> Only thing it can do is set a timer, turn off a light

And it can't even do that without an Internet connection. As someone who experiences annoyingly frequent outages, it never ceases to boggle my mind that I have a $200 computer, with an 8" monitor and everything, that can't even understand "set a timer for 10 minutes" on its own.

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prmoustache 6 days ago | parent [-]

Why did you guys bought this in the first place?

	▲	serial_dev 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Fair question, playing music and timers are nice, but their AI is abysmal so you can imo not ask it to do anything else. I previously worked for a smart home company so I wanted to test out product’s integration with Alexa, so we have some at home. I’m planning to get rid of them, though, and only leave one in the kitchen.
	▲	WaltPurvis 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Originally bought it for an elderly parent in assisted living; wasn't as useful as we'd hoped; repurposed it as a kitchen-timer/music-box, for which it works adequately as long as the Internet connection is up. I would not recommend anyone else buy one.