Amazon Echo Dot unit.

[screenman]

The brother-in-law has an Echo Dot linked to Hive bulbs and thermostat. He’s named the bulbs for the main light and lamp then says something like, “Echo, reduce light to 50%,” or “Echo, increase heating by 3 degrees.” I think he may have those remote sockets connected to it too.

I think the set up must have cost him £250-350. My personal preference is to save the money and get up off my backside and manually turn the dimmer switch and thermostat dial. I’d rather buy bike stuff with the money I would have saved.

I have all the bike bits I want, which is at I am thinking about the Echo.

 

[jefmcg]

From another thread, you can apparently use it to check your strava while... lying in the bath or something

Hi,

Not sure how many of you use Strava but...

I've created an Alexa skill to access Strava cycling statistics.

It's called "Bike Stats" and has some basic commands:

Alexa, Ask Bike Stats .....
• about my weekly stats
• about my last ride
• about my summary
• to get my achievements
• to get my details
• to set units to <miles/kilometres/metric/imperial>
• to set height to <metric/imperial>

UK Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0773WGK4R

US Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0773WGK4R

Feedback welcome. It's only been live a couple of weeks so might still have the odd bug.

I'm working on a couple of additional features.

A skill leaderboard whereby you can see how you're doing relative to all other users of the skill in weekly and all time stats (distance).

The ability to set a weekly/monthly goal in the skill and see how your doing i.e. how many more miles to reach the goal.

Cheers.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

I have all the bike bits I want, which is at I am thinking about the Echo.

You can never have enough bike bits

 

[screenman]

You can never have enough bike bits

You certainly can.