Why is my smart speaker rubbish?
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anonymous said:
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The LG ThinQ Wk7 ?Mine is perfect and I really think its one of the best sounding smart speakers out there second to the Sonos One and significantly ahead of the standard Google Home.
So much so that we bought one for our daughter for her room and another for the conservatory. It's not a substitute for proper hi fi via the separates system but for convenience with quality its great
The music thing is an issue primarily a Google based one Most people I know who have an Amazon Alexa tend to have a prime account anyway.
I got round this by creating a free Google music account and uploading loads of music to it - mainly greatest hits etc You can pop in up to 50,000 tracks
The wifi thing I just checked now and moving it to an area that is at the fringes of the wifi signal caused issues but within normal range it was fine.
Ours is et up so that the wifi router (a netgear) has the mac address of the LG reserved against a specific DHCP address so that it gives it the same one each time and our dual band wifi has separate names for each band. To be fair the wifi set up in our house is very good with separate access points around the place.
A friend of ours has the same speaker in his lounge and has no issues.
I suspect yours has a fault I can't see how you can update the firmware but you could try a reset and reinstall ?
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