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bull3964 posted:
That is amazing.
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I just got my first TP-Link Smart Plug for my bedroom lamp, and I think the fact that I can control it with Echo is pretty cool as-is, but:bull3964 posted:If you have Hue and watch either 12 Monkeys or The Expanse on Syfy, make sure you download the Syfy Sync app and sync up your lights to the show. It's amazingly immersive. I wish more shows would do it. 
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Apr 22, 2016 13:32
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https://youtu.be/y2ocATykfNo That's for Sharknado 2, but you get the idea. Sometimes the timing can get a little off, but it works really well for the most part.
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Apr 22, 2016 17:16
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Here's a thing: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013DJSKKQ Not from Amazon I guess but with Alexa.
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Apr 29, 2016 02:28
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I really want to use Alexa to control things on my PC (specifically, movies/TV shows streaming through my PC to my TV but it would be nice to be able to do other stuff). This turns out to be much more complicated than I thought. The simplest way (???) I have seen thus far is to switch to XBMC for media player, create a custom skill, get a Heroku account, deploy a python app to it, open a port in my firewall for XBMC to accept remote commands and thereby... gain the ability to pause the movie. But all I _should_ need to do is have Alexa tell my PC that the loving space bar was pressed. Anybody have any alternative ideas on this?
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Apr 30, 2016 18:38
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I have 4 Hue colored lights in my bedroom, then the 2 standard white Hue bulbs that came with the bridge, and then in a frenzy of activity, I replaced every single light in my house that could fit a smart bulb with a GE Link smart bulb (they are very inexpensive, compatible with Hue, and at least in Chicago, they were subsidized when I bought them at Home Depot - $14 per BR30 spotlight). Only problem is Alexa sometimes has problems if the lighting group has a name with more than 2 syllables, but so far it's lovely.
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Apr 30, 2016 19:43
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metztli posted:I have 4 Hue colored lights in my bedroom, then the 2 standard white Hue bulbs that came with the bridge, and then in a frenzy of activity, I replaced every single light in my house that could fit a smart bulb with a GE Link smart bulb (they are very inexpensive, compatible with Hue, and at least in Chicago, they were subsidized when I bought them at Home Depot - $14 per BR30 spotlight). I ended up returning a number of the GE bulbs (same home depot thing). Sometimes they were fine but in other fixtures they got too hot and would stop working for quite awhile until they cooled down. I put Hue bulbs in their place and have had zero problems. Shame because I like saving money.
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Apr 30, 2016 19:47
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Does anyone know how to select the music quality on Spotify Echo? I really want to put it on 320kbps ("extreme" quality). Also, in reference to the previous posts, the Hue whites go on sale. A week or two ago they were just $10 each, which is better than the deals I've seen recently on the GE Links, so it's a win win if you can find them on sale.
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May 2, 2016 21:40
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What kind of range could you get between a Dot and a bluetooth speaker like the Anker on sale at Amazon today?
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May 3, 2016 03:29
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:What kind of range could you get between a Dot and a bluetooth speaker like the Anker on sale at Amazon today? I'd assume Class 2 range, so about 10 meters line-of-sight.
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May 3, 2016 06:55
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smackfu posted:Here's a thing: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013DJSKKQ Great, I had their demo video playing and it added eggs to my shopping list.
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May 3, 2016 14:56
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JHVH-1 posted:Great, I had their demo video playing and it added eggs to my shopping list. Demo video set a 30 minute timer for me
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May 3, 2016 18:19
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Speaking of Alexa responding to tv or videos, has anyone ever noticed what she does when an Amazon Echo commercial comes on? I can see my echo from where I sit watching tv and I noticed that she hears her name in the commercials, the blue ring comes on and then she immediately seems to turn off. I'm wondering if they've taught her how to listen to official commercials and disregard them based on the specific noise pattern in the commercial?
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May 3, 2016 21:18
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iOS app now available for $4.99: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lexi-for-alexa-voice-services/id1092933088?mt=8
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May 7, 2016 19:25
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Or get Roger for free.
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May 7, 2016 23:58
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beerinator posted:Speaking of Alexa responding to tv or videos, has anyone ever noticed what she does when an Amazon Echo commercial comes on? I can see my echo from where I sit watching tv and I noticed that she hears her name in the commercials, the blue ring comes on and then she immediately seems to turn off. I'm wondering if they've taught her how to listen to official commercials and disregard them based on the specific noise pattern in the commercial?
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May 8, 2016 21:21
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Wife just gave me one for my birthday. Very impressive, and fun to play with for the last 5 minutes. I look forward to only using it to time boiling eggs from now on.
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May 12, 2016 05:40
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eyebeem posted:Wife just gave me one for my birthday. We use it for: 1. Timers 2. Weather 3. Playing talk radio for our dogs when we leave 4. That's about it I know it does a million other things but these 3 are really the extent of our use. Worth it? Perhaps. It's nice to bark multiple timers when your hands are dirty while cooking. Hue bulbs would be neat but gently caress dropping hundreds of dollars on light bulbs.
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May 12, 2016 06:07
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hotsauce posted:Hue bulbs would be neat but gently caress dropping hundreds of dollars on light bulbs. Those Hue lights & hub I posted about earlier are down to $44.99 I don't know how many light structures you have but I wired up my kitchen, front room, bedroom and spare room for $80. Beyond the voice aspect, I love how I have them set to slowly fade on when the sun sets and how I can dim them them regardless of what they're plugged into. They're similar to the Echo where it sounds meh on paper and then you can't imagine going without once you use it every day. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 06:26 on May 12, 2016 |
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May 12, 2016 06:24
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What are you using to turn the lights on at dusk?
