u/regdogmilli

So the Echo/Alexa was released in 2014 and has 12 years of development and it truly feels like barely anything has improved. Even with them slapping AI onto it, it’s basically gotten worse from that. This entire sub is mostly complaints of how it can’t function on the most basic tasks STILL.

Personally I’m about ready to throw my devices in my bathtub. I wanted to use my bedroom Show to play white noise over night and it’s constantly just shutting off randomly, playing advertisements for me to upgrade to premium mode at 3AM, etc. I’ve built countless routines and tried so many settings and it just doesn’t work. Then I talk to the stupid AI chat and it starts playing a recording of a hair drier, I tell it to stop and it just doesn’t so then it wakes up my wife at 4AM. I’m about to toss this hunk of crap and just buy a white noise machine or play it from my phone and a Bluetooth speaker.

It was cool in 2015 but it’s time to get home automation that can perform my most basic asks and doesn’t constantly break and bug out.