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Yes, it says somewhere on the site that it uses soundwaves to share the initial key with your device. But that's NOT an excuse to make the device depend on the
by daveloyall 11y ago
Yes, it says somewhere on the site that it uses soundwaves to share the initial key with your device.
But that's NOT an excuse to make the device depend on the Mobile ecosystem.
If it can play a code on the speaker, it can just talk. In English. Via thirty-six audio files: a.wav, b.wav, ... 9.wav. Ok, thirty-seven recordings--can't forget welcome_to_your_new_router_your_key_is.wav. :)
- MichaelGG 11y agoI'd wager that whatever they're doing, it's far more reliable than reading out English letters and doing speech recognition on it. Accomplishing the key exchange might not have been reliable in all browsers.
- daveloyall 11y ago... I meant, let the device speak directly to the user. "Your key is alpha nine hotel victor ..." The goal was some sort of manual setup.
- hueving 11y agoHumans are good at speech recognition. We've been doing it for thousands of years.