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Amazon Echo Discussion / Remote usage to aid elderly relative
« Last post by hambone5@swbell.net on January 21, 2024, 04:58:04 pm »
Sort of an elder care tech support question.

Caring for an elderly family member who currently is in assisted living.  She is sight impaired.  We have her connected to Amazon Echo Dot which she can use easily for simple tasks.  She has an Echo Show, but limited ability to manipulate it.

Wondering if anyone knows of a way that family members could manipulate remotely, and direct to play on a device in her living quarters?  Ie, a Dot/Show type of product that we could use remotely to find her church service for her which airs live on Youtube, but then have it play on her device?

We currently use Echo plugs to help her turn on/off devices. She uses the Dot to make hands free calls to use and to ask Alexa for simple information (news, time, date etc). 

A big improvement would be if we could remotely find online content (her church service transmits on Youtube) that using her account on line we could pull up but have it play on her device in her room?

A final question for any Echo mega users.  If WE had the SHOW in one of our residences.  Could we pull the church service up on the show and direct it (through the Alexa app) to play the audio on her Dot in her room??

Thanks for reading this and for any suggestions.
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Re: alexa plus cometh
« Last post by Joachim47 on January 19, 2024, 09:44:24 am »
That's the way how companies monetize the work of necessary improvement of lackluster products under AI cover.
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Amazon Echo Discussion / alexa plus cometh
« Last post by renegade600 on January 18, 2024, 11:36:23 am »
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Amazon is reportedly planning a premium subscription for its household AI assistant Alexa. The e-commerce tech giant Amazon is reportedly planning to launch “Alexa Plus” — a paid version of its voice assistant for better and more informative results. This premium price tag may come with additional features and functionality, similar to that of ChatGPT Plus and Copilot Pro.

https://www.pcguide.com/ai/alexa-plus/

not surprising
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Re: Amazon Prime Video Commercials
« Last post by Joachim47 on January 13, 2024, 08:40:56 pm »
The money is in returned sales to prime users who believe they are saving money while prime rate continues to go up. The little side benefits are all only to keep he and she buying staff on their site. Starting to become more selective of what I buy where since the price differences are not always in amazons favor and urgency is sometimes an excuse rather than a reality of need.
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Re: Amazon Prime Video Commercials
« Last post by scottrods on January 13, 2024, 08:19:22 pm »
Maybe the whole idea is to make tons of cash from future licensing? I can't see any benefit in this crap either... I'm sure there's a reason. Just not quite straight forward.
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Re: Amazon Prime Video Commercials
« Last post by jwlv on January 12, 2024, 06:00:38 pm »
According to Reuters: "Amazon.com will lay off several hundred employees in its streaming and studio operations, it said in an internal note on Wednesday as companies extend their massive job cuts over the past two years into 2024."
Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-lay-off-employees-prime-video-studios-divisions-information-2024-01-10/

In my opinion many of these streaming providers are spending way too much on creating their own content. Think how much cash Amazon burned in creating the Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series? They only got one season completed. I watched the entire first season when it came out. I thought it was rather boring and very long and drawn out. Am I dying to see season 2? Nah, I can take it or leave it. But what's the point of making their own content? Is it to get more subscribers? Is it to keep current subscribers from cancelling? To me, it had zero effect on my decision to subscribe or not subscribe to Prime. Yet they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on it. According to Entrepreneur magazine, they spent nearly $1 Billion dollars on it.

There would be far less risk for Amazon to just license content from other studios that are known hit shows & movies.
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Re: Amazon Prime Video Commercials
« Last post by jwlv on January 10, 2024, 08:39:49 am »
If they intend to close a line, they should finish every single person in the line before they close. Any additional people that get in line afterwards would be told that it is closed. I've never heard of someone being told the line is closed while they were already there.

I've also done what you did. It wasn't Walmart. It was a regional supermarket that has only about a dozen stores. Something got on my nerve and I left an entire cart full of groceries there and made it known that I'm walking out.
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Re: Amazon Prime Video Commercials
« Last post by renegade600 on January 10, 2024, 04:39:21 am »
they were wrong in what they did to you.    The cashier was supposed to finish the line before going on break.    Did you know Walmart is not supposed to put anything that requires refrigeration back if left in the shopping cart?  They are supposed to throw it all away.   

I hope you went to their website and do the feedback thing about them closing the line on you.   
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Amazon Echo Discussion / Re: Amazon Prime Video Commercials
« Last post by scottrods on January 09, 2024, 07:31:34 pm »
My FB post about my Walmart experience...

Well... Walmart finally pushed my last little bit of patience over the edge this morning... Took an hour out of my morning to shop and find all the things we needed saving all the cold stuff for last, since we take so long...
Got to the Checkout area and there was ONE cashier (The slowest one they employ on Saturdays, lately), but No big deal... I'll get in line (third in line, she was half done with the front person, and the next person had a small load of groceries to check).
The Cashier was doing her job and the area lead lady comes over and turns off her light and tells her to take her break. And tells us her line is closed. I asked her who would be checking us out, and she told me "I'm sorry, we don't have anyone to cover for her while she's on break." Then proceeds to wander aimlessly around straightening the grocery bags in the self checkout stations and telling people where there's an open self checkout... All the while, there's a guy behind us at one of the self checkout machines, which we have seen as a cashier for the last year or so... over and over. He's helping people self check their groceries... which in my estimation is a waste of time, since it's self checkout. Maybe I just don;t understand the process of self checkout, but we had over 200 dollars worth of groceries, quite a bit of it cold/frozen and produce.
Seeing as no one wanted to do anything but ignore us, I Parked the cart and loudly stated that I was leaving this shit to melt and  they are f#@ked if they think I'm self checking a piled basket of groceries myself... and I left. Went to Tom Thumb and bought the bare necessities for today, since we have a houseful coming to celebrate a late Christmas... I hope the steaks and ice cream go bad sitting there. I hope no one gets sick from the stuff they will probably restock out of the cold stuff.
I swear to God these Corporate behemoths have just ruined the whole system of service for the customer... customers mean nothing, and if I had a local grocer that had everything I needed or have conditioned myself to need, I'd pay 2 times the price for it to avoid that Shi#@hole of a store they call Walmart.
The craziest part of all of this is the fact there were easily two Walmart employees "shopping" to every regular shopper without a 20 stack of orders to fill... In the Produce section of the store, I counted 12 blue coats and a couple of black coat wally employees to me and my wife and 4 others in the whole area... that's 14:5 in employees to non-employees. INSANE
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what are you connecting to bluetooth?   another dot?    If so, then no, when you connect an echo device to bluetooth, it will ony play on what it is connected to.  Not both devices
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