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I just sold my Alexa for a Google Home. My experience can be summarized by this. Me: "Hey Alexa, what's the weather?" Alexa: gives the full weather report Me
by brink 8y ago
I just sold my Alexa for a Google Home. My experience can be summarized by this.
Me: "Hey Alexa, what's the weather?"
Alexa: gives the full weather report
Me: "Hey Alexa, what's the high today?"
Alexa: gives the full weather report
Me: "Hey Alexa, is it supposed to be sunny today?"
Alexa: gives full weather report
Me: "Hey Google, what's the high today?"
Google: "The high temperature in your location is predicted to be 82"
Me: "Hey Google, is it going to rain today?"
Google: "No, it's not forecasted to rain."
I've had an Alexa for over a year now and it's never changed or gotten "smarter" towards any of my questions. Eventually I just gave up and switched.
- blantonl 8y agoMy experience can be summarized by this: Me: "Alexa, tell Harmony to tune to CNN" Alexa: turns on the TV, and tunes it to CNN. Me: "Alexa, what alarms do I have set?" Alexa: tells me I have a weekday alarm set for 5:30 AM Me: "Alexa, set the bedroom temperature to 75 degrees" Alexa: sets the temp to 75 degrees in the bedroom Me: "Alexa, turn on the great room" Alexa: turns on the great room lights Me: "Alexa, turn off the office light" Alexa: turns off my study lights Me: "Alexa, turn on the whole house" Alexa: turns turns on every light in the house Skill integrations include: Harmony, Lutron, etc. YYMV. But we have one Alexa device in every room (8 devices total) and our biggest issue is waking her up when talking "about" her.