Anyone else using one? Currently I am controlling my lights via Philips Hue, but the rest is really mostly as an alarm clock and quick weather reports, etc. It seems like I'm wasting a lot of capability.

Mine is just a speaker for music mostly. And I have her talk dirty to me of course.

I have her talk dirty to me of course.

He didn't quite spell it out, but I'm pretty sure that's the feature Tex is looking to utilize more/better.

I use it, but also mostly for music. I have a dot in my room that I use for things like alarm clock, morning briefing, check the train schedule etc. You can fully customize it using ifttt.com and do some interesting script type things. For example when my alarm goes off or when I turn off my house alarm, it turns on my lights downstairs. When I get on my wifi driving in the driveway it turns off my alarm and turns on the lights. Things like that.

He didn't quite spell it out, but I'm pretty sure that's the feature Tex is looking to utilize more/better.

 

Getting it to speak with a cowboy accent is the hard part.

I have looked in to both the Amazon Echo and the Google Home, and I think when I eventually get one, it will be Google Home. The chromecast tie-in is just too strong for me to ditch with Amazon.

LOL