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May 12, 2016 12:57
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smackfu posted:What are you using to turn the lights on at dusk? The Hue hub has a built-in scheduler that can do very basic schedules, as well as a command line that can do pretty complex schedules.
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May 12, 2016 13:23
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hotsauce posted:We use it for: Walk in from car, "Alexa, play my book," keep going on my audio book. Streaming music (my dot is connected to some nice speakers in the bedroom).
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May 12, 2016 13:51
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torgeaux posted:Walk in from car, "Alexa, play my book," keep going on my audio book. Streaming music (my dot is connected to some nice speakers in the bedroom). If you don't use it to play books/music, it really is useless. Counterpoint: Four-hour sewing marathon yesterday. Grabbed Alexa, took it to the living room, periodically told it what to play next while I was bent over the sewing machine. If you have a sufficiently elaborate home-audio system combined with Google's voice control, you probably don't need it. I don't have either.
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May 12, 2016 16:02
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Arsenic Lupin posted:If you don't use it to play books/music, it really is useless. Counterpoint: Four-hour sewing marathon yesterday. Grabbed Alexa, took it to the living room, periodically told it what to play next while I was bent over the sewing machine. If you have a sufficiently elaborate home-audio system combined with Google's voice control, you probably don't need it. I don't have either. It's great for just playing music in the kitchen, or like you said, grabbing it and taking it someplace. The amazon library isn't spotify, but it's really pretty good. Pro tip: Because Neil Young is Neil Young, he obviously doesn't have songs in the Amazon collection. But if you tell alexa to play neil young, she plays very straight neil young cover songs by a guy with a noticeable speech impediment!
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May 12, 2016 16:16
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Ahhhhhhh!! No more devices!! http://www.recode.net/2016/5/11/11658432/google-chirp-amazon-echo-rival Re/Code posted:A product team at Google is working on a hardware device that would integrate Google's search and voice assistant technology, akin to the Amazon Echo, Recode has learned.
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May 12, 2016 18:07
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Amazon has a big network-effect advantage in that I've bought music from Amazon for over twenty years. My music is already in Amazon's library (except for the parts that aren't licensed for streaming), so it takes absolutely no new effort from me. By contrast, I don't think Google Music has much of a user base.
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May 12, 2016 21:18
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BigFactory posted:It's great for just playing music in the kitchen, or like you said, grabbing it and taking it someplace. The amazon library isn't spotify, but it's really pretty good. Also worth mentioning you can put all of your mp3s in Amazon's cloud for $25 a year.
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May 12, 2016 23:53
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Call Me Charlie posted:Also worth mentioning you can put all of your mp3s in Amazon's cloud for $25 a year. Though it can be painful - I had a few issues uploading a large collection (even in smaller chunks) that took calls to Amazon to find out were known issues and still have a bunch of duplicates somehow which I have to delete manually. And the desktop player app kinda blows.
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May 12, 2016 23:58
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And Alexa simply cannot cope with "Play Gesualdo Tenebrae", even though the album "Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday" is in my Amazon music library. Furthermore, for any piece of classical music, "shuffle" is NOT what you want.
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May 13, 2016 00:11
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Amazon sucks for compilations. I gave up on using them.
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May 13, 2016 00:31
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Is there a way for me to let Alexa know I'm a big boy and explicit lyrics are okay? Some of my own songs uploaded to Prime collection when I ask to play them, I get a nice "this item is marked explicit, here's a sample though"
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May 13, 2016 02:34
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Medullah posted:Is there a way for me to let Alexa know I'm a big boy and explicit lyrics are okay? Some of my own songs uploaded to Prime collection when I ask to play them, I get a nice "this item is marked explicit, here's a sample though" Are you sure the song's actually in your library? The only time it should play samples is when it isn't in your library or on Amazon Prime. Check the http://echo.amazon.com/ page to see what it's trying to play.
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http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/13/amazon-programmable-dash-button-iot/ Looks like Amazon is going to make it easy to build that Alexa integrated doorbell myself.
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May 13, 2016 20:53
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Is there a proper home automation thread? Not to dampen discussion here but some of my questions have nothing to do with Echo.
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smackfu posted:Is there a proper home automation thread? Not to dampen discussion here but some of my questions have nothing to do with Echo. Yes. It's in this forum and fairly active.
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May 15, 2016 16:29
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smackfu posted:Is there a proper home automation thread? Not to dampen discussion here but some of my questions have nothing to do with Echo. Here you go: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3635963
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Thanks!
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May 16, 2016 01:56
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Amazon's deal of the day is the TP-Link Wifi smart plug for $20 (normally $30 according to 3 x camels). It's listed as being compatible with Echo, so now you can yell at your plug-in lamps and appliances too!
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Thank you, Clockworkz, I bought the single plug they'd allow me. Google announced they'd release their Alexa/Siri competitor ... next fall. Bets that it will be not only late, but have a bad UI and be too expensive?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Thank you, Clockworkz, I bought the single plug they'd allow me. On the contrary. I'm sure it will be cheap and good, like all Google services, but will persistently listen to everything you say and have a 30 page privacy policy which lets Google profile your voice data on everything from the products you talk about to the moans you make during intercourse.
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