Alexa in the garage

Ok, got an Echo Dot as a random Christmas present. Didn't ask for one, didn't particularly want one. But laying in bed later that night, my air compressor kicked on at about 1am, cause I had forgotten to kill the switch when I finished up out in the garage. That gave me an idea. It seems like my phone always goes of at the worst times. I'm under a vehicle or all pretzeled up reaching a hidden bolt and it goes off. And unfortunately, I gotta answer it most of the time. On-call a lot and my parents are getting older, need help here and there.

So today I set up the Echo Dot to run my garage with my voice. I can answer the phone on the ECHO Speaker. And using a couple of outlet controllers I can control the lights, compressor, cordless battery chargers, play/pause/volume adjust the stereo. I tired it from all over the garage and it hears me and follows the comands very well. Actually, I can do all that from anywhere my phone gets the house wifi. Pretty handy to kick the compressor on a few minutes before I go out to use an air tool.

Some folks worry about being spied on by these things. I figure the only thing Alexa is gonna get outta listening to me in the garage is learning new ways to curse! Just a use for something that may not have occured to everybody.

 

We have 5 Echo devices in our home and my garage, I can control the entire house with my voice. It’s great.

And as far as being spied on, if they want to listenthe worlds most boring person, more power to them

 

Having tried something like that in the past I keep getting unable to understand messages