Suit yourself.
There are many different ways to do different thinks, you're using
battery bases and I'm using Power Banks, nothing better or worse about
the different approaches.
I already had the Power Banks here so it made perfect sense to use them.
I do marvel a how much power these banks can give out, running a Laptop
computer for two days in no mean feat. Charging an iPhone 12 times over
is truly amazing.
One of the banks I have comes with that many sockets and connectors so
obviously the first thing I did when I got the Echo Alexa was to sorth
through the dozen or so tips to see if I could fine one that would fit,
thankfully I did find a fitting tip but there's bound to be a time when
I don't find one <smile>.
Anyway for what its worth, if you want power on the go then look at the
wide variety of Power Bank systems available.
On 22/02/2017 4:53 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
Again, this is all about “YOU”! We’re supposed to be discussing the products
here, not how you, as in Dane Trethowan, or I, as in Gordon Smith, uses
something. The product I started this thread by discussing works well. Anybody
else in possession of an Echo or an Echo Dot who does not, and I include myself
here, own a Tap, might want to consider going down this road. It’s another
option, as is yours. Given that, officially, the Tap is not available over
here, not yet at least, I opted to go with another solution to address my
problem. The base I have, I’m happy with. Until that situation changes, I will
be using what I own currently. But my original objective here was not to talk
about how I use the thing, but to talk about what it can do and, just as
importantly, what it cannot do. You cannot, for instance, request battery
status on these bases because officially, the Echo and the dot don’t have
batteries. That, I grant you, is a very definite drawback to these solutions.
But once you get used to them, you soon learn how far you can push then until
the battery expires.
Anyway, regardless of what we personally use, these things do work.
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On 21 Feb 2017, at 17:45, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote:
Yep point taken and I didn't explina myself properly.
,No, I've never bought a dedicated base for the Amazon Echo Dot and - as
pointed out in previous eMail messages - I've never had the need to use a
specific base given the fact that I have a number of Power Banks here.
What I meant by "Giving up" was that I've given up using the Echo Dot as a
portable unit now that I have the Tap which is designed specifically to be portable,
provides me with Battery Status - both verbally and on the web page - etc so what's the
point?
The only time I might really want to use the Echo Dot for portable listening is if
I'm outside and I want to listen to music with Echo Dot paired to the B&W T7.
On 22/02/2017 4:35 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
And another thing I should have added in my last response. You say you’ve
“Given Up using”,. To the very best of my knowledge, you’ve “Never” used, them
so how can you have “Given Up”? ;-)
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On 21 Feb 2017, at 17:27, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote:
I've given up using battery bases on Echo Dot and so on given there seems
little point when the Tap does hthe job so affectively.
On 22/02/2017 4:08 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
This doesn’t work on the Echo or Echo Dot. The Echo doesn’t even know I have a
battery connected to it! I will try it again on the Dot but I think the results
will be the same.
Yes, this would certainly be a nice function. My battery went the other night
and I got no prior warning.
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On 19 Feb 2017, at 18:10, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote:
Sorry forgot to mention this in my previous post.
The Echo Tap can tell the user how much battery is left.
You ask “How much battery power left” and the question is answered with a
percentage of battery power remaining.
You can also lookup the battery status on the Amazon Alexa home page.
On 19 Feb 2017, at 9:14 pm, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
Good Sunday to you all
My first imprcssions of this device can be summed up using just one word:
AMAZING!
I received the device just after 08:30 this morning which, in itself, just a
very pleasant surprise. But the Smatree AE900 is much more than just a battery
base for the Echo. It's a 900MA/H system, capable of powering up the echo for,
so the blurb claims, in excess of 8 hours per charge cycle. I have not had the
opportunity to read all of the documentation, owing to the fact that, like So
many things these days, the dincumentation itself is tiny, and does not bode
well to the OCR process on any platform. I have several options available to me
in this regard, but those I've tried so far have not proven themselves up to
the task. But I'll keep trying.
I have a hunch, however, have this device is more than just a glorified
battery. I am given to understand that it actually adds functionality to the
Echo. So we shall see.
In point of fact, I also have so smaller version of this battery base, designed
for the Echo Dot. Sadly, there are some disappointing facts regarding this
particular unit, which it is to be hoped, are not shared with it's larger
sister product. One of these is the fact that the device provides you with
absolutely no warning whatsoever that the batter powering your device is about
to run out of fuel mid-flight. As with an airplane, if the fuel tank runs dry,
the engine just stops dead and you're out of options.
I hope that Smatree have picked up on this point, and provided some sort of
safeguard against it.
Anyway, more later when I've done more testing. I don't want to comment based
purely on what I read. There's no substitute for hands-on experience.
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