Seriously?!

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Can some explain the attraction of Echos? You need to be in the same room, then you give it a verbal instruction. Why not walk a few steps to your computer, or use a mobile device like a tablet all over the house? They're not cheap either.

Think that's the best price iv seen for the echo brand new.

What next, different deals for different colour socks ?

The black is out of stock and expired. This is available.

I don't see the problem.

I have two dots already, this will be 3rd CIA agent located in my house - am I safe yet?

Have they introduced multi room audio yet.

Had one for 3 months now, a great toy in the early days, now me and Alexa don''t have a lot to say, other than "Alexa Play Elton John", I'm sure some interesting skills will come along soon.

Are these worth getting or just one of those gimmicky things that will be fun for a day or two then not used avain

I love mine but to make it truly effective you want things such as hue lighting or Tado heating. I've got 4 dots around the house and one echo in the living room. Well worth it! Just debating getting this one with a louder speaker for the kitchen while I am cooking and listening to my podcast. My kids love it as well as we are prime members and they get kids bop music or something like that. Asking it the time to turn on speific lights add things to my grocery list, whats the weather. Or random fact that come to mind. Its like having siri on standby but way cooler. But thats my 2 cents.

I've just got one from QVC for the same price without the need for a voucher

Who really needs this?... If u have a partner for a few years you probably are just looking for a quite time ... Instead of another voice in your personal time :wink:

bargain :relaxed:

My 2 echo from tesco for £138 has been dispatched. They honoured it =)

Another "I need this" product. I'm out!

So my phone will respond to voice commands without touching it?...

Wouldn't want to listen to music on it without earphones anyway.

Tbh most useful thing for me is "Alexa, ask TrackR to find my phone" while I'm about to leave the house, it has been such a lifesaver! Also great for music when you want to hear a specific track or try an amazon radio playlist
At the moment I have a dot which was bought for me as a present, wondering whether to grab this for the lounge and move the dot upstairs/ kitchen or grab another dot and hook up a speaker instead...

Hey folks, just wondering about the differences between the Echo Vs the Dots. Got 3 Dots on Prime day, which are great.

Is the only real difference the speaker quality?

Great price but it strikes me that it's coming down in anticipation of the Apple version very soon

Just ordered, thanks. I must stop looking at this site, I keep purchasing items on a whim. :thumbsup:‌ :face_with_monocle:

You can get the Amazon echo, brand new from places like gumtree and eBay for ~£85. They're filled with them. Why waste ur money, just little more effort I guess.

The black ones are back in stock, just ordered one

The white ones are out of stock now!

I ordered one from Amazon today

I contacted them to see if they would price match and they did.

Me: i will use the card already on my account
Pathan: Thank you. One moment. I have issued 11GBP as refund to the same payment method.

I would love to buy another of these, but does anyone know if multi room audio support is going to come anytime soon? The google home can do it!

My wife's name is Alexa and the Dogs named Echo.... How's this gonna work?

I must admit I didn't realise gumtree and ebay were authorised resellers

I thought very carefully about this: 1) The speakers are quite tinny sounding when playing loud music - tech review 2) if I need lights on I will get up and turn them on - I don't wish to be a lazy coach potato. 3) I have news and weather on my iPhone. 4) if I need to order anything from Amazon I quickly do it via the app. So even at £89 this is an average overpriced gadget. No thanks!

Do you think you can buy two and return one, while use the

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Making this £79.00? :stuck_out_tongue:

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You can set the wake word to "Amazon" or "Computer" :wink:

I was one of the lucky ones I guess who got 2 x echos and 2 x dots all in for £186

Nearly as cheap as it was on Amazon Prime day

Call it Amazon by going into the settings

So the echo can pass me the screwdriver whilst I'm up the ladder?! :wink:

Get a new wife and some cats

Does anyone find it a bit of a ballache in regards to finding you specific playlists?

I cannot quite remember exactly the commands, but something like 'play a chilled 90s playlist', 'play a slow 80s playlist' etc resulted in it either just playing a 90s or 80s playlist, or something by Ollie fucking Murs.

Does it have any more joy if you set Spotify as the default player? With Spotify the default player, is it as good or better in general?

Also, can you set it to output through Spotify on another device?
So, I'll have my Android TV Spotify App playing music through my AV receiver.... can I still use the Echo commands, but still have it play through the receiver, via the TV app?
Hope that makes sense.

The Argos deal worked out at £104 for an Echo & Dot after vouchers are used.

Never needed a screwdriver while painting the ceiling but the wife comes in handy for tea.

There you have it, everyone - Amazon have one valuable customer and it is ukbootlegs2015 - congratulations!

I was the same as you but thought I would give an Amazon Dot a try, cheaper that the echo so less to loose. We only got it last night but its brilliant. We have played games with her and its brilliant for a quick news update, weather or to play music plus many other things

I use if for home automation control, the DOT is £50 (Normal price) so its cheaper than Google Home so the best way to control a smart home via voice. I could control the smart home by my phone but then i have to find the phone, unlock it, load the app ... so much easier to use a Amazon Echo Dot

I've got an Echo Dot on Prime Day and it's been somewhat useful in the bedroom for settings alarms and listening to some music while falling asleep (the sleep timer is useful). However, I don't think the "Alexa eco-system" is really worth it so far. Amazon's voice recognition is lightyears beyond Google's (once trained, at least) - and so is its overall usefulness if you're not having various smart-home products. Even then it's basically just a speech-enabled switch. Taking audio notes etc. can be useful, but only as long as you're not using such solutions on your phone anyway.

