I have 7 in my house. I have my lights, plant humidifier, TV, air filter, Aquarium equipment, and others all hooked up to them. You can run almost anything you need to just by using your voice.
Getting ready to watch something on TV? “Alexa it’s movie time.” Turns on the TV and Switches the input to the Shield and opens up our go to media app. Shuts off all lights in the house except the living room. Dims those to 10% and changes them to red. Just enough light to see your snacks and the remote by. Turns off the sump filter for the Aquariums in just the living room but leaves the in tank bubble filter going for better silence. All with 4 spoken words and no need to work with multiple remotes and apps in your phone.
That’s just one example. We have an obscene amount of routines setup for nearly ecery scenario we have run across and adding new ones is easy.
Hell… We even have a routine where if you say “Alexa, do you know Desi naach?” It plays Naatu Naatu from every speaker in the house at full volume.
Show me a FOSS system as plug and play, powerful, and as EASY to use as Alexa and I’ll drop Alexa in the trash tommorow and switch.
Genuine question. What part of what I said makes me a sucker?
I only have so long to live on this earth. I’m not going to expend excessive amounts of energy on things that are unlikely to have any REAL effect on my life. I don’t give a shit if they listen in on me. I talk about work as a delivery driver (not Amazon), my wife’s work as a hotel front desk help, trackmania and Baldur’s Gate. Lots of state secret stuff there for me to be worried about.
Again as I said… find me an easy to use plug and play FOSS voice assistant system and I will throw Alexa in the trash.
I enjoy the home I have set up and I feel relaxed when I return from a long day at work. The Alexa system has helped make that a reality.
I have 7 in my house. I have my lights, plant humidifier, TV, air filter, Aquarium equipment, and others all hooked up to them. You can run almost anything you need to just by using your voice.
Getting ready to watch something on TV? “Alexa it’s movie time.” Turns on the TV and Switches the input to the Shield and opens up our go to media app. Shuts off all lights in the house except the living room. Dims those to 10% and changes them to red. Just enough light to see your snacks and the remote by. Turns off the sump filter for the Aquariums in just the living room but leaves the in tank bubble filter going for better silence. All with 4 spoken words and no need to work with multiple remotes and apps in your phone.
That’s just one example. We have an obscene amount of routines setup for nearly ecery scenario we have run across and adding new ones is easy.
Hell… We even have a routine where if you say “Alexa, do you know Desi naach?” It plays Naatu Naatu from every speaker in the house at full volume.
Show me a FOSS system as plug and play, powerful, and as EASY to use as Alexa and I’ll drop Alexa in the trash tommorow and switch.
Lol suckers born every minute
Genuine question. What part of what I said makes me a sucker?
I only have so long to live on this earth. I’m not going to expend excessive amounts of energy on things that are unlikely to have any REAL effect on my life. I don’t give a shit if they listen in on me. I talk about work as a delivery driver (not Amazon), my wife’s work as a hotel front desk help, trackmania and Baldur’s Gate. Lots of state secret stuff there for me to be worried about.
Again as I said… find me an easy to use plug and play FOSS voice assistant system and I will throw Alexa in the trash.
I enjoy the home I have set up and I feel relaxed when I return from a long day at work. The Alexa system has helped make that a reality.