Amazon Echo Pt. 2
The Echo was different. It was weird asking questions and getting answers from a cylinder. Added a bunch of skills; animal noises, Jeopardy, news. This will take some getting use to.
The Echo was different. It was weird asking questions and getting answers from a cylinder. Added a bunch of skills; animal noises, Jeopardy, news. This will take some getting use to.
I had Indigo Home Automation for years but my Insteon Controller would keep dying and need to be replaced with frequent blackouts. I decided to switch to HomeSeer awhile ago, first to their Windows implementation and then to HomeTroller. I never fully was able to move everything over. Recently I tried to add a Wave…
Over the last few months I have gone a bit overboard. I bought two more Amazon Echos as well as an Echo Dot. I am getting use to talking to my house. Occasionally I also use it as a bluetooth speaker. Not the best sound but it will do.
Cool is starting to kick in. I can talk to my home automation and my home entertainment. I am truly getting to be a high tech house.
Her new name is “She who must not be named”. Whenever I talk about Alexa, she decides to chime in. And I have learned, when watching YouTube videos about Alexa, make sure you turn off the michophone. I have started to integrate her with my home automation system. She have become vastly more interesting and…
I slowly am dipping my toes back in the water and Home Assistant is starting to grow on me. I have a few components and I am seeing that I need to come up with naming standards. The naming standards will help me with the Alexa commands and will also make using the automation tools…