Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’
by SixSigma on Saturday January 07, 2017 @04:18PM
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I shoul dhave made the point that a more useful system would learn your re-order timing and you wouldn't have to do anything except bring it inside.
Re:TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’
by Klathmon on Saturday January 07, 2017 @04:31PM
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It does try, and for some things that does work.
But I've found it's just not that consistent for it to work in some of these cases.
I sometimes order 2 boxes of litter a month, and sometimes don't order any.
Now if you are talking about something which will measure how much I have left via a scale or some other method and reorder when I'm low, I'd love that! I'll need to see if I can grab another ESP8266 and some load sensors and set that up!
There are times I would remember to get more when I'm running low, there are times I'd forget and I'd have to run out at 1am to the 24/7 supermarket because I feel so bad for forgetting and I know how much the cat hates when her litter is low.
In the past I would have multiple boxes stacked up and would try to reorder when I was down to one, but even then I'd forget, and storing multiple boxes of cat litter is annoying in our small condo.
This is a great solution to me. And before this I had a DIY button made with a raspberry pi that would do it for me that I put near the cat litter. IMO this is a better UX.