Fab price good spot op

Great price, but I'm looking for dots at the moment. Wish Amazon so did the three pack...

I bought one on Prime day and have been really impressed.
I also picked up a used Echo Dot this week, the full size one blows the Dot out of the water on sound quality.

Great deal. Good spot OP. You can occasionally grab some cracking deals at QVC.

Very tempted by this, spent loads on the hue recently and would like a good speaker in the lounge too.

Waste of money if you ask me. I got one for £52 recently but sold it 24 hours later. Not impressed in the slightest with it. Only good thing was I made a profit on it when I sold it.

I find the voice commands really poor on the dot. Takes ages to play a band it always mis hears me. Maybe I speak like a retard I don't know it's quite possible

With Black Friday, and Cyber Monday only 12 weeks away, I think holding off on any Amazon tech would be wise. These will definitely hit the sub 80 pound mark on either of those days.

I smell a second generation model in the works given the Prime Day discount and now this. If I had to guess I'd bet it drops around the end of September/October time.

Between amazon echo and Google home, which 1 is better?

Brilliant offer, been after one of these. Currently have a dot and I love it, I have no problems using to stream music and my connection is instant. Maybe it depends on your internet speeds, we have virgin fibre 100 and my mum has crappy basic sky internet and the response is delayed.

Ordered :thumbsup:

One thing they have now added to the Echo that the Dot had over it is connecting to bluetooth speakers. Previously the Echo wouldn't do this. I have this running through my new soundbar now and it sounds amazing.

Decent deal, heated, got one on prime day and love it!

Got 3 Dots in the house and they're more than good enough for general use.
Had an Echo and while the sound is far richer and superior, I still think compared to the Dots, it's far too expensive.
As others have said, if you need more sound, connect up to external speakers (AV, Bluetooth etc.) and that's even better than the Echo.
Was lucky to get 3 Dots for £85 on Prime Day and sent the then £80 Echo back.
Not voting either way on this one, as yes it's currently the best price for the Echo, but it's still vastly overpriced considering other options for sound via the Dot.

Got one on prime day for 79.99 we'll worth it at that price. It won't answer the majority of questions..... But as long as you speak clearly and at a level speed, never have a problem with eco understanding me. Pay 3.99 and have loads of music to choose from. Excellent use in our open plan kitchen. I'd recommend this, if you like listening to music whilst cooking.

Great price. Have had a Dot for ages and it works really well (I use it to turn on lights). Will move that to the bedroom and the Echo can take its place in the living room.

How does the 3 payments work? when I go to checkout I get this.

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Looks like it will take the whole lot.

Jesus, that's a stonking deal... if only they took Amex!

What the deal with the legality of these things and listening to everything in your home

Anybody tell me what about the voice.

I have a dog named Alexa, is this likely to be a problem in using this device?

Can anyone recommend some smart plugs that work well with this?

I've looked online but there's always some reviews that say that don't respond or didn't connect properly etc..

Thanks!

Alexa.
Order me an Echo from QVC.
OK.

I have a NAS drive full of music, would the DOT be able to play these as I do not need a streaming service?

Alexa: "I couldn't find anything for Echo from Q.V.C so i've added Echo from Q.V.C to your shopping list"

Alexa... play some stormzy init! Phanks

Maybe you've got a duff one? Had no issues with any of my dots understanding me. Only issue is if it's too close to a speaker

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Amazing
Any links to the product please

Thanks but do u not need to switch the demon on and off every time ?

ordered the white one.. My daughter loves asking it to "tell a joke" and "whats the weather" @ the In-laws house- they have a dot.. so I hope this is better.

Demon... :rage: lol

Have a look on Amazon.com they have been selling the new model for a couple of months I think.

Good for traffic news too, if you put your commute in your account, just ask "How is the traffic" and it gives you the best route to use in a matter of seconds, very practical just before leaving the house. I also took Music Unlimited and it is great to listen to music almost as old as I can remember :relaxed:

I had the amazon echo but I sold this and got the Google home. Much better. more responsive with voice commands.
anyone with the echo say this to it..( alexa , Play the cat crept in by mud..) its a 1970s song by the group mud but will it understand you ??? not a cat in hells chance... but the Google Home will play it no probs.. this is just one thing echo will not do . there are lots of things like this. but the google home is great.

No, that's what I meant. In the settings on the hifi you can turn off the auto standby feature so it is on all the time.

Dude I just tried it on my echo and it worked absolutely perfectly?

Got anything else yours can do that mine can't? :joy:

Got one on prime day. Also entertained by its refusal to say the full name fro Dick Van Dyke.

It just played straight away for me :neutral_face:

Just asked the Echo in the lounge, currently playing The Cat Crept in from Spotify first time of asking.

That's fine if you want your hifi to only play Dot output. However, if you switch it to TV, or radio, or anything else, then Alexa will go silent as she's not clever enough to know that the connected system isn't playing her output.

If you only use one other input it's possible to build a multiplexer which merges the inputs, but requires a little skill. It is NOT recommended to use a simple spliter cable - that could damage the dot, the hifi or both.

Not sure I understand what you're getting at but I only play music through the hifi. it works perfectly. If I wanted to play from another source, which I don't, as Spotify has everything that I want to listen to, then I would just turn Alexa off.

I've been using the Echo for about 3 years and the Dot for about 2. I've also got a very strong accent. In all that time I have rarely ever had them struggle to understand me - I have about 7 of them. A friend however with an equally strong accent hates using his as it struggles to understand him regularly. Not sure why the disparity in performance.

