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I've just moved into a new house and have spent quite a few hours smartifying it. What I'll say is that, though there will be competition, once a user chooses
by hashkb 9y ago
I've just moved into a new house and have spent quite a few hours smartifying it. What I'll say is that, though there will be competition, once a user chooses an ecosystem, they are locking themselves into one side of a 1990's Mac vs PC-esque death race.
Using Home Assistant and jumping through some hoops, I've been able to force onto the same system some devices that really put up a massive fight to play nicely together; and I have even more manual work before I'll be able to use Google Assistant to control it all with my voice.
The competition, though... it's really, really bad for most users.
- mattmanser 9y agoWell, from my first impression Alexa is rubbish. Went round a friend on Friday who has one, people started throwing songs at it. It's slow and only roughly 20% of the time it managed to understand us. We figured out some trick of song then artist (or maybe artist than song) which made it work a little better. Worse still when it did understand us most of the time it was only able to play a sample. "prime". Do not buy.