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Originally Posted by wodin
So what'll happen when Echo Auto hits the streets? |
Seeing as how that's intended to be a mobile device that connects to the Alexa app on a smartphone, I suspect accommodations will be made to get location-based info from the phone. In all honesty, it seems to me that the Echo Auto device is little more than an interface for the Alexa phone app. It is the phone (and the phone's data) that will be doing the "dropping in" and navigating and such.
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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
In my experience, they're notoriously unreliable for that. I don't know why, but of the last 5 routers / gateways I've dealt with, only one of them would consistently provide the correct info to the connecting device when trying to use "automatically get timezone from wifi" option.
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That's been my experience as well. It works about as well as the location services on a wifi-only Fire Tablet does.
