07-09-2015, 12:49 PM
I'm in the "I think it's great" camp, even to the point I have TWO of them now. Kitchen and bedroom, and they are incredibly handy for a few things.
1) Shopping list. It's AWESOME. Just tell Alexa "Add whatever" to your shopping list and she does it. It's available in the app that you have in the store with you then. Simple, easy, and fast.
2) Timer. SO nice and handy to set a timer while your hands are full. No punching buttons on the timer or microwave, no fumbling for your iPhone to tell Siri to do it. Just say it and it's done.
3) Music. Works perfect- "Alexa, Play Pandora" (she tunes to the last used station automatically)"
4) News. Every morning I ask Alexa for my flash news briefing. NPR news and then top news stories. Keeps me up to date while I do other things - it's very handy.
5) Alarm. Easy to do of course, and used daily.
6) - a biggie - "Alexa, turn off the xxx lights". I put in WEMO switches for $30 on a couple of key places and it's awesome
Forget the outside lights always? Get this. It's perfect. HUE Bulbs work too but I do not have any of those.
7) Sports scores - Just easy to ask who won what without having to pick up the phone to look.
Things to do - program the NEST to work with it - there's a 3rd party developer site for that.
I think it's awesome. I am really curious what they expand it to do. Would be nice to pair it with better sound - I can connect it as a bluetooth speaker from my phone of course but would rather have it connect to another item such as bluetooth separate speakers for it's music.
Money well spent in my opinion
1) Shopping list. It's AWESOME. Just tell Alexa "Add whatever" to your shopping list and she does it. It's available in the app that you have in the store with you then. Simple, easy, and fast.
2) Timer. SO nice and handy to set a timer while your hands are full. No punching buttons on the timer or microwave, no fumbling for your iPhone to tell Siri to do it. Just say it and it's done.
3) Music. Works perfect- "Alexa, Play Pandora" (she tunes to the last used station automatically)"
4) News. Every morning I ask Alexa for my flash news briefing. NPR news and then top news stories. Keeps me up to date while I do other things - it's very handy.
5) Alarm. Easy to do of course, and used daily.
6) - a biggie - "Alexa, turn off the xxx lights". I put in WEMO switches for $30 on a couple of key places and it's awesome
Forget the outside lights always? Get this. It's perfect. HUE Bulbs work too but I do not have any of those.7) Sports scores - Just easy to ask who won what without having to pick up the phone to look.
Things to do - program the NEST to work with it - there's a 3rd party developer site for that.
I think it's awesome. I am really curious what they expand it to do. Would be nice to pair it with better sound - I can connect it as a bluetooth speaker from my phone of course but would rather have it connect to another item such as bluetooth separate speakers for it's music.
Money well spent in my opinion