Can't see the point of these things pay nearly £100 to let amazon spy on you for marketing research as if they don't get enough from seeing all your orders and anything else you look at on there site

The Dot is the better buy in my opinion. I have wireless speakers in the rooms of my flat which give better sound than the Echo gives. Looking a Dot to each speaker I can not only control my lights, Aircon, TV etc using Alexa but also use her to control Spotify. Score! :smile:

I'm a big fan, I've had it for a few months now and what it is to me is a simple, voice activated radio (using Tunein), music player (Spotify in my case) and device to read you the headlines and weather report on demand and, for that, it's pretty much perfect. TBH, I've stopped using any other skills as I didn't find they worked for me. The only one that I liked but was disappointing was the Audible "Read an audio book" skill. Unfortunately the Alexa didn't have the ability to detect when I had fallen asleep and restart from that point next time - maybe that's a skill yet to be developed by someone in the future ;-)

What happened when you turn your amp or speaker off if ots plugged in? Does it just output through the echo as normal?

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Sure but what if I wanted it to switch on and off when I use Alexa rather than on all the time ?

Get yourself a £25 broadlink RM pro and you can control anything too.
Mine does the electric curtains, observatory, fans, air con, as well as the usual stuff like hue, hive and blink.

Recent Gadget Show rated Amazon Echo way ahead of Google Home on sound quality

I link to the amp using bluetooth, saying Alexa connect speakers, for when I want music and tell Alexa to disconnect speakers at all other times. Have same setup in 2 rooms and works great.

Best deal on this since Amazon Prime day £80. Prev best I saw was over £100, so this is good

Maybe it depends on where it is placed ? I have two dots so it's not he device. My partner struggles with it too and she has a good accentless voice

Well then it's just the same as any other Dot/speaker configuration. You would just turn the hifi off, but you would then have to remove the 3.5mm jack from the Dot and listen to the Dot's puny internal speaker. If you are connected to a hifi via bluetooth, you would just say 'Alexa, disconnect bluetooth' to revert to the Dot speaker.

Totally agree with you and I got the same deal of 3 dots for £85 on prime day.
The full size echo is worth considering in a room where you don't have an external speaker option but is still expensive for what it is. I understand some people want a one device option rather than a dot plugged into a hifi or a seperate bluetooth speaker and thats the only logic really to go for an echo vs a dot.

Yes, but you can change the keyword of the Echo to things like well, Echo, Amazon etc.
You can also change the name of your dog, its up to you :smile:

I have my hi-fi plugged into a tp-link smart plug, so I don't have to turn it on off every time manually.
So with my dot I use it as it is, and when I want to use the hi-fi, I say "alexa turn on my hifi" which is the name given to the tplink plug. I then say "alexa connect to my speaker" and from that point my dot is using my hifi speakers.

Some people may think this a faff but it means I can have my dot in the kitchen playing music through its fairly limited speaker but then when I go into my living room I can then use my hifi to listen to the same music. its a cheap and cheerful way of doing things 1x dot yet I can use it in different ways in 2 rooms

A nifty bit of kit. If you have a BT speaker then you can get the echo dot and simply pair it.

Already got Dot, bought one of these for downstairs- cheers!

When are 2nd and 3rd pymts taken?

Any news on when this can control my Sony Bravia TV?

If I buy 2 do I get stereo?

Wow the gadget show. Neither are great but in general Google gets better reviews. Echo is down in price as there is a sonically better version about to be released. Alternatively use a dot and a decent speaker.

As long as you have selected 3 easy payments, they will take the first payment + the p&p as soon as they are ready to ship. The next two payments (no p&p this time) will be a month and 2 months later. I've used easy pay a few times, and it does work. If in doubt give them a call on their freefone number.

Nice one, ordered... was going to buy a refurb dot (though need to be cheaper than 45 quid), but 3 payments on the echo has done it for me, Cheers.

would anyone ditch sonos play 1 for this?

They do - add 3 to basket and on checkout page use code DOT3PACK

+1 thank fudge I sold mine last week before this happened.

BBC radio stations are shocking on tune in, the drop out every few seconds. Doesn't answer most questions. Pathetic range of skills. Isn't clever enough to link the one question to a following question. You have to start all over again.

It's a glorified kitchen timer and that turn the lights on and off.

I have to say before it didn't drop radio 2 but now it's doing so as u said, not sure if it's the same problem on the dot as well as the echo

"Alexa, im sad and have no friends so can you hug me and be my friend!?" "No, i cant but thanks for your £90 you mug!!!"

where did you get it for 52? :thinking:

Because dot has no sound?

Those with echo dots, have you seen this cheap ish way of upgrading to something like a full echo?

Echo / Dot can't play music from a NAS server. Not sure if it would be possible to write a skill for it, it would probably require you to steam your music via Amazon's servers, which would be a bit of a waste of bandwidth.

OOS

Do you realise that this could potentially ruin your credit score?

That not the same at all my talking about a device that is always listening and recording and saving many of the things you say in this age of cyber crime it something you might want to think about. But you also mist my poit why give amazon so much money so they can do this is typing on keyboard really al that hard and im very careful where i shop online where i keep my debit and don't have a car because i can't drive and so far iv never been rip off or had my card stolen.

Thanks op mine has been shipped

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Forgot to say thank you to the OP £89.99 opus postage is a good deal ... they are going for that 2nd hand on ebay

Not mine. I have the highest credit score you can get. I have 899 out of 899 cant go any higher than me. I have over £250000 credit limit so I think I will be fine.