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Originally Posted by OtinG
No trouble at all.  I'm glad you got it working in a satisfactory manner.
It is definitely a shame that smart home devices often require such a complicated and limited system for controlling them. They need to be crazy simple and easy to use and program for the average person, otherwise people will get frustrated and not use them to their potential. So far, from my experience anyway, Amazon, Apple, Google, and other companies have failed to deliver systems that are genuinely simple and easy to set up and program. They are slowly getting better though. |
Exactly. They need to allow imprecise voice commands--maybe at least have Alexa ask Did you mean ...? The last protracted conversation I had with Alexa, I was trying to buy a Kindle book because Amazon was offering a promotional credit if buying with Alexa. The book I wanted had a rather nondescript title that confused Alexa with too many possibilities, so I tried ordering by author, then author and title. At one point Alexa was trying to sell me the audiobook version, but couldn't manage to even find the e-book version. It was ridiculous. I believe I eventually gave up and complained to CS and got the buck credit or whatever it was, which was a lot of effort for such a paltry reward.
Since then, the only time I talk to Alexa is to ask for music, and not even anything specific, because she can't seem to handle that, or to ask how many tablespoons are in a quarter cup, because I can never remember.