Just cancelled my prime, service has become a joke.
I recently got hue lights and was contemplating alexa, probably going the google route now.
Amazon Echo - anyone have one?
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I recently got hue lights and was contemplating alexa, probably going the google route now.
if you use the online chat and complain you'll get a free month everytime they miss a delivery.
Last time I complained they offered exactly that, again. I told them not to bother, my time is worth more than the 8 quid and if I want this level of nonsense I'll go to ebay (which Amazon is currently worse than in my experience).
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Yeah I've had a couple of months free membership but I'm at the point where waiting around for things that aren't turning up, waiting for investigations to be carried out and the hassle of ringing them is convincing me that it's not worth the hassle.
Spent most of my weekend putting together a raspberry pi powered Amazon Echo 
Had all the things already so didn't need to buy anything, everything working apart from the music services(not supported)
Had fun just putting it together and quite useful for what it is, don't have any smart stuff in the apartment but mainly going to use it for traffic/weather/alarms/reminders/to do lists.
Had all the things already so didn't need to buy anything, everything working apart from the music services(not supported)
Had fun just putting it together and quite useful for what it is, don't have any smart stuff in the apartment but mainly going to use it for traffic/weather/alarms/reminders/to do lists.
Spent most of my weekend putting together a raspberry pi powered Amazon Echo
Had all the things already so didn't need to buy anything, everything working apart from the music services(not supported)
Had fun just putting it together and quite useful for what it is, don't have any smart stuff in the apartment but mainly going to use it for traffic/weather/alarms/reminders/to do lists.
Nice one
I have a friend who is trying to make a smart mirror with alexa built in.
I followed this guide and used this to troubleshoot (believe me there was a lot of it!)
You'll need Raspbian Jessie 2.4.2(only available through NOOBS) as the newer versions of Stretch have issues.
Nice one
I have a friend who is trying to make a smart mirror with alexa built in.
I originally planned on using it for the Magic Mirror but decided against it when I couldn't be bothered getting the one way mirror and building the frame.
I have to say the streaming of spotify has gone seriously downhill. Basically in the evening I can't get it to work reliably at all. Also, Alexa is laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaging for sometime 10+ seconds to respond to simple commands. Rather annoying.
If I had a pi around I'd be looking at picroft/mycroft too (much as alexa has a lot of traction atm).
https://mycroft.ai/blog/mycroft-now-available-raspberry-pi-image/
Surely that just points to you having connectivity issues?
Spent most of my weekend putting together a raspberry pi powered Amazon Echo
Had all the things already so didn't need to buy anything, everything working apart from the music services(not supported)
Had fun just putting it together and quite useful for what it is, don't have any smart stuff in the apartment but mainly going to use it for traffic/weather/alarms/reminders/to do lists.
I got excited there but it's pretty useless to me without Amazon Music access
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So here is a a couple of questions related to IFTTT applets that I want to call from my Dot.
1) My heating setup can be triggered by IFTTT, through their service they provide. Unfortunately it looks like their trigger service doesn't do ingredients, so I have about 3 different applets for different temperatures for each room/zone. First question, am I doing something wrong with IFTTT? If a service offer a way of say, setting a temperature, but you have to select the value when creating an applet that interacts with it, does that not mean I can create an applet that will take an ingredient and use that as the selected temp which would normally be set as part of the configuration for using that service?
2) I use my Android phone and Google Assistant to also trigger IFTTT applets. Is there anyway to share an applet that has been build for one service to run it on another? So I don't have to build the same applets for the other service, i.e. Have 12 applets for Alexa, and then duplicate the same things for Assistant?
1) My heating setup can be triggered by IFTTT, through their service they provide. Unfortunately it looks like their trigger service doesn't do ingredients, so I have about 3 different applets for different temperatures for each room/zone. First question, am I doing something wrong with IFTTT? If a service offer a way of say, setting a temperature, but you have to select the value when creating an applet that interacts with it, does that not mean I can create an applet that will take an ingredient and use that as the selected temp which would normally be set as part of the configuration for using that service?
2) I use my Android phone and Google Assistant to also trigger IFTTT applets. Is there anyway to share an applet that has been build for one service to run it on another? So I don't have to build the same applets for the other service, i.e. Have 12 applets for Alexa, and then duplicate the same things for Assistant?
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My Google home mini turned up today, it's so small but the sound quality is great and it's really clear considering the size.