#Amazon #EchoDot

Keine Sprachassistenten! Weil seit Jahren immer wieder Sicherheitsversprechen und eklatante Fehler gemacht werden und oft Geheim gehalten werden. Viele Verbraucher nehmen das auf, verdrängen und vergessen sehr schnell. Ich hatte mir ein Echo Dot von Amazon gekauft und mein Smarthome damit gesteuert. Eines Tages hatte ich ein Smarthome eines Anderen im System. Schon älter aber, meiner Meinung,immernoch aktuelles Thema:

https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2019/1/1546323197251453

I relish quite a bit in my room stereo setup, it's almost perfect.

Audio: Nice home radio, w/ analog tuning on both #AM and #FM radio. It also supports line-in for input. As well as line-out for output.

Sources:
1. Personal desktop
2. #Amazon #EchoDot
3. #GoogleTV (via my #EchoDot, connecting through #Bluetooth for audio)

It's almost perfect. I have a manual, physical control in front of me for audio (I just turn the knob to change the volume, surprisingly nice to have a physical control for this!), and I can listen to all audio--my #EchoDot, broadcast #radio, and even my #TV--all through either the speakers OR my earbuds! I can also technically connect any #Bluetooth device to the #EchoDot, meaning nearly any device I can run audio to. There are two major inconveniences with this setup:

1. I have to manually unplug my earbuds from the speakers. It doesn't sound too bad but the port is on the back of the speakers so I essentially have to either pick it up or turn it 90 degrees to access the line-out port

2. The audio delay between the #GoogleTV and #EchoDot via #Bluetooth can be abysmal. This is to be expected, but I don't see any way of mitigating this unless I use the #TV's line-out port (it happens to be my parents' #RokuTV btw). Which would mean even more cables in the back to unhook and wouldn't be worth that extra inconvenience (the delay is fixed by just disconnecting the #GoogleTV from #Bluetooth and reconnecting it).

This doesn't outweigh how convenient my setup has been so far, I'd like to try and find ways to mitigate these inconveniences when I have time though.

@androidpolice Nice list but why get an #Amazon #Alexa-powered speaker instead of getting a good speaker and plugging it into and #EchoDot?