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I don't think you're going to get that functionality until your instant pot has Wi-Fi.
by dhsjsjjsj 10y ago
I don't think you're going to get that functionality until your instant pot has Wi-Fi.
- swalsh 10y agoActually most of my requests can be accomplished with a generic system. My instant pot makes a beep, my washer makes a beep, my dryer makes a beep, my dishwasher makes a beep, my oven makes a beep when it's at temp. It's like a universal signal in appliances. If alexia can understand a range of electronic beeps, then it can work. There's no need for a complex protocol and new appliances.
- taeric 10y agoIronically this is a poster for complex protocol that seems easy. Consider the difficulties in distinguishing beeps.
- jgroszko 10y agoSounds like a problem that would lend itself well to machine learning
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoI would think manually training your Echo would be easier than waiting for it to learn by amassing a large number of beeps (and trying to infer patterns from timestamps and your presence/absence). I would rather say something like "Alexa, listen to this notification sound, save it as 'oven done'." Then in future to be able to just say "Alexa, do VERB when 'oven done'".
- jgroszko 10y agoAlternatively, Alexa could ask "I just heard a ding, was that your dishwasher?" and maybe compare against a database of known devices.
- slededit 10y agoThere's important contextual information here. If I ask Alexa to tell me when the oven is preheated the next beep is probably going to be the oven. If she's wrong it's not the end of the world. You don't need 100% accuracy for the solution to be useful. In fact you probably need to attend to whatever else was beeping anyways.
- notwedtm 10y agoMaybe not the end of the world, but surely a fire hazard?
- JadeNB 10y agoProbably only for a false negative, rather than a false positive; and surely the probability of the former can be minimised by cranking up the sensitivity (and not being picky about what counts as a beep).
- slededit 10y agoAn appliance's timer is not a safety feature. They are required to have their own fault detection and automaticity shutdown.
- CodeMage 10y agoIt's crappy UX. 1. You tell Alexa to let you know when the oven is preheated. 2. She hears the washing machine beep and tells you the oven is preheated. 3. You come back, find that the oven is still not ready. 4. You conclude it's probably the washing machine and go check it out, forgetting to tell Alexa to let you know when the oven is preheated.
- CodeMage 10y agoAnd also the difficulties in distinguishing an appliance beep from what only sounds like an appliance beep, such as a truck reversing in front of your home.
- jp555 10y agoNot easy, but do you think it's more difficult than speech recognition?
- VLM 10y agoA major amazon echo marketing component is seven directional microphones. It should be easy to stick an echo on the wall such that left is the washer and right is the dryer or whatever. Also despite sounding similar to tone deaf humans one probably runs at 4001.342 Hz and the other at 3999.114 Hz which likely sounds the same to me, but to a computer is likely very obvious.
- killbrad 10y agoI'd think a computer would be great at distinguishing unique beeps from each other. It'd just have to know which ones come from which named appliances, and that's something that could easily be crowdsourced.
- geoelectric 10y agoThey make a bluetooth one, IIRC, so that's not as crazy as you might think.