Alexa - where do you keep yours?

[spitfire]

@logan1

don’t have a eco dot in the kitchen because of it getting greasy. Got one in the dinning room off the kitchen so I can hear the music. Got 2 Eco’s that’s the bigger ones in the living room on the mantle piece and one eco dot in our bedroom.
We have smart plugs and light bulbs so we can turn them on and off and anything else that we want. I’m not that keen on the light bulbs because it’s easy just using the switch but that’s what hubby wants so I have to humour him, but it does have its place.

That’s not a very nice view of Hubby.

[Percy_Vere]

None here, thanks.

[logan1]

@PixieKnuckles

changes or fluctuates with music. I think that would be quite (annoying?) nice for a short while

Yes can get strip lighting to put at the back of TV, or any where else, that change colour with music or with sound from a film or gaming. Also can get a free standing light.

[LongDriver]

We sure have come along way since candles

[logan1]

@spitfire

That’s not a very nice view of Hubby.

He’s alright really, just into all of these things.

[caricature]

I’ve a google home situated behind the tv, use it for alarm in the morning.

[LongDriver]

My bladder is my alarm

[caricature]

@LongDriver

My bladder is my alarm

Mine tends to be, even without a prostate.

[logan1]

Yes can use it to set a timer or a reminder, shopping lists, music play list, can ask any questions.
With the lights hubby has done a timer for the porch light to come on just before we take the boys out at 6am.

[Judd]

4 x Echoes.

One in the kitchen away from any form of cooking - mainly used for timers and playing music.

One in the lounge on a coffee table, which is used for setting reminders, controlling my Amazon Firestick, and for shutting everything down except for my router with a simple voice command.

One in the dining room cum study for compiling lists and adding appointments to my diary.

And lastly, one next to the bed with a clock feature for settings alarms, playing Audible books, and sounds to get me to sleep.

All four can be used to control my W-Fi enabled lights and my WiFi enabled plug-in adapters.

You might say that I’m a bit of a geek.

[spitfire]

What ever happened to last one out, turn the lights off.

[Rox]

It’s alive and working well in our house.

[spitfire]

Good to get back to basics Rox.

[Bruce]

My son gave me a Google thingy (forgot what it is called) for Christmas 2019. I plugged it in for a a few days but because my Google account has everything turned off that I can turn off all it could do was tell me the time.

I unplugged it just before New Year 2020 and it has remained unplugged ever since. It has sat forlornly and unloved on the table in the corner for the last 18+ months.

[spitfire]

Don’t be concerned Bruce, the appliance is unconcerned about you.

I know you are not concerned anyway.

[Bruce]

You’re right, I am far more worried about the baggage retrieval system they’ve got at Heathrow

[AnnieS]

@Rox

I don’t, I won’t have one in the house.

same here - If alexa turned up, she wouldn’t be in a freezer bag but in the freezer

[Bratti]

@Rox

don’t, I won’t have one in the house.

Nor I!

@Bathsheba

My brother has an occasional problem with birds getting into his loft and nesting, so now he keeps an old Amazon Echo there, which he controls remotely from his phone, and plays scary predator bird calls to keep them away

Brilliant.

[Ripple]

I don’t own one. Or the smart meter screen I binned it.
Less is definitely more imo…except money

[summer]

I love my Alexa i play music on her all the time and I ask her questions…when I go to bed at night I tell her goodnight and she says things like sweet dreams or don’t let the bedbugs bite…so funny