Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush

Re:Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush by systemtest on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @11:02AM (#13230097)

I feel like presence detection is a better option for lights.

Stumbling in the dark waiting for Echo to process your command versus just having the lights turn on when you enter a room.

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Re:Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush by wmeredith on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @11:32AM (#13230373)

I disagree, here. I may not always want the lights on. I prefer voice control to motion detection.

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Re:Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush by Zombieball on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @05:01PM (#13233034)

Yep. Same here. You want to be able to explicitly turn off the lights (say when you go to bed). Not have to wait for some timer to expire.

I suppose if the motion sensors had some extreme AI and could detect when I would want the lights on or off and make that decision before I verbalized it. But I'd probably want the voice interface as an override when the AI gets the wrong answer.

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