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prmoustachelast Tuesday at 2:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why did you guys bought this in the first place?


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WaltPurvisyesterday at 1:13 AM

Originally bought it for an elderly parent in assisted living; wasn't as useful as we'd hoped; repurposed it as a kitchen-timer/music-box, for which it works adequately as long as the Internet connection is up. I would not recommend anyone else buy one.

serial_devlast Tuesday at 9:03 PM

Fair question, playing music and timers are nice, but their AI is abysmal so you can imo not ask it to do anything else. I previously worked for a smart home company so I wanted to test out product’s integration with Alexa, so we have some at home. I’m planning to get rid of them, though, and only leave one in the kitchen.