You can purchase a battery base for the Dot. I haven't wanted to spend the
extra money on this though so I can't verify how well it works.
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From: "Dane Trethowan" <grtd...@internode.on.net>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2017 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: Amazon Echo Alexa
Have you tried any "Skills" yet? I've tried a few such as 20 questions,
Mystery Radio Theatre etc.
On 4/02/2017 10:18 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
Yep...that's the one; it has a chargeable battery and seems to have good
battery life; seems to charge up fairly quickly!
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2017 3:44 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Re: Amazon Echo Alexa
And the Tap is the one you have right? Is that battery powered?
On 4 Feb 2017, at 6:13 am, Tom Kaufman <tomca...@comcast.net> wrote:
Dane: The Dot can be connected to a stereo, but not the Tap.
Tom Kaufman
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From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2017 5:25 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Re: Amazon Echo Alexa
Now that I’ve had mine up and running for a little longer than 24 hours
I’m probably in a better position to reply to this eMail than I was
Yesterday.
Firstly a note to anyone in Australia or outside the US or UK who may be
thinking of going down the Echo path, is it worth it? Well yep, I reckon
it is and even better is the fact that setup requires no hacks or cracks
to be applied as was previously the case.
Your Echo will still think you’re somewhere else - Mine thinks I’m in
Seattle - but I can still get standard time for my local location, this
can be set easily in settings, in my case I chose the Australian time
zone and the NSW Eastern Time region, works fine!
If you’re in Australia then probably one of the best places to get an
Amazon Echo is from eBay, they sell for as little as around $100
Australian depending on the model you want.
I had my Echo 24 hours after I ordered it, the eBay store I bought from
dispatched the item using Australia Post Express Post.
The first thing I had to do was to find a wall adapter to make the
supplied power supply compatible with our AC mains socket, that done it
was just a matter of plugging the supply into the mains and connecting
to the Echo, the power lead plugs into the bottom of the Echo and
protrudes from the rear of the unit.
Echo will say “Hell” and I think she tells you you’re in setup mode so
you know you can proceed with the setup which is all done from the
Amazon Alexa home page.
For those using Echo now and who have it set up the home page is well
worth exploring if you haven’t done so already, so much there to tweak
and see.
Even though I’m in Australia I’ve had little trouble having my Echo
recognise the voice commands I’ve issued.
There’s a lot I can’t use but a hell of a lot I can, I can use Spotify
Premium with Echo however I can’t use Amazon’s Unlimited Music Service.
Radio is an oddity I have to admit, I can’t get Echo to tune into many
stations using voice commands however I can manually have Echo tune into
stations if I use the Tunein interface from the Echo Home Page so go
work that one out, if anyone manages to listen to radio 2GB in Sydney
Australia with their Echo then I’d be interested to know how you did it
with voice commands?
The Echo can be paired with an amazon remote controller, has anyone done
this?
I’m a little disappointed with the Bluetooth facilities offered, yes you
can stream to Echo using Bluetooth so that’s nice and handy if you want
to use Echo as a speaker for your mobile device etc but I’m surprised
that Echo can’t stream the other way - say stream the output using
Bluetooth to a pair of Bluetooth headphones etc.
To summarise, this purchase was well worth the while for me and I’m sure
I’m going to be served well for many years to come, I may even consider
buying one of the other Echo models such as the Dot, the Tap can be
connected to a stereo or television, is that right?
On 2 Feb 2017, at 2:15 pm, Tom Kaufman <tomca...@comcast.net> wrote:
II am enjoying mine (I have the one that is known as the Tap) mostly
listen to music on it...but it can do other things like tell you the
weather, tell you a joke (haven't tried that yet) am sure there's lots
of things you can ask her to do!
Tom Kaufman
-----Original Message-----
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 10:05 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Amazon Echo Alexa
Hi!
For those of you who have one of these - can’t say what it is again or
the device will get upset when its name is called <smile> - then I
sincerely hope you’re enjoying your as I am mine.
Unfortunately Australia isn’t one of the support country’s for the
product yet - I’m in Seattle apparently - so I still need to do a
little tweaking.
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