I've been hesitating to buy a Google Home due to the price and it's overall still just being a gimmick (I have too many of these), but I find myself using Google Assistant on my phone more than Alexa after a month or so. It's really too bad (and somewhat surprising) that Amazon hasn't been able to improve the platform much in the last two years.

Edit: typo

I was posting it so other people could do the same thing and get Amazon's customer service instead.

I wasn't having a go mate, I just thought their comment was funny!

Yeh, usual flannel from the customer reps, but personally, I'd rather buy from Amazon coz if something does go wrong, they have excellent customer service.

Weirdly, they refunded two items I had delivered today by £5.50 each instead.

it won't even play some music that you ask.. try asking { Alexa' play the cat crept in by mud.} its an old 70s track but it will not understand you. but google home will... will stick to google home. way much better

Mine controls my curtains in my house (can open/close all at once etc), ask Alexa if it's going to rain, if not ask her to open my observatory roof, I can ask her to make my vacuum clean the downstairs, she can turn my fireplace on, I can get her to order stuff from Amazon for me, I can set different colour lights, I can increase the heating temp, I can turn on my air conditioning, I can ask her to arm my security system and cameras, working on getting her to control my sprinkler.


And that barely scratches they surface of what you can do. Add a rm broadlink pro in to the mix, or raspberry pi and you can do anything.

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You are missing one very big point when you say about using the echo for controlling lights and that it's lazy.

If you were to use say Philips Hue bulbs then they allow you to turn a normal bulb and an on/off switch into a dimmer bulb without having to put a dimmer switch in.

So as an example,I will be pumping iron in my home gym and listening to music via my echo and it's starting to get dark and I want the lights up a bit,i just simply say set lights in gym to 50%,this is far quicker than reaching for my phone and opening up the app to do the same thing,all the time I'm being far from a couch spud and actuallyit allows me to carry on doing something far more physical than pressing a light switch that can only be on or off.

Just ordered the dot for £39 with the £5 off code at Tesco. Great price - thanks.

Out of stock

Remember it's a voice service ... a phone app should soon do what it does I think... unless we want something always dedicated for it ...like a dslr camera or a tv... I still don't feel the need for it to play music(at least not for every song), or build a shopping list or ask about the weather... or probably newer versions may do more of the others ....same way as the phone did ...i.e. maybe will have a camera i.e make a call, monitor the house automatically, control temperature automatically... etc

Trackr doesn't always work for me. Alexa will say she has asked my phone to ring, but trackr does bugger all.

Or, in Star Trek fashion, you can also call it 'Computer' lol.

Ah, I've been lucky then, worked every time :smile:

A carbon copy of the deal posted by Chanchi...

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Long sold out and over 1300°?! :thumbsup:

To those asking what's the point, aside from the songs and timers people have suggested it's usefulness is also amplified if you have other smart kit in the home. I have the Logitech Harmony, Hue lights and Nest and Alexa speaks and controls them all. So when I say "turn on the TV" the TV gets switched on, put to the correct HDMI input, the Sound bar gets turned on as well as the Sky DVR and the Hue Bloom behind the telly. I can then use verbal commands to change channel too.

In the morning when I'm getting ready Alexa also tells me the status of my tube line, and reads out my diary appointments.

Combined with IFTTT opens up a whole host of other possibilities too, such as flashing lights when timers are up, letting the kids know when I'm 50 metres from home and letting me know when it's going to rain (although those aren't necessarily using Alexa - it just becomes part of the smart ecosystem)

The Tesco Voucher runs until the 3rd September, so may well be worth requesting a stock alert on these. The Black was out of stock, but came back in.

Hi, what's your current set up for the curtains? I'm currently in the market for ones that can be Alexa controlled. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

The curtains sound good - do you mind explaining how you set this up?

Much better to buy from Argos where you get £20 discount if you buy echo dot as well, £10 Argos voucher and £10 from vouchercodes

They also have stock... Which helps.

The curtain track is from Forest drapery. The remote is RF based (think there are zwave versions too). Wasn't cheap mind,but I had them fitted professionally as for bay window. Could probably get RF or ir curtain rails for a couple of hundred or so and fit yourself.

I have a broadlink RM pro (£25 quid), and the RM tasker plugin. Any device with an RF remote will work so even the cheap RF plug sockets.

Have to use the terms on/off rather than open or close, so 'alexa, curtains on' to close etc,maybe when the proper RM Alexa plugin is released it might change.

Edit - the curtain track for £125 on Amazon Will do the trick. Might get one myself for that price.

Thanks. I've got the Logitech Harmony which is Ir based but a lot of the curtains are Rf based so might invest in the RM Pro. Any chance you can send the link for the £125 curtain track as I can't find it.
TThanks a lot!

RM Pro on lightening deal at the moment

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Yeah shame the harmony doesn't have RF built in.


You'll need an old android phone/tablet/tv box thing as the rm plugin runs on that

Edit - sorry, misread the listing, doesn't include the track. Thought it was cheap!
Type in electric curtain track in ebay and theres a few options on there

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