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ApK · 07-14-2017, 11:28 AM

My daughter had her 11th birthday party at our house recently. My wife observed that the decibel increase from a 10-years-old girl's party to an 11-year-old girl's party is extraordinary.
I had to wire the Dot to our main living room sound system for it be audible, and the only problem was she could not hear voice commands over the music. We had to us the action button. Or walk up to her and yell repeatedly, which the girls seemed to prefer.
I also could not get my original Echo's voice remote to work properly with the my gen 1 Dot. Weird.

BTW, the new Dot I got on Prime Day I've given to mom. She needs someone to talk to who won't get annoyed at her. :-)
We might actually use the calling feature with her, since she can just say "Alexa, call Andy" and it immediately rings my cell phone. I was kind of surprised it was that simple.

One other Prime Day gadget question for the group:
I was surprised to find that the Alexa calling features don't work on my wife's new Fire HD8. I do recall seeing that mentioned with appropriate incredulity somewhere back in this thread, but does any know if there are firm plans to correct that ridiculous state of affairs?

07-14-2017, 11:28 AM	#2289
ApK Award-Winning Participant Posts: 7,393 Karma: 68715774 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ, USA Device: Kindle	My daughter had her 11th birthday party at our house recently. My wife observed that the decibel increase from a 10-years-old girl's party to an 11-year-old girl's party is extraordinary. I had to wire the Dot to our main living room sound system for it be audible, and the only problem was she could not hear voice commands over the music. We had to us the action button. Or walk up to her and yell repeatedly, which the girls seemed to prefer. I also could not get my original Echo's voice remote to work properly with the my gen 1 Dot. Weird. BTW, the new Dot I got on Prime Day I've given to mom. She needs someone to talk to who won't get annoyed at her. :-) We might actually use the calling feature with her, since she can just say "Alexa, call Andy" and it immediately rings my cell phone. I was kind of surprised it was that simple. One other Prime Day gadget question for the group: I was surprised to find that the Alexa calling features don't work on my wife's new Fire HD8. I do recall seeing that mentioned with appropriate incredulity somewhere back in this thread, but does any know if there are firm plans to correct that ridiculous state of affairs? Last edited by ApK; 07-14-2017 at 11:32 AM.