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I have posted before – as have others –that Amazon has made the entire Alexa speech service available to any manufacturer completely FREE OF CHARGE! I had a look at the information on the web and I'm sure I read that users would even be free to sele…
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Hello WRos, thank you very much for your help: this really does look like it may be the answer! I will have to wait until the speech improves before I can fully try this out, but I have an EchoDot on order so hopefully it won't be too lo…
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Sadly, switched off. I was waiting for speech recognition to improve but at least now I can order an Amazon Dot and begin taking advantage of the enormous flexibility Homey offers!
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Thank you, ZperX, for this video which demonstrates the appalling problems with speech recognition which at least some of us experience with our Homeys. I'm afraid the responses fall into a familiar, predictable and not very helpful pattern: 1) '…
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I was just wondering if it would be possible to attach an external microphone to Homey… I'm fairly sure the mini jack is only line out, so probably not. It's only that Athom seem confident that the software is high quality, so I'd love to be able…
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* I absolutely agree about how useful all of Homey's capabilities are, but voice recognition was also a central part of its appeal… There have been several threads expressing frustration at the slow progress of improvement in this regard. I…
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I'm not sure I read the Amazon press release correctly, but here's what I understand: Alexa is being made available to any manufacturer, totally free of charge. all it takes to embed Alexa into any device is a few lines of code. in other wo…
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Amazon has offered Alexa to any developer – free of charge – for just a few lines of code. Homey could easily be 'powered by Alexa' and would become instantly the market leader. Emile has mentioned 'integration' which sounds promising but I hope it…
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Thanks for your quick replies! I'm afraid I don't know anything about JavaScript but I'm a little disappointed that on the 'repeatedly press button' card the 'how many times?' field isn't a variable. Unless I can find a workaround I can'…
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Yes, I have tried Chrome and Internet Explorer but neither worked. So just now I tried resetting my password again… And it worked! I suspect Athom have invented a device which can detect when you're running out of patience and, just wh…
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Talking of being off-line: I've had my Homey for two weeks now and he is still showing as off-line on the accounts page. When I connected him to Wi-Fi initially, it failed every time when I used my Windows7 laptop but was successful straight away o…
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Unfortunately, both my hands and arms are paralysed so I can only 'type' using speech recognition software, and my computer is only in use for a couple of hours in the afternoon because of other physical limitations. However, your responses hav…
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If you've read some of my other posts you'll know that I am severely physically disabled and I am totally reliant on my Hotech VoiceMe II for environmental control. Homey should be a huge improvement but the topic of this thread shows one of the sce…
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Hello Stefan and Appie, As soon as I receive Homey and make the change to z-wave I'll let you know if I can think of any extra features which might be useful to me and other disabled users. At the moment, there are a couple of things: 1) If …
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Thank you Marco, I do have human carers to help me, (remarkably, they respond to voice commands as well!), But they leave me on my own for four hours every afternoon and four hours each evening to give me some sense of independence, which is wher…
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Excellent! Thank you for putting my mind at rest: this was the one slight concern I had about whether Homey would be completely suitable for my needs which are – because I can't use my hands at all – considerable. I'm sure that Homey has a mass…
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That's something of a relief because these controls will be used far more often than the home automation ones. I just hope homey will be able to distinguish between the different numbers, because if I had to remember a unique name for each flow I t…
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Hey, no problem about the hijack! My amplifier is an ageing Sony HT-IS 100, so there is no two-way communication about its current settings. As I mentioned, I know absolutely nothing about flows, but I'm guessing it might work in a similar wa…
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Hello Fire 69, and thanks for bringing the thread back on track! For the Last few years I've been using a Hotech VoiceMe II which is entirely infrared but is also able to control X 10 modules using a special transceiver. It's also solely a learni…
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Thanks for the info, kimror!