Call the lights something different from the room name, seemed to fix it for me. So living room light 1, 2, 3, etc. and the room group is called lounge.

This what I do with mine but using Hue. Three seperately named lights in living room group but in the group turn the main light off so when I ask for living room on it just turns on the lamps, I can turn the main light on by asking for it individually.

[PixelpeepS3]

pmanson said:

smn159 said:

Just had an email about the Sonos beta for integration with Alexa - signed up

Same. I've been waiting a while for this!

lol.. is that the email that has 'confidential' stamped all over it?

[PixelpeepS3]

PixelpeepS3 said:

pmanson said:

smn159 said:

Just had an email about the Sonos beta for integration with Alexa - signed up

Same. I've been waiting a while for this!

lol.. is that the email that has 'confidential' stamped all over it?

well - there are news stories about it already....

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/sonos-alexa-b...

[tankplanker]

So adverts are meant to be coming: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/11/ads_amazon...

if they do, mine are in the bin if I can't turn them off.